Nerella Ramanaiah

Biographic Data

ID10406373
NAMENerella Ramanaiah
GIVEN NAMESNerella
FAMILY NAMERamanaiah
SIGNATURERAMANAIAH N
AFFILIATIONSSouthern Illinois University Carbondale
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
H-INDEX0

  • Development of Covert and Overt Hostility Scales from the Buss-Durkee Inventory

    Open AccessThomas Schill, Nerella V Ramanaiah et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1990

    The purpose of this study was to develop covert and overt hostility scales from the Buss-Durkee Inventory. First, 22 covert hostility and 29 overt hostility items were identified by the authors. Second, an item analysis was done to assess the content saturation of the individual items on these scales. This analysis yielded the final form for 7 items for covert hostility and 14 for overt hostility. Cronbach alphas for the covert and overt scales w…

  • Relation of Expression of Hostility to Coping with Stress

    Open AccessThomas Schill, Nerella V Ramanaiah et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1985

    27 male and 27 female undergraduates currently coping well with stressful life events were compared on each subscale of the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory with a group (20 women and 12 men) coping poorly. Poor copers scored higher on the following subscales, Indirect, Guilt, Resentment, Suspiciousness and Total Score. No differences occurred for the expressive subscales, Assault and Verbal. Efficient coping is associated with reacting to stress …

  • Construct Validation of a Method for Defining Efficient and Inefficient Copers

    Open AccessThomas Schill, Nerella V Ramanaiah et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1984

    Some validity for a procedure to identify efficient and inefficient copers was evident in this study. 36 efficient copers (defined by high stress scores and low anxiety scores) dealt with life stress primarily by trying to analyze their problems and take direct action. 50 inefficient copers (high stress and high anxiety scores) stopped functioning well, sought the support of others and, if male, resorted to drugs, alcohol, or sex as a source of c…

  • Coping with Stress and Irrational Beliefs

    Open AccessThomas Schill, A E Adams et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1982

    The present study tested whether people who endorsed fewer beliefs which Ellis designates as irrational coped more efficiently with stressful life events. Results indicated that this was the case. They reinforce the opinion that stress-management programs should focus on cognitive factors

  • Defensive Externality and Vulnerability to Life Stress

    Open AccessThomas Schill, Nerella V Ramanaiah et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1982

    Research ( 2 ) suggests an external locus of control is less effective in helping one deal with stressful life events. Hochreich ( 1 ) has identified two subgroups of externally oriented subjects: defensive external persons, whose externality is presumed to reflect primarily a verbal technique of defense, and congruent external ones, whose externality reflects a more genuine belief that most outcomes are determined by forces beyond their personal…

  • Responsible Assertion and Coping with Stress

    Open AccessThomas Schill, Carmen Toves et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1981

    The present study sought to determine whether assertion moderated the effects of stressful life events for 91 college men. Results suggest that the 21 responsible assertors (high scores for assertion and interpersonal trust) coped better with stressful events than the 26 non-responsible assertors (high scores for assertion and low scores for interpersonal trust)

  • Ucla Loneliness Scale and Effects of Stress

    Open AccessThomas Schill, Carmen Toves et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1981

    This study sought to determine how successfully lonely and non-lonely subjects (UCLA Loneliness Scale) cope with recent stressful life events. Correlational analysis indicated the higher the loneliness score the more emotional and somatic complaints were indicated on the Cornell Medical Index Form N2

  • Sex Differences, Internal-External Control, and Vulnerability to Life Stress

    Open AccessCarmen Toves, Thomas Schill et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1981

  • Coping with Loneliness and Locus of Control

    Open AccessThomas Schill, Carmen Toves et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1980

    The present study sought to determine the relative ability of internal and external subjects to handle the problem of loneliness. Research by Johnson and Sarason (1978) has suggested that an internal locus of control is much more effective in helping one deal with stressful life events. If this is the case, one should find a positive relationship between degree of loneliness and number of emotional and psychosomatic complaints on the Cornell Medi…

  • Interpersonal Trust and Coping with Stress

    Open AccessThomas Schill, Carmen Toves et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1980