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Acculturation and Achievement in English among Chinese Immigrant Adolescents: A Comparison of Two Populations Which Vary in the Density of Speakers of Chinese 

Duan, Guiyong (2006-05-15)
The present study was conducted for the purposes of addressing how differential L1-speaking population density affects the acculturation status of two cohorts of ethnic Chinese adolescent respondents with ages at testing ...

Adult males with childhood sexual experiences: The role of attachment and coping in psychological adjustment 

Lyle, Patricia (2006-12-15)
In the past three decades, the existing literature pertaining to the sexual abuse of boys has expanded. Much of the current male sexual abuse research is directed toward understanding how abused boys later become offenders. ...

Analysis of the Hierarchical Nature of Clinicians’ Organization of Mental Disorders 

Keeley, Jared (2005-08-15)
The organization of mental disorders by clinicians can be viewed as a type of folk taxonomy. If this is true, the organizations of clinicians should exhibit certain properties; specifically, they should be hierarchical. ...

Assessing Psychology Majors' Knowledge of Psychology Using the Auburn Psychology Term Test (APTT) 

Brandt, Julie (2006-12-15)
Student assessment is a pressing issue for educators. This research addresses the proposition that students who perform better in psychology classes do so because they learn psychological terms and concepts with greater ...

The Attentional Blink Effect in Spider Phobia 

Farshid, Arash (2011-08-08)
Extant research suggests that individuals with spider phobia relative to non-anxious controls display a shorter attentional blink (AB) in response to spider-related target words. Common methodological limitations of such ...

Behavioral Economic Indices and their Relationship to Alcohol Consumption, Motives, and Impulsivity: A Structural Equation Model 

Messina, Bryan (2016-06-17)
Alcohol consumption and related negative consequences continues to be a systemic societal problem. College students are a population that has been identified as particularly high risk for a number of negative consequences ...

Category Effects of Vocabulary Presentation in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition in Novice Learners 

Wilcox, Amanda (2011-07-29)
Vocabulary learning is a crucial factor in second language acquisition (SLA), yet there is no consensus as to how to present vocabulary in a way that facilitates learning. Little theory and scant empirical evidence support ...

Comprehensive Recidivism Data from Juvenile Delinquents and Juvenile Sex Offenders 

Cook, Patrick (2010-10-15)
Each year in the United States, juveniles commit a significant percentage of the total number of sex offenses. Moreover, available recidivism data examining sexual re-offense rates with juvenile sex offenders vary considerably ...

A Conditional Reasoning Test for Risk and Incident Propensity 

Doerr, Alexa (2016-08-09)
Occupational injuries and fatalities persist in large numbers in the United States. Injuries and fatalities that occur at work have a high social and financial cost to employers. Moreover, human error is often to blame ...

Conduct Disorder in Female Offenders: Relationship of Callous-Unemotional Traits, Depression, and Risk Taking 

Gothard, Kelly (2011-11-21)
Although male delinquency rates remain higher than those of females, female delinquency has been on the rise while the rates among males have been decreasing. The study of female adolescent offenders remains relatively ...

Connecting in a digital world: How information and communication technologies shape the leader-subordinate experience 

Smith, Adam (2019-07-23)
The present study investigated how the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) impacts leader-member exchange (LMX) quality and its resulting organizational outcomes. The primary hypothesis of interest was ...

Consumers’ Prior Experience and Attitudes as Predictors of Their Online Shopping Beliefs, Attitudes, and Purchase Intentions in a Multichannel Shopping Environment 

Noh, Mijeong (2008-12-15)
This study was designed to develop a conceptual model which indicated 1) the interrelationships among consumers’ prior in-store shopping experience with the multichannel retailer, consumers’ advertisement attitude, and ...

Correlates of Change in Adolescent Psychopathic Traits 

Newman, Jan Everhart (2011-08-10)
Modeled after conceptualizations of adult psychopathy, adolescent psychopathy has been defined as a serious personality disorder characterized by a distinctive constellation of interpersonal, affective, and behavioral ...

Defining Dissociation Based on the Factor Structures of Three Instruments 

Dillon, Jacqueline (2008-12-15)
Dissociation is a poorly defined construct in the literature. The 1st goal of this research was to better define and understand the concept of dissociation through factor analytic study of 3 common measures of dissociation, ...

Disobedience and Deviance: An Empirical Categorization of Insider Cybersecurity Behaviors 

Whitman, Rachel (2021-07-28)
Employees pose a significant threat to organizational cybersecurity. Researchers have called for increased examination of the traits and antecedents related to poor cybersecurity compliance. The current study contributes ...

Effects of Bold Key Terms on Judgments of Learning and Reading Comprehension 

Roberts, Andrew (2016-05-04)
People often use different types of available information as cues to make inferences about memory (Koriat, 1997). When these cues are unreliable predictors of memory (like font size), metacognitive illusions can ensue ...

Effects of Font Type of Embedded Key Terms on Judgments of Learning and Memory from Textbooks 

Andrew, Roberts (2012-12-06)
Previous research by Rhodes and Castel (2008) provided evidence that metacognitive predictions of future memory performance (i.e. judgments of learning (JOLs)), are significantly affected by perceptual information (i.e. ...

Evaluating Dissemination and Implementation Efforts in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy 

Wilsie, Carisa (2012-06-04)
With a push for evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP), dissemination to community mental health care providers has been occurring. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is one type of EBPP that is currently being ...

Examination of an Attachment Training for Mentoring Effectiveness 

Brooks, Shalonda (2011-08-01)
Youth mentoring can be defined as a unique relationship between an adult and child or adolescent that is characterized by mutual respect, reciprocity, transmission of knowledge from mentor to mentee, and social-emotional ...

An Examination of the Predictive Validity of Court Assigned Risk Levels on Recidivism Rates among Juvenile Sex Offenders 

Houle, Allison (2012-08-27)
Approximately 20% of all sexual crimes are committed by adolescents (Barbaree & Marshall, 2006). Those adolescents that are adjudicated for a sexual offense and subsequently complete a treatment program, typically have low ...