Students

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Urban elementary school students perceptions of fighting behavior and concerns for personal safety.

This study assessed urban elementary school students experience with weapon carrying and violence, concerns for personal safety, and perceptions of passive and direct interventions in resolving fights. The survey was completed by 1,912 urban students in ...
James H Price, Susan K Telljohann, Joseph A Dake, Laura Marsico, Christine Zyla (J Sch Health, 200205)
urban-elementary-school-students-perceptions-fighting-behavior.asp

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The regulation of explicit and implicit race bias: the role of motivations to respond without prejudice.

Three studies examined the moderating role of motivations to respond without prejudice (e.g., internal and external) in expressions of explicit and implicit race bias. In all studies, participants reported their explicit attitudes toward Blacks. Implicit ...
Patricia G Devine, E Ashby Plant, David M Amodio, Eddie Harmon-Jones, Stephanie L Vance (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200205)
regulation-explicit-implicit-race-bias-role-motivations-respond.asp

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Organ donation and transplantation: ethnic differences in knowledge and opinions among urban high school students.

PURPOSE: To assess knowledge and opinions about the process of human organ donation and transplantation among American teenagers. METHODS: A culturally sensitive 35-item self-administered survey assessing knowledge, opinions, and family discussion about ...
Clarence Spigner, Marcia Weaver, Vicky Cárdenas, Margaret D Allen (Ethn Health, 200205)
organ-donation-transplantation-ethnic-differences-knowledge-opinions.asp

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Coping styles as correlates of health in high school students.

PURPOSE: To study a large, population-based sample of adolescents with the goal of expanding our knowledge base about the relationship of coping and health outcomes. METHOD: We examined 1769 nonclinical, high school students (48% girls, mean age 16 ...
Hans Steiner, Sarah J Erickson, Nicole L Hernandez, Renee Pavelski (J Adolesc Health, 200205)
coping-styles-correlates-health-high-school-students.asp

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Homesickness among students in two cultures: antecedents and consequences.

Review of the theoretical and empirical literature on homesickness showed that despite recent advances, scientific understanding of the impact on students of leaving home for college is still limited. Further empirical investigation using standardized ...
Margaret Stroebe, Tony van Vliet, Miles Hewstone, Hazel Willis (Br J Psychol, 200205)
homesickness-students-two-cultures-antecedents-consequences.asp

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Does the proportion of associatively related pairs modulate the associative priming effect at very brief stimulus-onset asynchronies?

A number of experiments have shown that the magnitude of the associative priming effect increases substantially when there is a high proportion of associatively related pairs in the list when the stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA) between prime and target ...
Manuel Perea, Eva Rosa (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200205)
proportion-associatively-related-pairs-modulate-associative-priming.asp

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The Aggression Questionnaire: a validation study in student samples.

The goal of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) in Spain. The AQ is a 29-item instrument designed to measure the different dimensions of the hostility/anger/aggression construct. It consists of 4 ...
Ana García-León, Gustavo A Reyes, Jaime Vila, Nieves Pérez, Humbelina Robles, Manuel M Ramos (Span J Psychol, 200205)
aggression-questionnaire-validation-study-student-samples.asp

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Eating and exercise disorders in young college men.

The authors used the computerized Eating and Exercise Examination to investigate eating, weight, shape, and exercise behaviors in a convenience sample of 93 male college students. One fifth of the men worried about their weight and shape, followed rules ...
Jennifer A ODea, Suzanne Abraham (J Am Coll Health, 200205)
eating-exercise-disorders-young-college-men.asp

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College students perceptions of suicide: the role of empathy on attitudes, evaluation, and responsiveness.

A total of 334 college-age students (18719 years) participated in a study investigating the role of empathy in perceptions of and responsiveness toward a hypothetical friend exhibiting symptoms associated with suicide risk. High-empathy participants ...
Michaele A Mueller, Gregory A Waas (Death Stud, 200205)
college-students-perceptions-suicide-role-empathy-attitudes.asp

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Its easy to like or dislike Tony Blair: accessibility experiences and the favourability of attitude judgments.

The present study investigated the circumstances under which accessibility experiences would impact the favourability of political attitudes. Participants who were either interested or uninterested in British politics generated either two (or five) ...
Geoffrey Haddock (Br J Psychol, 200205)
s-easy-like-or-dislike-tony-blair-accessibility-experiences.asp