This study tested associations between adolescent perceptions of interparental conflict, adolescent attachment security with parents, and adolescent marital expectations and romantic experiences. Participants were 96 early adolescent females from 2 parent families. Insecurity was examined as a mediator of the association between negative perceptions of parental conflict and romantic outcomes. R...

Patients expect staff to treat them as individuals, listen to their concerns, provide reassurance, and provide updates on what is happening at all stages of their ED visit, including expected delays, investigations, results, and treatments. Patients do not expect to wait to see a physician once they are brought back to the treatment area. Patients expect to be given an accurate wait time estima...

The decrease in cost and increase in automation of audio visual systems for the classroom has led to widespread deployment of lecture capture within higher education. While a number of studies have examined the effectiveness of such systems within an institution, no study has characterized student background across institutions. In this paper we describe three different lecture capture systems ...

Despite efforts to increase participation in science, technology, engineering and math fields (STEM), the role of students’ perceptions of the social relevance of science in guiding their expectations to major in STEM remains largely unexplored. Though science education scholars predict that perceptions of social relevance likely matter equally for boys and girls, gender scholars suggest that t...

Article history: Received 25 July 2011 Received in revised form 5 March 2012 Accepted 10 April 2012 Available online 27 April 2012