Research has consistently shown that males play violent video games more frequently than females, but factors underlying this gender gap have not been examined to date. The present approach examines the assumption that males play violent video games more, because they anticipate more enjoyment and less guilt from engaging in virtual violence than females. This may be because males are less empa...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has experienced dramatic backlogs of pending charges over the years. In 1977, the backlog reached an all-time high of 130,000 cases pending. Recently, the EEOC announced that the backlog had been reduced to 29,890 cases. A significant portion of this reduction is attributab le to an increased use of mediation. During FY 2001, 7,800 of the 94,59...

Expressive suppression is regarded as a generally ineffective emotion regulation strategy and appears to be associated with the development of depressive symptoms among adolescents. However, the mechanisms linking suppression to depressive symptoms are not well understood. The main aim of this study was to examine two potential mediators of the prospective relationship from depressive symptoms ...

Roberts, Glymour, and Koenen (2013) presented evidence that childhood maltreatment is related to adult homosexuality, using an instrumental variables regression analysis. Briefly, several instrumentalvariables—presenceofa stepparent,poverty,parental alcohol abuse, and parental mental illness—were related to adult homosexuality, but these relations were statistically mediated by childhood maltre...

Parental warmth plays an important role in the development of adolescents’ physical and mental health. There are numerous empirical studies indicating a relationship between parental prosocial behavior among adolescents, although underlying mechanisms this association remain unclear. Adopting longitudinal design across two time points, present study proposes moderated mediation model to explore...