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Brown, Deirdre A.; Lewis, Charlie N.; Lamb, Michael E.; Stephens, Emma – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: To examine the ability of children with intellectual disabilities to give reliable accounts of personally experienced events, considering the effects of delay, severity of disability, and the types of interview prompt used. Method: In a between-subjects design, we compared children with intellectual disabilities (7-12 years) that fell…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Mental Retardation, Severity (of Disability), Mental Age
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Pei-Yu, Chiu; Shih, Hsiao-Feng; Lin, Pei-Shin; Hong, Jon-Chao – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
Flow state in game playing affected by computer self-efficacy and game competitive anxiety was studied. In order to examine the effect of those constructs with high competition, this study select "Escaping from firing online game" which require college students to escape from fire and rescue people and eliminate the fire damage along the way of…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Competition
Basanta, Carmen Perez – English Teaching Forum, 2012
The area of progress testing has been neglected and has lagged far behind developments in language teaching and testing in general. In most classrooms today, English is taught through communicative textbooks that provide neither accompanying tests nor any guidance for test construction. Teachers are on their own in constructing tests to measure…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Guidelines, Test Construction
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Hoshino, Kazumi; Zarit, Steven H.; Nakayama, Makoto – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2012
This study developed the Japanese version of the Gerotranscendence Scale Type 2 (the GST2) and examined reliability and validity of the scale. In Japan, 525 community-dwelling older adults (Male = 260, Female = 265) answered a questionnaire. An exploratory factor analysis of the Japanese version of the GST2 revealed the same three-factor structure…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Construct Validity
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Brosseau, Lucie; Wells, George A.; Tugwell, Peter; Egan, Mary; Dubouloz, Claire-Jehanne; Welch, Vivian A.; Trafford, Laura; Sredic, Danjiel; Pohran, Kathryn; Smoljanic, Jovana; Vukosavljevic, Ivan; De Angelis, Gino; Loew, Laurianne; McEwan, Jessica; Bell, Mary; Finestone, Hillel M.; Lineker, Sydney; King, Judy; Jelly, Wilma; Casimiro, Lynn; Haines-Wangda, Angela; Russell-Doreleyers, Marion; Laferriere, Lucie; Lambert, Kim – Health Education Journal, 2012
Background and purpose: The objective of this article is to create guidelines for education interventions in the management of patients ([greater than] 18 years old) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: The Ottawa Methods Group identified and synthesized evidence from comparative controlled trials using Cochrane Collaboration methods. The…
Descriptors: Evidence, Guidelines, Medical Education, Patients
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Wietzker, Anne; Buysse, Ann – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Divorce is often accompanied by feelings of guilt toward the former spouse. So far, no scale has been available to measure such feelings. For this purpose, the authors developed the Guilt in Separation Scale (GiSS). Content validity was assured by using experts and lay experts to generate and select items. Exploratory analyses were run on samples…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Altruism, Anxiety, Divorce
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Wang, Jing-Ru; Chen, Shin-Feng; Tsay, Reuy-Fen; Chou, Ching-Ting; Lin, Sheau-Wen; Kao, Huey-Lien – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2012
This study reports on the process of developing a test to assess students' reading comprehension of scientific materials and on the statistical results of the verification study. A combination of classic test theory and item response theory approaches was used to analyze the assessment data from a verification study. Data analysis indicates the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Science Tests, Data Analysis, Item Response Theory
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Dodge, Brian; Schnarrs, Phillip W.; Goncalves, Gabriel; Malebranche, David; Martinez, Omar; Reece, Michael; Rhodes, Scott D.; Van Der Pol, Barbara; Nix, Ryan; Fortenberry, J. Dennis – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2012
Previous research suggests that bisexual men face unique health concerns in comparison to their exclusively homosexual and heterosexual counterparts. However, little is known about behaviorally bisexual men's experiences with health services, including ways of providing services that would be most appropriate to meet the health needs of this…
Descriptors: Health Services, Health Needs, Trust (Psychology), Males
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Stark, Marcella D.; Kirk, Amy Manning; Bruhn, Rick – ADULTSPAN Journal, 2012
Differences between 116 graduate and undergraduate women, representing 4 generations (i.e., Baby Boomers, Transitionals, Generation Xers, and Millennials), were studied to categorize earliest awareness and definitions of commitment in relationships. More than 63% of participants in each generation viewed relationship commitment in terms of…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Females, Baby Boomers, Classification
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Smeyers, Paul – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2012
Time, space, causality, communicating and acting together set limits on our freedom. Starting from the position of Wittgenstein, who advocates neither a position of pure subjectivity nor of pure objectivity, and taking into account what is implied by initiation into the symbolic order of language and culture, it is argued that the limitations on…
Descriptors: Freedom, Barriers, Time, Role of Education
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Barchard, Kimberly A. – Psychological Methods, 2012
This article introduces new statistics for evaluating score consistency. Psychologists usually use correlations to measure the degree of linear relationship between 2 sets of scores, ignoring differences in means and standard deviations. In medicine, biology, chemistry, and physics, a more stringent criterion is often used: the extent to which…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Error of Measurement, Correlation, Reliability
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Kemper, Christoph J.; Lutz, Johannes; Bahr, Tobias; Ruddel, Heinz; Hock, Michael – Assessment, 2012
Using two clinical samples of patients, the presented studies examined the construct validity of the recently revised Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 (ASI-3). Confirmatory factor analyses established a clear three-factor structure that corresponds to the postulated subdivision of the construct into correlated somatic, social, and cognitive components.…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Reliability, Anxiety, Measures (Individuals)
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Terry, Christeine M.; Kohlenberg, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2012
The primary study aims were to create reliable measures of therapists' attitudes about and preferences to use Relationship Focused Interventions (RFIs), and investigate factors that influence them. Explicit and implicit measures of therapists' attitudes and preferences were administered to a national sample of mental health trainees and FAP…
Descriptors: Intervention, Counselor Training, Psychotherapy, Counselor Attitudes
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Carleton, R. Nicholas; Thibodeau, Michel A.; Osborne, Jason W.; Asmundson, Gordon J. G. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2012
The present study was designed to test for item order effects by measuring four distinct constructs that contribute substantively to anxiety-related psychopathology (i.e., anxiety sensitivity, fear of negative evaluation, injury/illness sensitivity, and intolerance of uncertainty). Participants (n = 999; 71% women) were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Test Items, Serial Ordering, Measures (Individuals)
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Armstrong, Andrew B.; Field, Clinton E. – Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 2012
The idea of a "magic" interaction ratio (five positives for every negative) has become widespread. No studies have directly examined interaction ratios in the context of relationships of mothers and young children. Data were collected with mothers and their young children in a laboratory setting. Baseline ratio levels for this sample were…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Parenting Skills, Observation
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