Ronald M Doctor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4395059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald M Doctor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald M |
| FAMILY NAME | Doctor |
| SIGNATURE | DOCTOR R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Prosocial Personality Traits and Adaptation to Stress
Evidence suggests that personality traits may play a significant role in individual differences in cortisol reactivity in stressful situations. In this study, cortisol responses to public speaking were examined to test hypotheses that reactivity would be positively related to openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, and negatively to extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism, respectively. A sample of 75 students (56 women and 19 men) co…
Safety, Health Care, and Bonding Within an Ecobehavioral Approach to Treating and Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
Self-Reports of Soviet and American Children on Worry about the Threat of Nuclear War
Soviet and American early teens self-reported worries about on a questionnaire designed to disguise its intent. Soviet youth rated nuclear war as their greatest concern, with 89% indicating that they were very worried. American teens rated nuclear war second in intensity of concern to death of parent, with 39% very worried. A high proportion of both groups felt that nuclear war was preventable but affected their future plans. These results indica…
Adolescents' Attitudes about Nuclear War
913 students from 6 junior and senior high schools in California responded to a 20-item questionnaire using 4-point Likert-type ratings to indicate their 3 greatest worries, to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and nuclear-war-related items. On forced-choice items concerns were parents dying for 53.5%, getting bad grades for 37.0%, and nuclear war for 31.9%; however, the three greatest worries were parents dying for 54.9%, nuclear war for 32.8%,…
Soviet children and the threat of nuclear war
This study, the first undertaken by Western researchers with Soviet children on the subject of nuclear weapons, compared the questionnaire responses of 293 Soviet youngsters with those of 201 age-matched Californians. Interviews were conducted to supplement the questionnaire findings. Similarities and differences between the two samples are discussed in the context of how young people today perceive the threat of nuclear war
Possible community consequences of attitudes toward and models of deviant behavior
Locus of control of reinforcement and responsiveness to social influence 1
S ummary In this study, the “control of reinforcement” dimension was used to generate differential predictions about subject responsiveness to subtle social influence and experimenter effectiveness in producing change in verbal behavior As predicted, “external” control subjects, selectively reinforced in a sentence construction task, evidenced significantly greater performance gains than “internal” subjects When reports of awareness were used to …
Worry and Emotionality as Components of Test Anxiety
Two components of test anxiety, worry (W) or cognitive concern about performance and emotionality (E) or autonomic arousal to the test situation, were examined in relation to temporal changes, expectancy of success ratings, and actual performance on a final examination. Consonant with findings from previous research, E scores dropped significantly following completion of the examination irrespective of initial level of test anxiety or performance…
Safety, Health Care, and Bonding Within an Ecobehavioral Approach to Treating and Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
Self-Reports of Soviet and American Children on Worry about the Threat of Nuclear War
Soviet and American early teens self-reported worries about on a questionnaire designed to disguise its intent. Soviet youth rated nuclear war as their greatest concern, with 89% indicating that they were very worried. American teens rated nuclear war second in intensity of concern to death of parent, with 39% very worried. A high proportion of both groups felt that nuclear war was preventable but affected their future plans. These results indica…
Possible community consequences of attitudes toward and models of deviant behavior
Worry and Emotionality as Components of Test Anxiety
Two components of test anxiety, worry (W) or cognitive concern about performance and emotionality (E) or autonomic arousal to the test situation, were examined in relation to temporal changes, expectancy of success ratings, and actual performance on a final examination. Consonant with findings from previous research, E scores dropped significantly following completion of the examination irrespective of initial level of test anxiety or performance…
Locus of control of reinforcement and responsiveness to social influence 1
S ummary In this study, the “control of reinforcement” dimension was used to generate differential predictions about subject responsiveness to subtle social influence and experimenter effectiveness in producing change in verbal behavior As predicted, “external” control subjects, selectively reinforced in a sentence construction task, evidenced significantly greater performance gains than “internal” subjects When reports of awareness were used to …
Possible community consequences of attitudes toward and models of deviant behavior
Soviet children and the threat of nuclear war
This study, the first undertaken by Western researchers with Soviet children on the subject of nuclear weapons, compared the questionnaire responses of 293 Soviet youngsters with those of 201 age-matched Californians. Interviews were conducted to supplement the questionnaire findings. Similarities and differences between the two samples are discussed in the context of how young people today perceive the threat of nuclear war
Adolescents' Attitudes about Nuclear War
913 students from 6 junior and senior high schools in California responded to a 20-item questionnaire using 4-point Likert-type ratings to indicate their 3 greatest worries, to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and nuclear-war-related items. On forced-choice items concerns were parents dying for 53.5%, getting bad grades for 37.0%, and nuclear war for 31.9%; however, the three greatest worries were parents dying for 54.9%, nuclear war for 32.8%,…
Self-Reports of Soviet and American Children on Worry about the Threat of Nuclear War
Soviet and American early teens self-reported worries about on a questionnaire designed to disguise its intent. Soviet youth rated nuclear war as their greatest concern, with 89% indicating that they were very worried. American teens rated nuclear war second in intensity of concern to death of parent, with 39% very worried. A high proportion of both groups felt that nuclear war was preventable but affected their future plans. These results indica…
Safety, Health Care, and Bonding Within an Ecobehavioral Approach to Treating and Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
Prosocial Personality Traits and Adaptation to Stress
Evidence suggests that personality traits may play a significant role in individual differences in cortisol reactivity in stressful situations. In this study, cortisol responses to public speaking were examined to test hypotheses that reactivity would be positively related to openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, and negatively to extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism, respectively. A sample of 75 students (56 women and 19 men) co…
Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Anxiety (3 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (3 works) · Nuclear warfare (3 works) · Nuclear weapon (3 works)