This study aimed to describe the process of mentoring doctoral students for qualitative research in Japanese graduate programs in nursing. Nine experienced faculty-seven nurse researchers and two sociologists-were interviewed. Participants were asked about their process of mentoring students for qualitative nursing dissertations. Data analysis was conducted using a qualitative descriptive metho...

This research is a comparative and systematic review of doctoral dissertations on leadership in the fields educational administration business Turkey. Doctoral theses are preferred because they prepared with higher level knowledge, skills academic competence than master's examine subject deal broader more detailed manner. The main purpose this to reveal similarities differences studies both fie...

Can one glimpse the development of emerging scholars in the work of engineering graduate students? To answer this question, the author studied the citation patterns in 96 Master's theses and 24 Ph.D. dissertations completed at Western Michigan University's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences between 2002 and 2006. The hypothesis of this study is that an increase in graduate student rese...

This is an exhaustive and comprehensive study of hundreds of experiments and publications on the subject of aggression. It is a systematic presentation of what is known about aggression; theoretical formulations are compared and their assumption? and implications are examined; there is also a delineation of the problem of investiga* ting aggression in the laboratory and the field, as well as a ...

It is not unusual these days to have a group of economists gather to discuss their research on crime. In Europe and the Americas, a critical mass of academic economists have specialized in the study of crime and its control, and there is now a steady flow of economics doctoral dissertations on this topic. As we near the 50 anniversary of Gary Becker’s seminal contribution to this field (Becker,...

This meta-analysis synthesizes research on the relation between patient adult attachment style and patient-rated working alliance. A random-effects model was used to calculate the mean weighted product-moment correlation (r) for 24 studies (12 published in peer-reviewed journals and 12 unpublished doctoral dissertations) of individual outpatient therapy with adults. The mean weighted r for atta...