Purpose The purpose of this study was to review the Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (MARS) of the American Psychological Association (APA) and highlight opportunities for improvement of meta-analytic reviews in the organizational sciences. Design/Methodology/Approach The paper reviews MARS, describes ‘‘best’’ meta-analytic practices across two schools of meta-analysis, and shows how implement...

The objective of this study was to develop prediction mathematical equations to compute reinforcement steel quantity in traditional residential buildings based on 158 sets of data collected in the West Bank in Palestine. The records related to the quantities were collected from consultancy firms that provide reinforced concrete design services. The data were collected for residential buildings ...

Chronic pulmonary diseases represent a segment of pathology with an increasing prevalence worldwide, this requiring joint efforts from specialists in this field to (a) identify those factors insufficiently explored so far, but critical for their evolution and (b) address them via new therapies. This study aims to explore the existing data regarding the psychological factors involved in the dyna...

This study focuses on the psychological symptoms experienced by Mother in Pemintal Kegelapan (The Dark Spinner) Intan Paramadhita. Hysteria is understood as a neurosis form based an element of anxiety character’s past life. Psychological disorders short story can be seen from dual personality to avoid or cure she suffers. As disorder, hysteria certainly has therapy known catharsis. That method ...

Verbal humor deficits were investigated in right-hemisphere-damaged patients. It was hypothesized that the appreciation of jokes presupposes two elements: sensitivity to the surprise element entailed in the punch line of a joke and apprehension of the coherence which results when the punch line has been integrated with the body of the joke. The possible dissociation between these elements was t...

The Repertory Grid Technique was used to study the construct systems of patients diagnosed as Endogenous and Neurotic Depressions. Twenty-five patients of each category were administered a Rank Order Repertory Grid comprising ten elements and fifteen constructs. The completed matrices were subjected to principal component analysis. Inter-element distance was used as the psychological measure to...

The authors contend that the primary therapeutic element in psychological treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder is imaginal exposure, and that differences among major approaches are determined more by secondary techniques designed to circumvent the client’s avoidant defenses against exposure. A study is described comparing Prolonged Exposure, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing...