Overabundance and privation as predictors of materialism in young adults

The aim of the present study was to determine how the social and material status of the family of origin and the degree of satisfaction of material needs during childhood (excessive vs. insufficient) engender materialism...

A Comparison of Wisc-R and Wais-R (Pl) Scores of Children and Adolescents in a Longitudinal Study

D. Wechsler’s tests were used to examine the same group of subjects within the intellectual norm (N = 31) twice over an interval of 13 years: the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R; the subjects’ mean age w...

Maria Mańkowska, Wprowadzenie do psychometrii, Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 2010

How is promotion-focused and prevention-focused self-regulation linked with the importance of product attributes and purchase intention?

Two experiments were carried out to examine consumer preferences in the context of Higgins' Regulatory Focus Theory. Study 1 (N = 134) tested whether chronic regulatory focus (RFQ) and momentary regulatory focus affect t...

Metacognition increases the severity of depression through trait anxiety in a nonclinical population

Previous studies show that maladaptive metacognitive beliefs may constitute the psychopathological core of anxiety and depression. Recent findings also indicate that anxiety exacerbates the severity of depression. We inv...