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Identification of Sexually Abused Female Adolescents at Risk for Suicidal Ideations: A Classification and Regression Tree Analysis
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Brabant, Marie-Eve; Hebert, Martine; Chagnon, Francois – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2013
This study explored the clinical profiles of 77 female teenager survivors of sexual abuse and examined the association of abuse-related and personal variables with suicidal ideations. Analyses revealed that 64% of participants experienced suicidal ideations. Findings from classification and regression tree analysis indicated that depression,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Suicide
Sex Differences in the Expression of Depressive Responses on the Beck Depression Inventory
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Hammen, Constance L.; Padesky, Christine A. – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1977
Although epidemiological data have documented sex differences in depression, the nature and origins of the differences are unclear. Depression in a large sample of young, unmarried college students was measured and described by the Beck Depression Inventory. Considers the consequences of sex differences in depressive responses, including…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Females, Males, Psychological Studies
An Attempt to Reverse Performance Deficits Associated With Depression and Experimentally Induced Helplessness
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Kilpatrick-Tabak, Blair; Roth, Susan – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
The learned helplessness model of depression predicts that any effective treatment for reactive depression should also reverse performance deficits associated with experimentally induced helplessness, and vice versa. This study tests that prediction with college students who were exposed to experimental manipulations designed to induce…
Descriptors: College Students, Depression (Psychology), Helplessness, Performance Factors
Computerized versus Standard Personality Measures: Equivalency, Computer Anxiety, and Gender Differences.
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Lankford, J. Scott; And Others – Computers in Human Behavior, 1994
Reports on a study of the association between computer anxiety and measures of positive and negative affect when using computerized vs. standard administration. Gender differences across the two modes of administration were assessed. Measures of state, trait, and mathematics anxiety were obtained to clarify the association between computer anxiety…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Anxiety, Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education