Students’ perceptions of school danger have been associated with several negative academic, behavioral, and developmental outcomes. However, little research has focused on which contextual factors influence rural youths’ perceptions of school danger. Through hierarchical regression analyses, the study presented in this article explored the relative importance of parent, peer, school experience,...

From a contact theory perspective, links between variation in young adults’ perceptions of communication with their grandparents and attitudes towards older adults are examined. The analysis pays particular attention to variation in communication with multiple grandparents, and finds links between that and perceived variability in the older adult population as a whole. More variation in percept...

This study analyzed patients’ perceptions of their physicians’ willingness to engage in interaction and be open, and patients’ satisfaction in communication about health with their physicians (N=322). Results indicated that a moderate to strong and significant positive correlation exists between patients’ perceptions of their physician’s interaction involvement and their satisfaction with their...

Previous research suggests that people show increased self-referential processing when they provide criticism to others, and that this self-referential processing can have negative effects on interpersonal perceptions and behavior. The current research hypothesized that adopting a self-distanced perspective (i.e. thinking about a situation from a non-first person point of view), as compared wit...