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Taylor, Richard; Page, Andrew; Morrell, Stephen; Harrison, James; Carter, Greg – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate urban-rural differentials in Australian suicide rates, and to examine influences that previously have remained largely speculative. Suicide rates for males (all ages and young adults) were significantly higher in rural areas compared to urban areas. Urban-rural suicide rate differences in males were…
Descriptors: Migrants, Incidence, Health Services, Young Adults
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Landry, Raymond, Jr.; Moyes, Glen D.; Cortes, Angelica C. – Journal of Education for Business, 2004
In this study, the authors examined ethical perceptions of Hispanic students by analyzing differences between (a) accounting and nonaccounting business majors and (b) women and men. The authors used the following five constructs: justice, relativism, egoism, utilitarianism, and deontology. Their study incorporated 12 moral characteristics into…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, Majors (Students)
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Hinton, Pamela S.; Kubas, Karen L. – Journal of American College Health, 2005
Female athletes may be at greater risk for disordered eating than their nonathletic peers, but the psychological antecedents of this dysfunctional behavior in athletes have yet to be elucidated. The objective of this study was to develop an athletics-oriented measure of psychological predictors of disordered eating and to test its initial…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Social Influences, Psychological Patterns, Test Construction
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Van Bockern, Steve; Wenger, Laurie; Ashworth, Julie – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2004
In the pathway of discouragement, there are two significant indicators that things have gone awry. First, there is an escalating "disconnect" among the adults who are involved in the life of the young person. Second, the problem solving gives way to discouragement, anger, and punitive consequences. For some children the trajectory lasts over his…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Youth, Achievement Need, Academic Failure
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Perrin, Karen M.; Dorman, Karen A. – Journal of School Nursing, 2003
The purpose of this study was to explore the personal life stories of women who became mothers while still in their teen years. The focus was on themes that evolved as important in the lives of these women, including family support, partner support, mentor support, economic opportunity, resiliency, optimism, and spirituality. Each of the 22 women…
Descriptors: Mothers, Family (Sociological Unit), Social Support Groups, School Nurses
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Rotenberg, Ken J.; McDougall, Patricia; Boulton, Michael J.; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Fox, Claire; Hymel, Shelley – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2004
Trustworthiness was examined in children and early adolescents from two countries. In Study 1,505 children in the fifth and sixth school years in the United Kingdom (mean age = 9 years 7 months) were tested across an 8-month period. In Study 2,350 sixth- through eighth-grade Canadian children and early adolescents (mean age = 12 years 11 months)…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, Peer Groups, Trust (Psychology)
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Grietens, Hans; Geeraert, Liesl; Hellinckx, Walter – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2004
Objective: The aim was to construct and test the reliability (utility, internal consistency, interrater agreement) and the validity (internal validity, concurrent validity) of a scale for home visiting social nurses to identify risks of physical abuse and neglect in mothers with a newborn child. Method: A 71-item scale was constructed based on a…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Nurses, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
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Martin, Graham; Richardson, Angela S.; Bergen, Helen A.; Roeger, Leigh; Allison, Stephen – Journal of Adolescence, 2005
Introduction: There is currently a need for research into indicators that could be used by non-clinical professionals working with young people, to inform the need for referral for further clinical assessment of those at risk of suicide. Method: Participants of this repeated measures longitudinal study, were 2603, 2485, and 2246 school students…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Academic Achievement, Suicide, Self Esteem
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Cheung, Chau-Kiu; Lee, Tak-Yan; Lee, Chak-Man – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2003
This article reports on the findings of a study involving intensive interviews with 21 former drug addicts who had successfully maintained abstinence for periods ranging from one-and-a-half to four years. They were among the 74 successful former drug addicts out of a pool of more than 2,000 participating in a major rehabilitation program in Hong…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Programs, Prevention, Drug Abuse, Foreign Countries
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Spertus, Ilyse L.; Yehuda, Rachel; Wong, Cheryl M.; Halligan, Sarah; Seremetis, Stephanie V. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2003
Objective: There were two aims to this study: first to examine whether emotional abuse and neglect are significant predictors of psychological and somatic symptoms, and lifetime trauma exposure in women presenting to a primary care practice, and second to examine the strength of these relationships after controlling for the effects of other types…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Predictor Variables, Psychological Patterns
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O'Hare, Thomas; Sherrer, Margaret V.; LaButti, Annamaria; Emrick, Kelly – Research on Social Work Practice, 2004
Objective/Method: The use of brief, reliable, valid, and practical measures of substance use is critical for conducting individual assessments and program evaluation for integrated mental health-substance abuse services for persons with serious mental illness. This investigation examines the internal consistency reliability, concurrent validity,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Mental Disorders, Test Validity, Alcohol Abuse
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Bernard, Lori L.; Guarnaccia, Charles A. – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: Caregiver bereavement adjustment literature suggests opposite models of impact of role strain on bereavement adjustment after care-recipient death--a Complicated Grief Model and a Relief Model. This study tests these competing models for husband and adult-daughter caregivers of breast cancer hospice patients. Design and Methods: This…
Descriptors: Hospices (Terminal Care), Spouses, Grief, Daughters
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Amirkhanyan, Anna A.; Wolf, Douglas A. – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: This study examines depressive symptoms among adult children of elderly parents; it views the parents' care needs and child's care activities as two separate stressors, different combinations of which may affect both caregiving and noncaregiving family members. Design and Methods: A sample of 4,380 women and 3,965 men from the first wave…
Descriptors: Siblings, Caregivers, Multiple Regression Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
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Cant, Diana – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2005
This paper looks at the role of individual psychotherapy with a severely sexually abused girl in a therapeutic community, and the place of this work as she makes the transition into foster-care. It emphasizes the importance, not only of the individual work, but also of the drawing together of the work around the child, particularly at such a…
Descriptors: Therapeutic Environment, Correctional Rehabilitation, Psychotherapy, Foster Care
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Sorensen, Pamela B. – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2005
This article describes a type of intervention with parents that attempts to stimulate and encourage empathic imagination in relation to their child's difficult behaviour. Some barriers to this process are explored in the context of wider cultural influences, particularly as they pertain to the USA. Basic cultural assumptions about children, their…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Cultural Influences, Intervention, Parents
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