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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"reasons for living"”.
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Reasons for living across the lifespan
… examined gender and age-related differences in reasons for living, using a sample of 50 young adults (M = 20.2), 53 middle-aged adults (M = 49.3), and 55 older adults ( M = 78.5). Participants completed a combined version of the Reasons for Living Inventory, the Reasons for Living Inventory for …
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Birth Order and Reasons for Living.
… adaptive cognitive beliefs and expectations or reasons for living that appear to be lacking in individuals reporting suicidal ideation. The purpose of this study was to examine possible relationships between birth order and reasons for living. Additionally, gender differences were examined with …
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Affectional Orientation, Sex Roles, and Reasons for Living.
… to determine how people respond to the Expanded Reasons for Living Scale by Linehan, Goodstein, Nielsen, and Chiles (1983). This study used the Bem Sex Role Inventory, short form (Bem, 1981) to assess androgynous and nonandrogynous people.</p> <p>Results from the statistical analysis revealed …
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Emotional Empathy and Reasons for Living in Substance-Using College Students.
<p>This study examined emotional empathy and reasons for living in substance using college students. Participants included 49 males and 120 females, ages 18 to 54 years (M = 21.95) from undergraduate psychology classes. A packet containing a substance abuse scale, a short demographic, Balanced …
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Effects of Punishment Style and Maternal Employment on Reasons for Living.
… children whose mothers work outside the home for pay were more likely to exhibit signs of depression than children whose mothers stayed at home. The subjects in this study were administered a brief demographic questionnaire that contained questions pertaining to the type of punishment they …
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Attitudes Toward Violence and Reasons for Living in Adolescents with High, Moderate, and Low Self-Esteem.
… was to examine attitudes toward violence and reasons for living in adolescents with high, moderate, and low self-esteem. An attitudes toward violence scale was devised for the purposes of this study. Self-Esteem was assessed using the shortened version of Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale (SES). …
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Giving Support and Mental Health in Older Adults at Risk for Vision Impairment
… impairment place older adults at a doubled risk for depression and a seven-fold increased risk for death by suicide. Social interaction is one of the factors that may aid adaptation to vision impairment. Preliminary research suggests that giving support to others has a significant relation with …
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Gender Differences in Coping with Chronic Illness.
… cause of death in the United States. Therefore, it is important to discover adaptive life-maintaining characteristics in high risk populations. Many patients with life-threatning illnesses have frequent suicidal thoughts. The difference in reasons for living between men and women with and …
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Effects of Corporal Punishment on Survival and Coping Beliefs.
… punishment is an accepted and widely used form of discipline in the United Stated. Frequent use of corporal punishment has been correlated with many maladaptive outcomes and depressive symptoms in adulthood. The Reasons for Living Inventory - Survival and Coping Beliefs subscale identifies …
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People like us: gentrification and the service class in Hackney in the 1980s
… place, why they have stayed and what influence living in Hackney has had on their social and political attitudes. Chapters two to four are concerned with debates about the structure and class formation of the service-class, whether it is one class or many, what (if any) are its political …