New Directions In Theory Research Articles

A reassessment of the dimensionality of retail performance: a multivariate generalizability theory perspective

With the focus on performance assessment, a considerable amount of academic work has been devoted to customer assessment of retail stores. A disproportionate share of attention has been devoted to the reproducibility of SERVQUAL dimensions in studies of the variability across customers. More recently attention has shifted to a broader perspective on customer assessment of retail service performance, with Rust and Oliver (in: Rust and Oliver (Eds.), Service Quality: New Directions in Theory and Practice. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1994, pp. 1–19) providing a framework where the three distinct elements are the service product, the service environment, and the service delivery process. However, variability across other sources of performance variation, such as retail stores, has rarely been considered when studying the dimensionality of retail performance. In this paper, we use multivariate generalizability theory to assess the dimensionality of measures of retail store performance data both across stores and across shoppers.

Role models in career development: New directions for theory and research

Career theory proposes the importance of role models as helping to guide individual development. Furthermore, the media often depict role models as essential to career success. However, research on role models as a construct distinct from developmental relationships with mentors and behavioral models has waned. This article makes the case for reinvigorating the role model construct. A revised definition is provided, depicting role models as cognitive constructions based on an individual’s needs, wants, and ambitions. Drawing on recent advances in social comparison and self-concept theories, a dimensional approach to role models integrates current theory and research, suggesting that role models should be construed along two cognitive dimensions (positive/negative, global/specific), and two structural dimensions (close/distant, up/across-down). The article concludes by suggesting new research directions prompted by this new view of the role model construct.

Framing New Directions for Theory from the Experience of Practitioners

Parallel, powerful tensions exist both in mediation and in the general worlds of the scholar and the practitioner. One response to balancing these tensions, which could be called “practice romanticism,” has evolved from the reflective practitioner model. But more could be done to improve our analysis and build practice‐oriented theory. A key ingredient in this investigation is a healthy critical approach.

New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms

Contents: Preface. E. Hinkel, S. Fotos, From Theory to Practice: A Teacher's View. Part I: Grammar in Language Teaching. R. Ellis, The Place of Grammar Instruction in the Second/Foreign Language Curriculum. J.C. Richards, Accuracy and Fluency Revisited. M. McCarthy, R. Carter, Ten Criteria for a Spoken Grammar. M.C. Pennington, Grammar and Communication: New Directions in Theory and Practice. Part II: Classroom Approaches to Grammar Teaching. D. Larsen-Freeman, The Grammar of Choice. M. Celce-Murcia, Why It Makes Sense to Teach Grammar in Context and Through Discourse. S. Fotos, Structure-Based Interactive Tasks for the EFL Grammar Learner. R. Ellis, Methodological Options in Grammar Teaching Materials. E. Hinkel, Grammar Teaching in Writing Classes: Tenses and Cohesion. Part III: Research on Grammar Structures. P. Master, Relative Clause Reduction in Technical Research Articles. E. Hinkel, Why English Passive Is Difficult to Teach (and Learn).

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Family Therapy: An Overview

This article has provided an overview of the complex relationship between family therapy and child and adolescent psychiatry. Emphasis has been placed on the fact that the controversy and polarization that earlier characterized the relationship have delayed, but not blocked, the full integration of family therapy into child and adolescent psychiatry. Child psychiatrists and family therapists have been able to move beyond dichotomous polemics to combine the two fields in clinical practice, which has led to meaningful convergence in research and services. Family research has yielded important new directions for clinical practice in the areas of attachment, alcoholism, conduct disorder, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders. It also has led to models of family continuity that have considerable potential for interrelating and possibly integrating different family therapy models. Family research also has uncovered family factors in the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology that can inform clinical practice. Convergence in the clinical domain has led to improved assessment and treatment across a wide range of child, adolescent, and family developmental, emotional, behavioral, and mental disorders. Finally, this article has reviewed the controversy over family systems therapy and the development of new directions in theory and practice to which this controversy has led. Despite the possibility that these new directions might lead to significant disruption and interference in the process of convergence, careful examination of the controversy and the new developments in practice suggests that rather than producing division between the two fields, the new developments, especially narrative therapy, are more likely to bring the two fields closer, particularly in the realm of interventive interviewing in family therapy.

New Directions for Theory and Research on Teaching: A Review of the Past Twenty Years

A great deal of research on what constitutes good teaching has been published, but it is not as widely known as it warrants. This chapter shows just how much the field has expanded.

The Ethnic Patterning of Health: New Directions for Theory and Research

AbstractThis paper argues that analysis of the ethnic patterning of health has failed adequately to examine the social meaning of ethnicity, while too often becoming enmeshed in unhelpful dualities which counterpose material to cultural explanations, multiculturalism to anti‐racism, and sociology to epidemiology. Against the background of anthropological, objectivist and postmodern theories in the broader sociology of ‘race’ and ethnicity, the paper develops a concept of ethnicity for the purposes of health research. This is used to evaluate biological, migration‐based, material, cultural and racism‐based explanations for the ethnic patterning of health. It is argued that these types of explanation are best understood within an interactive framework. The methodological implications of this for future research are discussed.

Review of Psychological Perspectives on Sexual Problems: New Directions in Theory and Practice.

Review of Psychological Perspectives on Sexual Problems: New Directions in Theory and Practice.

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Developmental Disorders: Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Assessment. Edited by S. R. Hooper, G. W. Hynd & R. E.Child Psychopathology: Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Assessment. Edited by S. R. Hooper, G. W. Hynd & R. E. Mattison.A Handbook of Neuropsychological Assessment. Edited by J. R. Crawford, D. M. Parker & W. W. McKinlay.Menstrual Disorders. By A. Scambler & G. Scambler.Periods: From Menarche to Menopause. By S. Golub.International Review of Health Psychology, vol. 1. Edited by S. Maes, H. Leventhal & M. Johnston.Language Structure and Change. By J. S. Efran, M. D. Lukens & R. J. Lukens.Aspects of Grief: Bereavement in Adult Life. By Jane Littlewood.Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness. By P. Gilbert.Handbook of Head Trauma: Acute Care to Recovery. Edited by Charles J. Long & Leslie K. Ross.Cancer and Stress: Psychological, Biological and Coping Studies. By Cary L. Cooper & Maggie Watson.Psychological Perspectives on Sexual Problems: New Directions in Theory and Practice. Edited by J. M. Ussher & C. D. Baker.Children as Witnesses. Edited by H. Dent & R. Flin.Exercise Psychology: The Influence of Physical Exercise on Psychological Processes. Edited by Peter Seraganian.Measuring Mental Health Needs. Edited by G. Thornicroft, C. Brewin & J. Wing.Beyond Blame: Child Abuse Tragedies Revisited. By P. Reder, S. Duncan & M. Gray.Family Systems Therapy Developments in the Milan‐Systemic Therapies. By Eisa Jones.

Hans Keman (a cura di), Comparative Politics. New Directions in Theory and Method, Amsterdam, VU University Press, 1993, pp. 243 [s.p.

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Chapter 3: Early Childhood Education

age 8. These programs take place in children's own homes and in public schools, private preschools, and child-care homes and centers. Each of these settings may have quite different characteristics (adult/child ratios, group sizes, age ranges, cultural practices, and adult training and teaching styles) that in turn affect what and how children learn. Research in early childhood education is equally diverse and fits Ogawa and Malen's (1991) description of a multivocal literature. The research voices articulate the interests of different stakeholders: educators, public officials, health and human service providers, parents, citizens, and the researchers themselves. They rely on different theoretical models and separate data bases. Selecting the most salient issues in such a fragmented field is difficult. I have chosen to narrow my topic to research that highlights the ways that the care and education of young children affect their later school achievement, with particular attention to studies that may point out directions for public policies and program designs. The major interrelated topics I shall consider are new directions in theories of development and learning, changes in programs designed for young children and families, developmentally appropriate curriculum content and instructional methods, and policy issues.

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Happiness: Facts and Myths. By M. W. Eysenck.Conflict Talk: Sociolinguistic Investigations of Arguments in Conversations. Edited by A. D. Grimshaw.Sequential Analysis. By J. M. Gottman & A. K. Roy.Annals of Theoretical Psychology, vol. 6. Edited by D. N. Robinson & L. P. Mos.Rule‐governed Behaviour: Cognition, Contingencies and Instructional Control. Edited by Steven Hayes.Wisdom: Its Nature, Origins, and Development. Edited by R. J. Sternberg.Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making. By Allen E. Buchanan & Dan W. Brock.Guide to Ethical Practice in Psychotherapy. By Andrew Thompson.Ethical Issues in Counselling. By Ronald H. Stein.Medical Ethics in Practice. By Terry R. Bard.Depression: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice. Edited by C. McCann & N. S. Endler.Holiday of Darkness: A Psychologist's Personal Journey out of His Depression, rev. ed. By N. S. Endler.Cognitive Rehabilitation in Perspective. Edited by R. L. L. Wood & I. Fussey.The Practice of Hypnotism. By Andre M. Weitzenhoffer.Trancework: An Introduction to the Practice of Clinical Hypnosis, 2nd ed. By M. D. Yapko.Children Dreaming: Pictures in My Pillow. By B. Mallon.Causes of Development: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by G. Butterworth & P. Bryant.From Childhood to Adolescence: A Transitional Period? Edited by R. Montemayor, G. R. Adams & T. P. Gullotta.Chronic Illness During Childhood and Adolescence: Psychological Aspects. By W. T. Garrison & S. McQuiston.Chronic Childhood Disease. By C. Eiser.1990 Year Book of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health. Edited by J. A. TalbottSocial Stress and Mental Health: A Social‐Psychiatric Field Study of Calcutta. By A. Chakraborty.Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind. Edited by W. Reich.

Book Review: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice

Book Review: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice

Review of Depression: New directions in theory, research, and practice.

Review of Depression: New directions in theory, research, and practice.

New directions in theory — the panel

This is a personalized summary of the panel session of 7 July, 1989. The intent of the session was to discuss important questions in few particle theory. The vigorous participation of the audience was sought and received.

New directions in theory (and their phenomenological implications)

The prospects for structure beyond the standard model are discussed with particular emphasis on the implications for low-energy physics.

Levant, R. and Shlien, J. (Eds.), (1984). Client-centered therapy and the person-centered approach: New directions in theory, research and practice. New York: Praeger. 465 pp., $39.95

Levant, R. and Shlien, J. (Eds.), (1984). Client-centered therapy and the person-centered approach: New directions in theory, research and practice. New York: Praeger. 465 pp., $39.95

Client-Centered Therapy and the Person-Centered Approach: New Directions in Theory, Research, and Practice

Client-Centered Therapy and the Person-Centered Approach: New Directions in Theory, Research, and Practice

Career Choice Development: Applying Contemporary Theories to Practice.

Recognized authorities in career development analyze leading theories and applications and evaluate individual, group, and self-directed approaches to career planning. Four new chapters include an overview of new directions in theory and a case study in which the major contributors discuss how each would approach the same client.

Client-Centered Therapy and the Person-Centered Approach: New Directions in Theory, Research, and Practice. Edited by Ronald F. Levant and John M. Shlien. New York: Praeger, 1984. 465 pp. $39.95

Client-Centered Therapy and the Person-Centered Approach: New Directions in Theory, Research, and Practice. Edited by Ronald F. Levant and John M. Shlien. New York: Praeger, 1984. 465 pp. $39.95