New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from November 2005

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from November 2005

Editorial.
November 1, 2005... This issue of the New Zealand Journal of Psychology includes two papers which were carried over from the special feature (Vol 34, No. 2) entitled "People at Work: Organisational Psychology--Theory, Practice and Research", published in the July...

An empirical investigation of discrimination against overweight female job applicants in New Zealand.
November 1, 2005... Significant discrimination against overweight people has been shown to occur in a variety of settings, including employee selection. Negative personality characteristics attributed to overweight job applicants because of their body size are...

Quitting a workplace that discourages achievement motivation: do individual differences matter?
November 1, 2005... Personal success at work can attract hostility from others, but does the achiever's own personality influence how well they cope with that hostility? In a first exploratory study of core individual differences, 114 work-experienced Aucklanders...

Perceived control over physical ageing: an exploratory New Zealand survey.
November 1, 2005... An exploratory survey investigated adults' views on control over physical ageing. A sample of 174 New Zealand adults responded to specially constructed scales, which measured: perceived primary control over, and acceptance of, age-related...

Suicide behaviour in a clinical sample of children and adolescents in New Zealand.
November 1, 2005... Treating young people at high risk for suicide has been identified as a priority area for development in mental health services. This study aimed to establish the prevalence of suicide ideation and suicidal behaviour in a child and adolescent...

Pakeha attitudes toward the symbolic and resource-specific aspects of bicultural policy in New Zealand: the legitimizing role of collective guilt for historical injustices.
November 1, 2005... A culture-specific model integrating research on collective guilt and the perception of historical injustices, within the context of Duckitt's (2001) more universal dual process model of ideology and prejudice, is proposed. As expected, a...

The relationship between organizational climate, occupational type and workaholism.
November 1, 2005... Two dimensions of workaholism--Drive to work and Enjoyment of work--and four aspects of organizational climate--Work Pressure; Involvement; Supervisor Support; Co-worker Cohesion--were considered in the reported research. The relationship...

Media consumption, body image and thin ideals in New Zealand men and women.
November 1, 2005... This study investigated the relationships among awareness and internalisation of societal ideals, body perception and media consumption for young adult New Zealand men (n=62) and women (n=119) attending the University of Otago. This survey...

Biting the Hand that Starves You: Inspiring resistance to anorexia/bulimia.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... R.Maisel, D.Epston and A.Borden (2004) New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-70337-1 Resolving the Riddle of Eating Disorders Anorexia is generally seen as being at the more extreme end of the Eating Disorder spectrum, not least because of...

Models of Madness: Psychological, social and biological approaches to schizophrenia.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Read, J., Mosher, L. R., & Bentall, R. P. (2004). Hove (UK): Brounner-Routledge. ISBN 1-58391-905-8 In psychological practice, practitioners delineate what is said by clients from how it is said. For example, in the traditional diagnosis...