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Reductions in negative automatic thoughts in students attending mindfulness tutorials predicts increased life satisfaction
(Hipatia Press, 2013)
University education confronts students with stressful developmental challenges that can lead to mental health problems. Innovative programs must address an increasing prevalence of these problems but are impeded by the ...
Equivalence testing: A novel approach to evaluating the gender similarities hypothesis
(Sage, 2013)
Proponents of what has been termed the Gender Similarities Hypothesis (GSH) have typically relied on meta-analyses as well as the generation of nonsignificant tests of mean differences to support their argument that the ...
Multiplicity control, school uniforms, and other perplexing debates.
(American Psychological Association, 2017)
Researchers in psychology are frequently confronted with the issue of analyzing multiple relationships simultaneously. For example, this could involve multiple outcome variables or multiple predictors in a regression ...
The variance homogeneity assumption and the traditional ANOVA: Exploring a better gatekeeper.
(British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 2017)
Valid use of the traditional independent samples ANOVA procedure requires that the population variances are equal. Previous research has investigated whether variance homogeneity tests, such as Levene’s test, are satisfactory ...
Psychological well-being in obese in patients with ischemic heart disease at entry and at discharge from a four-week cardiac rehabilitation program
(Frontiers Media, 2010)
The purposes of this observational pre-post study were twofold: 1- to evaluate psychological health in obese patients with ischemic heart disease at admission to cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and 2 – to examine the effectiveness ...
Pairwise multiple comparison tests when data are nonnormal
(Sage, 2002-06)
Numerous authors suggest that the data gathered by investigators are not normal in shape. Accordingly, methods for assessing pairwise multiple comparisons of means with traditional statistics will frequently result in ...
Increasing Literacy in Quantitative Methods: The Key to the Future of Canadian Psychology
(American Psychological Association, 2017)
Quantitative methods (QM) dominate empirical research in psychology. Unfortunately most researchers in psychology receive inadequate training in QM. This creates a challenge for researchers who require advanced statistical ...
Using the errors-in-variables method in two-group pretest-posttest design.
(Methodology, 2017)
Culpepper and Aguinis (2011) highlighted the benefit of using the errors-in-variables (EIV) method to control for measurement error and obtain unbiased regression estimates. The current study investigated the EIV method ...
Factor structure of the Beck Hopelessness Scale in individuals with advanced cancer
(John Wiley & Sons, 2010)
Although the Beck Hopelessness Scale is often used with the seriously ill, its factor structure has been given relatively little consideration in this context. The factor structure of this scale was examined in a sample ...
The expanding role of quantitative methodologists in advancing psychology
(Canadian Psychological Association, 2009)
Research designs in psychology have become increasingly complex; thus, the methods for analysing the data have also become more complex. It is unrealistic for departments of psychology to expect research psychologists to ...