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New Ideas in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement
Validity of scores is the ultimate goal of measurement. The concept of measurement validity is severely challenged for methodological and statistical decisions during the assessment and analysis process. Thus, the present Research Topic is proposed as a means to provide new knowledge and ideas related to measurement. It is designed to address issues of measurement reliability and validity, new advances in the measurement of these concepts and the methodologies involved to attain them. The use of new software and routines will target at making accessible these concepts so that the papers will be easily accessible by a broad audience of researchers in the social sciences. The goal of the prese...
The Psychology of Health and Illness
This book examines the effects of various stresses, strains, and traumas in our lives, from the womb till adulthood. The consequences of such stresses are delineated, and this book describes ways of coping with it. Research has demonstrated, repeatedly, that chronic stress may increase unhealthy behavior which may further enhance the development of poor lifestyle habits, substance abuse, or physical inactivity. This may significantly and negatively influence not only our physical wellbeing but emotional one as well. Certain personality traits, like neuroticism for example, is positively correlated with poor physical functioning, greater alcohol consumption as well as increased cigarette smok...
Introduction to Psychotherapy
What is psychotherapy about? What are the similarities and differences of its many forms? What are the most recent developments in the field? Introduction to Psychotherapy has been an essential reference book since its publication in 1979, and is regularly included in reading lists for trainee psychotherapists, psychiatrists and other professionals. It is often recommended to interested lay people and prospective patients. This third edition takes into account recent changes in psychotherapy theory, practice and research. The authors are all psychoanalysts. The first edition arose from the experiences of Dennis Brown and Jonathan Pedder working and teaching together as Consultant Psychotherapists at St Mary's Hospital and Medical School, London.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Applying the Rasch Model Using R
This new edition provides a step-by-step guide to applying the Rasch model in R, a probabilistic model used by researchers across the social sciences to measure unobservable (“latent”) variables. Although the focus is on simple R code, the book provides updated guidance through the point-and-click menus of BlueSky Statistics software. The book covers all Rasch models frequently used in social sciences, from the Simple Rasch model to the Rating Scale, Partial Credit, and Many-Facets Rasch models. Using a pragmatic approach to model-data fit, this book offers helpful practical examples to investigate Rasch model assumptions. In addition to traditional Rasch model approaches, it introduces ...
Introduction to Psychotherapy
This updated edition takes into account recent changes in psychotherapy theory and practice, including cultural changes in society and the family; attitudes to race and gender, and recently highlighted issues such as child sexual abuse.
Noncognitive Skills and Their Development
These articles include recent research on ways to incorporate the noncognitive side of ability in economic theory and to empirically assess and explain its role in labor market and behavioral outcomes. Contributions investigate the extent to which assignment of workers is determined by traditional cognitive variables and by personality traits. Also presented in this collection is research on the role of noncognitive skills in explaining the labor market position of underrepresented groups and research that integrates the economic and psychological theory and evidence on noncognitive skills.
Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts
The second edition of Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts offers an updated and expanded A-Z guide to the vocabulary of sport and exercise psychology, to its central theories and most important avenues of research, and to its application in sports performance.
Enhancing enterprise competitiveness
Papers presented at the Nirma International Conference on Management, held at Ahmedabad during 5-7January 2007.
