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Development And Validation Of A Work Safety Compliance Measure, Tara L. Smecko

Dissertations and Theses

It is important that organizations manage the safety behavior of employees by the implementation of a safety program including periodic assessment of the safety level (i.e., how frequently employees are complying with safety guidelines) in the organization. The occupational safety literature lacks sufficient assessment tools for measuring employee safety behavior.

The purpose of the present study was to develop and validate a comprehensive measure of compliance with safety behavior guidelines in the form of a questionnaire that can be utilized across industries and occupations. The research objectives for the present study were to: 1) Perform factor analysis on the safety …

Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs: The Motivations Of Zapatistas, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes the hypothetical construct of motivation and illustrates a political application of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

National Security Decision Making: When Does The Personal Matter?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes elements of personal psychology that may significantly affect national security decision making.

Intelligence Operations And Personality: Are There Guidelines For Assessment?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article explores whether there are appropriate guidelines for assessing the personality of a potential intelligence agent.

Trends. Globalization: The Ethnopsychological Shortfall In Negotiations On Weapons Nonproliferation, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses increasing interdependence that comes with globalization.

The Psychology Of Moral Judgment: Further Complexities For Personnel Security Programs, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes psychological research that complicates the personnel security quest to minimize intentional violations of law, regulation, and procedure.

World Views, Political Attitudes And Risk Perception, Lennart Sjöberg

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Sjöberg questions the Cultural Theory approach to evaluating variance in risk perception. He also presents the results of a survey using elements of that and other scales to help explain individual differences in risk perception.

Donning Masks And Joining The Dance: Religious Ritual And Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Joseph T. Kelley

Religious & Theological Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Sigmund Koch (1917-1996), David E. Leary, Frank Kessel, William Bevan

Psychology Faculty Publications

This article memorializes Sigmund Koch. Although dismissive of grand systems, on both principled and empirical grounds, Koch indicated ways in which psychologists can realize the kind of sensibility-based, context-dependent, finely textured insights that can result from authentic probing of human experience. His own inquiries into a perceptual theory of definition, the nature of objective value-properties, and the processes of creative activity in the arts illustrate the sort of qualitative, philosophically informed, and empirically grounded investigations that should be central to what he christened "the psychological studies."

Cognitive And Psychophysiological Investigation Of Chronic Pain, Amy D. Clegg

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Using Bower’s (1981) associative network model of mood and memory, and Klinger’s theory of current concerns, it was hypothesized that the experience of chronic pain may be functionally similar to a mood state and that the chronicity of the condition may maintain it as a current concern. Specifically, it was hypothesized that chronic pain patients would not show any differences in reaction time and accuracy when making lexical decisions about pain-related, neutral, and nonwords. However, it was anticipated that chronic pain patients would show differences in physiological responding (particularly, increased skin conductance responses) when compared to controls. Results confirmed that …

Culture Mediator Model As A Predictor For Somatic Complaints Among Japanese And Japanese Americans, Yoko Tanaka

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

[Abstract Not Included]

The Political Psychology Of Negotiations: The Terrorism Of Terrorists, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article illustrates some of the psychological advantages possessed by terrorists who engage in negotiations with nonterrorists.

Right, Left, Right On, Or Left Out: New Directions For Political Road Maps?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article illustrates problems for social constructions of the political right and left.

Bombing Iraq As Therapeutic Intervention: Symptom Substitution As Consequence, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article presents the construct of symptom substitution as a heuristic to delineate the likely, problematic consequences of bombing Iraq.

Research On Machiavellianism: Are Political Psychologists Machiavellian Enough?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides a commentary on the thirty years of psychological research addressing the construct of Machiavellianism. Research failings may have much to do with the psychological characteristics of those who conceptualize, design, implement, and interpret Machiavellian studies.

The Psychology Of The Outsider: The Problem Of Being And Becoming Camus, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes the essence and statistical rarity of the psychological outsider in political engagement.

Fornix Lesions Can Facilitate Acquisition Of The Transverse Patterning Task: A Challenge For "Configural" Theories Of Hippocampal Function., T J Bussey, E Clea Warburton, J P Aggleton, J L Muir

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

Configural theories of hippocampal function predict that hippocampal dysfunction should impair acquisition of the transverse patterning task, which involves the concurrent solution of three discrimination problems: A+ versus B-; B+ versus C-; and C+ versus A-. The present study tested this prediction in rats using computer-graphic stimuli presented on a touchscreen. Experiment 1 assessed the effects of fornix lesions when the three problems were introduced sequentially (phase 1: A+ vs B-; phase 2: A+ vs B-, B+ vs C-; phase 3: A+ vs B-, B+ vs C-, C+ vs A-). Fornix lesions significantly facilitated acquisition of the complete transverse patterning …

What To Believe About What To Believe: Implications For Security Bureaucracies, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes psychological findings on the confidence of eyewitnesses for their own testimony and the reactions of jury members to eyewitness testimony. These findings are related to adjudications of alleged security violations.

Trends. The Phallic Presidency, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the illicit behavior of many of America's presidents.

Social And Personal Selves: Vulnerabilities For Intelligence Case Officers And Agents?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a basic aspect of self-representation that may present strengths and weaknesses for the personnel security management and operational effectiveness of intelligence case officers and agents.

The Relative Influence Of Internal Resources, External Resources, And Social Support On Parenting Stress, Angela Cecelia Rodger

Dissertations and Theses

This study examined the relationship of three different kinds of resources important to parenting to the degree of stress experienced by 58 mothers of small children who completed a questionnaire distributed through kindergarten classes in three public schools, and through three Head Start centers. Parenting sense of competence and internal working model of caregiving were examined as internal resources. Income level and stability and neighborhood characteristics were examined as external resources, and perceived available social support, which is both internal and external, was also examined. Interrelationships between the resources were predicted, as well as the unique contribution of each type …

Trends. Iraq: To Bomb Or Not To Bomb?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author continues the analysis against initiating an "air war" employing bombs and missiles against Iraq as a punishment for violating United Nations directives.

Trends. United States Government (Usg) Policy Towards Cuba: Holier Than The Pope?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the failing policy of sanctions against the Cuban government.

Terror Management Theory: Relevance For Control Of The Intelligence Agent, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes psychological findings stemming from terror management theory that have relevance for case officer control of an intelligent agent.

Sex And The Military: Implications Of The Exotic As Erotic, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes Bem's developmental theory of sexual orientation and its implications for United States Government (USG) military personnel policies.

Globalization And The Global Mind: An East-West Split?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article highlights Issues in identifying and validating group psychological differences.

Empathy And Political Psychology: Problematic Contributions To Security Issues, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes potential contributions of the empathy construct to political psychology as well as problems hindering this potential from being realized.

Victory By Design: War, Information, And Cognitive Systems Engineering, John M. Flach, Gilbert G. Kuperman

Psychology Faculty Publications

This report discusses the new field of cognitive systems engineering (CSE) and explores the applicability of the CSE paradigm to the domain of information warfare (IW). CSE's goal is the application and design integration of information technology (including both human and automated information processing systems) to facilitate work. CSE defines work as effort to move through a problem space to achieve specific objectives. Information warfare represents a work domain where the effective management of information must incorporate the effective utilization of rapid advances in technology (e.g., sensors, communications, and display devices). The report examines IW and Basic Air Force Doctrine …

Maternal Employment, Child Care, And Nutritional Status Of 12-18-Month-Old Children In Managua, Nicaragua, Jessica F. Lamontagne, Patrice L. Engle, Marian F. Zeitlin

Psychology and Child Development

Relationships among women's employment, child care strategies, and nutritional status of children 12–18 months of age were examined in 80 Nicaraguan households sampled by randomized block design in 10 low income urban communities. Multiple regression analyses showed that children of employed mothers (56%) fared better in weight/height than those whose mothers were not employed. with and without controlling for socioeconomic status and maternal education, paternal financial support, child care adequacy, and sex and age of the child. Children with inadequate alternate child care (care by a preteen or care at the work place) had lower height for age, even controlling …

Mechanism Of Triazolo-Benzodiazepine And Benzodiazepine Action In Anxiety And Depression: Behavioral Studies With Concomitant In Vivo Ca1 Hippocampal Norepinephrine And Serotonin Release Detection In The Behaving Animal, Patricia A. Broderick, Omotola Hope, Pierrot Jeannot

Publications and Research

1. Real time, in vivo microvoltammetric studies were performed, using miniature carbon-based sensors, to concurrently detect norepinephrine (NE) release and serotonin (5-HT) release, in 2 separate electrochemical signals, within CA₁ region of hippocampus in the freely moving and behaving, male, Sprague Dawley laboratory rat.

2. Concurrently, four parameters of open-field Behavior I.E. Ambulations, Rearing, Fine Movements and Central Ambulatory behavior (a measure of anxiety reduction behavior), were assayed by infrared photobeam detection.

3. Time course studies showed that the mechanism of action of the triazolobenzodiazepine (TBZD), adinazolam, (Deracyn®) is dramatically different from that of the classical benzodiazepine (BZD), diazepam …