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Health and Nursing Article Reviewed

impact the treatment process. Research underscores the connection between a "fighting" attitude and the capacity of individuals t...

MCMI III

reweighted" (Millon(tm), n.d.). The end resulting inventory instrument was one whose items had survived each validation stage and...

Shifting Newtonian Paradigms

of a desire to explain this new, more confusing universe. One source writes that many times, small choices can lead to "overwhelmi...

Quantitative v. Qualitative Data

they are classified, counted and used to construct statistical models. Many quantitative researchers generally view the qualitat...

An Exploration of Horoscopes

or the time and place of any other significant event that is being explored. While their validity is still doubted by many, other...

Intentional vs. Unintentional Racism

The participant group consists of well-educated middle-aged women ranging economically from working poor to upper middle class. A...

Review of WOMAC Study

a measure of internal consistency. Items in an instrument are considered to have internal consistency, that is, similar constructs...

Children, Depression, and Suicidal Tendencies

Their use, however, use comes with substantial concerns. Brent (2004) reports that the depressed children that are prescribed th...

Commercial Environment and Complex Adaptive Systems Theory

role in the company itself as the system, but also may also change the commercial environment which will impact on other firms (Je...

Workplace Freedom of Speech

logos of their choice or, for that matter, to raise the occasional question about management priorities," she adds. The pr...

Website Objectivity, Accuracy, and Authorship Evaluation

"file not found" page. Even the link to the authors own home page returns only an error message. Searching for Dr. Greek...

The Disease Concept of Alcoholism

Using the term "disability" was okay as well. The old model however would focus on pathology as well as an individuals deficienci...

Recidivism and Drug Treatment

to the threats to internal validity are an important component of any research design. The first threat to internal validity is...

Research Designing

For this research we want to gather data which we can compare and describe the needs and as such quantitative data is the better a...

Clinical Practice and Psychological Assessment

are not as valid as medical tests, that the assessments used are not valid (Daw, 2001). As the report stated: "This report helps u...

Crime and Victim Precipitation

But during the 1980s, the concept of victimology and victim precipitation was attacked, especially in cases of rape, by feminists ...

The Contemporary Investment Environment and the Applicability of International Portfolio Diversification Principles

such a degree that it should not, as a single factor, impact on the overall value of the investment. Systematic risk is...

World Affairs and The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington

in ideology, but will be conflict arising between civilizations due to cultural differences.2 A civilization is a group o...

Psychosocial Theories of Erik Erikson

in Eriksons stages. Each has two names: Trust vs. Mistrust; Autonomy vs. Shame; Initiative vs. Guilt; Industry vs. Inferiority; Id...

Evaluation of the Beck Depression Inventory

characteristics of the BDI-II: a clinical sample (n-500, 63 percent female; 91 percent white) and a "convenience" sample of Canadi...

Language Testing from Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

differ. Any form can be instrumental in returning lower-than-optimum scores on language tests. Teachers sensitive to the c...

Student Submitted English Law Case on Trusts and Death Without a Will

in the words used, whilst it will help if reference is made to the trust and trustees, this is not vital, as even directing one pa...

Empirical Measurement Validity and Reliability

Many research projects are based, in part, on interviews, for example. The problem with interviews is not merely the subjective so...

Research and the Concepts of Validity and Reliability

effect, that is, "causal" questions are those which would compare the type of activity (the cause) with the effect of that cause. ...

American Psychology - Considering Three Streams

also divides Humanistic Psychology into three divisions: transpersonal psychology, somatic and experiential therapies and radical ...

Arguing Against the Only Abortion Justification is Rape

wedlock. The family would be strapped both financially and stereotypically. The chances of the mother entering into a healthy lo...

Education, the Separation of Church and State and the 2002 US Supreme Court Case of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

The controversy over this program surrounded the fact that in the 1999 to 2000 school year some 82% of the private...

Statistical Analysis Analyzed

to quantify and compare the sizes of differences between them" (Electronic Statistics Textbook, 2003). The interval scale allows ...

Reliability and Validity International Higher Education Issues

may confirm a null hypothesis, but if conducted properly, a study using such a method should produce valid, reliable results. Pos...

Questions on Communications Theory

In eight pages communications theory is considered in a series of questions that discuss such issues as cultural and social influe...