Shyness affects career preferences and other aspects of an individual’s life. Hypotheses that the researcher considered were that shy individuals have poor social skills, have low self-esteem, are indecisive about their careers, and choose nonsocial careers. The correlational design included the variables shyness, self-esteem, communication competence, career decisiveness and career choice. The...

Creative potential has been variably associated with disinhibition and defocused attention, focused attention and effective cognitive control, or a flexible adaption of cognitive control. The present study examined the relationship between creativity and cognitive control in a sample of design students and a control group. Cognitive control was assessed by a modified Stroop color naming task, i...

Purpose This paper examines the role that conflict management styles play in the relationship between interpersonal conflict and workplace bullying. Design A survey study was conducted among 761 employees from different organizations in Spain. Findings Results suggest that an escalation of the conflict process from task-related to relationship conflict may explain bullying situations to some ex...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the fatigue experience of patients with cancer receiving radiation therapy and determine to what extent diverse correlates of fatigue affect fatigue onset, duration, and distress. DESIGN Descriptive correlational study completed by secondary data analysis. SAMPLE/SETTING Data were obtained from 384 subjects recruited from two urban, university-affiliated, radi...

OBJECTIVES To provide UK normative data for the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) and test its convergent, discriminant and construct validity. DESIGN Cross-sectional, correlational and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). METHODS The DASS was administered to a non-clinical sample, broadly representative of the general adult UK population (N = 1,771) in terms of demographic variable...

Different kinds of plant-animal interactions are ordinarily studied in isolation, yet considering the combined fitness effects of mutualistic and antagonistic interactions is essential to understanding plant character evolution. Functional, structural, or phylogenetic associations between attractive and defensive traits may be nonadaptive or result from correlational selection on sets of herbiv...

Objectives and Scope A major question that arises in many areas of Cognitive Science is the need to distinguish true causal connections between variables from mere correlations. The most common way of addressing this distinction is the design of wellcontrolled experiments. However, in many situations, it is extremely difficult –or even outright impossible– to perform such experiments. Researche...

Research conducted on the theory of selective attention suggests that varying the graphic combinations used when designing bivariate symbols affects the functionality of the symbol. Some graphic combinations appear to facilitate the ability to visualize correlation between the data sets represented by the symbol; others appear to be more effective at representing the data sets individually, som...