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The Contribution of the Counselor-Client Working Alliance to Career Exploration
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Elad-Strenger, Julia; Littman-Ovadia, Hadassah – Journal of Career Assessment, 2012
This longitudinal study examines the effects of Israeli counselors' and clients' ratings of their working alliance on clients' career exploration (CE), using a sample of 94 three-session career counseling processes. Results reveal that both clients' and counselors' working alliance ratings increased over time; yet, clients' ratings remained…
Descriptors: Counselor Client Relationship, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Longitudinal Studies
Social, Family and Psychological Predictors of Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviour among Children and Adolescents
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Kirkcaldy, B. D.; Furnham, A. F.; Siefen, R. G. – School Psychology International, 2010
The incidence of "pure" obsessive-compulsive disorders in the clinical population was found to be around 1.2 percent for a clinical sample record--stretching over a 2.5-year period--of around 2500 adolescents in a German child and adolescent psychiatry clinic. Over a 3-month period (time-frame) a sample of 350 new entries to the clinic…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Psychiatry, Adolescents, Patients
Psychosocial Determinants of Conflict-Handling Behaviour of Workers in Oil Sector in Nigeria
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Bankole, Akanji Rafiu – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
The study examined the joint and relative influence of three psychosocial factors: Emotional intelligence, communication skill and interpersonal skill on conflict-handling behaviour of oil workers in Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted and a sample of 610 workers was randomly selected from oil companies across the country. Data were…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Fuels, Conflict, Measures (Individuals)
A Comparison of Three Strategies for Scale Construction to Predict a Specific Behavioral Outcome
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Garb, Howard N.; Wood, James M.; Fiedler, Edna R. – Assessment, 2011
Using 65 items from a mental health screening questionnaire, the History Opinion Inventory-Revised (HOI-R), the present study compared three strategies of scale construction--(1) internal (based on factor analysis), (2) external (based on empirical performance) and (3) intuitive (based on clinicians' opinion)--to predict whether 203,595 U.S. Air…
Descriptors: Opinions, Mental Health, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals)
Shy and Soft-Spoken: Shyness, Pragmatic Language, and Socioemotional Adjustment in Early Childhood
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Coplan, Robert J.; Weeks, Murray – Infant and Child Development, 2009
The goal of this study was to examine the moderating role of pragmatic language in the relations between shyness and indices of socio-emotional adjustment in an unselected sample of early elementary school children. In particular, we sought to explore whether pragmatic language played a protective role for shy children. Participants were n = 167…
Descriptors: Shyness, Intervention, Emotional Adjustment, Grade 1
The Relationship between Organizational Justice Perceptions, Level of School and Administrator Trust, and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors of Secondary School Teachers in Turkey
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Polat, Soner – Online Submission, 2007
The objective of this research is to display; (a) the effect of organizational justice in explaining school trust, administrator trust and organizational citizenship behavior, (b)the effect of school trust and administrator trust in explaining organizational citizenship behavior, based on perceptions related with the variables of organizational…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, Trust (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers