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Investigating the Modality and Redundancy Effects for Learners with Persistent Pain
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Smith, Alexander; Ayres, Paul – Educational Psychology Review, 2016
Two experiments were conducted to investigate how individuals with persistent pain would respond to instructional materials designed to promote the modality and redundancy effects. It was predicted that persistent pain would reduce the positive impact of narrated text due to reduced working memory capacity. One hundred thirty-seven full-time…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Pain, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods
Employment Status and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder following Compensation Seeking in Victims of Violence
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Kunst, Maarten J. J. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The current study was developed to explore the associations between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), level of compensation for pain and suffering, and employment status in a sample of victims of violence (n = 226) who had held a full-time job at time of victimization and had filed a claim with the Dutch Victim Compensation Fund (DVCF)…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Employment Level, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Violence
Cultural Effects on the Expression of Some Fears by Chinese and British Female Students
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Higgins, Louise T. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2004
To compare the culturally acquired aspects of fears in two different cultures, the author gave an augmented version of the I. M. Marks and A. M. Mathews Fear Scale (1979) to 50 female students in China and 49 female students in England. When the rank ordering of the fears measured in both groups was compared, the author found a high positive…
Descriptors: Socialization, Cultural Differences, Correlation, Foreign Countries