New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from July 2007

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from July 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
July 1, 2007... This issue of the New Zealand Journal of Psychology is the first one produced during my term of office as Editor. I feel honored to have been nominated for this role. NZJP has been a valuable resource for my own learning and professional...

Understanding positive subjectivities made possible online for disabled people.
July 1, 2007... The ideology of individualism underlying identity and psychology's focus on a visual ontology may serve to inhibit the social value of people with disabilities. The online medium with its capacity for textual self presentation presents a...

Political attitudes and the ideology of equality: differentiating support for liberal and conservative political parties in New Zealand.
July 1, 2007... A new scale summarizing the central and core elements of a social representation of individual versus group-based entitlement to resource-allocations in New Zealand (NZ) is presented. Item content for the Equality Positioning Scale was drawn...

Psychological distress, causal attributions, and coping.
July 1, 2007... The potential differing effects of causal attributions on both psychological distress and coping in response to a hypothetical exam failure were investigated. A 59 item questionnaire was distributed to 99 male and 90 female students from the...

Self versus assessor ratings and their classification in assessment centres: profiling the self-rater.
July 1, 2007... Self versus assessor behavioural ratings from 214 participants were investigated along with psychometric measures in a development centre. Using cluster analysis, it was shown that sub-groups of self-raters could be established without the need...

Biculturalism in employee selection or 'who should get the job'? Perceptions of Maori and Pakeha job applicants in a NZ European student sample.
July 1, 2007... The current study reports an experiment assessing how Pakeha/European New Zealanders' perceptions of job applicants are shaped by ethnicity, merit and need. A sample of 114 undergraduate students viewed the curricula vitae of both high and low...

Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape Nicola Gavey London and New York: Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2005, 268 pp. ISBN 0-415-3107-7 Slippery boundaries, persisting power, possible futures? Just Sex is a sustained inquiry into the...

New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations James H Liu, Tim McCreanor, Tracey McIntosh and Teresia Teaiwa (eds.), Wellington: Victoria University Press. 304 pp. 2005. ISBN 0-86473-517-0 Modernity, democracy and...

Challenged by Childhood: Healing the Hidden Hurts of a Difficult Childhood.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Challenged by Childhood: Healing the Hidden Hurts of a Difficult Childhood. Kay Douglas Auckland NZ: Speaking from the Heart Publishers, 2006 (334 pp). ISBN 0 473 10837 2 A Strength-Based Approach to Healing from Childhood Adversity...