McCarthy S V
Department of Psychology, Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts 02193.
Percept Mot Skills. 1988 Feb;66(1):264-6. doi: 10.2466/pms.1988.66.1.264.
37 persons whose mean age was 71.1 yr., volunteered from an Elderhostel program to participate in a quasiexperimental study of the effect of strategy for coping with nuclear threat on a planetary or lifeworld view. Coping strategy was assessed by the score on 10 forced-choice items of the Peacemaking questionnaire. When 14 high and 10 low scorers were compared on Perception of Lifeworld scores, only chance differences were noted. For this small sample, many scores reached ceiling value because of the insensitivity of the Peacemaking questionnaire. Highly truncated data were also attributed to the fact that Elderhostelers had lived through periods of war and peace. Also, this pilot study coincided with stories in the media in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Replication was recommended.
37名平均年龄为71.1岁的人员从一个成人教育旅行计划中自愿报名，参与一项关于应对核威胁策略对地球或生活世界观影响的准实验研究。应对策略通过“缔造和平”问卷中10个强制选择项目的得分来评估。当比较14名高分者和10名低分者在生活世界感知得分时，仅发现了随机差异。对于这个小样本，由于“缔造和平”问卷缺乏敏感性，许多得分达到了上限值。高度截断的数据还归因于成人教育旅行者经历过战争与和平时期这一事实。此外，这项初步研究与媒体上纪念广岛和长崎原子弹爆炸四十周年的报道同时出现。建议进行重复研究。
