Narcissists are individuals whose personality exudes excessive self-love and inflated views of the self. To date, there is no clear understanding how this excessive love for the self is related to performance. The present study examines... more
Narcissists are individuals whose personality exudes excessive self-love and inflated views of the self. To date, there is no clear understanding how this excessive love for the self is related to performance. The present study examines whether narcissists' inflated views of their own performance are substantiated by objective accounting performance. Our results show that individuals who score high on narcissism over-evaluate their performances and that their self-assessment is not correlated with objective indicators. Indeed, away from the magic mirror on the wall, narcissists are not the greatest performers after all.
Within psychological and educational research, self-report methodology dominates the study of student motivation. The present review argues that the scope of motivation research can be expanded by incorporating a wider range of... more
Within psychological and educational research, self-report methodology dominates the study of student motivation. The present review argues that the scope of motivation research can be expanded by incorporating a wider range of methodologies and measurement tools. Several authors have suggested that current study of motivation is overly reliant on self-report measures, warranting a move toward alternative approaches. This review critiques self-report methodology as a basis for examining alternative conceptualizations of motivation (e.g., phenomenological, neuropsychological/physiological, and behavioral) and related measurement tools. Future directions in motivational methodology are addressed, including attempts at integration or combination of these approaches and a preliminary functional framework for the development of novel, multidimensional approaches to the study of motivation.
The last few decades abound in studies concerned with what teachers, students, parents, and other participants in the educational process believe about a wide variety of issues. Most of these studies follow methodological procedures based... more
The last few decades abound in studies concerned with what teachers, students, parents, and other participants in the educational process believe about a wide variety of issues. Most of these studies follow methodological procedures based on reports that people make about their own beliefs. We argue that this strategy is seriously flawed under certain conditions that often obtain and, therefore, we should revise what we know so far about people’s beliefs. We also suggest a more suitable alternative procedure.
The research was done to examine the teacher candidate’s academic honesty and responsibility. Self-report was being the strategy which developed as an alternative assessment. This research raised questions as follows: (1) how is the... more
The research was done to examine the teacher candidate’s academic honesty and responsibility. Self-report was being the strategy which developed as an alternative assessment. This research raised questions as follows: (1) how is the teacher candidate’s academic honesty, and (2) how the teacher candidate’s academic responsibility is. The topic of this research was developed to gain more values of the teaching and learning toward students’ capacity building. The mix-method based on quantitative and qualitative analysis was used in this research. The quantitative data analysis was used to determine the range of the teacher candidate’s academic honesty and responsibility, while the qualitative analysis was used to examine the causal factor of the level of it. A number of 180 students of teacher candidate was chosen as the sampling by applying purposive sampling technique. The triangulation method of data analysis was used to determine the value level of both academic honesty and responsibility. The data finding showed that the level of academic honesty was good (27.78 percent), fair (37.78 percent), moderate (28.89 percent), and less (5.56 percent), while the level of academic responsibility was good (34.44 percent), fair (42.22 percent), moderate (20.00 percent), and less (3.33 percent). The percentage of both academic honesty and responsibility was gained from the self-report of students’ participation on class presentation and the rubric of presenter respond to the students’ questions. The following instrument was the presenter’s report of the class discussion process, and also timeliness in submitting reports (self and group report) which was submitted via email.
Objective: To examine the factors associated with higher healthcare cost in women with arthritis, using generalized linear models (GLMs) and quantile regression (QR). Methods: A cross-sectional healthcare cost study of individuals with... more
Objective: To examine the factors associated with higher healthcare cost in women with arthritis, using generalized linear models (GLMs) and quantile regression (QR). Methods: A cross-sectional healthcare cost study of individuals with arthritis that focused on older Australian women. Cost data were drawn from the Medicare Australia datasets. Results: GLMs results show that healthcare cost was significantly associated with various socio-demographic and health factors. Although QR analysis results show the same direction of association between these factors and healthcare cost as in the GLMs, they indicate progressively increased effect sizes at the 50th, 75th, 90th, and 95th percentiles. Conclusion: Findings suggest traditional regression models such as GLMs that assume a single rate of change to accurately describe the relationships between explanatory variables and healthcare costs across the entire distribution of cost can produce biased results. QR should be considered in future healthcare cost research.
Extract In this editorial note, I would like to attract the readers’ attention to the particular challenges researchers in poor countries face as reflected in the results of population surveys in these countries and illustrated by the... more
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In this editorial note, I would like to attract the readers’ attention to the particular challenges researchers in poor countries face as reflected in the results of population surveys in these countries and illustrated by the papers in this issue. I also hope to invite the readers to the debate about the possible solutions for these typical problems and to share my understanding of the input that TCPHEE journal intends to make in order to overcome the ‘social disparity gap’ between public health researchers in rich and poor countries. In addressing these issues I face the dilemma of choosing between too much explanation for the advanced researchers and too little for the novice ones, but I hope that headings will help the reader to decide where to read and what to skip.
