Joseph R Ferrari
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3773756 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joseph R Ferrari |
| PRENOMES | Joseph R |
| SOBRENOME | Ferrari |
| ASSINATURA | FERRARI J R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | DePaul University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 74 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Family functioning and chronic procrastination among emerging adults
Social Determinants of Social Zapping
Social zapping, defined as the cancelation of plans or appointments shortly before they are supposed to take place in order to attend plans deemed “better” than the original, has become increasingly prevalent. The present study examined potential behavioral trait predictors of social zapping, such as belongingness, self-esteem, sense of control, and meaningful existence among community residents ranging from 40 to 75 years of age (n = 48). Result…
The Involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous Scale - Short Form
Background: The aim of this research was to examine the psychometrics of a short form version of the multidimensional Involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous scale (IAA-SF) by assessing the factor structure, internal consistency, and predictive validity. While there are several existing measures of involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous, many are either unidimensional or are limited in their ability to gather variation in the level of involvement in the…
Reactance, Decisional Procrastination, and Hesitation
During the 2019-2020 global pandemic, mandated time at home suggested engagement in personal projects, such as home decluttering. Clutter (an overabundance of possessions) may impede one's quality of life by interfering with space livability and social connections and prompting negative affect and financial problems. The present study explored action-state orientation, psychological reactance, and decisional procrastination with 227 American adul…
Navigating sense of home
Predictors of e‐waste
E‐waste , the overabundance of unused technology products, is a growing issue as new technology is rapidly innovated and our society promotes the need to always have the “latest and greatest” products. Community psychology, as a field, is concerned with the global climate crisis, and subsequently must be concerned with e‐waste. This study tested predictors of individual's likelihood to recycle e‐waste with 883 US adults (459 males, 420 females, 3…
Mediation effect of family environment on academic procrastination and life satisfaction
Exploring 40 years on affective correlates to procrastination
Supporting the wellness of laity
Religion is a salient part of cultural competence for mental health clinicians. This paper describes rationales for clinicians to work with a less well-known Catholic clergy: permanent deacons. Demographic, personality structure and religious commitment data from nearly 2,000 deacons support collaboration with clinicians to improve the continuity of mental health care. Guidelines for this work are provided by the Clergy Outreach & Professional En…
The Meaning of Home in Male Migration
We assessed the sense of psychological home among adult men ( n = 17; M age = 29.7 years old) who had experienced migration to Italy, focusing on the relationship between psychological home and the process of integration into the new country. Psychological home is a dynamic process in which people sense a safe and secure environment that ranges beyond the confines of a structured dwelling, a process which is reflective and which communicates one’…
Migrant perceptions of psychological home
Online and Academic Procrastination in Students With Learning Disabilities
The steady growth in the number of college students with learning disabilities (LD) increases the need to investigate their unique characteristics and behaviors in academia. The present study examined the differences in academic and online procrastination, academic stress, and academic self-efficacy between college students with and without LD. In addition, the relationship between these variables was examined. It was assumed that the difficultie…
“My dad, the deacon
Catholic deacons with children (N = 1,776: M number of children = 3.3), termed here “clergy dads,” completed the HEXACO-60, social desirability, and demographic variables. Personality dimensions predicting clergy dad’s family size (i.e., number of children) yield only emotional stability and conscientiousness (accounting for social desirability). Higher emotional stability and conscientiousness by clergy dads predicted fewer children in their fam…
Children, Careers, and Clergy Life
We assessed the impact of clerical and life stressors on the religious commitments of employed, married with children Catholic deacons (n = 317 men: M age = 43.87 years old). Independent of social desirability, stressors during the last 6 months predicted separately intracommitment and intercommitment variables. Enthusiasm for church work and time spent on spiritual reflection predicted religious intracommitment (one’s relationship with a higher …
Personality as Predictor of Religious Commitment and Spiritual Beliefs
Roman Catholic deacons (n = 1,349) and deacon candidates (n = 202), completed online measures of personality dimensions (i.e., HEXACO-60), religious commitment, spiritual transcendence beliefs, social desirability, and demographic variables. Social desirability tendencies did not impact responding for deacons or candidates. For candidates and deacons, honesty–humility and extraversion personality dimensions were significant predictors of religiou…
Permanent Deacons and Non-profit Directors
Permanent deacons in the Roman Catholic Church (all male) are active in their local community and congregation mobilizing faith formation events, liturgical services, and community social action programs, yet not much is known about their leadership style. The present study compared U.S. 203 permanent deacons with 202 male community-based directors of non-profit agencies on their self-reported transformational leadership style, assessed by five s…
Men in Ministry
In the present study, 424 men in formation (“candidates”) and a random sample of 424 ordained deacons reported their religious and spiritual attitudes, leadership styles, personality dimensions, and worship- and work-related behaviors. There were no significant differences between candidates and deacons on religiosity, personality, and most leadership styles. Candidates reported significantly higher worship-related behaviors than deacons, who exp…
Called and Formed
Education Level of Catholic Hispanic Deacons
The present study assessed self-reported religiosity, spirituality, faith-related behaviors, leadership styles, and personality dimensions of 156 Hispanic Catholic deacons, based on varied educational degrees assisting in Hispanic ( n = 91) or non-Hispanic ( n = 65) parishes. Results found no significant differences on any self-reported variables for congregation ethnic status and similar reported rates for religious commitment, spiritual transce…
“But, Who Do I Say That I Am?” The Self-Reported Personality Traits of Catholic Deacons
Ordained, permanent deacons in the Catholic Church (N = 1,717; M age = 45.9 years old, SD = 6.9) participated in a self-report study of personality traits by completing the HEXACO-60. There were no significant differences (by generational cohort or geographic region) on reported personality traits. No significant partial correlates (controlling for social desirability) by chronological age, years since ordination, or years residing in the current…
Religiosity and Personality Traits of Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Catholic Deacons
The Hispanic masculinity style may be “machismo” (dominant, distant, and unemotional) or “caballeros” (engaged, affectionate, compassionate), but is unknown among Hispanic clergy. Using a U.S. on-line survey database, Hispanic ( n = 127) and non-Hispanic ( n = 1708) Catholic deacons self-reported religiosity and personality traits. Hispanic and non-Hispanic deacons reported similar depth on religious beliefs, but non-Hispanic, compared to Hispani…
Identification Among First‐generation Citizen Students and First‐generation College Students
The current study explored the relationships within a higher education institution between school sense of community among first‐generation U.S. citizen students and first‐generation college students compared to students of non‐first generation studentship and citizenship ( N = 3,025; M age = 27.21), and of varied racial backgrounds. Students at a large, urban, and faith‐based university completed a measure of belongingness on campus. In terms of…
Hope and Abstinence Self-Efficacy
Catholic Hispanic Deacons and Hispanic Parishes
Hispanic deacons ( n = 156) from across the United States completed measures on personal leadership style and their perceived sense of parish community along with demographic items. Most deacons ( n = 91) were assisting at Hispanic parishes, while many assisted at predominately non-Hispanic parishes ( n = 65). Results found no significant difference between Hispanic deacons at Hispanic or non-Hispanic parishes on their leadership style or parish …
Size Does Not Matter
Communal Housing Settings Enhance Substance Abuse Recovery
Oxford Houses are democratic, mutual help–oriented recovery homes for individuals with substance abuse histories. There are more than 1200 of these houses in the United States, and each home is operated independently by its residents, without help from professional staff. In a recent experiment, 150 individuals in Illinois were randomly assigned to either an Oxford House or usual-care condition (i.e., outpatient treatment or self-help groups) aft…
An Investigation of Hope and Context
One of the tenets of community psychology is examining psychological phenomena in context, and our studies explored the relationship between hope and context among individuals in recovery for substance use disorders. Study 1 involved 595 participants who resided in 90 recovery homes. We found that context, as house effects, was salient in residents’ perceptions of hope, suggesting that the context of recovery homes–their configurations and dynami…
Procrastination
Mediating effects of social support on firefighters' sense of community and perceptions of care
This study examined the relationship between psychological sense of community, social‐support networks, and care‐giver stress and satisfaction among firefighters. No significant gender differences were obtained, but zero‐order correlates demonstrated significant relationships among all four variables. In examining the mediating effects of social‐support satisfaction, partial mediation for psychological sense of community on care‐giver satisfactio…
A Survival Analysis of Communal‐Living, Self‐Help, Addiction Recovery Participants
We examined individual and group characteristics associated with the duration of community involvement (i.e., length of residence) in 11 Illinois Oxford Houses for 129 male recovering addicts. Survival analyses indicated that the best predictor of duration of community involvement from demographic items was age (i.e., older age and older age of fellow residents were associated with being more likely to continue residence). Among psychological mea…
Self-handicapping by procrastinators
Procrastination as a Self-Handicap for Men and Women
Estimating rates of chronic fatigue syndrome from a community‐based sample
Most of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) epidemiological studies have relied on physicians who refer patients having at least 6 months of chronic fatigue and other symptoms. However, there are a number of potential problems when using this method to derive prevalence statistics. For example, some individuals with CFS might not have the economic resources to access medical care. Other individuals with CFS might be reluctant to use medical person…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Psychiatric Severity upon Outcomes Among Substance Abusers Residing in Self‐Help Settings
A longitudinal analysis of psychiatric severity was conducted with a national sample of recovering substance abusers living in Oxford Houses, which are self‐run, self‐help settings. Outcomes related to residents' psychiatric severity were examined at three follow‐up intervals over one year. Over time, Oxford House residents with high versus low baseline psychiatric severity reported significantly more days using psychiatric medication, decreased …
Indecision and Avoidant Procrastination
The authors examined how time orientation and morningness-eveningness relate to 2 forms of procrastination: indecision and avoidant forms. Participants were 509 adults (M age = 49.78 years, SD = 6.14) who completed measures of time orientation, morningness-eveningness, decisional procrastination (i.e., indecision), and avoidant procrastination. Results showed that morningness was negatively related to avoidant procrastination but not decisional p…
Identification Among First‐generation Citizen Students and First‐generation College Students
The current study explored the relationships within a higher education institution between school sense of community among first‐generation U.S. citizen students and first‐generation college students compared to students of non‐first generation studentship and citizenship ( N = 3,025; M age = 27.21), and of varied racial backgrounds. Students at a large, urban, and faith‐based university completed a measure of belongingness on campus. In terms of…
Hope and Abstinence Self-Efficacy
Hope, Self‐esteem, and Self‐regulation
Hopefulness remains unclear in relation to aspects of self‐control and self‐esteem among adults in substance abuse recovery. The present study explored the relationship between dispositional hope (agency and pathway) with self‐esteem (self‐liking, self‐competency, and self‐confidence) and self‐regulation (impulse control and self‐discipline), using a latent variable measurement model and structural equation modeling among adults ( n = 601) residi…
Counteracting “Not in My Backyard”
Group homes sometimes face significant neighborhood opposition, and municipalities frequently use maximum occupancy laws to close down these homes. This study examined how the number of residents in Oxford House recovery homes impacted residents' outcomes. Larger homes (i.e., eight or more residents) may reduce the cost per person and offer more opportunities to exchange positive social support, thus, it was predicted that larger Oxford Houses wo…
Frequent Behavioral Delay Tendencies By Adults
Adult men ( n = 582) and women ( n = 765) from six nations (Spain, Peru, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States) completed two reliable and valid measures of chronic procrastination. Because both arousal and avoidant procrastination types were significantly related across the entire sample ( r = .72, p < .001) and within each national sample, regression analyses calculated "pure" arousal and "pure" avoidant procrastinator…
Examining Behavioral Processes in Indecision
Catholic Hispanic Deacons and Hispanic Parishes
Hispanic deacons ( n = 156) from across the United States completed measures on personal leadership style and their perceived sense of parish community along with demographic items. Most deacons ( n = 91) were assisting at Hispanic parishes, while many assisted at predominately non-Hispanic parishes ( n = 65). Results found no significant difference between Hispanic deacons at Hispanic or non-Hispanic parishes on their leadership style or parish …
Increasing the Number of Mutual Help Recovery Homes for Substance Abusers
The effects of a personal phone call prompt on blood donor commitment
There is a need to investigate procedures that can motivate individuals to attend blood drives. Low rates of attendance are partly due to the failure of many to fulfill their pledges to donate blood. This study examined the use of personal phone calls to prompt college-age blood donors to fulfill their commitments. The results indicated that a remainder call was effective in prompting pledged donors to attend a college drive. The phone call promp…
Called and Formed
Education Level of Catholic Hispanic Deacons
The present study assessed self-reported religiosity, spirituality, faith-related behaviors, leadership styles, and personality dimensions of 156 Hispanic Catholic deacons, based on varied educational degrees assisting in Hispanic ( n = 91) or non-Hispanic ( n = 65) parishes. Results found no significant differences on any self-reported variables for congregation ethnic status and similar reported rates for religious commitment, spiritual transce…
Understanding Student Complaints in the Service Learning Pedagogy
This study draws upon student evaluations across 3 years of service learning (SL) courses at a large, urban, faith‐based university identifying issues of greatest concern to students. Analysis of qualitative responses revealed perspectives on the limits, pitfalls, and barriers to successful SL student work in the community replicated over the 3 year timeframe. Over 2,200 written responses were coded and tested for reliability for each of 3 years.…
Increases in Tolerance Within Naturalistic, Intentional Communities
The authors examine differential changes in values of tolerance among 150 participants discharged from inpatient treatment centers, and randomly assigned to either a self‐help‐based, communal living setting (i.e., Oxford House), or usual aftercare. Participants were interviewed every 6 months for a 24‐month period. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was used to examine the effect of condition (therapeutic communal living versus usual aftercare) o…
Procrastinators and perfect behavior
The effects of a personal phone call prompt on blood donor commitment
There is a need to investigate procedures that can motivate individuals to attend blood drives. Low rates of attendance are partly due to the failure of many to fulfill their pledges to donate blood. This study examined the use of personal phone calls to prompt college-age blood donors to fullfill their commitments. The results indicated that a reminder call was effective in prompting pledged donors to attend a college drive. The phone call promp…
The effects of a personal phone call prompt on blood donor commitment
There is a need to investigate procedures that can motivate individuals to attend blood drives. Low rates of attendance are partly due to the failure of many to fulfill their pledges to donate blood. This study examined the use of personal phone calls to prompt college-age blood donors to fulfill their commitments. The results indicated that a remainder call was effective in prompting pledged donors to attend a college drive. The phone call promp…
Compliance by Young and Older Drivers to the New York Mandatory Seat Belt Law
In this study rates of seat belt use by motor vehicle drivers, college students and senior citizens were compared, and their attitude toward the act assessed. About a year after legislation was passed mandating their use, both age groups were observed to have low rates of compliance to the “buckle-up” law (35 to 40%). When surveyed, however, students and seniors reported high rates of use for long (71%) rather than short (52%) distances. The obse…
Reliability of Academic and Dispositional Measures of Procrastination
The reliabilities of the Procrastination Assessment Scale—Students and the General Procrastination Scale were examined. Scores ( n = 116) on split-half comparisons (odd vs even items) from two sections of the former were significantly, though moderately, correlated. Test-retest comparisons (1 mo.; n = 99) on both sections of the scale were correlated significantly. Test-retest scores on the general scale for a second independent sample of student…
Compulsive Procrastination
In Sample 1, 46 procrastinators compared with 52 nonprocrastinators claimed lower self-esteem, greater public self-consciousness and social anxiety, and a stronger tendency toward self-handicapping. In Sample 2, 48 procrastinators compared with 54 nonprocrastinators reported a weaker tendency toward seeking self-identity information but a stronger tendency toward a diffuse-identity style, yet there were no significant differences in verbal and ab…
Self-handicapping by procrastinators
High School Achievement, Self-Efficacy, Andlocus of Control as Predictors of Freshman Academic Performance
High School Achievement, Self-Efficacy, and Locus of Control as Predictors of Freshman Academic Performance
78 male and 241 female college students completed self-report measures of social and general self-efficacy and academic locus of control midway through their first term in college. Fall semester credits completed and gradepoint average were criterion measures, while high school performance and personality variables were predictor variables. Although the magnitude of the coefficients was small (<.30), fall GPA was significantly related to high sch…
Procrastinators and perfect behavior
Parental Authority and the Development of Female Dysfunctional Procrastination
Eighty-four young women (M age = 19.1 years) and their parents (mothers (M age = 44.5 years; fathers M age = 47.2 years) completed reliable and valid measures on parental authority, dysfunctional procrastination (decisional and avoidant forms), and anger. Results indicated that permissiveness style by mothers or fathers was not significantly related to procrastination scores in their daughters. Authoritarian fathers, however, were significantly l…
Procrastination and Task Avoidance
Estimating rates of chronic fatigue syndrome from a community‐based sample
Most of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) epidemiological studies have relied on physicians who refer patients having at least 6 months of chronic fatigue and other symptoms. However, there are a number of potential problems when using this method to derive prevalence statistics. For example, some individuals with CFS might not have the economic resources to access medical care. Other individuals with CFS might be reluctant to use medical person…
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a new challenge to health care professionals. During the last decade, scientists have (a) created diagnostic criteria for CFS, (b) devised CFS assessment approaches, (c) collected CFS epidemiological data, and (d) formulated CFS treatment approaches. The CFS diagnostic criteria identify a subpopulation of individuals with this disorder, and those individuals might have a greater tendency to have psychiatric comor…
Pastoral care and Aids
Psychometric Properties of the Revised Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Style Scales
The 60-item version of Grasha and Riechmann's Student Learning Style Scales (six scales, 10 items per scale) was administered to a large sample of college freshmen on each of three campuses (total N = 870) in the northeast. The Participative, Avoidant, and Collaborative scales showed acceptable internal consistency, but the Dependent, Independent, and Competitive scales did not. Factor analyses of items and scales produced no solution approximati…
Prevalence of Procrastination among Samples of Adults
At four public meetings, 122 women and 89 men ( M age = 47.6 yr.) completed measures of Decisional, Avoidant, and Arousal Procrastination. About 20% of respondents (42 adults) claimed to be chronic procrastinators, with highest rates of all three procrastination types reported by members of the community (public) groups ( n = 64) compared to professional ( n = 54), business ( n = 59), and educational ( n = 34) employees. Respondents who had been …
Scholarship in psychology
Scholarship in psychology
A Survival Analysis of Communal‐Living, Self‐Help, Addiction Recovery Participants
We examined individual and group characteristics associated with the duration of community involvement (i.e., length of residence) in 11 Illinois Oxford Houses for 129 male recovering addicts. Survival analyses indicated that the best predictor of duration of community involvement from demographic items was age (i.e., older age and older age of fellow residents were associated with being more likely to continue residence). Among psychological mea…
Age-Related Comparisons for Ethnic Identity by Japanese and Americans
131 young and 93 older Japanese and 121 young Americans completed measures of cultural individualism–collectivism and locus of control Men reported a higher mean score on internal locus of control than women. Americans had a higher mean on individualism and Japanese on collectivism. There was no effect for age-related differences in cultural identity or locus of control
Examining Behavioral Processes in Indecision
Procrastination as a Self-Handicap for Men and Women
Am I for Real?” Predicting Impostor Tendencies From Self-Handicapping and Affective Components
Impostors are individuals who believe their successes are not due to their own ability, but because of either luck or the notion that they must work harder than others. The relationship between impostor tendencies and different behavioral and affective variables was examined. With the present study's sample ( N = 436), controlling for social desirability, impostor tendencies were significantly correlated with behavioral self-handicapping ( r = .5…
Toward a reliable and valid measure of institutional mission and values perception
Across three studies, the development of a reliable and valid measure of perceptions by students of an urban, private, faith‐based teaching university's mission and values was assessed. Study 1 presented scale construction and reliability of the DePaul Values Inventory (DeVI) with undergraduates (n = 111), yielding a final 22‐item rating scale with four subscales. Study 2 supported the psychometric structure of the DeVI through a confirmatory fac…
Mediating effects of social support on firefighters' sense of community and perceptions of care
This study examined the relationship between psychological sense of community, social‐support networks, and care‐giver stress and satisfaction among firefighters. No significant gender differences were obtained, but zero‐order correlates demonstrated significant relationships among all four variables. In examining the mediating effects of social‐support satisfaction, partial mediation for psychological sense of community on care‐giver satisfactio…
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