Vicki Peyton’s research while affiliated with University of California, Santa Cruz and other places

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Publications (13)


The supervisory attachment relationship as a predictor of the professional development of the supervisee
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May 2007

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160 Reads

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37 Citations

Joel T. Foster

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Vicki Peyton

Attachment theory was used to conceptualize the supervisory relationship. The type of attachment that supervisees reported in their close relationships was used to determine whether or not their feelings toward their supervisor revealed a relationship of attachment. The sample consisted of 90 distinct supervisor-supervisee dyads from diverse professional backgrounds. Supervisees classified as secure, preoccupied, fearful, or dismissive in their close relationships were similarly attached in relationship to their clinical supervisor. Further, supervisees with an insecure attachment to their supervisor demonstrated low levels of professional development when professional development was based on self-report but not when it was based on supervisor report. Results are discussed in light of the role that attachment plays in the training of supervisees.


Test Score Stability and the Relationship of Adult Manifest Anxiety Scale-College Version Scores to External Variables Among Graduate Students

March 2007

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207 Reads

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8 Citations

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

A sample of 79 individuals participated in the present study to evaluate the test score stability (8-week test-retest interval) and construct validity of the scores of the Adult Manifest Anxiety Scale-College Version, a new measure used to assess anxiety in college students, for applica- tion to graduate-level students. Results of the study indicated for a sample of graduate students that the AMAS-C test scores have adequate to good temporal stability (rs = .70 to .87). Evidence supporting the construct validity of the AMAS-C test scores was found. Validity coefficients ranged from -.67 to .88. Implications of the findings are discussed.


Exploring Maternal Social Perceptions and Child Aggression among Urban American Indians

February 2007

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5 Citations

American Indian and Alaska native mental health research: journal of the National Center

Currently, the majority of American Indian families live in urban areas. A number of statistics demonstrate that urban American Indian families deal with a variety of stressors such as poverty and isolation. However, very little is known about how these families perceive their lives. This report provides an exploratory study examining the status of 20 urban American Indian mother/child dyads. Mothers were asked about the role of American Indian culture in their lives, their views of life in general, and their attributions for their child's mild misbehavior. Two measures of child aggression were collected as well. The links between maternal perceptions and child aggression were complex, indicating the need for more studies of urban American Indian families.


Measuring a Dimension of Spirituality for Health Research: Validity of the Spirituality Index of Well-Being

September 2005

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1,907 Reads

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93 Citations

Research on Aging

Health-related studies of spirituality are threatened by the lack of conceptual distinctions between religion and spirituality, the use of small, nongeneralizable samples, and by measurement error in many instruments that unreliably and invalidly capture this domain. The authors review the construct and validity evidence for the Spirituality Index of Well-Being (SIWB), an instrument designed to measure a dimension of spirituality linked to subjective well-being in patient populations. The SIWB was developed using qualitative research methods and subsequently conceptualized with two dimensions; self-efficacy and life scheme. Primary psychometric data from three sample populations are reviewed and summarized. A secondary, confirmatory factor analysis, using pooled data from all samples, supports the theoretical two-factor structure. In addition, SIWB scores correlate more strongly with established measures of well-being than the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWB) or other recognized religiosity instruments. The SIWB is a valid and reliable instrument that can be used in health-related studies.


Item-writing Rules: Collective Wisdom

May 2005

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972 Reads

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97 Citations

Teaching and Teacher Education

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Stephanie Petersen

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Vicki Peyton

In student assessment, teachers place the greatest weight on tests they have constructed themselves and have an equally great interest in the quality of those tests. To increase the validity of teacher-made tests, many item-writing rules-of-thumb are available in the literature, but few rules have been tested experimentally. In light of the paucity of empirical studies, the validity of any given guideline might best be established by relying on experts. This study analyzed twenty classroom assessment textbooks to identify a consensus list of item-writing rules. Forty rules for which there was agreement among textbook authors are presented. The rules address four different validity concerns-potentially confusing wording or ambiguous requirements, the problem of guessing, test-taking efficiency, and controlling for testwiseness.



Parenting attitudes and marital intimacy: A longitudinal analysis

July 2002

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291 Reads

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73 Citations

Journal of Family Psychology

This longitudinal study examined change in 97 couples' marital intimacy over the first 3 years after the birth of a child. Participants included both first-time and experienced parents. Regardless of parity, both wives and husbands, on average, showed linear declines in marital intimacy; however, significant variability in individual trajectories was found. The study evaluated the relation between parenting attitudes, measured independently for each partner and in terms of agreement between partners, and individual differences in the level and trajectory of marital intimacy. For both wives and husbands, higher perceived difficulty with parenting was related to lower initial levels of marital intimacy. Wives whose husbands held more traditional attitudes regarding child rearing and those whose beliefs about child rearing differed from the beliefs of their partners experienced steeper declines in intimacy over time.


Parenting Attitudes and Marital Intimacy: A Longitudinal Analysis
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June 2002

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41 Citations

Journal of Family Psychology

This longitudinal study examined change in 97 couples' marital intimacy over the first 3 years after the birth of a child. Participants included both first-time and experienced parents. Regardless of parity, both wives and husbands, on average, showed linear declines in marital intimacy; however, significant variability in individual trajectories was found. The study evaluated the relation between parenting attitudes, measured independently for each partner and in terms of agreement between partners, and individual differences in the level and trajectory of marital intimacy. For both wives and husbands, higher perceived difficulty with parenting was related to lower initial levels of marital intimacy. Wives whose husbands held more traditional attitudes regarding child rearing and those whose beliefs about child rearing differed from the beliefs of their partners experienced steeper declines in intimacy over time.

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Reasons for choosing child care: Associations with family factors, quality, and satisfaction

June 2001

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980 Reads

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153 Citations

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Demographic and family process factors related to the reasons mothers selected a particular care arrangement for their 3-year-old children were examined along with the type and quality of care the children received and the mothers’ satisfaction with that care. Reasons for selecting care were categorized as focused on quality, practicality, or preference for a specific type of care arrangement. Mothers in high-income families and those who worked fewer hours were more likely to select a child-care arrangement based on its quality than on practical concerns such as cost, hours of operation, or location. Mothers who reported higher stress related to parenting were more likely to choose care because of practical issues. Mothers who chose care based on quality were least likely to use care provided by a relative. In addition, mothers choosing care because of its quality were more likely to place their children in higher quality care, as judged by outside observers, than those who chose based on practical concerns. However, mothers who chose care because of a preference for a particular type of care (center-based, home-based, or relative) received higher quality care than either of the other two groups. Mothers who chose care because of practical concerns were least satisfied with their child’s care.


Gender-Role Cognition in Three-Year-Old Boys and Girls

June 2000

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Although the multidimensionality of gender roles has been well established, few researchers have investigated male and female roles separately. Because of the substantial differences in the ways male and female roles are portrayed in our culture, boys and girls may think and learn about these roles differently. The male role is more clearly defined, more highly valued, and more salient than the female role; thus, children's cognitions about these two roles may be expected to differ. The present study addressed the question of whether there is sex-typical variation in gender labeling, gender-role knowledge, and schematicity. Participants were 120 families; 15% were from minority ethnic groups, and 17% were single-parent families; 25% of the parents had a high school education or less. Results indicated that at 36 months of age, boys were less able to label gender and less knowledgeable about gender roles than were girls. Boys' knew more about male stereotypes than female stereotypes, whereas girls knew considerably more than boys about the female role and as much as boys about the male role. Boys and girls were found to be similar in gender schematicity. Traditionality of parental attitudes regarding child-rearing and maternal employment were not strongly related to children's gender cognition. Peer Reviewed http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45617/1/11199_2004_Article_226122.pdf


Citations (13)


... Gupta and Singh's (1982) study found no significant difference between Indian arranged marriages and the West's choice-based marriages. In contrast to Western marriages, where intimacy decreases after childbirth (O'Brien & Peyton, 2002), Jaiswal (2014) argues that affection, intimacy, and love tend to emerge and grow gradually in India. ...

Reference:

From Strangers to Spouses: Exploring Dyadic Effects of Insecure Attachment and Responsiveness on We-Ness in Indian Arranged Marriages
Parenting Attitudes and Marital Intimacy: A Longitudinal Analysis

Journal of Family Psychology

... In general, student's performance and progress are undoubtedly some of the core attributes teachers refer to when describing formative assessment and feedback (Karim, 2015;Evans, 2013;Nash, 2008;Poppitt & Iqbal, 2009;and Hargreaves, 2005) and this was reflected in lecturers' and HoD's comments that were focused on: ...

PERCEPTIONS AND USE OF A FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
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... Recognizing and understanding how these cognitive processes interplay leading to worry in such an at-risk population should promote the implementation of both preventive and treatment psychological interventions, with the final goal of ensuring early detection and therapeutic help (Lowe, Peyton, & Reynolds, 2007;Pedrelli, Nyer, Yeung, Zulauf, & Wilens, 2015). Indeed, worry and anxiety can negatively impact on academic success (Salzer, 2012;Storrie, Ahern, & Tuckett, 2010), social relationships and future employment (Kessler, Walters, & Forthofer, 1998), physical activity (Strine et al., 2008), substance use (Hunt & Eisenberg, 2010), suicidal ideation and self-harm behavior (Garlow et al., 2008), thus significantly impairing quality of life (Barrera & Norton, 2009). ...

Test Score Stability and the Relationship of Adult Manifest Anxiety Scale-College Version Scores to External Variables Among Graduate Students
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  • March 2007

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

... (Daaleman & Frey, 2004;Daaleman et al., 2002). The internal reliability of SIWB as computed by Frey et al. (2005) was .79. Furthermore, this instrument claims good construct validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity (Daaleman et al., 2002;Frey et al., 2005;Yi -Hui et al., 2015). ...

Measuring a Dimension of Spirituality for Health Research: Validity of the Spirituality Index of Well-Being
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  • September 2005

Research on Aging

... Traditionally, spirituality has been generically defined as the individual's subjective experience and characteristic to search for the sacred (Vaughan, 1991;Zinnbauer et al., 1997), the expression of personal relationship with a divine being (Armstrong, 1995) and the experience in the transcendence (LaPierre,1994). In fact, a plethora of qualitative (Tart, 1975;Shafranske & Gorsuch, 1984;Elkins, Hughes, Saunders, Leaf, Hedstrom, 1988;Benner, 1989;Fahlberg & Fahlberg, 1991;Doyle, 1992;Hart, 1994) and quantitative (Underwood & Teresi, 2002;Hodge, 2003;Delaney, 2005;Frey, Daaleman & Peyton, 2005) approaches in different disciplines attempted to define and measure spirituality yet, as a phenomenon and ambiguous construct, it still remains difficult to define and measure. The reasons include, first, spirituality overlaps with religiosity and second, the two terms are used interchangeably by researchers in studies (Mansukhani & Resurrecion, 2009). ...

measuring a dimension of spirituality for health research
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  • January 2005

Research on Aging

... Attachment theory has been integrated into the field of relational supervision for more than twenty years. Numerous studies (Bennett &Vitale Saks, 2006;Bennett & Deal, 2009;Fitch et al., 2010;Foster et al., 2007;Neswald-McCalip, 2001;Pistole & Fitch, 2008;Watkins Jr. & Riggs, 2012;Wrape et al., 2017) have demonstrated that the supervisory relationship is an attachment relationship between two adults. In recent decades, attachment researchers have expanded and clarified the notion of the secure base within the affect regulation framework, which now plays a central role in contemporary attachment theory; it is understood as an essential mechanism of the therapeutic alliance and thus of the process of change in psychotherapy (Hill, 2015;Schore & Schore, 2008;Schore, 2009). ...

The supervisory attachment relationship as a predictor of the professional development of the supervisee
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  • May 2007

... In addition, there are studies that have addressed parental decision-making processes in relation to 0-3 ECEC or on parental educational preferences (e.g., Gamble et al., 2009;Grůzová & Syslová, 2020;Hofferth & Wissoker, 1992;Peyton et al., 2001;Stipek et al., 1992). Yet, most of these studies rest on two assumptions that are not well aligned with the circumstances of lower-working-class and at-risk families in Spain. ...

Reasons for choosing child care: Associations with family factors, quality, and satisfaction
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  • June 2001

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

... A quality teacher-made test should follow valid item-writing rules, but as many researchers point out, empirical studies establishing the validity of item-writing rules are in short supply and often inconclusive, and, ''item writing-rules are based primarily on common sense and the conventional wisdom of test experts'' (Millman & Greene, 1993, p. 353). Frey, Edwards, Petersen, Pedrotti, and Peyton (2005) maintain that teachers of classroom assessment must rely on advice, opinion, experience, and common sense to direct their students in constructing classroom tests that produce reliable and valid scores. ...

Item-writing Rules: Collective Wisdom
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  • May 2005

Teaching and Teacher Education

... Recent insights suggest that such adult gender-related differences in social preferences are acquired during childhood and adolescence 21,30 but see ref. 31. Children start to show egalitarian preferences (that is, prefer equal over unequal outcomes) between the ages of 3 and 8 [13][14][15][16][32][33][34][35] , a period that coincides with differentiation in gender-specific behaviours [36][37][38] , but when and how fairness preferences start to diverge between genders is still an open question that is topic of current research agendas 30,39 . Recent theories posit that social preferences such as social norms, are likely shaped, among others, by past social interaction experiences between boys and girls (as far as we are aware, non-binary identifying children are not included in these theories) during development 21,40 . ...

Gender-Role Cognition in Three-Year-Old Boys and Girls