The objective for this study was to determine whether learning style preferences of health science students could predict their attitudes to e-learning. A survey comprising the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) and the Online Learning Environment Survey (OLES) was distributed to 2885 students enrolled in 10 different health science programs at an Australian university. A total of 822 useable surve...

BACKGROUND Despite epidural analgesia increasingly being utilized in hospitals, very little research-based evidence is available about registered nurses' (RNs) and midwives' knowledge of this technique. OBJECTIVE To describe the current epidural knowledge levels of RNs and midwives in a multi-site setting. METHOD RNs and midwives at four, regional teaching facilities completed an epidural k...

OBJECTIVE A significant portion of police work involves contact with persons who have mental illness. This study examined how knowledge that a person has a mental illness influences police officers' perceptions, attitudes, and responses. METHODS A total of 382 police officers who were taking a variety of in-service training courses were randomly assigned one of eight hypothetical vignettes de...

Self-compassion, typically operationalized as the total score of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS; Neff, 2003b), has been shown to be related to increased psychological well-being and lower depression in students of the social sciences, users of psychology websites and psychotherapy patients. The current study builds on the existing literature by examining the link between self-compassion and dep...

Studies have shown that psychological hardiness is an important stress resilience resource for individuals. The 15-items Dispositional Resilience Scale (DRS-15) is a short, reliable and valid self-report instrument to measure hardiness that is not available in Italian. The present study was undertaken to create an Italian version of the DRS-15, and evaluate its psychometric properties and valid...

OBJECTIVE To present the bother subscales of the Nursing Home Vision-Targeted Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire (NHVQoL) and to examine their relationship to the original NHVQoL subscales and objective measures of visual function. METHOD 395 nursing home residents completed the bother subscales. Associations between bother subscales and original subscales and objectively measured v...

BACKGROUND Although score reliability is a sample-dependent characteristic, researchers often only report reliability estimates from previous studies as justification for employing particular questionnaires in their research. The present study followed reliability generalization procedures to determine the mean score reliability of the Eating Disorder Inventory and its most commonly employed su...

Abstract Temporal metacognition (TMC) is defined as the ability to consciously self-regulate cognitive focus on past, present, and future by utilizing metacognitive skills, emotions, knowledge, experience. TMC stems conceptually from idea of a balanced time perspective — switch between horizons it builds upon major theories metacognition. We validated German version Metacognition Scale (TMCS) t...