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Browsing Psychology by Subject "Adolescent"

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Age differences in visual search for feature, conjunction, and triple-conjunction targets

Humphrey, Darryl G.; Kramer, Arthur F. (American Psychological Association, 1997 Dec)

The authors examined the ability of younger and older adults to search for targets defined by single features (feature search), conjunctions of 2 features (conjunction search), and conjunctions of 3 features (triple-conjunction ...
Arrests of women for driving under the influence

Shore, Elsie R.; McCoy, Marcia L.; Toonen, Lynn A.; Kuntz, E. J. (Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1988 Jan)

Police records of arrests of women in Wichita, Kansas for driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol for a 5-year period (1980-1984) were studied. The proportion of arrests of women increased from 10.6 to 14.5% of total ...
Assessing the health attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of African Americans attending church: a comparison from two communities

Lewis-Moss, Rhonda K.; Green, B. Lee (Springer, 2000 Jun)

Public health officials and researchers continue to be increasingly concerned about the health of populations of color, especially African Americans. A survey was administered in African American churches in two communities ...
The consequences of antisocial behavior in older male siblings for younger brothers and sisters

Snyder, James J.; Bank, Lew; Burraston, Bert (American Psychological Association, 2005-12)

The contribution of younger male and female siblings’ conflict and involvement in deviant activities with their older brothers to younger siblings’ adolescent adjustment problems was examined in the context of parenting. ...
The contribution of parents and siblings to antisocial and depressive behavior in adolescents: a double jeopardy coercion model

Compton, Kristi; Snyder, James J.; Schrepferman, Lynn M.; Bank, Lew; Shortt, Joann Wu (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

A dual coercion model of family processes associated with the development of antisocial and depressive behavior during adolescence was assessed, using an at-risk sample of families and children. Consistent with the model, ...
The effectiveness of various degrees and circumstances of program completion of young male offenders in a residential treatment center

Klingsporn, M. J.; Force, R. C.; Burdsal, Charles A. (John Wiley & Sons, 1990 Jul)

Boys admitted to a treatment facility do not always complete their treatment. This study analyzes the follow-up socialized coping of boys preponderantly classified as conduct disordered who were admitted to a residential ...
The effect of music amplitude on the reaction to unexpected visual events

Turner, Marilyn L.; Fernandez, Jeffrey E.; Nelson, K. (Routledge, 1996 Jan)

The effects of music amplitude on participants' response time to randomly presented, unexpected, visual events were investigated. Ninety participants completed a motor-reaction task without music and with music played at ...
Factor structure of the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory scales in psychiatric inpatients

Adkisson, Reginald; Burdsal, Charles A.; Dorr, Darwin; Morgan, C. Don (Elsevier, 2012-05-10)

This study examined the factor structure of the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) Personality Patterns and Clinical Syndromes scales in 331 individuals undergoing short-term hospitalization in a Midwestern ...
Health attitudes and behaviors of African American adolescents

Lewis-Moss, Rhonda K.; Paschal, Angelia; Redmond, Michelle L.; Green, B. Lee; Carmack, Chakema C. (Springer New York LLC, 2008 Oct)

African Americans continue to die disproportionately from chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. Eating fruits and vegetables have been shown to reduce those risks yet little is known about the ...
Identification reaction time as a function of target and field object orientation

Borresen, C. R. (Routledge, 1989 Jan)

Four experiments were conducted investigating the effects of (a) target versus field object orientation, (b) target upside up versus target upside down and (c) inverting versus noninverting lenses on object identification ...
Illusion reversal rate as a function of subjective depth

Borresen, C. R. (Routledge, 1990 Jan)

Undergraduate students (N = 48) served as subjects in a test of Gregory's theory of illusions. Twenty-four students made judgments about the subjective depth of three reversible illusions--Necker cube, Book, and Pyramid--under ...
Individual interventions to prevent drunk driving: types, efficacy, and a theoretical perspective

Shore, Elsie R.; Compton, K. L. (Baywood Publishing, 2000)

College students (n = 100) who had tried to stop someone from driving drunk, or who someone else had tried to stop, provided information about their interaction, including what was said and whether the intervention worked. ...
The limitations of behavior-genetic analyses: comment on McGue, Elkins, Walden, and Iacono

Greenberg, Gary (American Psychological Association, 2005 Nov)

This article takes issue with the behavior-genetic analysis of parenting style presented by M. McGue, I. Elkins, B. Walden, and W. G. Iacono. The author argues that the attribution of their findings to inherited genetic ...
Origins of antisocial behavior. Negative reinforcement and affect dysregulation of behavior as socialization mechanisms in family interaction

Snyder, James J.; Schrepferman, Lynn M.; St. Peter, Carolyn (Sage Publications, 1997 Apr)

Theoretical models specifying the contribution of two social-familial mechanisms, negative reinforcement and affect dysregulation, to the development of child antisocial behavior were tested using a sample of 57 8- to ...
Powerlessness, destiny, and control: the influence on health behaviors of African Americans

Green, B. Lee; Lewis-Moss, Rhonda K.; Wang, Min Qi; Person, Sharina; Rivers, Brian (Springer New York LLC, 2004 Feb)

This study assessed the extent to which a belief in fate or destiny might explain certain health behaviors among African Americans. A survey of 1,253 African Americans in Alabama churches was conducted. Fifty-nine percent ...
Psychology of computer use: XXXII. Computer screen-savers as distractors

Volk, F. A.; Halcomb, Charles G. (Ammons Scientific Ltd., 1994 Dec)

The differences in performance of 16 male and 16 female undergraduates on three cognitive tasks were investigated in the presence of visual distractors (computer-generated dynamic graphic images). These tasks included ...
Screening for depression among pregnant and postpartum women

Mosack, Victoria; Shore, Elsie R. (Routledge, 2006)

The purpose of this study was to examine the screening of depression among pregnant and postpartum participants in a community-based program. This cross-sectional study used archival data from 98 women participating in a ...
Trends in appropriate adult functioning and biasing risks in longitudinal follow-ups of boys with conduct disorders

Klingsporn, M. J.; Force, R. C.; Burdsal, Charles A. (Routledge, 1994 Mar)

Multiple telephone follow-up interviews have been conducted for a number of years for boys with conduct disorders treated at the Saint Francis Academy. These follow-ups are done 2 years and 5 years after treatment completion ...
Validation of depression measures in adolescent populations

Kauth, M. R.; Zettle, Robert D. (John Wiley & Sons, 1990 May)

Four measures of depression were administered to a normative sample (n = 44) and two psychiatric groups of adolescents (n = 40). Measures included the Adolescent Activity Checklist (AAC), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), ...
What's in it for the companion animal? Pet attachment and college students' behaviors toward pets

Shore, Elsie R.; Douglas, Deanna K.; Riley, Michelle L. (Routledge, 2005)

Research on the human-nonhuman animal bond has focused primarily on its advantages to the human. The purpose of this study is to investigate behaviors of caregivers (owners) of companion animals (pets) and to examine the ...