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Joe, George W.; Knight, Kevin; Simpson, D. Dwayne; Flynn, Patrick M.; Morey, Janis T.; Bartholomew, Norma G.; Tindall, Michele Staton; Burdon, William M.; Hall, Elizabeth A.; Martin, Steve S.; O'Connell, Daniel J. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2012
Finding brief effective treatments for criminal justice populations is a major public need. The CJ-DATS Targeted Intervention for Corrections (TIC), which consists of six brief interventions (communication, anger, motivation, criminal thinking, social networks, and HIV/sexual health), was tested in separate federally-funded randomized control…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Health, Criminals, Multivariate Analysis
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Potegal, Michael; Carlson, Gabrielle; Margulies, David; Gutkovitch, Zinoviy; Wall, Melanie – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2009
Angry, agitated outbursts (AAOs) are a common precipitant of children's psychiatric hospitalization. In the hospital, AAOs present both management and diagnostic challenges, e.g., while they have recently been described as manic "rages", older studies suggest that they may be exacerbated temper tantrums. Factor analyses of 109 AAOs had by 46…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Psychiatry, Clinical Diagnosis, Patients
Weaver, Robert D.; Habibov, Nazim N. – Online Submission, 2010
In this study, the authors analyzed data from a nationally representative survey of youth to study happiness amongst Canadian adolescents aged 12-17. Testing for differences in the level of happiness between female and male adolescents was conducted. Following this, multivariate analysis was employed to determine which factors were associated with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Multivariate Analysis, Gender Differences, Psychological Patterns
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Chan, David W. – Educational Psychology, 2010
This study assessed the dispositional gratitude and its relationships with orientations to happiness and burnout in a sample of 96 Chinese school teachers in Hong Kong and investigated the effectiveness of an eight-week gratitude intervention programme using a pre-test/post-test design with outcome measures of subjective well-being in the same…
Descriptors: Intervention, Life Satisfaction, Teacher Burnout, Foreign Countries
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Miller-Perrin, Cindy L.; Perrin, Robin D.; Kocur, Jodie L. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between various levels of parent-child physical violence and psychological symptoms reported by college students, while controlling for demographic variables, severity and frequency of violence, and co-occurrence of parental psychological aggression. Method: Participants…
Descriptors: College Students, Child Abuse, Aggression, Young Adults
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Ling, I-Ling – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2008
This article explores how an attribution model will illustrate uniqueness-seeking behavior in dressing in the Taiwanese adolescent subculture. The study employed 443 senior high school students. Results show that the tendency of uniqueness-seeking behavior in dressing is moderate. However, using cluster analysis to segment the counterconformity…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Adolescents, Multivariate Analysis, High School Students
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Murphy, Christopher M.; Taft, Casey T.; Eckhardt, Christopher I. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007
Cluster analysis of 139 partner violent men's self-reports on the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory identified profiles reflecting pathological anger (PA), low anger control (LAC), and normal anger (NA). The PA group self-reported higher pretreatment partner abuse, interpersonal dysfunction, distress, and substance abuse and had lower…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Profiles, Substance Abuse, Multivariate Analysis
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Al-Yagon, Michal – Research in Education, 2008
This study explored multifaceted associations between children's aggressive behaviours and loneliness feelings by identifying sub-groups of children with different individual profiles, and also examined whether profiles associated differently with children's quality of close relationships with mothers and peers. Participants were 145 non-clinical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Friendship, Profiles
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Pascual-Leone, Antonio; Greenberg, Leslie S. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine observable moment-by-moment steps in emotional processing as they occurred within productive sessions of experiential therapy. Global distress was identified as an unprocessed emotion with high arousal and low meaningfulness. The investigation consisted of 2 studies as part of a task analysis that examined…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Therapy, Multivariate Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
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Harper, Felicity W. K.; Austin, Amanda G.; Cercone, Jennifer J.; Arias, Ileana – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2005
This study determines the relationships between shame, anger, and men's perpetration of psychological abuse in dating relationships. The authors' hypothesize the connection between shame proneness and men's use of psychological abuse with a dating partner, with anger's mediating in this relationship. In addition, the authors' hypothesize that…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Dating (Social), Interpersonal Relationship, Males
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Devonport, Tracey J.; Lane, Andrew M. – Psychological Record, 2006
The present study examined changes in primary and secondary appraisal, and coping strategies utilized in the final weeks leading to dissertation submission. Sixty volunteer Sports Studies dissertation students (male: n = 29; female: n = 31) completed an adapted Cognitive Appraisal of Health Scale (CAHS: Kessler, 1998), and Brief COPE (Carver,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Multivariate Analysis, Males, Coping
Taylor, Davia – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of the study is to identify association of factors other than the GRE and GPA scores. The sample size is 50 students with age ranges from 22-45 at college entry ranges average age 27, 32 female (Majority), and 18 males with over-all grade points from 3.20 - 3.94. An on-line data base was utilized. Data will be analyzed by using…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Multivariate Analysis, Correlation, Academic Achievement
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Camras, Linda A.; Perlman, Susan B.; Fries, Alison B. Wismer; Pollak, Seth D. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
Post-institutionalized Chinese and Eastern European children participated in two emotion understanding tasks. In one task, children selected facial expressions corresponding to four emotion labels (happy, sad, angry, scared). The second task required children to match facial expressions to stories describing situations for these emotions. While…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Children
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Suitor, J. Jill; Sechrist, Jori; Steinhour, Michael; Pillemer, Karl – Family Relations, 2006
We used data from 769 mother-child dyads nested within 300 later life families to explore the accuracy of adult children's perceptions of mothers' patterns of favoritism in terms of closeness and confiding. Adult children were generally accurate regarding whether their mothers preferred a specific child, but often had difficulty identifying whom…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Adults, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Esteban, Esther J. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2006
In a larger research study that investigated the conceptualizations, experiences, and coping behaviors of 294 male and female college students exposed to parental verbal abuse, this paper identifies and measures seven culture-specific coping behaviors in the Philippine setting, as experienced by 143 highly abused students identified in the study.…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Verbal Communication, Coping, College Students