John M Mahoney
Biographic Data
| ID | 5221665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Mahoney |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahoney |
| SIGNATURE | MAHONEY J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Two-Factor Model of Achievement Motivation
Cassidy and Lynn (1989) synthesized an achievement motivation measure based on earlier scales. Their final measure assessed seven facets of motivation: Acquisitiveness for material wealth, Dominance, Competitiveness, Status Aspiration, Pursuit of Excellence, Work Ethic, and Mastery. Others (e.g., Sansone & Harackiewicz, 2000) have found that people are driven by two general motivational forces: intrinsic motivation is performing an activity for t…
Personality Correlates of Alienation in a University Sample
Personality Correlates of Alienation in a University Sample
In a study of alienation among urban university students, 85 men and 136 women completed the Gould Manifest Alienation Measure and the 44-item Big Five Inventory. Multivariate analysis of variance disclosed that the 77 college students high on Alienation, irrespective of sex, scored higher on the Neuroticism scale and lower on the Conscientiousness and Openness scales of the Big Five Inventory. None of the interactions between sex and scores on t…
Alienation and Irrational Beliefs in a Nonclinical University Population
A total of 126 college students, 53 men and 73 women, completed the Manifest Alienation Scale and the Irrational Beliefs Scale to assess alienation and irrationality. A linear relationship indicated students with elevated Alienation scores showed substantially higher irrationality than did students scoring lower. Analysis suggests that a positive linear effect for measured irrationality and reported Alienation characterizes students in a nonclini…
Factor Structure of Ellis' Irrational Beliefs in a Nonclinical College Population
In a study of irrational beliefs among nonclinical populations, 54 male and 75 female college students completed the Irrational Beliefs Survey. Analysis suggests that the survey measures a coherent construct and that a simple summary score is adequate for most uses. Factor analysis disclosed a unidimensional monotonic dimension of irrationality in beliefs among nonclinical respondents. The findings contrast with the appearance of ambiguous cluste…
Need for Cognition and Irrational Beliefs
The Serial Murderer's Motivations: An Interdisciplinary Review
A serial killer is defined as an individual who murders two or more victims over an extended period of time, ranging from days to years, with the crimes often being sexually motivated. Although there is a growing popular emphasis on the phenomenon, there is a paucity of rigorous research in the area. The present article reviews existing motivational theories of serial murder and proposes additional explications from a range of disciplines. Sugges…
Self‐involvement via self‐schema activation during sexual arousal
Researchers and clinicians have long argued that cognition is an important component of sexual arousal. We tested the hypothesis that self‐schema activation is one of the cognitive processes involved in sexual arousal to audiovisual stimuli. College students (105 males and females) individually viewed an erotic videotape that contained 20 66‐millisecond presentations of various trait adjectives, which students were asked to read aloud. About half…
Voluntary control of male sexual arousal
The role of anxiety in premature ejaculation: A psychophysiological model
Correlates of the contraceptive behavior of adolescents/young adults
Pregnancy among adolescents/young adults continues at epidemic levels despite widespread concern regarding its social and psychological consequences. Cognitive psychologists point out that active decisions and behaviors such as those involved in effective contraception are facilitated or inhibited by any of a number of relevant attitudes and beliefs. The present investigation examined several such cognitive variables. Specifically, the following …
Values in Presidential Inaugural Addresses: A Test of Rokeach's Two-Factor Theory of Political Ideology
Values expressed in the inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States were hypothesized to reflect an underlying factor structure characterized by historical value citations of “Freedom” and “Equality,” identified by Rokeach in 1973 as relevant to major political ideologies. A positive emphasis on both values yields a socialistic perspective, while rejection of both values generates fascism. Capitalism endorses “freedom” but rejects …
Values and Volunteers: Axiology of Altruism in a Crisis Center
The present study examined the values of volunteers for a crisis center “hotline” telephone service. The volunteers (19 males, 23 females) were compared to an aggregately sex-matched control group of 42 evening college students at a major urban regional university. Both groups completed a Rokeach Value Survey. A total of 12 values discriminated between the volunteer and control groups. Results suggest that, in contrast to control subjects, volunt…
Faith and Locus of Control
A total of four dimensions emerged from a factor analytic study of faith. They were titled Faith in God, Faith in People, Faith in Self, and Faith in Technology. Comparisons of religious and secular groups and of liberal and conservative religious groups strongly supported the construct validity of the Faith in God subscale. A moderately low correlation obtained between the Faith in Self subscale and internal locus of control suggested conceptual…
Gender specificity in value structures
Development of a Scale for Assessment of Jealousy
Based on a review of the literature on jealousy and depth interviews with 25 adults, a pool of items was developed for a preliminary study of the measurement of jealousy. A total of 141 college students completed the 92-item inventory. The data were factor analyzed, yielding 5 dimensions; need for loyalty, need for intimacy, moodiness, self-confidence, and envy. An intensified 31-item inventory was administered to 94 additional students. Factor a…
Obesity and Perceptual Reactance
Similarities in anomalous perception of internal gastric states and sensitivity to distraction among the obese to variations in perceptual reactance suggest that the obese tend to augment the intensity of visceral cues associated with hunger. It was hypothesized that the obese would be overrepresented at the augmenter end of the perceptual reactance continuum. Thirteen obese (six male, seven female) and 14 nonobese (eight male, six female) colleg…
Age and Values: The Generation Non-Gap
Personality Characteristics of Volunteers for Thanatological Research
In an investigation of volunteers for thanatological research, two hundred and thirty-seven college students were presented with the option of completing the Do-It-Yourself-Death Certificate (DIYDC) as a component of a test battery which included an omnibus personality inventory and measures of dissimulation, locus of control, anxiety and Machiavellianism. A total of seventy-five males and ninety-seven females completed the DIYDC. Completers demo…
Self-Actualization and Value Structure: An Empirical Investigation
The present study investigated Maslow's assertion that there exists a cluster of values characteristic of self-actualizing persons. A total of 84 college students, 35 male and 49 female, completed the Personal Orientation Inventory and the Rokeach Value Survey. Based on the former profile, Ss were designated as reflecting one of 4 levels of self-actualization. Differential rank ordering of each value for the four groups was assessed via extension…
Voluntary control of male sexual arousal
The role of anxiety in premature ejaculation: A psychophysiological model
Correlates of the contraceptive behavior of adolescents/young adults
Pregnancy among adolescents/young adults continues at epidemic levels despite widespread concern regarding its social and psychological consequences. Cognitive psychologists point out that active decisions and behaviors such as those involved in effective contraception are facilitated or inhibited by any of a number of relevant attitudes and beliefs. The present investigation examined several such cognitive variables. Specifically, the following …
Gender specificity in value structures
Self-Actualization and Value Structure: An Empirical Investigation
The present study investigated Maslow's assertion that there exists a cluster of values characteristic of self-actualizing persons. A total of 84 college students, 35 male and 49 female, completed the Personal Orientation Inventory and the Rokeach Value Survey. Based on the former profile, Ss were designated as reflecting one of 4 levels of self-actualization. Differential rank ordering of each value for the four groups was assessed via extension…
Age and Values: The Generation Non-Gap
Personality Characteristics of Volunteers for Thanatological Research
In an investigation of volunteers for thanatological research, two hundred and thirty-seven college students were presented with the option of completing the Do-It-Yourself-Death Certificate (DIYDC) as a component of a test battery which included an omnibus personality inventory and measures of dissimulation, locus of control, anxiety and Machiavellianism. A total of seventy-five males and ninety-seven females completed the DIYDC. Completers demo…
Development of a Scale for Assessment of Jealousy
Based on a review of the literature on jealousy and depth interviews with 25 adults, a pool of items was developed for a preliminary study of the measurement of jealousy. A total of 141 college students completed the 92-item inventory. The data were factor analyzed, yielding 5 dimensions; need for loyalty, need for intimacy, moodiness, self-confidence, and envy. An intensified 31-item inventory was administered to 94 additional students. Factor a…
Obesity and Perceptual Reactance
Similarities in anomalous perception of internal gastric states and sensitivity to distraction among the obese to variations in perceptual reactance suggest that the obese tend to augment the intensity of visceral cues associated with hunger. It was hypothesized that the obese would be overrepresented at the augmenter end of the perceptual reactance continuum. Thirteen obese (six male, seven female) and 14 nonobese (eight male, six female) colleg…
Gender specificity in value structures
Values and Volunteers: Axiology of Altruism in a Crisis Center
The present study examined the values of volunteers for a crisis center “hotline” telephone service. The volunteers (19 males, 23 females) were compared to an aggregately sex-matched control group of 42 evening college students at a major urban regional university. Both groups completed a Rokeach Value Survey. A total of 12 values discriminated between the volunteer and control groups. Results suggest that, in contrast to control subjects, volunt…
Faith and Locus of Control
A total of four dimensions emerged from a factor analytic study of faith. They were titled Faith in God, Faith in People, Faith in Self, and Faith in Technology. Comparisons of religious and secular groups and of liberal and conservative religious groups strongly supported the construct validity of the Faith in God subscale. A moderately low correlation obtained between the Faith in Self subscale and internal locus of control suggested conceptual…
Values in Presidential Inaugural Addresses: A Test of Rokeach's Two-Factor Theory of Political Ideology
Values expressed in the inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States were hypothesized to reflect an underlying factor structure characterized by historical value citations of “Freedom” and “Equality,” identified by Rokeach in 1973 as relevant to major political ideologies. A positive emphasis on both values yields a socialistic perspective, while rejection of both values generates fascism. Capitalism endorses “freedom” but rejects …
Correlates of the contraceptive behavior of adolescents/young adults
Pregnancy among adolescents/young adults continues at epidemic levels despite widespread concern regarding its social and psychological consequences. Cognitive psychologists point out that active decisions and behaviors such as those involved in effective contraception are facilitated or inhibited by any of a number of relevant attitudes and beliefs. The present investigation examined several such cognitive variables. Specifically, the following …
The role of anxiety in premature ejaculation: A psychophysiological model
Voluntary control of male sexual arousal
Self‐involvement via self‐schema activation during sexual arousal
Researchers and clinicians have long argued that cognition is an important component of sexual arousal. We tested the hypothesis that self‐schema activation is one of the cognitive processes involved in sexual arousal to audiovisual stimuli. College students (105 males and females) individually viewed an erotic videotape that contained 20 66‐millisecond presentations of various trait adjectives, which students were asked to read aloud. About half…
The Serial Murderer's Motivations: An Interdisciplinary Review
A serial killer is defined as an individual who murders two or more victims over an extended period of time, ranging from days to years, with the crimes often being sexually motivated. Although there is a growing popular emphasis on the phenomenon, there is a paucity of rigorous research in the area. The present article reviews existing motivational theories of serial murder and proposes additional explications from a range of disciplines. Sugges…
Factor Structure of Ellis' Irrational Beliefs in a Nonclinical College Population
In a study of irrational beliefs among nonclinical populations, 54 male and 75 female college students completed the Irrational Beliefs Survey. Analysis suggests that the survey measures a coherent construct and that a simple summary score is adequate for most uses. Factor analysis disclosed a unidimensional monotonic dimension of irrationality in beliefs among nonclinical respondents. The findings contrast with the appearance of ambiguous cluste…
Need for Cognition and Irrational Beliefs
Alienation and Irrational Beliefs in a Nonclinical University Population
A total of 126 college students, 53 men and 73 women, completed the Manifest Alienation Scale and the Irrational Beliefs Scale to assess alienation and irrationality. A linear relationship indicated students with elevated Alienation scores showed substantially higher irrationality than did students scoring lower. Analysis suggests that a positive linear effect for measured irrationality and reported Alienation characterizes students in a nonclini…
Personality Correlates of Alienation in a University Sample
Personality Correlates of Alienation in a University Sample
In a study of alienation among urban university students, 85 men and 136 women completed the Gould Manifest Alienation Measure and the 44-item Big Five Inventory. Multivariate analysis of variance disclosed that the 77 college students high on Alienation, irrespective of sex, scored higher on the Neuroticism scale and lower on the Conscientiousness and Openness scales of the Big Five Inventory. None of the interactions between sex and scores on t…
A Two-Factor Model of Achievement Motivation
Cassidy and Lynn (1989) synthesized an achievement motivation measure based on earlier scales. Their final measure assessed seven facets of motivation: Acquisitiveness for material wealth, Dominance, Competitiveness, Status Aspiration, Pursuit of Excellence, Work Ethic, and Mastery. Others (e.g., Sansone & Harackiewicz, 2000) have found that people are driven by two general motivational forces: intrinsic motivation is performing an activity for t…
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)