Donald I Templer
Biographic Data
| ID | 232419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald I Templer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald I |
| FAMILY NAME | Templer |
| SIGNATURE | TEMPLER D I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alliant University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 82 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 82 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology
Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) taken by professional (Vail Model) graduates had a failure rate of 30.82% in contrast to 7.60% for EPPP licensing exams taken by traditional (Boulder Model) graduates of clinical psychology programs. Thus, exams taken by professional graduates were 4.06 more likely to result in failure. It was acknowledged that it is not known whether EPPP performance is related to psychotherapy outcome
Approval Versus Disapproval of Dogfighting and Cockfighting Among College Students
We explored the extent of approval/disapproval of dogfighting and cockfighting in 206 community college students with 97.1% disapproving of dogfighting and 93.8% disapproving of cockfighting. Disapproval of dogfighting was associated with higher scores on the Pet Attitude Scale (Templer, Salter, Dickey, Baldwin, & Veleber, 1981), scoring in the continuous rather than dichotomous direction on the Animal-Human Continuity Scale (Templer, Connelly, B…
Comparative Decline of Professional School Graduates' Performance on the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology
The discrepancy between traditional (Boulder Model) and professional school (Vail Model) clinical psychology graduate programs on the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) was greater using 1997-2005 data than in an earlier study using 1988-1995 data. The relative decline of the performance of professional school graduates on the EPPP was attributed in part to the increase of 31.1% in number of listed professional schools ove…
Relationship of IQ to Suicide and Homicide Rate
IQs were correlated with the z score of suicide rate minus z score of homicide rate using nine regions of the world--established market economies, formerly socialized Europe, India, China, other Asian nations, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, Middle East Crescent, and the USA. Correlations were .85 and .83 with crude rates and age-adjusted rates, respectively. The homicide findings are consistent with previous research in individual c…
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Death Anxiety
Data are reported from samples of undergraduates around the world who have been administered Templer's Death Anxiety Scale. Data from 24 American samples and from 16 nations were identified. Strong sex differences were found and an association between the scores of men and women
Construction and Validation of an Animal-Human Continuity Scale
A 12-item Animal-Human Continuity Scale with a Likert-type 7-option format was constructed to measure the extent to which the respondent views humans and animals in a dichotomous fashion vs. on a continuum. After the generation of items on a rational basis, item selection was based on ratings of content validity followed by item-total score correlation based on a sample of 88 graduate students, faculty and university staff participants. The scale…
Association of Race and Color with Mean IQ across Nations
This study investigated the correlation of both race and skin color in the distribution of mean IQ for 129 countries with primarily indigenous populations. Skin color correlated most highly with mean IQ across the Caucasoid countries (r = -.86), somewhat less across the Mongoloid countries (r = -.66), and nonsignificantly across the Negroid countries (r = .06). When the Negroid and Caucasoid countries were combined, both race and skin color yield…
Association of Race and Color With Mean Iq Across Nations
Construction of a Death Anxiety Scale–Extended
A 51-item Death Anxiety Scale—Extended was constructed. This scale consists of the 15 Death Anxiety Scale items plus 36 new items which were generated on a rational basis that both survived content validity ratings and correlated at the .001 level with three out of four groups (one Kuwaiti, one Sudanese, and two American) participants. The Death Anxiety Scale—Extended correlated .81 with the Death Anxiety Scale. The 36 new items (Death Anxiety Sc…
Addendum to Concerns About Professional Schools
Publication Rates of Male and Female Academic Clinical Psychologists in California
Compared here was the publication rate of men and women surveyed by mail (480 academic clinical psychologists in California) regarding number of publications, self-perception of their role of researcher versus teacher, variables related to research opportunity (grants, time spent in research), and type of institution in which they are employed. The men had 1.6 as many publications per year as did the women, and the semipartial correlation was -.2…
Addendum to Concerns about Professional Schools
The present research adds to the October 2004 comments in the American Psychologist of Templer and Arikawa who reported that traditional clinical psychology graduate students had greatly higher mean GRE scores than professional school students. The traditional and professional students had mean undergraduate GPAs of 3.62 (SD= .13) and 3.36 (SD= .14), respectively. The mean respective percentages of applicants to 148 traditional and 50 professiona…
The Death Depression Scale-Revised. Preliminary Empirical Validation of the Spanish Form
The purpose of this study was to translate Templer et al.'s Death Depression Scale-Revised into Spanish and to evaluate its psychometric properties in a sample of Spanish students. The Death Depression Scale-Revised is a 21-item Likert format questionnaire that could also be applied in true-false format. The Spanish form of the scale was answered by 342 psychology and nursing undergraduates, obtaining a Cronbach's coefficient alpha of .90, and te…
Personality, Psychopathology, and Demographic Correlates of Medical vs Behavioral Reasons for Referral in Alcoholic Men
The personality, psychopathological, and demographic differences between 330 alcoholic men referred for behavioral problems and 104 alcoholic men referred for medical problems were examined. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 indicated that those referred for behavioral problems showed more antisocial characteristics, while those referred for medical reasons had more subjective distress, were more highly introverted, and showed gre…
Comparing Professional Schools and Traditional Clinical Program Faculty on Measures of Professional and Scientific Achievement
Comparative Prevalence of Isolated Sleep Paralysis in Kuwaiti, Sudanese, and American College Students
A questionnaire measuring the incidence of isolated sleep paralysis was administered to 527 Kuwaiti, 762 Sudanese, and 649 American college students in what was the first study assessing the prevalence of isolated sleep paralysis in two Middle Eastern countries. Using the item "unable to move," 28.8% of Kuwaiti, 29.9% of Sudanese, and 24.5% of American participants reported experiencing the disorder at least once. When a second item, "pressure to…
Relation of Existential and Religious Variables to the Death Depression Scale-Revised
This study examined the relationship of existential variables as measured by the Life Attitude Profile-Revised (LAP-R), religious variables, and demographic variables to the Death Depression Scale-Revised (DDS-R). Participants were 500 English-speaking adults from undergraduate and graduate college classes, various work settings, church groups, and community organizations. The DDS-R total score, and at least one of the DDS-R factor scores, were s…
Relation of Attitude Toward Body Elimination to Parenting Style and Attitude Toward the Body
The purpose was to estimate the relation of attitude toward body elimination in 93 college students (27 men and 66 women), to authoritarian personality features, participants' perception of their mothers' parenting style, and attitudes toward cleanliness, sex, and family nudity. Subjects were administered the Body Elimination Attitude Scale, the Four-item F Scale, the Parental Authority Questionnaire Pertaining to Mothers, and the items “Sex is d…
Adolescent-Parent Death Attitude Resemblance in Kuwaiti and Sudanese Families
The present study determined the family resemblance in death anxiety and death depression in Kuwait and in the Sudan. There were moderate correlations between Death Anxiety Scale (Templer, 1970) and Death Depression Scale (Templer, Lavoie, Chalgujian, & Thomas-Dobson, 1990) scores of adolescents and their parents and between the scores of the mothers and fathers. The correlations tended to be higher in death depression than in death anxiety, and …
Social Distance and Trait Attribution among Four Southeast Asian Ethnic Groups in the United States
This study explored social distance and trait attribution and the relationship between the two variables in persons of four Southeast Asian ethnic groups. 100 Cambodians, 102 Hmong, 102 Laotians, and 101 Vietnamese in the United States were administered a modified Bogardus Social Distance Scale with respect to seven different ethnic groups (the other three Southeast Asian groups, African American, Hispanic, and White), and rated these other group…
Death Depression Scale-Revised
A 21-item Death Depression Scale-Revised was constructed to be more independent of death anxiety than the original 17-item Death Depression Scale. This new instrument had a Chronbach's alpha of .92, reasonable correlations with death anxiety and general depression and general anxiety, a meaningful factor structure, and a correlation of .85 between Likert and true-false formats
Comparative Data of Childhood and Adolescence Molestation in Heterosexual and Homosexual Persons
Psychology of the Scientist
Clinical psychologists who graduated from traditional programs and those who graduated from professional schools were compared on both scientifically and professionally oriented criteria of achievement and recognition. Upon controlling for year of graduation from a doctoral program, the professional school graduates were less likely to be APA fellows, less likely to be on the editorial board of specified research oriented journals in clinical psy…
Sympathomimetic Preference and Ethnicity in Male Felons
A disproportionate number of Euro-American inmates given either an amphetamine- or cocaine-abuse diagnosis upon admission to prison were given a diagnosis of amphetamine abuse. A disproportionate number of African-American inmates were given a cocaine-abuse diagnosis. Of the 800 consecutively admitted inmates who were given one diagnosis or the other, 68% of the cocaine abusers, but only 4% of the amphetamine abusers, were African American
The Relationships of Death Anxiety and Death Depression to Religion and Civilian War-Related Experiences in Iranians
Of eleven hundred seventy-six Iranian college students, those who were more exposed to war-related traumatic events and those who were less religious had higher death anxiety and death depression. The specific variables that contributed the most variance to both death anxiety and death depression were weaker religious belief, female gender, injury to friends or relatives, death of friends or relatives, not believing in life after death, and maint…
The Construction and Validation of a Death Anxiety Scale
1970). The Construction and Validation of a Death Anxiety Scale. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 165-177
Comparative Data of Childhood and Adolescence Molestation in Heterosexual and Homosexual Persons
The Correlates of Grief after Death of Pet
The correlates of degree of grief after death of dogs and cats were determined. With both animals, retrospectively reported grief was associated with present death depression and positive attitude toward pets. Grief after the death of a dog was associated with living alone at the time of death, higher death depression, and female gender. Grief after the death of a cat was associated with higher death depression, female gender, and was inversely c…
The Genesis and Correlates of Attitudes Toward Pets
Pet Attitude Scale score (Templer, Salter, Dickey, Baldwin, and Veleber 1981) of adolescents was best predicted both in univariate and multivariate analyses by Pet Attitude Scale score of the adolescent's mother and by the presence or absence of a pet in the home. The pet attitude of daughters correlated more highly with the pet attitude of their mothers and their fathers than did the pet attitude of the sons. A noteworthy finding was the virtual…
Death anxiety
Parameters of sexual contact of boys with women
Death depression and death anxiety in HIV-infected males
The death anxiety and death depression of 94 HIV-infected gay men in Southern California were determined as a function of subjective state, medical status, and psychosocial variables. They were administered the Death Anxiety Scale, Death Depression Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Scale, and a questionnaire assessing demographic and life-situation variables. Higher death anxiety and death depression were most highly correlate…
Personality variables and circumstances of sexual assault predictive of a woman's resistance
Adolescent female prostitutes
The intelligence of rapists
Memory and Grade Point Average of College Students
Grades, Attendance, and Extraversion
Extraversion correlated —.15 with both grades and class attendance of 216 introductory psychology students. These findings were hypothesized and are congruent with Eysenck's theory of personality. Otis scores also correlated — .23 with extraversion. This correlation contrasts with no relationship between intelligence and extraversion usually reported. The discrepancy seems related to the type of intelligence test employed
Religious Correlates of Death Anxiety
No significant relationships between Death Anxiety Scale score of 213 college students and several variables of religious affiliation, belief, and activity were obtained. The apparent absence of any such relationship was explained in terms of religion having a quite limited effect upon the attitudes and behavior of most college students in our society
The Construction and Validation of a Death Anxiety Scale
1970). The Construction and Validation of a Death Anxiety Scale. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 165-177
Death Anxiety Scale Means, Standard Deviations, and Embedding
A table of means and standard deviations on the Death Anxiety Scale for 23 categories of Ss was presented. Embedding of the Scale's items apparently had little or no effect upon scores
Death anxiety
Anorexic humans and rats
Death Anxiety in Religiously Very Involved Persons
Those religiously involved persons who have stronger religious convictions and attachment, attend religious functions more frequently, are certain of a life after death, and interpret the Bible literally have lower death anxiety
Resemblance of Parent-Child Death-Anxiety as a Function of Age and Sex of Child
Use of the Death Anxiety Scale in an Inter-Racial Jetting
The purpose of this study was to assess possible differences between black and white college students on Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and to determine whether the DAS adequately measures death anxiety in black populations. Ss were 258 undergraduates from Lincoln University, 124 whites (66 males; 58 females) and 134 blacks (72 males; 62 females). No mean differences between race and sex categories were found to be significant. Therefore, th…
Death Anxiety
There were significant positive correlations between the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and the Neuroticism Scale of the Eysenck Personality Inventory but not with the Extraversion Scale of this inventory. The mean DAS score of cigarette smokers was neither significantly different from that of non-smokers nor from that of ex-smokers. However, within the cigarette smoking group, there was a significant negative correlation (r = −.25) between DAS score …
Incremental Validity of the Quick Test
Essential Alcoholism and Family History of Alcoholism
Men alcoholics with a family history of alcoholism had a significantly higher mean “essential” score on the Rudie-McGaughran scale than alcoholics without such a family history
Fear of Death and Femininity
It is commonly reported that females have a higher fear of death than males ( 9 ) , although this higher level may hold only for some specific fears ( 5 ) . The present study was designed to determine whether, within each sex, fear of death was related to femininity. Twenty female and 35 male undergraduates at Stockton State College were administered two Fear of Death Scales (1 , 4 ) which assess six different types of fear about death. Four week…
An MMPI Scale for Assessing Death Anxiety
Alleviation of High Death Anxiety with Symptomatic Treatment of Depression
Death Anxiety in Suicide Attempters
Death anxiety was related to the potential for rescue after a suicide attempt. No relationship was observed between death anxiety and risk or lethality of suicide attempt. The 12 males and 38 females did not differ in either suicide rating or death anxiety; nor was there a difference on these variables in first and multiple attempters
Alcoholics' and Criminals' Similarity of Scores on the Mac Andrew Alcoholism Scale
The MacAndrew MMPI Alcoholism Scale seems to reflect acting-out tendency in general rather than alcoholism in particular. The present study, in which 27 male alcoholic and 33 criminally charged psychiatric patients were not differentiated by the MacAndrew Scale from 37 psychiatric patients, supports this contention and suggests that this scale may not be a useful differentiating measure for alcoholics
Social role orientation and pathological factors in suicide attempts of varying lethality
Affective vs Thinking Disturbance Related to Left-vs Right-Sided Brain Functioning
A WAIS index intended to assess left- vs right-sided brain integrity for 52 female and 113 male patients was not significantly related to an MMPI index intended to assess thinking vs affective disorders. Thus, our hypothesis based upon the premise that thought disorders tend to be associated with left-sided inferiority and affective disorders with right-sided inferiority was not borne out
The intelligence of rapists
Schizo-Affective Schizophrenia in Jews and Non-Jews
Suicide Rate and Religion within the United States
The Construction of a Pet Attitude Scale
Attitudes toward Laetrile in Relation to Death Anxiety and Experience with Cancer in the Family
Three questionnaires concerning previous experiences and attitudes toward Laetrile were given to 68 college students and 44 professors. The hypothesis that individuals with greater anxiety would believe more strongly in the efficacy of Laetrile was supported. Positive attitudes toward Laetrile's effectiveness correlated significantly with higher death anxiety ( r = .25, p < .02), higher anxiety about cancer ( r = .25), and having a death from can…
Psychology (81 works) · Clinical Psychology (58 works) · Clinical Psychology (53 works) · Psychiatry (50 works) · Medicine (34 works) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (33 works) · Developmental psychology (30 works) · Anxiety (29 works) · Death anxiety (29 works) · Social Psychology (28 works)