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Psychiatric Morbidity among Elderly People Living in Old Age Homes and in the Community: A Comparative Study [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Disorders such as depression, anxiety, cognitive and psychotic disorders have a high prevalence among elderly. There is some preliminary evidence that life in old age homes is perceived by inmates as more supportive, though the issue is not ...
Majgi, SM +4 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow +9 more
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Data in Brief, 2018 The present data is reported in the article “Regulatory Focus and Regulatory Mode – Keys to Narcissists’ (Lack of) Life Satisfaction?” (Hanke et al., in press) [1]. The two data sets represent answers from two German samples. Data were collected via self-
Stephanie Hanke +2 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Narcissistic Traits of Police Officers in America [PDF]
, 2017 The narcissistic traits of police officers aged 17 to 78 in the United States affect American citizens in various degrees. Improvements made to pre-employment psychological evaluations, such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2 ...
Moran, Paloma
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A closer look at the Test of Personal Intelligence (TOPI) [PDF]
, 2017 Personal intelligence involves the capacity to reason about personality and personality-related information. Studying ability-based measures of personal intelligence creates a virtuous cycle of better measurement and better theoretical understanding.
Caruso, David R. +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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Do sleep disturbances and psychotic-like experiences in adolescence share genetic and environmental influences? [PDF]
, 2015 Sleep disturbances regularly co-occur with clinical psychotic disorders and dimensions of psychotic-like experiences (PLEs). One possible explanation for this, which has yet to be tested, is that similar genetic or environmental influences underlie sleep
Freeman, D. +3 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aboriginal children and young people in out‐of‐home care (OOHC), like all children and young people, have a fundamental right to be involved in decisions that affect them, to be afforded the opportunity for a voice, and to have that voice taken seriously.
Bradley Burns +2 more
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Measurement of the psychosis continuum: Modelling the frequency and distress of subclinical psychotic experiences [PDF]
, 2014 Objective: Dimensional models of psychosis symptom frequency at clinical levels are representative of symptom dimensionality that is inclusive of distress.
Boyda, David +3 more
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