New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from June 2000

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from June 2000

Personality Testing and Police Selection: Utility of the `Big Five'.(Critical Essay)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... While I/0 psychologists have traditionally viewed personality testing as contributing little to the prediction of job performance, recent development of the `big five' personality constructs has shown that personality tests can be valid...

Adolescent Gambling and Problem Gambling: A New Zealand Study.(Critical Essay)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... The prevalence of gambling and problem gambling among adolescents in New Zealand has not been adequately investigated. Prospective studies of current underage gambling may be unreliable, because respondents may fear self-incrimination. In this...

Optimism Bias and Student Debt.(Critical Essay)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... A survey of 230 psychology students revealed that they underestimated the time they thought they would need to pay back student debt and overestimated their future incomes relative to the average student. The tendency to overestimate future...

Psychometric Evaluation of the Profile of Functional Impairment in Communication with Traumatically Brain-injured Children.(Critical Essay)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... The Profile of Functional Impairment of Communication (PFIC) was employed to examine communication by children with a traumatic brain-injury (TBI) during a family problem-solving discussion. Communication by 11 children with a TBI was compared...

Employment and Mental Health of Three Groups of Immigrants to New Zealand.
June 1, 2000... This paper reports findings on employment and mental health from the first phase of a longitudinal study on the settlement of three groups of skilled immigrants to New Zealand: 36 from the People's Republic of China, 36 from India and 35 from...

ERRATUM.
June 1, 2000... In the last issue of the Journal (V.28, 2, page 68) an article carried a dedication to Karen Stanley-Hunt. The dedication incorrectly identified the person who was charged with her killing as her former partner. The person charged and...

Economic Rationalism in Action.(New Zealand)
June 1, 2000... In February 1998 the New Zealand Government distributed the draft code of social and family responsibility as a public discussion document. The code addressed eleven social issues and called for public responses to the document. In assuming the...

Cannabis on the Brain: Is it Neurotoxic or Neuroprotective?(*).
June 1, 2000... Recent studies have further confirmed that cannabis produces its psychological and behavioural effects by acting on specific cannabinoid receptors in the brain and that the brain also contains naturally occurring cannabinoids known as...

Mentoring Children and Youth: Principles, Issues, and Policy Implications for Community Programmes in New Zealand.
June 1, 2000... Mentoring is becoming an increasingly popular strategy for addressing the needs of young people who are considered at risk for failure in mainstream contexts, and many schools and social service agencies in New Zealand now conduct mentoring...