The Pen Is Not Always Mightier: Different Ways of Measuring Handedness With the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory Yield Different Handedness Conclusions.

Although consistency of handedness (the strength of dominant hand preference) is increasingly recognized as an important individual difference, there are questions about how to best measure it. A recent meta-analysis showed that researchers have often failed to report details of responses and response formats to handedness test items. In addition to measuring handedness direction (i.

Predictors of sibling victimization and associations with self-perception and relationship attachment in adolescence.

Research has shown that sibling victimization may be as detrimental to adolescent outcomes as peer victimization. However, many questions remain unanswered with regard to potential protective parenting factors and consequences sibling victimization among adolescents. This study tested a mediation model of sibling victimization with parental monitoring, a positive parenting factor, as a predictor and parent and peer-adolescent attachment as mediated by adolescent self-perceptions as potential outcomes.

Are Religiousness and Forgiveness Protective Factors for Adolescents Experiencing Peer Victimization?

Research has shown peer victimization to have strong lasting effects on adolescents' mental health. The purpose of the current study was to examine relationships among religiousness, forgiveness and mental health in the context of peer victimization. We hypothesized that religiousness and forgiveness may be protective factors against negative effects of peer victimization on internalizing symptomatology and emotion regulation.