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Reiter-Palmon, Roni; Robinson-Morral, Erika J.; Kaufman, James C.; Santo, Jonathan B. – Creativity Research Journal, 2012
Self-evaluations or self-perceptions of creativity have been used in the past both as predictors of creative performance and as criteria. Four measures utilizing self-perceptions of creativity were assessed for their usefulness as criterion measures of creativity. Analyses provided evidence of domain specificity of self-perceptions. The scales…
Descriptors: Creativity, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Concept Measures, Correlation
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Lifang, Li – International Education Studies, 2012
This research has chosen some students and undergraduates from 35 colleges and universities, which are national, local and professional colleges or universities with different entrepreneurship needs and different educational functions in the same area. The research reveals that the undergraduates or students are in strong desire of career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Entrepreneurship, Student Needs
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Hogg, Nanette; Lomicky, Carol S. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2012
This study explores 465 postsecondary students' experiences in online classes through the lens of connectivism. Downes' 4 properties of connectivism (diversity, autonomy, interactivity, and openness) were used as the study design. An exploratory factor analysis was performed. This study found a 4-factor solution. Subjects indicated that autonomy…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Online Courses, Factor Structure, Electronic Learning
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Chen, Hamilton; Onishi, Kentaro – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2012
The aim of our study was to assess the effect of the frequency of home exercise program (HEP) performance on pain [10-point visual analog scale (VAS)] in patients with osteoarthritis of the spine or knee after more than 6 months discharge from physical therapy (PT). We performed a retrospective chart review of 48 adult patients with a clinical…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Logical Thinking, Exercise, Measures (Individuals)
Culmer, Nathan Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Change is an organizational inevitability. There are few fields that undergo change more rapidly than information technology. Keeping up with the pace of change in a field so inclined toward change may take a unique toll on workers in information technology. Yet, little has been done to investigate workers' orientations towards change in this…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Employee Attitudes, Information Technology, Resistance to Change
Smith, Kimberly Nicole Tripp – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine school counselors' perception of how innovative counseling practices are or are not lived in a local school district. The eastern North Carolina school district was selected because MEASURE was being introduced in the district as a new way for program evaluation. The acronym MEASURE stands for Mission,…
Descriptors: School Counselors, School Counseling, Counselor Attitudes, Innovation
Lamphere, Michael Frederick, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation undertook an investigation of school culture and achievement in the high school setting. The national data set ELS:2002 was used as the pool of variables because it allows for a complete picture of school culture comprising students, parents, administrators, and teachers. The data were selected based on current literature and…
Descriptors: School Culture, High School Students, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
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Lee, Donghun; Trail, Galen T. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2012
Although sales of athletic team merchandise (ATM) contribute to the overall consumption of sport, a research effort that comprehensively measures aspects that trigger the consumption of ATM is lacking. In light of the gap, utilizing multiple theories and other concepts that describe product consumption, the authors of this article empirically…
Descriptors: Retailing, Merchandising, Team Sports, Models
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Storksen, Ingunn; Thorsen, Arlene Arstad; Overland, Klara; Brown, Steven R. – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
Research shows that children of divorce are at risk of adjustment problems and school problems. In previous studies of young children of divorce, most often parents or teachers have supplied data. In this study, we explore the children's own feelings and experiences through Q methodology with visual images. The study includes 17 children of…
Descriptors: Parents, Divorce, Preschool Children, Q Methodology
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Tsai, Jack; Rosenheck, Robert A. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
The multiple dimensions of social integration among formerly homeless adults with severe mental illness have not been well-studied. Previous studies have focused on clinical measures or narrow components of social integration. We used a multisite study of chronically homeless adults who were provided housing to (a) identify the main factors…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Social Integration, Children, Mental Disorders
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Helmes, Edward – Educational Gerontology, 2012
Most research on attitudes toward older adults does not address subgroups of older adults. This study evaluated whether attitudes among undergraduates towards older professionals were more positive than those toward older adults in general. A 2 x 2 factorial design with the covariate of knowledge of aging was used with measures from two attitude…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Priming, Aging (Individuals)
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Dockendorff, Sally A.; Petrie, Trent A.; Greenleaf, Christy A.; Martin, Scott – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2012
The Intuitive Eating Scale (IES; Tylka, 2006) initially was developed in a sample of college women to measure adaptive forms of eating, such as eating based on physiological rather than emotional cues. This study extends the work of Tylka (2006) and reports the psychometric evaluation of the IES in a sample of 515 middle-school boys and girls.…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Early Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Body Composition
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Gagliardi, Cristina; Spazzafumo, Liana; Papa, Roberta; Marcellini, Fiorella – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2012
The present study examines the leisure style and leisure satisfaction of a sample of older people at baseline and after a period of 5 years. Three groups were identified by factorial and cluster analyses and labelled under the headings of: Organised Style, Surrounding Style and Indoor Style. Each group represented a different typology of leisure,…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Health, Leisure Time, Life Satisfaction
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Rescorla, Leslie; Ivanova, Masha Y.; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Begovac, Ivan; Chahed, Myriam; Drugli, May Britt; Emerich, Deisy Ribas; Fung, Daniel S. S.; Haider, Mariam; Hansson, Kjell; Hewitt, Nohelia; Jaimes, Stefanny; Larsson, Bo; Maggiolini, Alfio; Markovic, Jasminka; Mitrovic, Dragan; Moreira, Paulo; Oliveira, Joao Tiago; Olsson, Martin; Ooi, Yoon Phaik; Petot, Djaouida; Pisa, Cecilia; Pomalima, Rolando; da Rocha; Marina Monzani; Rudan, Vlasta; Sekulic, Slobodan; Shahini, Mimoza; de Mattos Silvares, Edwiges Ferreira; Szirovicza, Lajos; Valverde, Jose; Vera, Luis Anderssen; Villa, Maria Clara; Viola, Laura; Woo, Bernadine S. C.; Zhang, Eugene Yuqing – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2012
Objective: To build on Achenbach, Rescorla, and Ivanova (2012) by (a) reporting new international findings for parent, teacher, and self-ratings on the Child Behavior Checklist, Youth Self-Report, and Teacher's Report Form; (b) testing the fit of syndrome models to new data from 17 societies, including previously underrepresented regions; (c)…
Descriptors: Epidemiology, Psychopathology, Children, Adolescents
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Willoughby, Michael T.; Wirth, R. J.; Blair, Clancy B. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
This study tested the longitudinal measurement invariance and developmental changes of a newly developed battery of executive function (EF) tasks for use in early childhood. The battery was administered in the Family Life Project--a prospective longitudinal study (N = 1,292) of families who were oversampled from low-income and African American…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Young Children, Child Development, Measures (Individuals)
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