New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from June 2002

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from June 2002

Cognitive appraisal, negative affectivity and psychological well-being.
June 1, 2002... Current research indicates that the way in which an individual appraises a situation may be more important to psychological well-being than the actual presence of stress. Cognitive appraisal is central to the stress and coping processes, for it...

Evolving personnel selection practices in New Zealand organisations and recruitment firms.
June 1, 2002... Interviews were conducted with representatives from 100 randomly-selected organisations with 200 or more employees, and 30 recruitment consultancies in New Zealand in order to determine current personnel selection practices, how those practices...

Effects of iron treatment on cognitive performance and working memory in non-anaemic, iron-deficient girls.
June 1, 2002... A randomised, double-blind intervention study is described in which 116 adolescent girls with iron deficiency in the absence of anaemia were randomly allocated to iron treatment or a placebo control group. Both cognitive performance and...

Women, work & well-being: the influence of work-family and family-work conflict.
June 1, 2002... The effect of both work and family roles on individual well-being has received some recent attention. It has been suggested that inter-domain conflict is generally experienced to a greater extent by women, as compared to men and furthermore,...

Psychometric properties of three scales of depression and well-being in a mature New Zealand sample.
June 1, 2002... Psychometric properties of three standardised scales were examined in a sample of 174 individuals aged 50-65 who had experienced job loss. Measures evaluated were depression (CES-D), affect (ABS), and life satisfaction (LSS). A confirmatory...

Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study.
June 1, 2002... Moffit, T., Caspi, A., Rutter, M., and Silva, P. Cambridge Publishers Ltd, 2001 ISBN 0 521 01066 7 This book presents new findings from the Dunedin Longitudinal Study and provides the reader with a wealth of research findings on gender...