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Direct linkGarcia-Rea, Elizabeth A.; LePage, James P. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
With the high number of homeless, there is a critical need for rapid and accurate assessment of quality of life to assess program outcomes. The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-100 has demonstrated promise in accurately assessing quality-of-life in this population. However, its length may make large scale use impractical for working with a…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Personality Assessment, Quality of Life, Test Validity
Pargas, Rebecca Cristina Malvar; Brennan, Patricia A.; Hammen, Constance; Le Brocque, Robyne – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Using a prospective longitudinal design, this study investigated factors associated with resilience in 20-year-old offspring of depressed mothers (n = 648). Resilient youth were operationally defined as those whose mothers were depressed but who themselves had no history of recurrent depression and currently evidenced adequate academic or work and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Mothers, Intelligence Quotient, Psychopathology
Armstrong, Patrick Ian; Vogel, David L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2010
The current article replies to comments made by Lent, Sheu, and Brown (2010) and Lubinski (2010) regarding the study "Interpreting the Interest-Efficacy Association From a RIASEC Perspective" (Armstrong & Vogel, 2009). The comments made by Lent et al. and Lubinski highlight a number of important theoretical and methodological issues, including the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Career Choice, Theory Practice Relationship, Cognitive Ability
Livas-Dlott, Alejandra; Fuller, Bruce; Stein, Gabriela L.; Bridges, Margaret; Mangual Figueroa, Ariana; Mireles, Laurie – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Early research on the socialization of Latino children has posited that mothers exercise authoritarian practices, compared with lateral reasoning (authoritative) strategies emphasized by Anglo mothers. This work aimed to categorize fixed types of parenting practices tied to the mother's personality rather than to culturally bounded contexts; it…
Descriptors: Socialization, Mothers, Naturalistic Observation, Mexican Americans
Howe, Neil – School Administrator, 2010
Slowly but surely, Generation Xers have been taking over from Baby Boomers as the majority of parents in elementary and secondary education. In the early 1990s, Gen Xers began joining parent-teacher associations in the nation's elementary schools. Around 2005, they became the majority of middle school parents. By the fall of 2008, they took over…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Baby Boomers, Parents, Age Differences
Lee, Zina; Salekin, Randall T.; Iselin, Anne-Marie R. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2010
The current study employed model-based cluster analysis in a sample of male adolescent offenders (n = 94) to examine subtypes based on psychopathic traits and anxiety. Using the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV; Forth et al. 2003) and the self-report Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD; Caputo et al. 1999), analyses identified…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Multivariate Analysis, Anxiety, Males
Lindsay, William R.; Steptoe, Lesley; Hogue, Todd E.; Taylor, John L.; Mooney, Paul; Haut, Fabian; Johnston, Susan; O'Brien, Gregory – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2007
Background: The publication of the DSM-III (American Psychiatric Association (APA), 1980) prompted a significant increase in interest and research on personality disorder (PD), and the concept has subsequently been incorporated into mental health legislation in the developed world. Despite this, such research on people with intellectual disability…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Problems, Factor Structure, Mental Retardation
Murrie, Daniel C.; Marcus, David K.; Douglas, Kevin S.; Lee, Zina; Salekin, Randall T.; Vincent, Gina – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: Recently, researchers have sought to measure psychopathy-like features among youth in hopes of identifying children who may be progressing toward a particularly destructive form of adult pathology. However, it remains unclear whether psychopathy-like personality features among youth are best conceptualized as dimensional (distributed…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Pathology, Personality, Evaluation Methods
Thorne, Keoma J.; Kohut, Candace S. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2007
The "Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents: A Profile of Personal Strengths" (Resiliency Scales; Prince-Embury, 2007) provides a quick and easy individually or group administered self-report of personal strengths and vulnerabilities in children and adolescents. The Resiliency Scales comprise the following three scales: (a) Sense of…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Profiles, Personality Traits, Children
Download full textSharif, Mohd. Yasin; Ferdous, Farhiba – English Language Teaching, 2012
Listening is a creative skill that demands active involvement. The listeners share their knowledge from both linguistics and non linguistics sources. Listening comprehension (LC) tasks which is always accompanied by anxiety needs closer examination. In the listening process a low-anxiety classroom environment inspires the listeners to participate…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Anxiety, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Shen, Xiaomei; Zhang, Wenhai – International Education Studies, 2012
Hierarchical linear modeling techniques were used to explored individual and contextual factors of emotion regulation in a sample of 2074 adolescents from grade 7 through grade 12 and 54 head teachers in China mainland. Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) and Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire-Revised (EATQ-R) were administered among…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Self Control, Questionnaires, Measures (Individuals)
Alexander, Rodney T. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Teenage Internet users are the fastest growing segment in the Internet user population. These teenagers are at risk of sexual assault from Internet predators. This phenomenological study explored teacher and counselors' perceptions of how to prevent this sexual assault. Twenty-five teacher and counselor participants were interviewed. A…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Internet, Safety
Marx, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Self-authorship, a theory developed by Robert Kegan (1982) and applied to college students by Marcia Baxter Magolda, is the ability to internally define one's own beliefs, identity, and relationships (Baxter Magolda, 2001). People who self-author have the ability to make career, academic, relationship, and life decisions that take into…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Academic Advising, Counselor Characteristics
Dennis, Tracy A.; Buss, Kristin A.; Hastings, Paul D.; Bell, Martha Ann; Diaz, Anjolii; Adam, Emma K.; Miskovic, Vladimir; Schmidt, Louis A.; Feldman, Ruth; Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Rigterink, Tami; Strang, Nicole M.; Hanson, Jamie L.; Pollak, Seth D.; Dahl, Ronald E.; Silk, Jennifer S.; Siegle, Greg J.; Beauchaine, Theodore P.; Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Kirwan, Michael; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany; Gunnar, Megan R.; Obradovic, Jelena; Boyce, W. Thomas; Molenaar, Peter C. M.; Gates, Kathleen M. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2012
In the past decade, there has been a dramatic growth in research examining the development of emotion from a physiological perspective. However, this widespread use of physiological measures to study emotional development coexists with relatively few guiding principles, thus reducing opportunities to move the field forward in innovative ways. The…
Descriptors: Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Development, Measurement
Varela, Otmar E.; Cater, John James, III; Michel, Norbert – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2012
In this study we seek to better understand the outcomes of online education by observing the role of learners' personality traits. Under the premise that the behaviors that maximize learning are contingent on the delivery method, we compared learning outcomes of students participating in four sections of an undergraduate principles of management…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Social Isolation, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
