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Acceptance Versus Distraction For Unwanted Sexual Thoughts, Joseph A. Sherwood
Acceptance Versus Distraction For Unwanted Sexual Thoughts, Joseph A. Sherwood
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This on-line study examined 67 participants who rated their sexual thought distress level as moderately distressing or greater, on the successfulness of an acceptance-based strategy and a distraction-based strategy for dealing with unwanted sexual thoughts. The study began with the completion of an assessment battery, which measured attitudes about sexual thoughts. During a pre-intervention three minute time period, participants were asked to record/report occurrences a previously identified unwanted sexual thought, if or when, it occurred. They were then randomly placed into one of three experimental conditions (e.g., acceptance-based, distraction-based, and a control group) in which they viewed a video presentation …
Inter-Rater Reliability: A Question Of Measurement In Social Science Research, Lani Kai Eggertsen Goff
Inter-Rater Reliability: A Question Of Measurement In Social Science Research, Lani Kai Eggertsen Goff
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Erik Erikson (1968) set forth the framework for the conceptualization and adolescent identity formation in the late 1960's. The assessment of identity invokes a subjective measurement of a youth's process and current standing regarding sociopsychological development. According to Adams (1987) throughout Erikson's writings a "conscious sense of individual identity," a process of "ego synthesis" and formation of sense of social "ideals and social identity" are central considerations when discussing identity.