Current Psychology articles from September 2000

Current Psychology archives from September 2000

Proposition 187 Reexamined: Attitudes Toward Immigration Among California Voters.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... The purposes of this study were to examine socio-demographic predictors of attitudes toward immigration in a community-based sample (N = 494) from the Los Angeles area; and to explore the relationship between attitudes toward immigration and...

Social Cognitive Predictors of Prosocial Behavior toward Same and Alternate Race Children among White Pre-schoolers.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Social cognitive predictors of 36 White preschoolers' (18 boys, 18 girls) tendencies to say they would act prosocially toward White and African-American children were examined. White preschoolers completed measures of their tendency to engage...

Perceived and Actual Characteristics of Parents and Partners: A Test of a Freudian Model of Mate Selection.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... The present research examined the psychoanalytic theory of mate selection (Freud, 1927) which proposes that people choose romantic partners similar to their opposite-sex parents (Epstein & Guttman, 1984). This phenomenon was addressed as both...

Skills Training in the Long-Term Management of Stress and Occupational Burnout.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... The current managed healthcare environment stresses brief and effective short-term therapy. However, often this short-term treatment does not lead to long-term behavioral changes and clients return to therapy many times for help with the same...

Social Isolation and Gender.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... This study investigated the relationship between gender and social support. It was found that men were more isolated than women although there were no gender differences in perceived adequacy (i.e., satisfaction with one's social support...

Correlates of Loneliness as Perceived by the Terminally Ill.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... The pain of loneliness is a universal social phenomenon, which is intensified by a diagnosis of a terminal illness. The present study investigated the causes of loneliness as perceived by HIV/AIDS patients, those diagnosed with cancer, and the...

Intensity Affects the Preconscious Processing of Emotionally Toned Words in College Students.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... The detectability of high and low intensity emotionally toned words was investigated in a signal detection paradigm using college students as subjects. Individually set thresholds kept word identification to an average of 16 percent. The...