Empathy has been suggested to facilitate effective collaborative problem solving in children. The current study adapted the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI, Davis, 1980), a well-validated empathy measure for adults, for use with children aged 8 and 9 years. Four hundred and thirteen school children aged between 7;11 and 9;11 years completed the new measure, ‘Feeling and Thinking’ (F&T) aime...

We used data from 3064 respondents to the 1990 North Carolina Youth Risk Behavior Survey to examine the relationship between adolescent drug use and suicide ideation and behavior. Principal components analysis followed by varimax rotation was performed separately on the drug use and suicide items. Correlation coefficients computed between the two sets of factor scores and comparison of mean dru...

Kiers (1991) considered the orthogonal rotation in PCAMIX, a principal component method for a mixture of qualitative and quantitative variables. PCAMIX includes the ordinary principal component analysis (PCA) and multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) as special cases. In this paper, we give a new presentation of PCAMIX where the principal components and the squared loadings are obtained from a...

ARTICLE HISTORY Received: 10.01.2016 Revised 16.01.2016 Accepted 29.01.2016 ABSTRACT The aim of the current study was to investigate the reliability and the validity evidences of the Jordanian version of the children's d The sample of the study composed of Jordanian private and public schools. To achieve the goals of this study pearson correlation coefficient, cronbach's alpha formula, independ...

The present paper aimed to shed light into the relationship between different dimensions of personality and behavioral maximizing and mental standards. To do this, 288 students of Shiraz University from different fields of study (149 females and 139 males) took part as participants. Furthermore, to collect the intended data, two instruments of Goldberg Big Five Personality and Schwartz and coll...

objective: early maladaptive schemas are deep feelings or patterns that are formed in childhood and recur later in their lifetime. young has classified these schemas. the purpose of the present study was to validate the young early maladaptive schema questionnaire (yemsq) for early maladaptive schemas in a group of university students. methods: five hundred and seventy nine students were random...

A recent presidential directive mandated that all U.S. government agencies establish a centralized identification system. This study investigated the impact of users’ involvement, resistance, and computer self-efficacy on the implementation success of a centralized identification system. Information System (IS) usage was the construct employed to measure IS implementation success. A survey inst...

– Commercial exploitation of freshwater turtles and tortoises has increased significantly in China since the 1990s, which has expedited the listing of some turtle species in Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendix II. We assessed the risk to tortoises and freshwater turtles native to China by analyzing biological and socio-economic variab...

We measured total dissolved reactive nitrogen in precipitation samples collected at Uljin, a Korean coastal site upwind of the southern East Sea/Sea of Japan (EJS), selected as a representative study site of atmospheric deposition over the northwestern Pacific margin. NO−3 was found to be the most abundant nitrogen species, followed by NH+4 and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON). Air-mass back-tr...

The Negative Priming task is widely used to investigate attention inhibition observed in some variations of a selective attention task. This study was designed to measure the reliability of a negative priming effect as a prerequisite for conducting this research. The sample included 100 university students whose ages ranged between 18 to 36 years. They completed two tasks: an identification tas...