Ian Ball
Biographic Data
| ID | 1256015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Ball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ball |
| SIGNATURE | BALL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8503-2153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Burning the buffer
Purpose The New Zealand Government has progressively strengthened its balance sheet position since the mid-1990s, other than for the four years immediately following the global financial crisis and the Canterbury earthquakes. This paper describes the nature and the forecast and actual fiscal impacts of the COVID-19 response, and identifies the transparency mechanisms which reveal these impacts. It also expresses a viewpoint on the implications of…
Differences in Student Engagement
This paper reports on a study of the differences in the dominant cognitive processes preferred by groups of engineering and education students and examines the implications of these differences for the assessment of student engagement with university courses. Concern is expressed that the items commonly used to capture student engagement data do not adequately cover the full range of the dominant cognitive processes preferred by tertiary students…
Dealing constructively with negatively evaluated emotional situations
New Zealand's public sector management reform
This article describes the reforms to the functions of central government in New Zealand that have been introduced since 1985. It sketches the political and economic situation which motivated the changes to the systems of public management. Some of the theoretical influences that provided insights to the advice given to the government by its officials are noted. The essential elements of the system are described briefly. The results are summarize…
Resource Accounting and Budgeting
Male and female factor structures of the australian sex-role scale (form A)
Form A of the Personal Description Questionnaire (PDQ), an Australian sex-role scale, was administered to 156 female and 110 male subjects. Scale and subscale means, standard deviations, and gender differences are reported. Factor analyses of the separate male and female data showed a very high degree of correspondence between the factor structures. The analyses yielded four factors, three of which clearly reflected the scales of the PDQ design. …
Sex and age differences in sensation seeking
Zuckerman et al. (1978) reported national comparisons and sex and age differences on the total score and the four subscales of the recently constructed Sensation Seeking Scale, Form V (SSS). The samples showed clear sex differences and a strong decline with age. Sex differences were seen to reflect different kinds of socialization and the age decline was thought to be associated with biological processes.Australian data were collected from 335 fe…
Factorial invariance across sex of the Form V of the Sensation-Seeking Scale
Sensation Seeking and Intention to Donate Blood
Sex-Role Identity of Female Homosexuals
This study reports an investigation of the relationships between sex-role identity and sexual object choice. The Bem Sex Role Inventory was completed by a group of 37 lesbians and a comparison group of 44 presumed heterosexual women similar in age and education. The BSRI assesses masculinity and femininity as independent constructs. Results show that the lesbian group is higher is masculinity, but no lower in positive femininity characteristics, …
Sex-Role Identity of Female Homosexuals
This study reports an investigation of the relationships between sex-role identity and sexual object choice. The Bem Sex Role Inventory was completed by a group of 37 lesbians and a comparison group of 44 presumed heterosexual women similar in age and education. The BSRI assesses masculinity and femininity as independent constructs. Results show that the lesbian group is higher is masculinity, but no lower in positive femininity characteristics, …
Sex and age differences in sensation seeking
Zuckerman et al. (1978) reported national comparisons and sex and age differences on the total score and the four subscales of the recently constructed Sensation Seeking Scale, Form V (SSS). The samples showed clear sex differences and a strong decline with age. Sex differences were seen to reflect different kinds of socialization and the age decline was thought to be associated with biological processes.Australian data were collected from 335 fe…
Resource Accounting and Budgeting
Factorial invariance across sex of the Form V of the Sensation-Seeking Scale
Dealing constructively with negatively evaluated emotional situations
Male and female factor structures of the australian sex-role scale (form A)
Form A of the Personal Description Questionnaire (PDQ), an Australian sex-role scale, was administered to 156 female and 110 male subjects. Scale and subscale means, standard deviations, and gender differences are reported. Factor analyses of the separate male and female data showed a very high degree of correspondence between the factor structures. The analyses yielded four factors, three of which clearly reflected the scales of the PDQ design. …
Sensation Seeking and Intention to Donate Blood
Sex-Role Identity of Female Homosexuals
This study reports an investigation of the relationships between sex-role identity and sexual object choice. The Bem Sex Role Inventory was completed by a group of 37 lesbians and a comparison group of 44 presumed heterosexual women similar in age and education. The BSRI assesses masculinity and femininity as independent constructs. Results show that the lesbian group is higher is masculinity, but no lower in positive femininity characteristics, …
Factorial invariance across sex of the Form V of the Sensation-Seeking Scale
Sex and age differences in sensation seeking
Zuckerman et al. (1978) reported national comparisons and sex and age differences on the total score and the four subscales of the recently constructed Sensation Seeking Scale, Form V (SSS). The samples showed clear sex differences and a strong decline with age. Sex differences were seen to reflect different kinds of socialization and the age decline was thought to be associated with biological processes.Australian data were collected from 335 fe…
Male and female factor structures of the australian sex-role scale (form A)
Form A of the Personal Description Questionnaire (PDQ), an Australian sex-role scale, was administered to 156 female and 110 male subjects. Scale and subscale means, standard deviations, and gender differences are reported. Factor analyses of the separate male and female data showed a very high degree of correspondence between the factor structures. The analyses yielded four factors, three of which clearly reflected the scales of the PDQ design. …
Resource Accounting and Budgeting
New Zealand's public sector management reform
This article describes the reforms to the functions of central government in New Zealand that have been introduced since 1985. It sketches the political and economic situation which motivated the changes to the systems of public management. Some of the theoretical influences that provided insights to the advice given to the government by its officials are noted. The essential elements of the system are described briefly. The results are summarize…
Dealing constructively with negatively evaluated emotional situations
Differences in Student Engagement
This paper reports on a study of the differences in the dominant cognitive processes preferred by groups of engineering and education students and examines the implications of these differences for the assessment of student engagement with university courses. Concern is expressed that the items commonly used to capture student engagement data do not adequately cover the full range of the dominant cognitive processes preferred by tertiary students…
Burning the buffer
Purpose The New Zealand Government has progressively strengthened its balance sheet position since the mid-1990s, other than for the four years immediately following the global financial crisis and the Canterbury earthquakes. This paper describes the nature and the forecast and actual fiscal impacts of the COVID-19 response, and identifies the transparency mechanisms which reveal these impacts. It also expresses a viewpoint on the implications of…
Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Personality (3 works) · Political science (3 works)