Search Results - "Pratt, M W"

The Transition to University: The Student-University Match (SUM) Questionnaire by Wintre, Maxine G., Knoll, G.M., Pancer, S.M., Pratt, M.W., Polivy, J., Birnie-Lefcovitch, S., Adams, Gerald R.

“…Freshmen students at six Canadian universities completed questionnaires that assessed the quality of match between their individual needs and their university…”
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Generativity and Moral Development as Predictors of Value-Socialization Narratives for Young Persons Across the Adult Life Span: From Lessons Learned to Stories Shared by Pratt, Michael W, Filyer, Rebecca, Norris, Joan E, Arnold, Mary Louise

“…Little research so far has examined storytelling as a channel of value socialization. In the present study, 129 adults from 3 age groups (18-26, 28-50, 60-75)…”
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Moral and Social Reasoning and Perspective Taking in Later Life: A Longitudinal Study by Pratt, Michael W, Diessner, Rhett, Pratt, Adelle, Hunsberger, Bruce, Pancer, S. Mark

“…In this study 27 older adults (ages 64-80) and 23 middle-aged adults (ages 35-54) were tested for moral stage, integrative complexity of social reasoning, and…”
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Four Pathways in the Analysis of Adult Development and Aging: Comparing Analyses of Reasoning About Personal-Life Dilemmas by Pratt, Michael W, Diessner, Rhett, Hunsberger, Bruce, Pancer, S. Mark, Savoy, Kathy

“…Four systems for analyzing thinking about 2 personal-life dilemmas, as discussed by 29 men and 35 women (ages 35-85), were compared. Kohlberg's (1976) moral…”
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Evaluations by Staff, Residents, and Community Seniors of Patronizing Speech in the Nursing Home: Impact of Passive, Assertive, or Humorous Responses by Ryan, Ellen Bouchard, Kennaley, Dianne E, Pratt, Michael W, A. Shumovich, Martha

“…Two studies tested the impact of alternative communication in accommodation strategies. Nursing home staff and residents (and community-residing seniors in…”
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Reasoning About the Self and Relationships in Maturity: An Integrative Complexity Analysis of Individual Differences by Pratt, Michael W, Pancer, Mark, Hunsberger, Bruce, Manchester, Judy

“…This study examined age (35-55 versus 65-85), gender, and self-concept-orientation differences in reasoning about the self, relationships, and morality, on the…”
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Thinking About Parenting: Reasoning About Developmental Issues Across the Life Span by Pratt, Michael W, Hunsberger, Bruce, Pancer, S. Mark, Roth, Don, Santolupo, Silvana

“…This research examined reasoning about developmental problems over the life span and related it to cognitive style and parenting behaviors. In Study 1, we…”
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From inquiry to judgment: age and sex differences in patterns of adult moral thinking and information-seeking by Pratt, M W, Golding, G, Hunter, W, Norris, J

“…This research examined age and sex variations in moral judgment processes across the life-span, primarily using objective questionnaire techniques. Both stage…”
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The Ethic of Care: Stability Over Time, Gender Differences, and Correlates in Mid- to Late Adulthood by Skoe, Eva E, Pratt, Michael W, Matthews, Meredith, Curror, Susan E

“…This article examines the development of Gilligan's care ethic and its correlates in mature adults. Two studies showed that women scored significantly higher…”
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Anthropogenic tritium in South Atlantic bottom water by Jenkins, W. J, Lott, D. E, Pratt, M. W, Boudreau, R. D

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Adult Generativity and the Socialization of Adolescents: Relations to Mothers' and Fathers' Parenting Beliefs, Styles, and Practices by Pratt, Michael W., Danso, Henry A., Arnold, Mary Louise, Norris, Joan E., Filyer, Rebecca

“…Mothers, fathers, and their adolescent children participated in two studies investigating the relations between Erikson’s concept of generativity in adulthood…”
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Contingent tutoring of long-division skills in fourth and fifth graders: Experimental tests of some hypotheses about scaffolding by Pratt, Michael W., Savoy-Levine, Kathy M.

“…In two studies, the type of instruction to which children were exposed was manipulated, in order to study the effectiveness of “contingent” instructional…”
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Mothers and Fathers Teaching 3-Year-Olds: Authoritative Parenting and Adult Scaffolding of Young Children's Learning by Pratt, Michael W, Kerig, Patricia, Cowan, Philip A, Cowan, Carolyn Pape

“…In this study we investigated variations in parental tutoring of children on the basis of Vygotsky's (1978) theorizing and the concept of parental scaffolding…”
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Stories of Hope: Parental Optimism in Narratives about Adolescent Children by Pratt, Michael W., Norris, Joan E., van de Hoef, Sherri, Arnold, Mary Louise

“…This longitudinal study focused on the level of optimism expressed in stories that mothers and fathers told about their adolescent children, and its relations…”
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The risk of low birthweight by Eisner, V, Brazie, J V, Pratt, M W, Hexter, A C

“…Descriptive analyses of birthweight for single live births in the United States during 1974, using birth certificate information, show that several factors are…”
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Telling Tales: Aging, Working Memory, and the Narrative Cohesion of Story Retellings by Pratt, Michael W, Boyes, Cheryl, Robins, Susan, Manchester, Judy

“…This study investigated adult age differences in the cohesion of narrative retellings in both the reference and conjunction discourse systems and explored the…”
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Role of the HPA Axis and the A118G Polymorphism of the  -Opioid Receptor in Stress-Induced Drinking Behavior by Pratt, W. M., Davidson, D.

“…Aims: The present study sought to investigate the relationship between the HPA axis reactivity to stress, the endogenous opioid system and stress-induced…”
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Urbanization and differentials in white and nonwhite infant mortality by Chabot, M J, Garfinkel, J, Pratt, M W

“…This study analyzes infant deaths in the United States, 1962 to 1967, by place of residence, to determine to what degree variations in age at death are related…”
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A developmental evaluation of frequency memory for actions presented in lists, scripts, and stories by Connolly, D A, Hockley, W E, Pratt, M W

“…In Experiment 1, adults estimated the frequency of typical and atypical actions presented in stories about scripted routines. Judgments of frequency were more…”
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Measuring dimensions of the quality of care in small community residences by Pratt, M W, Luszcz, M A, Brown, M E

“…Techniques previously used to assess the quality of care in large institutions (cf. Raynes, Pratt, & Roses, 1979) were adapted for a similar study of seven…”
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