Psychological Theory
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Alcohol expectancies among high school students in Inner Mongolia, China.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: This study examines differences in Chinese high school students' alcohol expectancies by drinking status (nondrinker, occasional drinker, regular drinker) and gender (male, female). METHOD: The authors administered the Chinese Adolescent ... Read more...

Pathways to paternal engagement: longitudinal effects of risk and resilience on nonresident fathers.

30 Aug 2009 This article assesses the longitudinal effects of risk and resilience on unmarried nonresident fathers' engagement with children across the first 3 years of their lives. The authors used a subsample of 549 men from the Fragile Families and Child ... Read more...

Here we go again: a dynamic systems perspective on emotional rigidity across parent-adolescent conflicts.

30 Aug 2009 The authors used a dynamic systems theoretical approach to examine intraindividual variability in emotional responses during the transitional period of adolescence. Longitudinal diary data were collected regarding conflicts between 17 teenage girls ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychological Theory'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Alcohol expectancies among high school students in Inner Mongolia, China. 29 Sep 2009
• Pathways to paternal engagement: longitudinal effects of risk and resilience on nonresident fathers. 30 Aug 2009
• Here we go again: a dynamic systems perspective on emotional rigidity across parent-adolescent conflicts. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychosocial functioning in the context of diagnosis: assessment and theoretical issues. 30 Aug 2009
• When less is more: how fewer diagnostic criteria can indicate greater severity. 30 Aug 2009
• On the value of homogeneous constructs for construct validation, theory testing, and the description of psychopathology. 30 Aug 2009
• Continuity in social cognition from infancy to childhood. 30 Aug 2009
• Studying affect among the Chinese: the circular way. 30 Aug 2009
• Mediation and causality at the individual level. 30 Aug 2009
• Shifting loyalties: reconsidering psychology's subject matter. 30 Aug 2009
• "Der Weisheits letzter Schluss"? Wisdom's last conclusion?: commentary on "is psychology based on a methodological error?" by Michael Schwarz. 30 Aug 2009
• The resilience of Native American elders. 30 Aug 2009
• Grief and bereavement in people with intellectual disabilities. 30 Aug 2009
• Phonological and visual distinctiveness effects in syllogistic reasoning: implications for mental models theory. 30 Aug 2009
• Angry faces are special too: evidence from the visual scanpath. 30 Aug 2009
• Implicit false memory in the DRM paradigm: effects of amnesia, encoding instructions, and encoding duration. 30 Aug 2009
• A longitudinal analysis of cognitive dysfunction, coping, and depression in multiple sclerosis. 30 Aug 2009
• Children's understanding of second-order mental states. 30 Aug 2009
• Ignorance- versus evidence-based decision making: a decision time analysis of the recognition heuristic. 30 Aug 2009
• When does self-esteem relate to deviant behavior? The role of contingencies of self-worth. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychological Theory'

Definition: Principles applied to the analysis and explanation of psychological or behavioral phenomena.

Descriptor UI: D011582

Alternative terms: Psychological Theory; Theories, Psychological; Psychologic Theory; Psychologic Theories; Theories, Psychologic; Theory, Psychologic; Psychological Theories; Theory, Psychological;

Tree Number: F02.739;

History Note: 69

Technical Notes: no qualif; DF: PSYCHOL THEORY