Recently added articles from Social Behavior and Personality:
TEACHER SELF-EFFICACY BELIEF
May 30, 2007; ... This study presents development and validation of a new measurement instrument to explore student-teachers' self-efficacy beliefs toward teaching. We developed and administered a survey to 346 student teachers at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey in the Department of Elementary Education in ...
PERCEIVED PARENTING STYLES AND DISORDERED PERSONALITY TRAITS IN ADOLESCENT AND ADULT STUDENTS AND IN PERSONALITY DISORDER PATIENTS
May 30, 2007; ... To examine the relationship between perceptions of parenting and personality, the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI; Parker, Tupling, & Brown, 1979) and the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology - Basic Questionnaire (DAPP; Livesley & Jackson, in press) were administered to 167 ...
COPING STYLES OF ALCOHOL-DEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS: COMPARISON WITH DEPRESSED PATIENTS AND CONTROLS
May 30, 2007; ... The profile of coping mechanisms in a sample of 164 subjects (60 alcohol-dependent individuals, 47 depressed patients, 57 controls) was investigated. Data were collected over the period January-December 2004, at the Eginition Psychiatric Hospital of the Athens University Medical School in ...
THE IMPACT OF GENDER, ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION ON PERFORMANCE ON PURSUIT ROTOR
May 30, 2007; ... In this study the impact of gender, levels of anxiety, and depression on pursuit rotor performance task was investigated. The participants were 292 undergraduate students (171 men and 121 women) of Kuwait University, Kuwait. They completed an anxiety scale, depression scale, and 4 speed levels ...
THE THREE-STAGE MODEL OF VOLUNTEERS' DURATION OF SERVICE
May 30, 2007; ... The main objective of this paper was to describe the latest results of a longitudinal study carried out by our research team with a sample of social work volunteers, whose one-year follow-up has just been completed, allowing us to draw up what we have called the "Three-stage model of volunteers' ...
THE RELATIONSHIP OF LEADERSHIP, TEAM TRUST AND TEAM PERFORMANCE: A COMPARISON OF THE SERVICE AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
May 30, 2007; ... The objective of this study was to investigate and compare the relationships and variations among leadership, team trust and team performance in the service and manufacturing industries. The results of using structural equation modeling to conduct hypotheses testing show that leadership has a ...
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LMX AND SUBORDINATES' FEEDBACK-SEEKING BEHAVIORS
May 30, 2007; ... Relationships among subordinates' feedback-seeking strategy preferences, Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), social cost, and source credibility were examined. Employees (N = 134) of civil engineering companies in South Korea completed a questionnaire. Findings showed that LMX quality, social cost, ...
INTERNAL VALIDATION OF A BIODATA EXTRAVERSION SCALE FOR SALESPEOPLE
May 30, 2007; ... Extraversion is a personality trait commonly required in sales jobs, and a demonstrated element of efficient performance in such jobs. Considering extraversion's subtrait structure relevant for sales positions (sociability - enjoyment of social activities; affiliation - enjoying and valuing ...
A COMPARISON OF PARENTAL ATTITUDE PERCEPTIONS IN CHILDREN OF WORKING AND NONWORKING MOTHERS
May 30, 2007; ... The differences between the perceptions of parental attitudes in children of working and nonworking mothers and whether gender influences parental attitude perceptions were investigated. A General Information Form and the Bronfrenner Parents' Attitude Scale (in Turkish; Güneysu, 1982) were used ....
AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TEACHER EFFICACY, TEACHER SELF-ESTEEM AND ORIENTATIONS TO SEEKING HELP
May 30, 2007; ... The relationships between teacher efficacy, teacher self-esteem and orientation to seeking help were investigated in this study. Three questionnaires were used with a sample of 151 prospective teachers and 67 experienced teachers. The three questionnaires were Personal Teaching Efficacy Scale ...
PERCEPTION OF FEMALE BUTTOCKS AND BREAST SIZE IN PROFILE
Jan 01, 2007; ... This study looked at the contribution of breast size and buttock size on ratings of female physical attractiveness in profile. A total of 114 British undergraduates rated 9 silhouettes with 3 varying levels of breast size and 3 levels of buttock size. Results showed significant main effects of ...
WHAT PRICE DO YOU ASK FOR THE "EXTRA ONE"?: A SOCIAL VALUE ORIENTATION PERSPECTIVE
Jan 01, 2007; ... The concept of social value orientation was used to explore individuals' decisions in asking price when they had an "extra one" that someone wanted to buy. Results from an experimental study indicated that competitors' asking price was higher than those of individualists, who in turn asked ...
FACTOR ANALYSIS AND PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION OF THE CONNOR-DAVIDSON RESILIENCE SCALE (CD-RISC) WITH CHINESE PEOPLE
Jan 01, 2007; ... This study examines the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Connor and Davidson's Resilience Scale (CD-RISC; 2003), an American instrument originating from a posttraumatic stress disorder research program. Confirmatory factor analysis of the Chinese data failed to verify the ...
GROUP FORMATION IN A SIMULATED SCAVENGER HUNT: HOW BIG AND DIVERSE SHOULD A SUCCESSFUL GROUP BE?
Jan 01, 2007; ... Male and female university students (121) received 1 of 8 scenarios describing a hypothetical scavenger hunt. Subjects could form a group to assist them in the hunt or work alone. Groups could be homogeneous or diverse in terms of gender, age, and familiarity. Completion of the task would result ...
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN RELATIONAL AND PHYSICAL AGGRESSION
Jan 01, 2007; ... A sample of 134 (93 female, 41 male) university students were evaluated with measures of relational and physical aggression, as well as measures of the five personality factors (NEO Five-Factor Inventory; Costa & McCrae, 1992), depression and anxiety (Beck Depression Inventory; Beck, 1987 ...
FUTURE TIME ORIENTATION AND RELIGION
Jan 01, 2007; ... The purposes of this study were to evaluate whether Future Time Orientation (FTO) was associated with interest in the future beyond death, and/or with level of belief in religion, and also to validate an instrument aimed at measuring belief in religion in Turkish society. Gjesme's (1979) FTO ...
A SELF-PRESENTATIONAL APPROACH TO TRANSMISSION OF GOOD AND BAD NEWS
Jan 01, 2007; ... People are reluctant to transmit bad news, a tendency named as the MUM effect. One explanation of this effect suggests that people do not want to construct negative impressions by being associated with bad news. In this study, transmission of good and bad news was examined from an impression ...
IDENTITY STATUS OF TURKISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR EVALUATION OF FAMILY PROBLEMS
Jan 01, 2007; ... The relationship between the evaluation of Turkish university students of their family problems and their age, gender and identity status was studied. The study group was composed of 291 students from Hacettepe University. The results of the study showed that there is a direct relation between ...
METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS RISK PERCEPTION BY HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL IN A PUBLIC HOSPITAL
Jan 01, 2007; ... This study examines perceived risk of contamination by methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among Healthcare personnel in a French university hospital. MRSA poses a public health threat for Healthcare staff who work in a hospital environment. This study is part of a ...
APPLYING THEORIES OF INSTITUTIONAL HELPING TO INFORMAL VOLUNTEERING: MOTIVES, ROLE IDENTITY, AND PROSOCIAL PERSONALITY
Jan 01, 2007; ... Dispositional variables from a volunteer model were shown to apply to informal volunteering. The model integrates two theories of the volunteer process: functional analysis and role identity theory. Undergraduates, (N = 139), completed an informal volunteer inventory, and measures of motives, ...