Browsing Education (Scholarly Publications) by Date of Publication
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Action on Bullying
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The free will-determinism scale
(Edwin Mellen Press, 2000)The Free Will-Determinism Scale (Stroessner & Green, 1990) is a 17-item self-report scale with some items adapted from earlier work by Viney, Waldman, and Barchilon (1982). It measures the degree to which an individual ... -
The Santa Clara strength of religious faith questionnaire
(Edwin Mellen Press, 2000)The Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire (SCSORF; Plante & Boccaccini, 1997a,b) is a 10-item self-report measure. It was designed to measure strength of religious faith, regardless of religious denomination ... -
Bullying-Behaviour Scale (BBS).
(Edwin Mellen Press., 2000)The Bullying-Behaviour Scale (BBS; Austin, & Joseph, 1996) is designed to assess bullying behaviours in school. The item pool for the scale was derived from the Peer Victimisation Scale (PVS; Neary & Joseph, 1994) and ... -
Peer Victimisation Scale (PVS)
(Edwin Mellen Press, 2000)The Peer Victimisation Scale (PVS; Neary & Joseph, 1994) is designed to assess victimization from bullying behaviours at school. It consists of 6-forced choice items, three of which relate to victimization from negative ... -
The Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire: Confirmatory factor analysis.
(2001)Within contemporary psychology there is increasing interest in the role of religion on behaviour and psychological functioning. Such interest can be attested to by the growth in the number of pertinent books and articles ... -
Long-term impact of early maternal loss on females.
(2002)Loss is a universal experience. While it remains a uniquely personal experience, bereavement is often central to psychological distress in the lives of many people. The present article presents a review of the theory ... -
A cross-national perspective on school bullying in Northern Ireland: A supplement to Smith, et al.
(2003)There is great value in exploring the prevalence of school bullying from a cross-national perspective. Smith, Morita, Junger-Tas, Olweus, Catalano, and Slee (1999) presented a cross-national perspective on the nature, ... -
Psychological type and attitude towards Christianity: A replication.
(2003)sample of 149 university students completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales together with the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity. The data indicated that university students classified as Feeling Types ... -
Youth aggression and bullying: Challenges for pastoral care workers
(Wyndham Hall Press, 2003)A study of over 15,000 6th-10th graders estimated that approximately 3.7 million youths engage in, and more than 3.2 million are victims of moderate or serious bullying each year in the US (Nansel, et al., 2001). While ... -
The topology of WordNet: some metrics
(Masyrck University, Brno, 2004-01)This paper outlines some different metrics intended for measuring node specificity in WordNet. Statistics are used to characterise topological properties of the overall network. -
Psychological Society of Ireland. Presidential Advisory Group on the Public Understanding of Psychology (PAGOTPUP). Report to the President
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Exploiting network topology in mining sequential patterns from telecommunications alarm data
(2005)Increasingly powerful fault management systems are required to ensure robustness and quality of service in today?s networks. In this context, event correlation is of prime importance to extract meaningful information ... -
Topographical proximity: exploiting domain knowledge for sequential data mining
(IEEE, 2005)In today?s mobile telecommunications networks, increasingly powerful fault management systems are required to ensure robustness and quality of service of the network. In this context, fault alarm correlation is of prime ... -
Temporal stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity short-form: Test-retest data over one week
(2005)This study evaluated the test-retest reliability of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity short-form. Thirty-nine Northern Irish undergraduate university students completed the measure on two occasions separated ... -
Experiences of school bullying in Northern Ireland: data from the life and times survey
(Libra, 2006)Little is known about the levels of bully/victim behaviors in schools in Northern Ireland. The aim of the present study was to supplement previous research findings from Northern Ireland by examining the self-reported ... -
Internal consistency, reliability, and temporal stability of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire short-form: Test-retest data over two weeks
(Society for Personality Research, 2006)The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire short-form is a recently developed eight-item measure of happiness. This study evaluated the internal consistency reliability and test-retest reliability of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire ... -
Temporal stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity: Test-retest data over five weeks
(Springer, 2006)Recently two studies have reported on the test-retest reliability of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity; however, these studies were limited to samples of university students. The present study examined the ...
