Current Psychology articles from June 2000

Current Psychology archives from June 2000

Perceptions of Self-Oriented and Other-Oriented "Everyday" Helpers.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... In two investigations, participants were asked to evaluate eight different young adults (Study 1) and children (Study 2) who had described (a) a situation in which they had offered assistance to another individual and (b) the reason why they...

Commitment to One's Spouse as a Predictor of Marital Quality among Older Couples.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... The present study examined the relationships between several independent variables (ego development, commitment to the spouse, length of marriage, church attendance, and sex of subject) and three marital quality variables (marriage problems,...

Psychosocial Correlates of Health Status among Asians, Caucasians, and Multiracial Subjects.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... The present study assessed the relationship between race and physical health in a multicultural sample. When controlling for a variety of health risk factors, the results revealed a significant relationship between race and recent and chronic...

An Investigation of Concurrent Validity between Two Optimism/Pessimism Questionnaires: The Life Orientation Test-Revised and the Optimism/Pessimism Scale.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... The purpose of this investigation was to investigate the concurrent validity of the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) (Scheier et al., 1994) and Optimism/Pessimism Scale (OPS) (Dember et al., 1989) by administering each questionnaire to the...

Self-Reported Measures of Appetite in Relation to Verbal Cues about Many Foods.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... In the present study a representative sample of students from a general college population were exposed to a list of written food cues and asked to rate each of the foods according to its nutritional value. Subjects who were exposed to the food...

Individual Differences in Problem Solving via Insight.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... The purpose of the present work was to identify general problem solving skills that underlie the production of insight. One hundred and eighteen participants completed insight problems, analogies, series-completion problems and the Remote...

Thomas Verner Moore and the Electronic Road to the Unconscious: A Reminiscence.
June 22, 2000... A number of contemporary commentators and observers have urged a rapprochement between customary methods of psychoanalytic treatment and other modalities in order to shorten the traditional duration of "standard" psychoanalysis. In particular,...