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A first steps guide to the transition from null hypothesis significance testing to more accurate and informative Bayesian analyses.
This article begins with a brief summary of the problems with null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), followed by a short, nontechnical description of perhaps the most useful NHST alternative, Bayesian methods. Simple R commands and output for Bayesian correlations, regressions, and ANOVA are provided. This is followed by examples of how to describe Bayesian analyses in the Methods and Results sections of articles. The focus is on taking the cautious first steps in a transition away from NHST. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science)
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Multiplicity control, school uniforms, and other perplexing debates.
Researchers in psychology are frequently confronted with the issue of analysing multiple relationships simultaneously. For example, this could involve multiple outcome variables or multiple predictors in a regression framework. Current recommendations typically steer researchers toward familywise or false-discovery rate Type I error control to limit the probability of incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis. Stepwise modified-Bonferroni procedures are suggested for following this recommendation. However, longstanding arguments against multiplicity control combined with a modern distaste for null hypothesis significance t...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Best practices: A moral imperative.
As scholars interested in contributing to the knowledge base of our discipline, I argue that the use of best practices in quantitative methods is not only smart, but is a moral obligation to avoid polluting our literature with spurious or nonreplicable results. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science)
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

S éparer les filles et les garçons dans les classes d’éducation physique et sportive : État de la question. / Separating girls and boys in sports and physical education classes: Status of the issue.
The objective of this review of the literature is to present a summary of current knowledge about the effect of mixed or non-mixed groups on the training of students, the process of acquiring motor skills, and, at a more general level, the developing of femininity and masculinity in PSE. The article deals with the difficulties posed by mixed groups in PSE, describes numerous inequities between the sexes and the issues that are particular to a context of non-mixed teaching. This is followed by a status report on the work carried out on non-mixed groups in PSE. Finally, due to the limited number of studies on the subject, as...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Br éau, Antoine; Hauw, Denis; Lentillon-Kaestner, Vanessa Source Type: research

National identity and public attitudes toward multiculturalism in Canada: Testing the indirect effect via perceived collective threat.
This article integrates research on national identity and collective threat to examine how these 2 factors jointly contribute to the formation of multicultural ideology in Canada. Specifically, this article argues that ethnic and civic forms of national identity are associated with levels of perceived collective threat, thereby indirectly affecting multicultural attitudes (national identity → collective threat → multicultural attitudes). Results of structural equation modeling analyses indicated that (a) ethnic national identity is positively, and civic national identity is negatively, associated with collective threat...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sumino, Takanori Source Type: research

Effets des justices distributive et proc édurale sur la satisfaction de vie, le désengagement psychologique et les intentions de quitter: Le rôle médiateur de l’engagement organisationnel affectif. / Effects of distributive and procedural justice on life satisfaction, psychological disengagement, and intentions to quit: The mediating role of organizational affective engagement.
The purpose of the present study was to examine the factors related to workers ’ psychological health (i.e., life satisfaction and psychological disengagement) and turnover intentions. More specifically, we tested the mediating role of affective commitment to the organization in the relationships of distributive and procedural justices to life satisfaction, psychological dis engagement, and turnover intentions. A sample of 434 French employees (252 women), with a mean age of 38 years (SD = 11.24), working in various professional settings completed a questionnaire. Results from path analysis revealed that distributive and...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Desrumaux, Pascale; Gillet, Nicolas; Jeoffrion, Christine; Malola, Pascal; Dose, Eric Source Type: research

Validation de la version francophone du Questionnaire d ’anxiété statistique (SAS-F-24). / Validation of the French version of the Statistics Anxiety Scale (SAS-F).
This study reports the validation by confirmatory factorial analysis of the French version of a statistics anxiety questionnaire (Statistics Anxiety Scale, SAS-F) among 268 Quebec students in the first year of a bachelor of psychology program, who were enrolled in a compulsory course in statistics. Questionnaires on state anxiety and self-confidence were used to evaluate the convergent and divergent validity of the SAS-F. The predictive validity of the questionnaire was established through correlation and multivariate regression using the students ’ final score on the statistics course as criteria. Reproduction of the th...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cantinotti, Michael; Lalande, Daniel; Ferlatte, Marie-Anne; Cousineau, Denis Source Type: research

Échelle de motivation à (re)travailler: Vers une nouvelle approche de la théorie de l’autodétermination. / Scale of motivation to (re)work: Towards a new approach to the theory of self-determination.
The motivation of the unemployed to want to work again is an important topic for the workforce integration professionals, as well as researchers. However, there is currently no tool available to assess this type of motivation. Grounded in self-determination theory, we aim to overcome this gap by creating as well as validating such a scale. Seventeen items, reflecting the different subdimensions of motivation, were selected (following a pretest and 2 exploratory factor analyses (N = 88 and N = 94). Then these items were submitted to unemployed participants (N = 189), along with measures of self-efficacy, well-being and job ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Camus, Gauthier; Berjot, Sophie; Amoura, Camille; Forest, Jacques Source Type: research

Analyse des sources professionnelles de soutien à la parentalité chez les mères d’enfants 0-8 ans. / Analysis of professional sources of support to parenting in mothers of children 0-8 years.
Few studies have dealt with parents' search for professional help, or the factors related to consultation by sectors of intervention (health, mental health, education). In response to that gap, this study seeks to document which professionals are consulted during a year in relation with child education or behaviour and what individual, family and social factors are related to such support. The data result from a telephone survey of a representative, weighted sample of 2326 Quebec mothers of children between the ages of 6 months and 8 years of age. About one mother in three stated that she had consulted at least one profess...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cl ément, Marie-Ève; Gagné, Marie-Hélène; Brunson, Liesette Source Type: research

D éveloppement et validation d’une tâche pour dépister le risque de présenter des comportements inappropriés socialement suite à un traumatisme cranio-cérébral : La tâche de décision sociale. / Development and validation of a task to track the risk of socially inappropriate behaviors follo wing traumatic brain injury: The Social Responding Task.
Inappropriate social behaviours are among the most frequent behavioural sequelae after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and may have a deleterious effect on the person ’s social reintegration. The goal of the present study was to develop and validate an instrument to predict inappropriate social behaviour after a TBI, the Social Responding Task (SRT). The task consists of 18 original scenarios illustrating social interactions among which 14 scenarios involved an inappropriate social behaviour and 4 scenarios involved an appropriate social behaviour that can be display in response to that situation. Thirty participants with...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gagnon, Jean; Rochat, Lucien; Messier, Fr édéric; Chiocchio, François; Sordes, Charlotte; Beaulieu, Josée; Fortin-Langelier, Elisabeth Source Type: research

False precision: The ring of truth.
Articles on best practices in research usually focus on collecting and analysing data. However, an important ethical and practical issue is often ignored: false precision. Researchers, reviewers, and editors often ignore the precision of instruments and the concept of significant digits, familiar from introductory courses in many sciences. The result is that findings are presented so that they appear to be more precise or accurate than they actually are. Imprecision is also ignored (and precision implied) when results are presented without margins of error (confidence intervals). Other practices also increase or mask impre...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Roberts, William L. Source Type: research

Not in manuals: Best current writing practices, particularly for academics writing in a nonnative language.
In this note, we re-examine some typical issues and very basic fallacies in writing manuscripts reporting empirical studies, with a special focus on addressing authors whose mother tongue is not English. We represent the perspectives of reviewers and editors at the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science (CJBS). We make explicit the expectations these editors and reviewers hold in terms of best practices. We then offer reminders, tips, and examples concerning the most frequent key challenges to best practices we have observed in writing: (a) Getting to the point; (b) Adopting a North American journalese; (c) Canadian relev...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: D'Angiulli, Amedeo; Blanchette, Isabelle; Gosselin, Julie Source Type: research