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Liu, Dong; Fu, Ping-ping – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
This study examined the roles of 3 multilevel motivational predictors in proteges' personal learning in teams: an autonomy-supportive team climate, mentors' autonomy support, and proteges' autonomy orientation. The authors followed 305 proteges in 58 teams for 12 weeks and found that all 3 predictors were positively related to the proteges'…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teamwork, Cognitive Processes, Predictor Variables

Faas, Larry A.; D'Alonzo, Bruno J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
Eighty-six adults (mean age 26 years) with learning disabilities were evaluated clinically using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R). Significant relationships were identified between subjects' WAIS-R intelligence quotients and scaled scores and job success. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Experience, Intelligence, Learning Disabilities
Miltiades, Helen B.; Pruchno, Rachel – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2001
Predictors of formal service utilization, waiting list use, and caregiving burden were assessed over a 4-year time period for 305 mothers of an adult child with mental retardation. Predictor variables included: residential status, burden, child behaviors at baseline, child placement; formal service use, co-residence at baseline, waiting list use,…
Descriptors: Adults, Developmental Disabilities, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers

Newton, J. Stephen; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1996
This study, with 15 individuals having intellectual disabilities, found that each participant's social skills moderately predicted the average social stability achieved by all of his/her social network members, but poorly predicted average social stability achieved by the participant's three most stable social network members. Social network…
Descriptors: Adults, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship, Mental Retardation
Shapiro, E. Gary – 1984
As the fit between job values and job rewards becomes more important to American workers, it is important to understand factors which may affect these values. Data from the combined General Social Surveys of 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1980 were used to investigate the influence of education, job prestige, earnings, age, sex, race, and family…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Attainment, Employee Attitudes, Job Satisfaction
Schroeder, David H. – 1984
Previous research linking life events and psychological well being may have been biased by traditional retrospective designs. To eliminate retrospective bias, a prospective design was used in which events were measured before the criterion had occurred. Subjects were 209 male and 159 female participants in the Augmented Baltimore Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adults, Attribution Theory, Predictor Variables, Research Methodology

Ferguson, Kathleen S.; Dacey, Christine M. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1997
Women health care professionals reporting a history of childhood psychological maltreatment (n=55) were compared to a nonabused group (n=55) on three dimensions of anxiety, depression, and dissociation. A significant discriminant function using the three measures as predictor variables was able to correctly classify 74.5% of the abused…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Child Abuse, Depression (Psychology)
Towers, Wayne M.; Hartung, Barbara W. – 1983
Approximately 500 people participated in a study that examined the relationship between generalized uses-and-gratifications statements and specific magazine reading behaviors. The subjects responded to a telephone survey that elicited information concerning demographics, media usage, and reactions to 14 uses-and-gratifications statements that had…
Descriptors: Adults, Audiences, Behavior Patterns, Media Research
Lykes, M. Brinton – 1983
Black women have been described as being in "double jeopardy" due to the combined effects of racism and sexism. To explore the multiple effects of institutional discrimination and prejudice based on race and/or sex, the experiences of 52 highly successful older black women were examined, using tapes from the Black Women Oral History…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Coping, Females
Petiet, Carole Anne – 1984
To systematically test previous assumptions about grief in widows and divorcing women, 410 separated, divorced, or widowed women, between the ages of 23 and 76, with at least one child, completed the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist, the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale, the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory--Form C, the Attachment Index, and the…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Divorce, Emotional Response
Abbott, Max W. – 1983
While alcoholism is no longer regarded as a unitary disorder, conventional measures of congition and personality have yet to be shown capable of consistently predicting clinical outcomes. To investigate cognitive dysfunction and locus of control as predictors of post treatment outcome in a large sample of alcoholics, 106 alcoholics (74 men, 32…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcoholism, Cognitive Processes, Group Therapy
Alvarez, Norberto – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1989
Followup 8 years after reduction of antiepileptic drugs in 50 institutionalized developmentally disabled epileptic patients found recurrence of seizures in 26 patients. Predictors for a seizure-free state off medication included few documented seizures in lifetime, no gross neurological abnormalities, and persistently normal electroencephalograms.…
Descriptors: Adults, Developmental Disabilities, Drug Therapy, Epilepsy

Tyler, Carl V., Jr.; Snyder, Clint W.; Zyzanski, Stephen – Mental Retardation, 2000
Osteoporosis screening of 107 adults, ages 40 to 60, with mental retardation who attended community-based training centers found 21 percent had osteoporosis and 34 percent had osteopenia. The most significant predictor of lower bone mineral densities were Down syndrome, mobility status, and race. (Contains references.) (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Disease Incidence, Downs Syndrome, Mental Retardation

Epstein, Jeffery N.; Saunders, Benjamin E.; Kilpatrick, Dean G.; Resnick, Heidi S. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1998
Women (N=3,213) were interviewed initially, and again a year later, concerning childhood rape history, lifetime symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and lifetime alcohol use. Analysis found a history of childhood rape doubled the number of alcohol-abuse symptoms that women experienced in adulthood, suggesting that PTSD symptomatology…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcohol Abuse, Child Abuse, Females
Petiet, Carole Anne – 1983
Based on the assumption that differences in personal meaning and in the social significance of loss predispose widows and divorced individuals to different, specific vulnerabilities during grieving, 410 separated, divorced, and widowed women, aged 23 to 76 years, with at least one child, completed the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist, the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Divorce, Females