Applied Psychology Readings (eBook)

Dr. Leung, Man-Tak Mike is currently an Assistant Professor of Counselling and Psychology at the Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Dr. Leung obtained his PhD in Educational Psychology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, three Master Degrees from Hong Kong University in Educational Assessment, Applied Statistics and Information Technology in Education respectively.Tan Lee Ming has a Masters in Applied Finance from The University of Adelaide and a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the National University of Singapore. He is currently the conference director at East Asia Research Pte. Ltd and oversees the academic conferences organized by the company. Using his good knowledge in academic publishing, he is the co-editor for numerous proceedings published by the company.

Preface.- Editors.- SCAP Committee.- The phenomenology and ontology of the Oedipus Complex.- The behavioral related conditioned sound in cross modal Stroop task.- Mediamultitaskers and attentional bias towards emotional stimuli.- Cognitive deficits and depression among diabetic and non-diabetic patients with coronary heart disease.- Sex differences and emotion in wayfinding: Use a map or verbal direction (a pilot study).- Moral emotions: An explorative study on elementary school teachers of Yogyakarta.- A structural equation model of WhatsApp’s addiction, emotion regulation, personality, academic performance decrement and social connection of WhatsApp’s attitude.- The relationship between personality traits, school climate, parental relationship, anxiety, depression, self-esteem and cyber-victimization.- Differences in participant motivation based on category of body mass index and gender.- Participant motivation predicting training sessions and training type in male and female athletes competing at 2010 Pan Pacific Masters Games.- The structural relationships between foreign language speaking anxiety, perceived English competence, English learning motivation, willingness to communicate, English learning engagement and motivational intensity in Hong Kong secondary students.- The structural model of perceived parenting style as antecedent on achievement emotion, self-regulated learning and academic procrastination of undergraduates in Hong Kong.- Pathways to bullying and victimisation- psychological perspectives.- Adult attachment internal working model of self and other, self-esteem and romantic relationship satisfaction in Chinese culture: By multilevel-multigroup structural equation modelling.- The psychometric properties of the Individual-Oriented Achievement Motivation Scale – Short Form (IOAMS – SF): By structural equation modelling (SEM) and item response theory (IRT).