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Francis, Leslie J.; Williams, Emyr; Robbins, Mandy – British Journal of Religious Education, 2010
A sample of 10,851 pupils (5493 males and 5358 females) attending Year 9 classes (13- to 14-year-olds) and a sample of 9494 pupils (4787 males and 4707 females) attending Year 10 classes (14- to 15-year-olds) in non-denominational state-maintained secondary schools in England and Wales completed questions concerned with conventional Christian…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Social Behavior, Adolescents, Personality
Bhakta, Roy; Wood, Clare; Lawson, Duncan – Psychology Teaching Review, 2010
This study examined differences in personality and mathematical ability between students studying Business, Psychology, Sports and Nursing. There were 286 participants who each completed a mathematics diagnostics test and a Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-R) during the first term of their first year of study. There was a significant…
Descriptors: Psychosis, Personality Traits, Measures (Individuals), Psychology
Newcombe, Nora; Lerner, Jeffrey C. – 1979
John Bowlby's theory of attachment is examined in the cultural and historical context in which it was developed. Bowlby trained as a psychiatrist in England during the 1920's and published the WHO report in 1951. Thus the origins of his theory can be related to events set in motion by the First World War and occurring during the interwar period…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Cultural Context, Death, Depression (Psychology)