by Heinz Schuler, George C. Thornton III, Andreas Frintrup, Rose Mueller-Hanson
The Achievement Motivation Inventory (AMI) is a personality inventory designed to measure a broad construct of work-related achievement motivation. The AMI differentiates between seventeen dimensions or “achievement orientations” using 170 items on a 7-point-Likert scale. In addition to traditional …
Ambulatory Monitoring Studies in Everyday Life
by Michael Myrtek
Convincing research evidence, obtained using a ground-breaking new technique for examining the “additional heart rate” in natural settings, showing that contemporary theories about emotion, stress, and disease are no longer tenable.
A Practical Guide to Effective Interventions
by Paul Camic, Sara J. Knight
This highly popular health psychology text, which is both a working reference manual for professional health psychologists and a highly regarded teaching tool, is now available in a fully revised and updated new edition. The first section looks at the foundations of good practice, including how to c…
New Developments and Applications in Medical and Social Sciences
by Ralf Schulze, Heinz Holling, Dankmar Böhning
Meta-analysis is a series of systematic approaches for synthesizing quantitative research. Since its introduction in the early 1980s, statistical and methodological aspects of meta-analysis have been substantially refined and advanced.This volume brings together researchers from mathematical statist…
by H. Häfner, W. Löffler, K. Maurer, A. Riecher-Rössler, A. Stein
The IRAOS is a semi-structured interview originally developed for the assessment of the onset and course of schizophrenia. The current, second version has been extended to encompass all psychotic disorders (affective and non-affective). It is fully compatible with the first version and has been supp…
by Ricardo García Mira, José Manuel Sabucedo Cameselle, José Romay Martínez
Culture is an important mediator between behavior and the environment, impacting on social participation and environmental action, and thus in turn on sustainable development. It is also of great significance in shaping our quality of life within the context of globalization, both in urban and rural…
Band 1: Englisch - Deutsch / Vol. 1: English - German
by Roland Haas
Widely used for many years by scientists, practitioners and students, as well as translators, the two-volume English-German / German-English Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry is generally regarded as the most exhaustive bilingual compilation of terminology in these fields available.In this edi…
Provides practical assistance to school psychologists who wish to free themselves from the narrow constraints of testing, assists them in identifying the models, skills, and tools they need for fostering a consultative approach.
A comprehensive overview of personality assessment instruments based on the Big Five model of personality and related constructs. A useful resource for those involved in personality assessment and research.
by Gabriel Moser, Enric Pol, Yvonne Bernard, Mirilia Bonnes, José A. Corraliza, Vittoria Giuliani
Sustainable development involves satisfying the needs of the present generation without compromising the chances for future generations. Quality of life thus plays an important part in determining how we can achieve sustainable development. What are the perspectives for the 21st century? People, Pla…
Advances in Theory and Practice
by Douglas Herrmann, Douglas Raybeck, Michael Gruneberg
This text is designed to serve as a primary text for teaching the science of studying to university and other students. Divided into five main sections, 13 chapters deal with: (1) Fundamentals, including scientific findings concerning learning and studying, and the physiological and psychological b…
Learning from the Moment of Relapse in Alcoholism and Other Addictions
by George Manter DuWors
This book builds on one relentless empirical fact about addictive relapse: At the moment of picking up the first drink/drug we all say one of two things. Either "One won't hurt" (or a handful of "wishful" variations) or "F--- it" (or a smaller, less frequent list of "white knuckle" variations).What …
A Diagnostic Test Based on Perception
by Hermann Rorschach
This book describes the technique and the many interesting results achieved in psychological experiments regarding a test which, despite its simplicity, has proved to be of great value in research and in general testing. The widespread and still growing interest in the Rorschach® test which exists i…