Ronald Doctor
Biographic Data
| ID | 5420731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald Doctor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald |
| FAMILY NAME | Doctor |
| SIGNATURE | DOCTOR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Northridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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
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
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…
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…
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%,…
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 (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (2 works)