Meni Koslowsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 1607262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meni Koslowsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meni |
| FAMILY NAME | Koslowsky |
| SIGNATURE | KOSLOWSKY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6356-7096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A longitudinal study on the relationships between impulsivity and excessive smartphone use among patients with acquired brain injury and control participants
Brain injury, particularly in frontal regions, is associated with impulsiveness and excessive smartphone use. Patients with ABI showed an improvement in delay discounting after treatment, which is likely due to occupational therapy and training in control of impulsivity. It is recommended that specific treatment program for excessive smartphone use will be developed for patients with ABI
Job embeddedness as a mediator of the relationship between work locus of control and emotional exhaustion
Disclosing invisible disabilities to romantic partners: Understanding the role of timing
Dropout Intentions of Soldiers in Mixed-Gender Combat Units: A Longitudinal Examination of the Integration Process
Relationship Expectations, Behavior Interactions and Commitment: A Dyadic Study Among Dual-Earner Couples
Previous researchers have analyzed the links between relationship expectations and commitment in cohabiting and married couples. The present study examines a dyadic model where couple's reported behavior interactions (RBI) are suggested as potential mediators and Work-Family Conflict (WFC) as a moderator. The association among these variables was tested by recruiting 111 ( N = 222) dual-earner couples to complete questionnaires. To examine the dy…
Life under the Covid-19 lockdown: On the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and psychological distress
Findings suggest that IU is associated with psychological distress. Theoretical and practical ramifications of the study findings are presented. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Living in fear: The relationship between fear of Covid-19, distress, health, and marital satisfaction among Israeli women
After the COVID-19 virus was officially declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the Israeli government adopted lockdown restrictions to limit its spread. The purpose of the present article is to examine the impact of this disturbing environment on Israeli women. Specifically, we examined whether fear of the virus would impact the women's distress symptoms, self-rated health (SRH), and marital satisfaction. A total of 130 Israeli married women with…
Modeling Psychologists’ Ethical Intention: Application of an Expanded Theory of Planned Behavior
At the core of all therapeutic and medical practice lies ethics. By applying an expanded Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior formulation, the present investigation tested a model for explaining psychologists' intention to behave ethically. In the pretest, dual relationships and money conflicts were seen as the most prevalent dilemmas. A total of 395 clinical psychologists filled out questionnaires containing either a dual relationship dilemma desc…
Gender Role Ideology as a Moderator of the Relationship between Social Power Tactics and Marital Satisfaction
Gender, status and the use of power strategies
The present study examined the effects of gender and status on the use of power strategies. The experiment consisted of a computer‐based problem‐solving task performed in pairs, where participants interacted with simulated long‐distance partners. Participants were 36 female and 38 male undergraduate students, who were assigned to be influencing agents and were required to convince their partners to accept their help in the problem‐solving process…
Factors related to perceived power usage in schools
Based on Raven's (1992) power interaction model, situational and personal variables were examined as determinants of power choice in educational settings. The impact of educational sector (secular, religious), class level, gender and content of conflict on perceived power usage in teacher–pupil conflicts was analysed. A total of 370 elementary and junior high school pupils and 62 teachers from the same schools responded to a series of scenarios w…
Introduction: Cultural Relativism and Universalism in Organizational Behaviors
Introduction: Cultural Relativism and Universalism in Organizational Behaviors
Gender, Self‐Esteem, and Focus of Interest in the Use of Power Strategies by Adolescents in Conflict Situations Schwarzwald and Koslowsky
Considerable evidence indicates that an individual's preference of power strategies for gaining compliance is associated with personal and social variables that may affect the quality of the relationship between the parties involved. This study examined how adolescents manage conflict situations and tested the importance of personal and situational characteristics in choosing power strategies for influencing others. Using Raven's (1992, 1993) pow…
Conceptualizing and Measuring a Power/Interaction Model of Interpersonal Influence 1
In response to new theoretical conceptualizations (Raven, 1992, 1993), an instrument was developed to measure 11 bases of power, the original 6 French and Raven (1959; Raven, 1965) bases of power, with 3 of these further differentiated: reward (personal, impersonal), coercion (personal. impersonal), legitimate (position, reciprocity, equity, dependence), expert, referent, and information. In Study 1, 317 American student respondents rated the lik…
Modelling the stress-strain relationship in work settings
Work values: A theoretical overview and a model of their effects
Three main streams of research were identified in the field of work values. Based on a series of analyses using multidimensional techniques, the first set of studies attempted to identify the underlying factors or facets of the work values domain. A second group of investigations examined correlates of work values including antecedent and consequent variables. Finally, extensive research on differences in work values' pattern and level by culture…
Work values: A theoretical overview and a model of their effects
Predictors of intentions to leave the ward, the hospital, and the nursing profession: A longitudinal study
The stages preceding and following the intention to withdraw from an organization have not been adequately examined. Data were collected at two time periods from a sample of 146 nurses working in a general hospital located in a large metropolitan area in Israel. Essentially, intention to withdraw from three levels — ward, hospital and profession — were examined. LISREL was used to test alternative longitudinal models for the best fitting set of l…
Predicting Actual Weight from Self-Report Data
Due to reasons of economy of time and ease of data collection, researchers increasingly use self-report weight as a substitute for measured or actual weight. Little research has been done on the inclusion of attitudinal scales and other self-report data in improving prediction of actual weight. The present study examined self-report data as well as actual weight for a sample of 946 young women inductees to the Israel Defense Forces. The results s…
Organizational attitudes and behaviors as a function of participation in strategic and tactical change decisions: An application of path–goal theory
Based upon path–goal theory of leadership, decision type (strategic versus tactical) was suggested as a moderator variable between employee participation in decision making (PDM) and work outcomes. A total of 249 respondents in five Israeli organizations undergoing planned changes, participated in the study. Results from four out of the five organizations revealed that participation in tactical rather than strategic decisions was a better predict…
Sensitivity, Specificity, and Positive Predictive Value as Measures of Prediction Accuracy: The Case of the Eat-26
Recently, investigators have identified several levels of severity among people suffering from eating disorders. One of the more commonly used scales for screening people with eating disorders is the 26-item version of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26). Although decisions such as assigning individuals to treatment and control groups are often determined by the score on the EAT-26, researchers have not examined the sensitivity, specificity, and p…
The Use of Power Tactics to Gain Compliance: Testing Aspects of Raven's (1988) Theory in Conflictual Situations
French and Raven's sixfold taxonomy has been used widely to examine social influence processes. A recent elaboration by Raven (1988a) proposes that the use of power tactics is situationally contingent, depending on availability of alternatives. The present study examined the pattern of power tactic preferences as a function of setting and status. A total of 89 subjects were given scenarios describing an attempt to influence another party. The sce…
On the efficacy of credibility intervals as indicators of moderator effects in meta‐analytic research
Researchers have suggested the use of credibility intervals for identifying moderator effects in meta‐analysis. In the present study, the accuracy of decisions derived from credibility intervals was determined from Monte Carlo generated correlations based on two series of meta‐analyses, one containing 20 studies and the other, 100 studies. Within each study, the responses of 100 subjects were simulated. Although in some marginal cases the accurac…
Meta-Rand: A Sas Macro Program for Randomly Generated Meta-Analysis
META-RAND is a SAS Macro that generates random values according to certain parameters that are then used for calculating the correlations in a meta-analysis. The program uses some of the new approaches to meta-analysis that have been suggested by Hunter and Schmidt (1990) and Whitener (1990). Output consists of uncorrected and corrected mean and variance of r and several measures of the degree of homogeneity or heterogeneity in the data. The prog…
Organizational attitudes and behaviors as a function of participation in strategic and tactical change decisions: An application of path–goal theory
Based upon path–goal theory of leadership, decision type (strategic versus tactical) was suggested as a moderator variable between employee participation in decision making (PDM) and work outcomes. A total of 249 respondents in five Israeli organizations undergoing planned changes, participated in the study. Results from four out of the five organizations revealed that participation in tactical rather than strategic decisions was a better predict…
Connecticut physicians' attitudes toward abortion
Connecticut physicians' attitudes toward abortion. G L Pratt, M Koslowsky, and R M WintrobCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.3.288 Published Online: October 07, 2011
On the efficacy of credibility intervals as indicators of moderator effects in meta‐analytic research
Researchers have suggested the use of credibility intervals for identifying moderator effects in meta‐analysis. In the present study, the accuracy of decisions derived from credibility intervals was determined from Monte Carlo generated correlations based on two series of meta‐analyses, one containing 20 studies and the other, 100 studies. Within each study, the responses of 100 subjects were simulated. Although in some marginal cases the accurac…
Gender Role Ideology as a Moderator of the Relationship between Social Power Tactics and Marital Satisfaction
Introduction: Cultural Relativism and Universalism in Organizational Behaviors
Predictors of intentions to leave the ward, the hospital, and the nursing profession: A longitudinal study
The stages preceding and following the intention to withdraw from an organization have not been adequately examined. Data were collected at two time periods from a sample of 146 nurses working in a general hospital located in a large metropolitan area in Israel. Essentially, intention to withdraw from three levels — ward, hospital and profession — were examined. LISREL was used to test alternative longitudinal models for the best fitting set of l…
Factors related to perceived power usage in schools
Based on Raven's (1992) power interaction model, situational and personal variables were examined as determinants of power choice in educational settings. The impact of educational sector (secular, religious), class level, gender and content of conflict on perceived power usage in teacher–pupil conflicts was analysed. A total of 370 elementary and junior high school pupils and 62 teachers from the same schools responded to a series of scenarios w…
Dropout Intentions of Soldiers in Mixed-Gender Combat Units: A Longitudinal Examination of the Integration Process
A Program for Determining Profile Similarity for Purposes of Classification
Ethnic Stereotyping by Men and Women
The influence of sex in stereotyping has received little attention in previous research. Most studies were probably confounded with social desirability. The present investigation analyzed effects of sex under control for social desirability. Results indicated that women stereotype less than men. This may corroborate the often repeated finding that women are internally or emotionally motivated, whereas men respond more readily to external cues
Satisfaction of the Patient and the Provider; Evaluation by Questionnaire
From Connecticut comes an interesting development of tools for measuring the satisfaction of patients with the dental care they receive and the satisfaction of the dentists in the care that they provide
A Measure of Reliability Using Qualitative Data
In many research activities, the data is unordered or qualitative. In such circumstances, inter-rater reliability is usually measured by calculating a percentage of agreement score between judges. The present paper expands on an equation first introduced by Goodman and Kruskal for obtaining a reliability measure of one item. This formula determines inter-rater reliability for a series of items across many subjects. The statistic that results is e…
Connecticut physicians' attitudes toward abortion
Connecticut physicians' attitudes toward abortion. G L Pratt, M Koslowsky, and R M WintrobCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.3.288 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Univariate and Multivariate Analysis of Categorial Variables
Recent trends in the analysis of categorical or nominal variables were discussed for univariate, multivariate, and psychometric problems. It was shown that several statistical procedures commonly used with these problems have analogues which can be applied to assessing categorical variables. These more general techniques are often required when the data to be analyzed consists of both nominal and interval variables. Even when the data appear to b…
Generalizing Classification Tables to Large Populations
In a mailing of an insurance offering to 303,000 credit customers in one of the large Midwestern states, the small number of responders necessitated a modification of the usual classification procedure. The researchers examined the technique of generalizing sample results in a classification study to large subpopulations of unequal sizes. The usual output from the discriminant analysis routine in SPSS was extended to handle the present statistica…
Validating an Attitude toward Computer Scale
Although several investigators have developed computer attitude scales, predictive validity of the scales has not been examined. For purposes of the present research, a computer attitude scale was designed and tested on a group of 162 university freshmen. Two factors, the computer as a controlling device and as a challenging instrument, explained a large portion of the variance in the scale; however, only the challenging factor, with predictive v…
Commitment and Academic Success
The predictors of academic success usually include aptitude and previous achievement measures. The present study used a modified version of Rusbult and Farrell's (1983) commitment questionnaire to predict final grades in a university setting. As part of a larger study on the relationship between attitudes and study behaviors, 39 students completed the five parts of the Rusbult and Farrell questionnaire. Responses were then correlated with three d…
Using Effect Coding for Comparing Models in Social Research
Often researchers are required to examine a specific model under two different situations. In several studies cited here, authors compared results descriptively without the use of inferential statistics. By using a series of regression tests suggested by Kerlinger and Pedhazur in another context, the two situations can be compared statistically. An example from a recent study is used to illustrate the technique and several advantages are suggeste…
Staff/line distinctions in job and organizational commitment
Recently researchers have begun to investigate distinctions between job and organizational commitment. The study reported here investigated the relationship between staff/line distinctions and the two categories of commitment. The degree of perceived fit between job and organizational goals was suggested as an intervening variable. A sample of 207 police officers responded to a questionnaire that measured moral and calculative organizational comm…
Stepdown analysis of variance: A refinement
Meta-Rand: A Sas Macro Program for Randomly Generated Meta-Analysis
META-RAND is a SAS Macro that generates random values according to certain parameters that are then used for calculating the correlations in a meta-analysis. The program uses some of the new approaches to meta-analysis that have been suggested by Hunter and Schmidt (1990) and Whitener (1990). Output consists of uncorrected and corrected mean and variance of r and several measures of the degree of homogeneity or heterogeneity in the data. The prog…
Structural equation modelling of some of the determinants of suicide risk
Much of the psychological research with suicidal patients has examined, individually or in combination, correlates and predictors of the various measures in the suicide process. The present study investigated suicidal risk as an outcome measure. Several questionnaires were administered to a sample of 94 soldiers, 61 of whom had manifested some suicidal symptoms. Using LISREL analysis, the data showed that the best model had suicide risk as direct…
Sensitivity, Specificity, and Positive Predictive Value as Measures of Prediction Accuracy: The Case of the Eat-26
Recently, investigators have identified several levels of severity among people suffering from eating disorders. One of the more commonly used scales for screening people with eating disorders is the 26-item version of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26). Although decisions such as assigning individuals to treatment and control groups are often determined by the score on the EAT-26, researchers have not examined the sensitivity, specificity, and p…
The Use of Power Tactics to Gain Compliance: Testing Aspects of Raven's (1988) Theory in Conflictual Situations
French and Raven's sixfold taxonomy has been used widely to examine social influence processes. A recent elaboration by Raven (1988a) proposes that the use of power tactics is situationally contingent, depending on availability of alternatives. The present study examined the pattern of power tactic preferences as a function of setting and status. A total of 89 subjects were given scenarios describing an attempt to influence another party. The sce…
On the efficacy of credibility intervals as indicators of moderator effects in meta‐analytic research
Researchers have suggested the use of credibility intervals for identifying moderator effects in meta‐analysis. In the present study, the accuracy of decisions derived from credibility intervals was determined from Monte Carlo generated correlations based on two series of meta‐analyses, one containing 20 studies and the other, 100 studies. Within each study, the responses of 100 subjects were simulated. Although in some marginal cases the accurac…
Predicting Actual Weight from Self-Report Data
Due to reasons of economy of time and ease of data collection, researchers increasingly use self-report weight as a substitute for measured or actual weight. Little research has been done on the inclusion of attitudinal scales and other self-report data in improving prediction of actual weight. The present study examined self-report data as well as actual weight for a sample of 946 young women inductees to the Israel Defense Forces. The results s…
Organizational attitudes and behaviors as a function of participation in strategic and tactical change decisions: An application of path–goal theory
Based upon path–goal theory of leadership, decision type (strategic versus tactical) was suggested as a moderator variable between employee participation in decision making (PDM) and work outcomes. A total of 249 respondents in five Israeli organizations undergoing planned changes, participated in the study. Results from four out of the five organizations revealed that participation in tactical rather than strategic decisions was a better predict…
Predictors of intentions to leave the ward, the hospital, and the nursing profession: A longitudinal study
The stages preceding and following the intention to withdraw from an organization have not been adequately examined. Data were collected at two time periods from a sample of 146 nurses working in a general hospital located in a large metropolitan area in Israel. Essentially, intention to withdraw from three levels — ward, hospital and profession — were examined. LISREL was used to test alternative longitudinal models for the best fitting set of l…
Work values: A theoretical overview and a model of their effects
Three main streams of research were identified in the field of work values. Based on a series of analyses using multidimensional techniques, the first set of studies attempted to identify the underlying factors or facets of the work values domain. A second group of investigations examined correlates of work values including antecedent and consequent variables. Finally, extensive research on differences in work values' pattern and level by culture…
Work values: A theoretical overview and a model of their effects
Conceptualizing and Measuring a Power/Interaction Model of Interpersonal Influence 1
In response to new theoretical conceptualizations (Raven, 1992, 1993), an instrument was developed to measure 11 bases of power, the original 6 French and Raven (1959; Raven, 1965) bases of power, with 3 of these further differentiated: reward (personal, impersonal), coercion (personal. impersonal), legitimate (position, reciprocity, equity, dependence), expert, referent, and information. In Study 1, 317 American student respondents rated the lik…
Modelling the stress-strain relationship in work settings
Gender, Self‐Esteem, and Focus of Interest in the Use of Power Strategies by Adolescents in Conflict Situations Schwarzwald and Koslowsky
Considerable evidence indicates that an individual's preference of power strategies for gaining compliance is associated with personal and social variables that may affect the quality of the relationship between the parties involved. This study examined how adolescents manage conflict situations and tested the importance of personal and situational characteristics in choosing power strategies for influencing others. Using Raven's (1992, 1993) pow…
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