North American Journal of Psychology back issues from March 2005:
State laws on suicide and rates of suicide: a replication.
Mar 01, 2005; ... Seven aspects of laws on suicide, as proxy measures of public attitudes in each state, were correlated with the 2001 rates of suicide for the contiguous U.S. states. With so many correlations in the present study, the likelihood of a Type I error was large. Alpha was adjusted to control ...
Attachment style and decoding of nonverbal cues.
Mar 01, 2005; ... The present study examined individual differences in adult attachment style and nonverbal decoding accuracy. It was predicted that secure and preoccupied participants (i.e., those with a positive view of others) would demonstrate more nonverbal accuracy than would those with a negative ...
Worry and its relationship to shyness.
Mar 01, 2005; ... Worry and shyness were explored along with other aspects of social anxiety, such as fear of negative evaluation, and social avoidance and distress. All four factors were related, and all related to negative affect as well. With negative affect removed to control for neuroticism, worry, ...
Prevalence of procrastination in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia: arousal and avoidance delays among adults.
Mar 01, 2005; ... No systematic study has examined the global prevalence of chronic procrastination--the purposive delay in starting or completing tasks. In the present study, adult samples from the United States (122 women, 85 men), United Kingdom (143 women, 96 men), and Australia (124 women, 90 men) ...
Personality and attitude toward Christianity among church musicians.
Mar 01, 2005; ... A sample of 168 church musicians completed the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity together with the short-form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The data confirmed the finding (common in general population studies but less common among highly religious groups) that ...
An integrative model for the study of psychological distress in Vietnamese-American adolescents.
Mar 01, 2005; ... This paper examines the unique situation of Vietnamese-American adolescents and proposes a conceptual model for the study of psychological distress in this population. In support of the proposed model, this paper includes a brief analysis of the mainstream conceptual frameworks used to ...
Perceptions of the adult sibling relationship.
Mar 01, 2005; ... The focus of this study involved the study of siblings over the age of 30. Specifically of interest was the relationship between verbal aggressiveness, credibility, satisfaction, and trust. Recruited participants were informed in a cover letter that this study involved communication in ...
The development of the experiences of low mood and depression questionnaire.
Mar 01, 2005; ... This paper reports on evidence supporting the Experiences of Low Mood and Depression Questionnaire (ELMD) as a psychometrically sound measure of prior experience of depression. Subscales measure severity and duration of prior depression, and current depression as identified by the ...
Cognitive enhancement through stimulation of the chemical senses.
Mar 01, 2005; ... Finding a non-pharmacological adjunct to enhance cognitive processing in humans would be beneficial to numerous individuals. Past research has consistently noted a significant interplay between odors and human behavior; for example, the administration of particular odorants enhances ...
Personality, expressed concerns, and pathology as a function of AD/HD symptoms.
Mar 01, 2005; ... Fifty-two undergraduate volunteers completed the Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS), a measure of AD/HD symptoms, and the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI). As predicted, males scored significantly higher on the WURS than did females. Higher WURS scores in males were associated with ...
An interview with Ernst Rothkopf: reflections on educational psychology.(Interview)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Ernst Z. Rothkopf is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Education, Emeritus at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he taught from 1985 until his recent retirement. He earned his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Connecticut and he has served as President ...
The relationship between sport team identification and social well-being: additional evidence supporting the team identification--Social Psychological Health Model.
Mar 01, 2005; ... The current study tested three predictions generated from Wann's (2004) Team Identification--(Social) Psychological Health Model. Specifically, it was hypothesized that social well-being would be a) positively related to identification with a local sport team, b) not related to ...
The effects of receiving positive or negative primes on an instructor's evaluation.
Mar 01, 2005; ... This study investigated the effects of receiving positive or negative primes on students' evaluations of an instructor's video lecture. Before watching the video half of the lecture 304 participants were given positive information about the instructor and half of the students were given ...