New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from July 2006

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from July 2006

Loneliness in the workplace: construct definition and scale development.
July 1, 2006... This paper describes the conceptual development and validation of a scale to measure loneliness in the workplace. Despite extensive literature on loneliness and the measurement of the phenomenon, the issue of assessing worker loneliness is not...

Conflict and facilitation between work and family: realizing the outcomes for organizations.(Survey)
July 1, 2006... Exploration of the work-family interface has resulted in models which focus on conflict between work and family roles rather than work-family and family-work facilitation. The present research was an exploratory study which aimed to examine...

Religion, spirituality and associations with problem gambling.
July 1, 2006... Little is known about the contribution of religion and spirituality to the development of problem gambling. This paper examines one of the reasons associated with religion and spirituality which was given by respondents in a larger study of why...

Gender, age, ethnic and occupational associations with pathological gambling in a New Zealand urban sample.
July 1, 2006... Demographic associations with pathological gambling are usually based on findings with population samples which include less serious problem gamblers. The present study examined the relative contribution of risk factors for pathological...

Positive and Negative Affective Outcomes of Occupational Stress.
July 1, 2006... Occupational stress is a significant problem throughout the industrialised world. The prevalence of occupational stress is increasing and the negative consequences of stress for individual health and wellbeing are increasing. This attention to...

Testing a 'trilemma' instrument for vocational-interest assessment.
July 1, 2006... How an individual ranks items by preference, or on any-other form of subjective scale, can be assessed efficiently by presenting the items three at a time for three-way, forced-ranking decisions. We propose that these choices are most...

Research Companion to Organisational Health Psychology.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Antoniou, A. G., & Cooper, C. L. (2005) Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 695 pp. ISBN 1 84376 624 8 Current work on work stress Health psychology is a field concerned with understanding human behaviour in the context of...

Using Homework Assignments in Cognitive Behavior Therapy.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Kazantzis, Nikolaos, Deane, Frank P., Ronan, Kevin R. & L'Abate, Luciano (2005) New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-94773-1 Aaron T. Beck, widely regarded as the "father" of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), insisted "Homework assignments...