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Gray-Stanley, Jennifer A.; Muramatsu, Naoko – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Work stress is endemic among direct care workers (DCWs) who serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Social resources, such as work social support, and personal resources, such as an internal locus of control, may help DCWs perceive work overload and other work-related stressors as less threatening and galvanize them to cope…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Locus of Control, Social Support Groups
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Morrill-Richards, Mandy; Leierer, Stephen J. – Journal of College Counseling, 2010
Empirical research on sibling abuse has been overwhelmingly absent from the professional literature. This exploratory study used a survey instrument to investigate the question of whether the experience of sibling abuse influences the sense of well-being in college students. A linear multiple regression analysis indicated that experience with…
Descriptors: College Students, Siblings, Sexual Abuse, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Woolfson, Lisa Marks; Brady, Katy – Educational Psychology, 2009
The relationship between teacher experience, further professional development training, and beliefs and attributions about teaching students with additional learning support needs was studied in a sample of 199 mainstream general class primary school teachers. Using multiple regression, it was found that none of the teacher experience or…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Self Efficacy, Learning Disabilities, Professional Training
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Romero, Andrea J.; Ruiz, Myrna – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2007
We examined coping with risky behaviors (cigarettes, alcohol/drugs, yelling/ hitting, and anger), familism (family proximity and parental closeness) and parental monitoring (knowledge and discipline) in a sample of 56 adolescents (11-15 years old) predominantly of Mexican descent at two time points. Multiple linear regression analysis indicated…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Coping
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Hunter, Simon C.; Boyle, James M. E.; Warden, David – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Background: An important element of many anti-bullying programmes is encouraging victims to tell someone about their predicament. Research has already reported prevalence of telling, who/when children tell and efficacy of telling. However, seeking help can be viewed as a coping behaviour, and coping processes such as appraisal and emotion may be…
Descriptors: Students, Females, Multiple Regression Analysis, Males
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Cole, David A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
Many outcome variables in developmental psychopathology research are highly stable over time. In conventional longitudinal data analytic approaches such as multiple regression, controlling for prior levels of the outcome variable often yields little (if any) reliable variance in the dependent variable for putative predictors to explain. Three…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Coping, Regression (Statistics), Longitudinal Studies