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Event Memory and Suggestibility in Abused and Neglected Children: Trauma-Related Psychopathology and Cognitive Functioning
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Chae, Yoojin; Goodman, Gail S.; Eisen, Mitchell L.; Qin, Jianjian – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
This study examined event memory and suggestibility in 3- to 16-year-olds involved in forensic investigations of child maltreatment. A total of 322 children were interviewed about a play activity with an unfamiliar adult. Comprehensive measures of individual differences in trauma-related psychopathology and cognitive functioning were administered.…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Child Abuse, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychopathology
Teacher Perceptions and Individual Differences: How They Influence Rural Teachers' Motivating Strategies
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Hardre, Patricia L.; Sullivan, David W. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This study examined the influence of high school teachers' perceptions and individual difference characteristics on teachers' use of motivating strategies in their classrooms. Participants were 75 teachers in 19 rural, public high schools. A mixed method approach was used. Quantitative measures included demographics, individual differences,…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Student Motivation, Individual Differences, Secondary School Teachers
Sooner Versus Later: Factors Associated with Temporal Sequencing of Suicide
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Kaplan, Mark S.; McFarland, Bentson H.; Huguet, Nathalie; Newsom, Jason T. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2006
There are few (if any) population-based prospective studies that provide information on factors associated with temporal sequencing of suicide. In this prospective population-based study, the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), 1986-1994, was linked to the National Death Index (NDI), 1986-1997, to assess factors that predict recent (within 12…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Suicide, Time Perspective, At Risk Persons
Adolescent Apprentices in Germany: Adult Attachment, Job Expectations, and Delinquency Attitudes.
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Silverberg, Susan B.; Vazsonyi, Alexander T.; Schlegel, Alice E.; Schmidt, Sabine – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1998
Examined variation in and relationships among delinquency, attachment to adults, optimism about occupational future, and disposition toward aggressiveness in German adolescent apprentices. Found considerable variation across the four variables. Attachment to adults predicted attitudes toward delinquency and optimism regarding occupational future.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Apprenticeships
Prediction of Interview Ratings in a Medical School Admission Process.
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Milstein, Robert M.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1980
The following hypothesis is tested and validated: that individual differences in interviewers' tendencies to rate generously or harshly, applicant characteristics, and the dissimilarity between applicant and interviewer characteristics contribute simultaneously to the prediction of interviewers' ratings of medical school applicants. (JMD)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Analysis of Covariance, College Admission, College Applicants
Toward a Reassessment of Individual Differences for Information Systems: The Power of User-Based Situational Predictors.
Newby, Gregory B.; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Discusses an empirical study that examined the relative efficiency of individual differences variables and user-based situational variables as predictors of the actual information/knowledge needed by users to accomplish word processing tasks. Information seeking versus information use is discussed, and results of canonical correlation analyses are…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Information Needs