New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from March 2004

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from March 2004

A confirmation of the eight factor structure of the eating disorders inventory in a non-clinical sample, with New Zealand norms.
March 1, 2004... The Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI) is a widely used questionnaire for clinical assessment and for research with people who have eating disorders. It has eight subscales, providing information on eight separate dimensions of cognitive and...

Predicting police job satisfaction and turnover intentions: the role of social support and police organisational variables.
March 1, 2004... The retention of operational staff, particularly females, within the police services and other male-dominated occupations, has received some recent attention. The introduction of organisational practices which aim to reduce inter-domain...

Impact of cadaver dissection on medical students.
March 1, 2004... Concern has been raised over the psychological trauma some medical students appear to experience when undertaking human dissection. While previous research has been undertaken overseas, the present study sought to further investigate this...

Setting impossible standards: the model of ethical decision-making associated with the New Zealand Psychologists' Code of Ethics.
March 1, 2004... Ethical decisions are usually made with incomplete information, insufficient resources, and limited time. While some ethical decisions are about unusual and high-risk situations and draw on considerable resources, the majority are largely...

Comments on Tim Williams' paper, 'setting impossible standards: the model of ethical decision-making associated with the New Zealand Psychologists' Code of Ethics'.
March 1, 2004... Tim Williams' article provides a valuable review of how decisions are made and although much of the commentary about ethical decision-making is by extrapolation it does offer important insights. He then applies this review to the steps for...

Work-family conflict and turnover intention: exploring the moderation effects of perceived work-family support.
March 1, 2004... The influence of perceived employer family support on the work-family conflict/job-outcomes relationship, is poorly understood. This study of 100 New Zealand local government employees tested work-family conflict as a predictor of turnover...

Beyond chicks, birds and the generic male.
March 1, 2004... Beyond chicks, birds and the generic male Weatherall, A. (2002) Gender, language and discourse London: Routledge. 177 pages There seem to be popular conceptions that a) women have achieved equality with men, or perhaps even overtaken men,...