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Training Personal Information to Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2017-12)For many children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, learning emergency information such as their parents’ names, contact information, or important health information may be useful in case of elopement, getting ... -
Training Technicians to Conduct Trial-Based Functional Analyses via Telehealth
(2019-07)Previous studies have supported the use of trial-based functional analysis performed by teachers in classroom settings. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of training technicians to conduct trial-based ... -
Treatment Satisfaction and Adult Mental Health Outcomes of Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors
(2018-01)In the current study, we examined the impact of trauma-specific treatment and treatment satisfaction to determine if receiving treatment had an impact on the adult mental health outcomes of childhood sexual abuse survivors. ... -
Two-Week Test-Retest Reliability of the Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction
(2017-12)The Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP) is a measure derived from the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF Fifth Edition) with the objective of assessing one’s level of self-knowledge. The SAPP ... -
Unexpected Effects: The Dual Effects of Prevalent Work Characteristics on Goal Accomplishment and the Moderating Role of Proactivity
(2018-07)The present study addressed the issue of the inability of current job design models to account for some of the complexities associated with prominent job characteristics (e.g., autonomy, task variety, and interdependence) ... -
Use of the MMPI-2 Masculine-Feminine Pathology Scale in determining Gender-related Symptom Expressions among Outpatients
(2016-12)Gender exerts a strong influence over psychopathology experience and expression. The Masculine-Feminine Pathology (Mfp) scale is a recently developed research scale for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, ... -
The Use of the Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services to Assess and Improve the Job Performance of Individuals with Disabilities
(2016-12)Employers often do not have the means to identify the specific variables that influence poor work performance, particularly for employees with disabilities. The Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services (PDC-HS) ... -
Using an Elicited Orienting Response and Respondent Conditioning to Increase Eye Contact in Response to a Name Call in Children with Autism
(2019-07)One of the earliest and most noticeable characteristics of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is impaired eye contact. Difficulty with making eye contact presents concerns for children regarding academic, social, ... -
Using Auditory Extinction Cues to Mitigate Resurgence
(2017-04)Resurgence is a laboratory model of treatment relapse revealing the effects of treatment-integrity errors on problem behavior eliminated through treatment with differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA). ... -
Using ClassDojo® to Enhance School Age Students' Prosocial Behavior in a Classroom Setting
(2017-12)Previous literature supports the use of a variety of classroom behavioral management programs to increase prosocial behaviors and decrease problem behaviors. For example, token economies, placement of classroom rules ... -
Using Discrimination Training to Establish Conditioned Reinforcers: A Replication and Test of Maintenance
(2017-07)A stimulus becomes a conditioned reinforcer when it acquires reinforcing properties by virtue of being paired with a primary reinforcer. Researchers have evaluated different methods to condition reinforcers for children ... -
Using the Operant Model of Effective Supervision to Predict Employee Engagement for Leaders in a Hospital System
(2018-03)Leadership has been a popular topic of conversation for decades. Despite an abundant amount of attention the topic has received, the literature seems to fall short when describing what effective leaders do in a day to ... -
Using Video-Based Feedback and Self-Monitoring to Improve Athletic Coaching Interactions
(2019-07)The present study examined if video-based feedback combined with self-monitoring will improve the quality of specific feedback statements delivered by coaches. The study involved four collegiate softball coaches. The ... -
A Validation of the Cross Cultural Competence Navigator
(2017-09)Cross cultural competency (3C) is defined as an individual’s capability to effectively function in culturally diverse contexts, which is influenced by a set of individual antecedents. In the literature 3C has been characterized ... -
Valued Living and Fibromyalgia
(2020-02)Prior research has attempted to identify links between trauma and chronic illness, specifically, Fibromyalgia (FM). Due to the lack of understanding of the etiology of FM and the high reports of trauma and stress and FM, ... -
What Makes a Business Person a Criminal: An Examination Through Academic Dishonesty
(2017-05)The present study examined the interaction between environmental and individual difference characteristics in predicting perceptions of white-collar crime and likelihood to engage in academic dishonesty. It adopted a ... -
When Personality Traits Need a Frame of Reference: Enhancing the Predictive Validity of Non-cognitive Measures.
(2003-12)The reconsideration of personality among personnel specialists is partly due to the discovery of the five-factor model of personality or the "Big Five" (Costa, 1996). In the years following the acceptance of this taxonomy, ... -
Where is My Mind? The Who, What, and Where of Mind Wandering at Work
(2020-12)Mind wandering is a phenomenon often tackled by cognitive psychologists and overlooked by organizational psychologists, despite numbers suggesting that disengaged employees cost organizations $550 billion a year. Mind ... -
Who Emerges as a Leader? A Study on Cultural Values, Citizenship, and Trust
(2020-08)In this study peer and supervisor perceptions of emergent leaders were assessed in order to better understand and predict leader emergence. Using two moderated mediation models, organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB-I ... -
Women's Health: The Impact of Child Abuse on Healthcare Utilization
(2020-02)Research has consistently shown the negative consequences associated with child abuse. Specifically, those with a history of child abuse are more likely to suffer from psychological disorders and physiological diseases ...