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D I Templer

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed2001

Comparative data of childhood and adolescence molestation in heterosexual and homosexual persons.

In research with 942 nonclinical adult participants, gay men and lesbian women reported a significantly higher rate of childhood molestation than did heterosexual men and women. Forty-six percent of the homosexual men in contrast to 7% of the heterosexual men reported homosexual molestation. Twenty-two percent of lesbian women in contrast to 1% of heterosexual women reported homosexual molestation. This research is apparently the first survey that has reported substantial homosexual molestation of girls. Suggestions for future research were offered.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2001

Neuropsychological assessment of battered women: a pilot study.

Mean performance of 19 battered women was significantly lower than that of 9 control women on the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery, the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised, and the Quick Neurological Screening Test. 58% of the battered women scored in the impaired range on the Halstead-Reitan Impairment Index; and 53% scored in the impaired range on the Quick Neurological Screening Test. More definitive research was recommended.

Adult↗
PubMed2000

Comparison of counseling and clinical psychology graduates on the examination for professional practice in psychology.

Doctoral recipients in clinical psychology scored higher than doctoral recipients in counseling psychology on the national licensing exam, the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology. The largest discrepancies between the 2 groups were on Subtest I (diagnosis), Subtest II (intervention), and Subtest III (research). The differences were less large for Subtest IV (professional/ethical/legal issues) and for Subtest V (social application). The authors recommend that both counseling and clinical psychology graduate students take more course work in the department of the other discipline.

Counseling↗
PubMed2000

Examination for professional practice in psychology subtest scores of professional and traditional clinical psychology program graduates.

Professional school clinical psychology graduates not only exhibit inferior performance on the research subtest of the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP; D. I. Templer & M. E. Tomeo, 1998), but they also perform less well on the four more professionally oriented subtests: diagnosis, intervention, professional/ethical/legal issues, and application to social systems. Graduates of free-standing professional schools exhibited performances inferior to those of graduates of non-free-standing professional schools on the diagnosis, intervention, and professional/ethical/legal subtests.

Curriculum↗
PubMed2000

Psychology of the scientist: LXXXI. Professional school and traditional program graduates: comparison on measures of achievement in clinical psychology.

Clinical psychologists who graduated from traditional programs and those who graduated from professional schools were compared on both scientifically and professionally oriented criteria of achievement and recognition. Upon controlling for year of graduation from a doctoral program, the professional school graduates were less likely to be APA fellows, less likely to be on the editorial board of specified research oriented journals in clinical psychology, less likely to have diplomate status in the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), less likely to have been president of state psychological associations, and less likely to have been APPIC internship directors.

Achievement↗
PubMed2000

Subject-selection procedures in neuropsychological research: a meta-analysis and prospective study.

The present study examined methods of control- and experimental-subject selection in neuropsychological research. Using both meta-analytic and prospective procedures, it was found that varied subject-selection procedures can potentially confound the results of neuropsychological studies and, by extension, can thwart the formulation of laws regarding neuropsychological function. In terms of selecting control subjects, the current findings suggest that individuals who self-report a negative history for neuropathology and psychopathology are adequate, perhaps even preferable, for inclusion. In terms of selecting experimental subjects, it appears preferable, if not essential, to obtain lesion confirmation through relevant neurodiagnostic tests. Based on these findings, it is recommended that subject selection be made on the basis of scientific merit rather than convenience or availability.

Journal Article↗
PubMed1999

The relationship between adult happiness and self-appraised childhood happiness and events.

The primary purpose of the present research was to relate questionnaire-assessed self-reported childhood happiness and events to adulthood happiness in 387 non-clinical participants. Although childhood happiness and adult happiness were found to be significantly correlated (r = .28, p < .001), there was little relationship between reported adult happiness and reported specific childhood events and circumstances. Childhood events and circumstances, however, were much more highly correlated with childhood happiness (R = .64). Thirty-four percent of the persons who said they were unhappy or very unhappy as a child, but only 9% who said they were happy or very happy as a child, reported that they were unhappy or very unhappy as adults.

Adult↗
PubMed1999

The structure and correlates of kanashibari.

The present research is an examination of the parameters and correlates of kanashibari, operationally defined as being unable to move upon awakening or before falling asleep. Nonclinical Japanese individuals (N = 720), 34% of whom reported an experience of kanashibari at least once, were administered D. I. Templer's (1970) Death Anxiety Scale, R. Brown's (1990) Locus of Control Scale, and a questionnaire devised by the authors to collect information about kanashibari. The results showed that the kanashibari experience was positively correlated with death anxiety, with being a woman, and with external-other locus of control; this last measure assessed the extent to which these individuals felt that their lives were determined by fate, good luck, or chance.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1999

Sympathomimetic preference and ethnicity in male felons.

A disproportionate number of Euro-American inmates given either an amphetamine- or cocaine-abuse diagnosis upon admission to prison were given a diagnosis of amphetamine abuse. A disproportionate number of African-American inmates were given a cocaine-abuse diagnosis. Of the 800 consecutively admitted inmates who were given one diagnosis or the other, 68% of the cocaine abusers, but only 4% of the amphetamine abusers, were African American.

Adult↗
PubMed1998

Body elimination attitude and occupation.

16 food service personnel and 20 bank employees scored significantly higher (indicating greater disgust) on the Templer, King, Brooner, and Corgiat 1984 Body Elimination Attitude Scale than 46 nursing personnel and 15 sewage workers.

Adult↗
PubMed1996

Feasibility of the neuropsychological spectrum in prediction of outcome following head injury.

This study provided further substantiation of the neuropsychological spectrum conceptualization (Templer, Campodonico, Trent, Spencer, & Hartlage, to appear; Templer, Spencer, & Hartlage, 1993; Templer, Campodonico, Trent, & Spencer, 1991). Two hundred and two traumatic brain injury patients were administered the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised, the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, the Booklet Category Test, and Trails A and B. The correlations between neuropsychological and intellectual tests were significantly lower than the correlations within intelligence tests and within neuropsychological tests. Neuropsychological tests predicted outcome better than intelligence tests. This was interpreted in terms of outcome for severely brain-damaged patients being more dependent upon basic neuropsychological functioning than on abstract thinking ability.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1996

Incidence of head injury: lasting effects among college students and working adults in the general population.

224 (21%) of 1067 persons in a nonclinical population surveyed had one or more head injuries resulting in unconsciousness. They had a total of 306 head injuries with 113 (31%) of them resulting in lasting neurological effects. Both in a pilot project and in the main study, headache was the most commonly reported of an array of symptoms that are essentially a postconcussion syndrome.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1995

Multivariate investigation of anxiety in a psychiatric population.

The purpose of the present research was to interrelate dimensions of anxiety in a psychiatric population, based primarily on the conceptual formulation of Templer, Corgiat, and Brooner (1984). Two hundred twenty outpatients served as subjects. The Fear Survey Schedule, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Hamilton Anxiety Scale, and a Likert-formated criterial symptom checklist for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) were employed to derive measures of Severity, Stimulus Specificity, Subjective Component (Cognitive vs. Somatic), Chronicity, and Temporal Constancy (Sometimes vs. Always present). Principal components factor analysis yielded three distinct dimensions of anxiety: Morbidity, Subjective Component, and Chronicity. Clinical and theoretical relevance of these findings are discussed specific to construction of a working model of anxiety, clinical assessment of anxiety response systems, and the feasibility of a dimensional approach to understanding psychopathology.

Adult↗
PubMed1995

The relationship of religious variables to death depression and death anxiety.

The present research explored the relationship of religious variables to death anxiety and death depression in 200 persons from the general population in what is apparently the first study to correlate religious variables with death depression. Persons with lower death depression had greater strength of conviction, greater belief in afterlife, and were less likely to say that the most important aspect of religion is that it offers the possibility of life after death. Persons with less death anxiety were found to have greater strength of conviction. The findings were discussed in relationship to previous research that has suggested that religious belief is associated more closely with death anxiety level than is religious practice.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1995

The neuropsychological spectrum in traumatically head-injured persons.

The neuropsychological spectrum was investigated in a traumatically brain-damaged population. In this spectrum neuropsychological measures were regarded as the most biologically oriented, achievement measures as the most acquired skill-oriented, and intellectual measures as having an intermediate position. It was found that the achievement measures correlated the most highly with each other, the intellectual measures intercorrelated to a lesser extent, and the intercorrelations of neuropsychological measures yielded a zero-order median correlation. It was further found that the correlations of measures with those in other categories had the same ranking. It was inferred that brain damage alters the pattern of the neuropsychological spectrum because of disproportionate impairment in the biological direction of the spectrum.

Achievement↗