New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from November 2004

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from November 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
November 1, 2004... This issue of the New Zealand Journal of Psychology was planned to include a special feature on Maori Psychology: Theory, research and practice. The special feature has been in preparation over the past twelve months, and several manuscripts...

Informal relationships in the workplace: associations with job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intentions.
November 1, 2004... Informal relationships between people within organisations can potentially either hinder or facilitate organisational functioning. The presence of informal relationships at work and the degree of cohesiveness perceived by individuals was...

New Zealand athletes' attitudes towards seeking sport psychology consultation.
November 1, 2004... The aim of this study was to use the Sport Psychology Attitudes-Revised (SPA-R) questionnaire (Martin, Kellman, Lavallee & Page, 2002) to develop an understanding of the attitudes elite New Zealand athletes (N = 112) hold towards sport...

Sexual abuse inquiry and response: a New Zealand training programme.
November 1, 2004... Despite the high prevalence of child abuse amongst users of mental health services and the many long-term sequelae of abuse, it has been demonstrated, in New Zealand and elsewhere, that mental health professionals are frequently unaware of...

Stressor frequency and perceived intensity as predictors of internalizing symptoms: gender and age differences in adolescence.
November 1, 2004... The primary goal of the present study was to determine whether male and female adolescents experience different levels of stressful events and report different levels of internalizing symptoms over the age range from 11 to 20 years. The...

Values and political ideology: Rokeach's two-value model in a proportional representation environment.
November 1, 2004... The study presented here provides support for Rokeach's (1973) contention that followers of different political viewpoints may be differentiated by their relative endorsements of the values of Freedom and Equality. A previous test of the...

Some normative and psychometric data for the geriatric depression scale and the cognitive failures questionnaire from a sample of healthy older persons.
November 1, 2004... As part of a study of the effect of lowering homocysteine concentrations on the cognition of the elderly, the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) were administered to a sample of persons over the age of...