Papers by Elizabeth Austin
Legal and Criminological Psychology, 2003
BMC Medical Education, 2013
Background There has been considerable interest in Emotional Intelligence (EI) in undergraduate m... more Background There has been considerable interest in Emotional Intelligence (EI) in undergraduate medical education, with respect to student selection and admissions, health and well-being and academic performance. EI is a significant component of the physician-patient relationship. The emotional well-being of the physician is, therefore, a significant component in patient care. The aim is to examine the measurement of TEIQue-SF in Asian medical students and to explore how the practice of listening to the feelings of others and expressing one’s own feelings influences an individual’s EI, set in the context of the emotional well-being of a medical practitioner. Methods A group of 183 international undergraduate medical students attended a half-day workshop (WS) about mental-health and well-being. They completed a self-reported measure of EI on three occasions, pre- and post-workshop, and a 1-year follow-up. Result The reliability of TEIQue-SF was high and the reliabilities of its four ...
Personality and Individual Differences, 2006
British Journal of Psychology, 2010
Personality and Individual Differences, 2008
Australian Journal of Psychology, 2010
Personality and Individual Differences, 2014
Personality and Individual Differences, 2005
Concern has been raised about the reliability of Riding's (1991) verbal–... more Concern has been raised about the reliability of Riding's (1991) verbal–imagery dimension of the popular Cognitive Style Analysis (CSA) test (Peterson, Deary, & Austin, 2003a, 2003b; Rezaei & Katz, 2004). This led Peterson (2003) to develop a new test of Verbal–Imagery Cognitive Style (the VICS test). We report the development of the VICS test and the findings from two studies which compare the reliability of the VICS with the CSA's verbal–imagery dimension. In the first study, 50 participants completed the VICS and the verbal–imagery ...
Diabetes Care, 1999
To test the conclusion that there is no association between multiple episodes of severe hypoglyce... more To test the conclusion that there is no association between multiple episodes of severe hypoglycemia and cognitive decrements by reanalyzing the data from the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) with psychometrically validated cognitive factors and to conduct a novel analysis of the association between individual differences in baseline cognitive ability and episodes of severe hypoglycemia documented after baseline. The factor structure of cognitive ability in the neuropsychological data from the DCCT study was derived. Four cognitive factors (spatial ability, processing speed, memory, and verbal ability) were extracted. Changes in patients' cognitive scores for each year of follow-up were obtained, and paired comparisons of these change scores were performed between groups experiencing zero and five or more hypoglycemic episodes. The association between cognitive ability at baseline and number of subsequent episodes of severe hypoglycemia was also examined. Repeated episodes of hypoglycemia were found not to be associated with cognitive decline in any of the validated cognitive factors. No significant association was found between prospectively documented numbers of severe hypoglycemic episodes and baseline cognitive ability level. Repeated episodes of hypoglycemia were not related to cognitive decrement, and initial mental ability level was not associated with eventual numbers of hypoglycemic episodes in this group of patients.
Australian Journal of Psychology, 2010
Personality and Individual Differences, Apr 30, 2000
Personality and Individual Differences, Dec 1, 2005
... In addition, there is an increasing recognition in the medical education literature that EI s... more ... In addition, there is an increasing recognition in the medical education literature that EI skills are important for doctors, with much of the discussion being focussed on the need for interpersonal EI/empathy when dealing with patients, although there is also recognition that ...
Personality and Individual Differences, Apr 1, 2006
Mixed Rasch modelling allows the existence of sub-groups who differ in their use of questionnaire... more Mixed Rasch modelling allows the existence of sub-groups who differ in their use of questionnaire response scales to be investigated. This is relevant to personality measurement, as individual differences in scale use are a source of error in calculating trait scores. The objectives of the analysis reported here were to investigate the use of the mixed Rasch model on personality
Personality and Individual Differences, Aug 1, 2009
ABSTRACT The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ; Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Skinner, Martin, & C... more ABSTRACT The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ; Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Skinner, Martin, & Clubley, 2001) has been recently developed to assess how individuals of normal intelligence vary on autistic traits. The main objective of this study was to assess the factor structure of the AQ in a large Scottish University sample (n = 536). Group differences in the AQ were also assessed. The current study found four factors of ‘Socialness’, ‘Pattern’, ‘Understanding Others/Communication’ and ‘Imagination’. Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Hill, Raste, and Plumb (2001) suggest five subscales, previous factor analytic studies find two- or three-factor models. However, all agree on a ‘Socialness’, and a ‘Patterns/Attention to Detail’ factor. In addition, a ‘Communication’ factor is largely agreed upon. Group differences were as expected, students enrolled in a mathematical science degree type scored higher than other students, and males scored higher than females. The AQ, in a UK population, appears to be reasonably reliable, however, it does require some revision.
Journal of Individual Differences, Mar 6, 2015
. Although the there is considerable public interest in farm animal welfare, relatively little wo... more . Although the there is considerable public interest in farm animal welfare, relatively little work has been done on the welfare attitudes of farmers. We describe the development of a welfare attitude scale, the EFAWS. The factor structure and correlates of this scale were examined in Scottish pig and sheep farmers, and in agriculture students. The EFAWS was found to have a hierarchical structure, with two superordinate dimensions corresponding to welfare and business orientations being present in both groups. Five narrower facets were extracted for farmers and six for students, with the two factor structures being similar. Factor scores were found to be correlated significantly with personality traits, knowledge about welfare, and farm welfare scores in interpretable ways.
Personality and Individual Differences, 2010
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