January 2013

Patterns and structures of worry among college students in Hawaii and Japan

  This study presents a comprehensive conceptualization of the structure of worry and its effect on social anxiety. Six hundred and sixty male and female college students in Hawaii and Japan completed a quantitative questionnaire survey, and the data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis (EFA). However, the unique pattern of worry structure in Japanese male students was different from the findings of...

Author(s):   Ayano Yamaguchi and Min-Sun Kim    

January 2013

HIV-related stress in dating relationships and its significance for developmental psychology of adolescence and emerging adulthood

  While developmental psychological literature considers the threat of HIV as a health risk in dating relationships, little if any research has examined the psychological strain that the threat of HIV places on dating couples. This study aimed at investigating HIV-related dating stress. The data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire from a sample of 204 students at the University of Botswana...

Author(s):   Ilse Elisabeth Plattner