New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from March 2006

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from March 2006

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 1, 2006... This first issue of the New Zealand Journal of Psychology for 2006 has a very strong applied focus, with papers mainly in the areas of social and clinical psychology. The first paper, by Chris Sibley and his colleagues at Victoria...

Toward a social representations theory of attitude change: the effect of message framing on general and specific attitudes toward equality and entitlement.
March 1, 2006... A representational theory of attitude change integrating research on social representations and media framing effects is proposed. The theory seeks to explain why some aspects of attitude and opinion are more malleable than others. It is...

Reducing stereotype-based judgments: the impact of habitual stereotype use.
March 1, 2006... The reported experiment investigated whether an individual's habitual use of social stereotypes influenced the impact of the presentation of stereotype-disconfirming information on stereotype-based beliefs. Participants were first categorized...

Health and safety problems as perceived by female caregivers of persons with intellectual disabilities: finding a diversity of interventions.
March 1, 2006... To investigate the perceptions of health and safety concerns of female caregivers of persons with intellectual disabilities in a community organization, a semi-structured interview asked women from different organizational levels about the...

News coverage of sexual offending in New Zealand, 2003.
March 1, 2006... The objective of this study was to assess the extent and nature of newspaper coverage of sexual offending in New Zealand in 2003. All news stories relating to sexual offending published in three daily newspapers (The New Zealand Herald, The...

A personality-based typology of adolescent sexual offenders using the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory.
March 1, 2006... Previous research suggests that identifying specific subgroups amongst the population of adolescent sexual offenders may contribute to understanding the aetiology of their offending. Such knowledge may also help to improve the treatment...

Disordered eating and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in a sub-clinical student population.
March 1, 2006... The link between anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder has been well established in the clinical literature. However, little research has explored this relationship in terms of the specific subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder...

Understanding Critical Social Psychology.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Keith Tuffin (2005) London: Sage. 202 + ix. ISBN: 076195497X Critical psychology refers to a new array of approaches for studying social life which has blossomed in the last decade or so. An important thread of critical work in psychology...