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Evaluating the AWARE Inventory as a measure of relationship factors among a sample of high school students.

The Awareness of Attitudes and Relationship Expectations (AWARE) Inventory was administered to 160 high school students in Wyoming. Factor analysis showed the inventory did not have the expected 11 dimensional factor structure. Most of the intended ...
Benjamin Silliman, Walter R Schumm (Psychol Rep, 200210)
evaluating-aware-inventory-measure-relationship-factors-sample-high.asp

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Impaired social functioning and symptoms of personality disorders assessed by peer and self-report in a nonclinical population.

Data regarding the connection between personality disorders (PDs) and impaired social functioning are often difficult to interpret because both sets of variables are influenced by depressed mood and both are usually assessed using self-report ...
Thomas F Oltmanns, Alison H Melley, Eric Turkheimer (J Personal Disord, 200210)
impaired-social-functioning-symptoms-personality-disorders-assessed.asp

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Acculturation and adaptation of Soviet Jewish refugee adolescents: predictors of adjustment across life domains.

This study explores how acculturation is related to adaptation across different life spheres for 162 Soviet Jewish refugee adolescents in a suburban community in Maryland. Because the different contexts of refugee adolescents lives vary in acculturative ...
Dina Birman, Edison J Trickett, Andrey Vinokurov (Am J Community Psychol, 200210)
acculturation-adaptation-soviet-jewish-refugee-adolescents-predictors.asp

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Can the stages of change for smoking acquisition be measured reliably in adolescents?

BACKGROUND: was to examine the reliability of the algorithm. METHODS: As part of a randomized controlled trial, 3,930 adolescents completed a paper version of the algorithm questions and a differently worded computerized version on the same day: a ...
Paul Aveyard, Emma Lancashire, Joanne Almond, K K Cheng (Prev Med, 200210)
stages-change-smoking-acquisition-measured-reliably-adolescents.asp

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Knowledge, use of and attitudes towards peer support: a 2-year follow-up to the Princes Trust survey.

This present study investigated how school peer support systems studied 2 years earlier in a survey funded by The Princes Trust have evolved. In all, 413 pupils (actual and potential users of the systems) aged 13-14 (Year 9--Y9) and 15-16 (Year 11--Y11), ...
Helen Cowie, Paul Naylor, Lorenzo Talamelli, Preeti Chauhan, Peter Smith (J Adolesc, 200210)
knowledge-attitudes-towards-peer-support-year-follow-up-prince-s.asp

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The role of handouts, note-taking and overhead transparencies in veterinary science lectures.

OBJECTIVE: To study student and staff views of the role and use of handouts, note-taking and overhead transparencies in veterinary science lectures at the University of Queensland METHODS: The Nominal Group Technique was used to help develop a ...
M W McLennan, G Isaacs (Aust Vet J, 200210)
role-handouts-note-taking-overhead-transparencies-veterinary-science.asp

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Adolescents carrying handguns and taking them to school: psychosocial correlates among public school students in Illinois.

The current study sought to examine psychosocial correlates of adolescents carrying a handgun and taking a handgun to school. Survey participants were approximately 22,000 6th, 8th, and 10th grade public school students from throughout Illinois. Results ...
Sunyna S Williams, Peter F Mulhall, Janet S Reis, John O DeVille (J Adolesc, 200210)
adolescents-carrying-handguns-taking-school-psychosocial-correlates.asp

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The structure of traits delineating personality disorder in a Chinese sample.

The present study examined the factorial structure of a Chinese language version of the self-report Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology Questionnaire in 581 adults. Four factors were extracted (Emotional Dysregulation, Dissocial, Inhibition, ...
Wenyu Zheng, Wei Wang, Zhimin Huang, Congyuan Sun, Jiaming Zhu, W John Livesley (J Personal Disord, 200210)
structure-traits-delineating-personality-disorder-chinese-sample.asp

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Physical activity, motor ability, and school readiness of 6-yr.-old children.

The aim of this investigation was to study the relationships between physical activity, motor ability, and school readiness in 6-yr.-old children. In total, 294 healthy children from Tartu were studied (161 boys and 133 girls). The physical activity of ...
Leila Oja, Toivo Jürimäe (Percept Mot Skills, 200210)
physical-activity-motor-ability-school-readiness-yr-old-children.asp

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Gender role and personality disorders.

Many researchers have hypothesized relationships between personality disorders and gender role (i.e., masculinity and femininity). However, research has not addressed if people who are masculine or feminine more often meet the criteria for personality ...
E David Klonsky, J Serrita Jane, Eric Turkheimer, Thomas F Oltmanns (J Personal Disord, 200210)
gender-role-personality-disorders.asp