Linking financial distress to marital quality: The intermediary roles of demand/withdraw and spousal gratitude expressions

This study investigates demand/withdraw communication and spousal expressions of gratitude as intervening variables in the association between financial distress and marital quality. With a sample of 468 married individuals, dual‐mediation models revealed demand/withdraw transmitted the effect of financial distress onto 3 different marital outcomes; in most instances, this indirect effect occurred through total couple demand/withdraw and not one spouse‐specific pattern. In moderated mediation models, spousal gratitude exerted main effects on all marital outcomes and, for a subset of outcomes, protective effects for couples with high levels of demand/withdraw. Results elucidate how demand/withdraw patterns link financial distress to marital outcomes and highlight spousal gratitude expressions as a promising, yet understudied, process within couples that promotes and protects marital quality.     

Normative data for eight neuropsychological tests based on a Danish sample

Normative neuropsychological data have been provided using a sample of 101 persons aged 20 to 54 years. Eighty-seven of the subjects were recruited among patients who had undergone minor surgery, and 14 subjects were volunteers from the staff at the hospital laundry. The measures consisted of seven subjects from the WAIS-R, the trail-making test, symbol digit modalities test, auditory-verbal learning test, story recall test, visual gestalt test, recurring figures test, verbal fluency, and Purdue pegboard test. These measures were selected because of suitability in regard to time taken for testing each subject and their sensitivity to subtle changes in neuropsychological functioning. The sample was arbitrarily divided into three age groups, and for each of the three samples, mean, standard deviation, and range were calculated for each test. The results of the Information and Vocabulary subtests from the WAIS-R, education, and social status were applied as independent variables in linear regression analyses where each of the neuropsychological tests, in turn, was the dependent variable. For the oldest age group, age in addition was used as an independent variable. Significant linear relationships, which accounted for an optimal part of the variance, were selected for clinical application.     

Hemispheric dominance, dichotic listening and lateral eye movement behaviour

Abstract.— Because lateral corrective eye movements have been shown to influence the results of the dichotic listening test, it was supposed that differences in the scoring on this test by right and left eye movers could be found. Only in the entire group of 22 right handed subjects and in the subgroup of 8 right eye movers a significant right ear superiority was found. In the left mover group (14 subjects) right ear superiority in dichotic listening was not significant. These results are interpreted in terms of possible interhemispheric differences in the level of "activity", facilitating or hampering perception of verbal material in the contralateral ear.     

A follow-up study of young cerebral palsied patients Some psychological, educational and vocational aspects

Abstract.— In a follow-up study of 39 non-oligophrenic spastic adolescents and young adults it was found that 85% attended normal schools, the rest went to schools for physically or mentally handicapped. If retarded children with learning difficulties were left out of account, there were no more than 10% regular problem cases, an incidence which is very close to what is found among ordinary, non-handicapped Danish school children.-With regard to vocational career, nearly 80% were estimated to be able to obtain and remain in open employment. About one third had experienced rather pronounced vocational problems either because of physical weakness and slowness, or because of personality disturbances or intellectual retardation. Females appeared generally more content with and successful in their jobs than the males. There was an overrepresentation of clients with a mild physical handicap in the problem group, indicating that it may be difficult to occupy such a "marginal" position with its easy accs to comparison and competition with the socalled normal standards.-A close relationship was found between the data from the original psychological evaluation and the course of schooling. In contrast, there was a low agreement between the childhood reports and the follow-up employment data.     

Secession: The Case of Quebec

ABSTRACT I argue that people have a right to self-determination when they are plainly predominant in a certain territory and do not violate the civil liberties of minorities. But there is no self-determination without the preservation of self-identity and the cultural preservation that goes with its secure existence. So to preserve autonomy and self-determination people must preserve their cultural identity and this cannot be securely sustained in modern conditions without a nation-state concerned to nourish that identity. Such considerations support a right to secession when certain conditions are met. The conditions are that the people in question have a cultural identity, live in a distinct territory which they have inhabited for a long time, form an extensive majority, and respect the civil liberties of the minorities living in that territory (as well as elsewhere). Where they are such a group they have a right to secede from a larger state to which they are historically attached. These conditions, I argue, are met in Quebec.     

Sexual Abuse of Boys: Current Perspectives

Boys may be equally at risk for sexual victimization as girls, yet they are a unique clinical group whose needs have not been addressed significantly.