Psychology

Most people agree that the key to business success is having the right people with the right skills in leadership positions. But what are the right skills? Technically competent people often make poor managers and leaders. Why? Because managing and leading people are entirely different skill sets from

"Background and Objectives
The positive outcomes derived from participation in Alcoholics Anonymous-related helping (AAH) found among adults has spurred study of AAH among minors with addiction. AAH includes acts of good citizenship in AA, formal service positions, public outreach, and transmitting personal experience to another fellow sufferer. Addiction research with adolescents is hindered by few validated assessments of 12-step activity among minors. This study provides psychometric findings of the “Service to Others in Sobriety (SOS)” questionnaire as completed by youths.

Methods
Multi-informant data was collected prospectively from youth self-reports, clinician-rated assessments, biomarkers, and medical chart records for youths (N = 195) after residential treatment.

Results
Few youths (7%) did not participate in any AAH during treatment. Results indicated the SOS as a unidimensional scale with adequate psychometric properties, including inter-informant reliability (r = .5), internal consistency (alpha = .90), and convergent validity (rs = −.3 to .3). Programmatic AAH activities distinguished abstinent youths in a random half-sample, and replicated on the other half-sample. The SOS cut-point of 40 indicated high AAH participation.

Conclusions and Significance
The SOS appears to be a valid measure of AAH, suggesting clinical utility for enhancing treatment and identifying service opportunities salient to sobriety. (Am J Addict 2013;22:60-66)"

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several ethical considerations emerge when conducting research with memoryimpaired individuals, including the individuals' ability to comprehend and accurately respond to survey questions. However, little empirical research exists on how to format surveys to decrease cognitive demands, thereby allowing researchers to more accurately survey this population. The current study presents data from structured interviews with 125 community-residing, memory-impaired older adults about their illness experience. The interview contained 14 scales varying in subjectivity, directionality, and response choice content. While objectivity did not affect participants' ability to use the full range of responses, participants with greater cognitive impairment tended to use simpler, dichotomous response categories, especially when questions had bidirectional response choices. Results suggest that memory-impaired individuals can participate in survey research, that such surveys should contain unidirectional frequency/amount items when possible, and that not all memory-impaired individuals will have difficulty completing surveys.

Little is known about the illness experience from the perspective of individuals with dementia (IWDs), as most quantitative research has focused on IWDs' psychosocial issues from proxy reports. The primary aim of this study was to better understand the impact of the illness experience on wellbeing from the perspective of the IWD through the framework of the Stress Process Model for Individuals with Dementia (SPM for IWDs).

Putman, P. G. (2015). [Review of the book The Social Profit Handbook: The Essential Guide to Setting
Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving Success for Mission-Driven Organizations, by D. Grant]. The Foundation Review. 7(1). DOI: 10.9707/1944-5660.1240

The pace of technological advancements available to adult educators is progressing faster than the research examining the efficacy of these tools. This study helps address this challenge by examining a disruptive technology, namely a virtual leadership simulation, and factors that impact adult learner performance within a specific virtual leadership simulation. Paper presented at national Adult Education Research Conference (2013). http://www.adulterc.org/Proceedings/2013/papers/putnam.pdf

Book Review Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count (2019) is grounded in the perspectives of author Phil Buchanan and his talented team at the Center for Effective Philanthropy, led by Buchanan since its founding in 2001. "This book," he writes in the introduction, "is for givers at all levels who struggle with how to make the most difference." While readers with a baseline of knowledge in the field may find the going a bit slow at the outset, they should persist. Think of the first few chapters as appetizers, providing a shared understanding of the table upon which organized philanthropy in the United States has been set and currently operates. The main course is an exploration of the art of giving.

Participating in a doctoral program can be a transforming experience shaping the learner’s identity. What learning spaces best facilitatesthis development? This roundtable presents findings of a study where a Community of Practice was used intentionallyto foster emerging scholars. We invite a discussion of others experience of becoming scholars. If a goal of academic programs is for graduates to be successful professionals, then using learning strategies that nurture identity formation is imperative. In the course of completing a doctoral program, one identity that learners strive to acquire is that of “scholar.” Communities of Practice (CofP) combine self-directed learning with collaborative learning. At the doctoral level, this type of learning becomes paramount because graduates, as scholars, will become members of communities within their organizations and the field of adult education. Little research has been done using the concepts of CofP to develop doctoral students’ identit...