Imagining future events is a crucial cognitive process in adaptation, but impairments have been identified range of mental disorders. Taking functional approach to thinking, this paper reports on the development and deployment scale assess frequency self-reported functions thinking: The Functions Future Thinking Scale (FoFTS). In Study 1 (N = 565) items were developed subjected exploratory fact...

Critical thinking becomes an essential competency for people in the new information age. The purpose of this research is to investigate to what extent writing online reflections using weblogs can promote students’ critical thinking. This research is conducted in a secondary school. After completing 3 weblogs, a focus group interview was conducted to collect their feedback on the design and impl...

A qualitative, contextual, exploratory and descriptive design for theory generation was used to develop a model to facilitate reflective thinking in clinical nursing education (Mouton & Marais, 1990:43; Mouton, 1996: 103-109; Chinn & Kramer 1991:79-120). A model was developed within the existing frameworks of theory generation. Wilson (1963:23-39) and Gift (1997:75,76) provided a theoretical fr...

Scientific argumentation skill is very important to be mastered by students. It allows students analyze, make decisions based on the result of thinking, and apply science in everyday life. This study aims analyze describe characteristics students' scientific argumentative skills Primary Educational Teacher Department results computational thinking tests about motion system material. exploratory...

Several studies have shown that as many as 20% of European schooled adolescents report self-destructive thoughts/behaviours. Using multinomial logistic regression analysis, the present study investigated the family and individual variables that predict reports of these behaviours. Three groups, one without reports of self-destructive thoughts/behaviours (NSDTB; n= 998), one with reports of self...

Social networking sites have seen tremendous growth and are widely used around the world. Nevertheless, the use of social networking sites in educational contexts is an under explored area. This paper uses a qualitative methodology, autoethnography, to investigate how social networking sites, specifically Facebook, can help first semester doctoral students adapt to a Ph.D. program and a new nat...

Various books and popular media outlets claim that mindless smartphone use can impair creativity, yet few studies have tested this idea. We conducted a survey three correlational focused on divergent thinking, the mindful ability to generate creative responses open-ended problems. Most of 48,000 participants surveyed thought reduced creativity. This view was consistent with negative correlation...

Title: Lateral wedges with and without custom arch support for people with medial knee osteoarthritis and pronated feet: An exploratory randomized crossover study Authors: Michael Hunt ([email protected]) Judit Takacs ([email protected]) Natasha Krowchuk ([email protected]) Gillian Hatfield ([email protected]) Rana Hinman ([email protected]) Ryan Chang (ryan.chang.umass@gma...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Rumination Romantic relationships Adult attachment Stalking Intimate partner violence Scale Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) Rumination about romantic relationships has been implicated in interpersonal problems generally, and intimate partner violence and stalking of former romantic partners specifically. While various scales e...