Predicting Performance and Persistence in Hospice Volunteers

In a group of 75 prospective hospice volunteers, screened and accepted for training, those rated as performing satisfactorily differed significantly from those rated as performing unsatisfactorily or those who dropped out six months after completion of training. Discriminant function analysis indicated that a function consisting of death anxiety, tolerance, and flexibility significantly differentiated the three groups of volunteers. The satisfactory persisters demonstrated lower death anxiety, higher tolerance, and more moderate flexibility than unsatisfactory persisters or dropouts. Fifty (67%) of the 75 cases were correctly classified. These findings suggest that the inclusion of personality measures in the screening procedure could be useful in the selection of hospice volunteers.

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Discriminant Effectiveness of Psychological State Measures in Predicting Performance Outcome in Karate Competition

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1995.81.1.275 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 81 (1) ◽

pp. 275-286 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Peter C. Terry ◽

Andrew Slade

Keyword(s):

Discriminant Function ◽

Discriminant Function Analysis ◽

State Anxiety ◽

Function Analysis ◽

Psychological State ◽

Profile Of Mood States ◽

Health Profile ◽

Performance Outcome ◽

Self Confidence ◽

Predicting Performance

Male Shotokan karate players (karateka) ( N = 208) completed the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 and the Profile of Mood States about 40 minutes before a competition. Single-factor multivariate analysis of variance of preperformance mood and anxiety scores indicated significant differences between winning and losing competitors. Winners scored higher on Vigor, Anger, and Self-confidence, and lower on Tension, Depression, Fatigue, Confusion, Cognitive Anxiety, and Somatic Anxiety. Discriminant function analysis showed that 91.96% of participants could be correctly classified as winners or losers on the basis of preperformance mood scores. This figure rose to 93.47% when scores on the anxiety subscales were also included in the discriminant function analysis. Anxiety scores alone produced 78.89% discrimination. Mood profiles for winning karateka were in line with the “mental health” profile of Morgan except for above-average scores on Anger. This result supports the view of McGowan and Miller that anger may facilitate performance in karate competition. The capacity of measures of psychological state to discriminate performance exceeds previous reports, suggesting that karate performance may be exceptionally mood-dependent. These results suggest that interventions which increase scores on Vigor and Anger and reduce scores on Tension, Depression, Fatigue, and Confusion may be particularly efficacious for Shotokan karate performance.

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Personality Attributes as Discriminating Factors in Distinguishing Religio-Mystical from Paranormal Experients

Imagination Cognition and Personality ◽

10.2190/8gt9-quem-ja1m-7f86 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 389-406 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Peter L. Nelson

Keyword(s):

Discriminant Function ◽

Discriminant Function Analysis ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Function Analysis ◽

Higher Order ◽

Validity Scales ◽

Personality Questionnaire ◽

Personality Measures ◽

The Past

In the first section of this article, an operationalized notion of preternatural experience is described which includes two general classes of experience: religio-mystical (Ontic) and paranormal (Perceptual). The exploratory study which follows uses the personality measures of the complete Tellegen Differential Personality Questionnaire taken from 120 subjects who reported having had spontaneous religio-mystical and/or paranormal experiences at some time in the past. The scores on all eleven primary dimensions, three higher order affect factors, and two validity scales were used individually, in univariate ANOVAs, and together, in a Direct Discriminant Function Analysis, to successfully separate two classes of preternatural experients from non-experients and from each other.

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Discriminant Function Analysis of Glass Chemistry of New Zealand and North American Tephra Deposits

Quaternary Research ◽

10.1006/qres.1994.1008 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 70-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Philip A.R. Shane ◽

Paul C. Froggatt

Keyword(s):

Trace Elements ◽

New Zealand ◽

Discriminant Function ◽

Discriminant Function Analysis ◽

Function Analysis ◽

Taupo Volcanic Zone ◽

Relative Significance ◽

Major Oxides ◽

Long Valley ◽

Selection Of

AbstractMajor, trace, and rare earth element analyses of volcanic glass are used separately or in combination for correlating Quaternary tephras, often by graphical or simple comparative methods. We have taken a statistical approach using discriminant function analysis (DFA) to assess the relative discriminating power of the different elements in volcanic glasses from several tectonovolcanic provinces. We found that major oxides are powerful discriminating variables for widespread tephras from the Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand and here they can be more discriminating than trace elements. A wide selection of tephras from the western United States can also be distinguished on major oxides alone, particularly those from Cascade Range volcanoes. For tephras from large intracontinental calderas, such as Long Valley or Yellowstone, REE and trace elements are more effective at discriminating than major oxides. However, tephras erupted from the Long Valley area can be distinguished on major oxide composition by DFA, despite their similar chemistry. The selection and relative significance of different elements for discriminating tephras depends on the total data set being compared, as well as the source volcano and the individual eruptive events. Caution must be exercised in the nonstatistical selection of compositional data for characterizing tephras: DFA is a more powerful and objective tool for the comparison of tephra chemistry.

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Selection of Morphological Features in Classifying Weedy Rice and Rice Seed Varieties using Discriminant Function Analysis

IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering ◽

10.1088/1757-899x/557/1/012014 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 557 ◽

pp. 012014

Author(s):

R Ruslan ◽

S K Bejo ◽

I H Rukunuddin ◽

A A Aznan

Keyword(s):

Discriminant Function ◽

Discriminant Function Analysis ◽

Function Analysis ◽

Morphological Features ◽

Weedy Rice ◽

Rice Seed ◽

Selection Of

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The appointment of executive heads in UN treaty-based organizations

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300003751 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 91-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Francis W. Hoole

Keyword(s):

Discriminant Function ◽

International Organizations ◽

Discriminant Function Analysis ◽

Function Analysis ◽

Empirical Examination ◽

Time Period ◽

Over Time ◽

Selection Of

The research reported in this article seeks to understand how and why individuals are appointed to serve as executive heads of international organizations. A simple statement of the behavioral rule used in selection of executive heads is developed in the form of an executive head appointment function. The type of data available for the analysis of the appointment of executive heads in international organizations is identified, and an empirical examination of changes in emphasis in the selection of executive heads is reported. The executive head appointment function utilized in the study views appointment as an executive head as a function of six factors (three organizational, one national, and two personal). Discriminant function analysis is used to determine if the function would distinguish between individuals appointed during the period 1945–57 and those appointed from 1958–70 as executive heads in UN treaty-based organizations. It is possible to distinguish, on the basis of the specified executive head appointment function, between executive heads appointed during the two halves of the time period under study. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that the emphasis involved in the selection of executive heads has changed over time in UN treaty-based organizations.

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The relationship between masculine financial identity, workgroup aggression normalization, and incivility perpetration: A discriminant function analysis

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e572992012-352 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

T. Bauerle ◽

V. J. Magley

Keyword(s):

Discriminant Function ◽

Discriminant Function Analysis ◽

Function Analysis ◽

The Relationship ◽

Financial Identity

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Diagnoses Generated by Numerical Taxonomic Methods Applied to Standard Blood Variables

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1635282 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 19 (04) ◽

pp. 205-209

Author(s):

L. A. Abbott ◽

J. B. Mitton

Keyword(s):

Liver Cirrhosis ◽

Renal Disease ◽

Principal Components Analysis ◽

Discriminant Function ◽

Principal Components ◽

Discriminant Function Analysis ◽

Chronic Renal Disease ◽

Function Analysis ◽

Infectious Hepatitis ◽

Components Analysis

Data taken from the blood of 262 patients diagnosed for malabsorption, elective cholecystectomy, acute cholecystitis, infectious hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, or chronic renal disease were analyzed with three numerical taxonomy (NT) methods : cluster analysis, principal components analysis, and discriminant function analysis. Principal components analysis revealed discrete clusters of patients suffering from chronic renal disease, liver cirrhosis, and infectious hepatitis, which could be displayed by NT clustering as well as by plotting, but other disease groups were poorly defined. Sharper resolution of the same disease groups was attained by discriminant function analysis.

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Description of Echolocation Call Parameters for Urban Bats in Vietnam as a Step Towards a More Integrated Acoustic Monitoring of Urban Wildlife in Southeast Asia

Diversity ◽

10.3390/d13010018 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 18

Author(s):

Long Kim Pham ◽

Bang Van Tran ◽

Quy Tan Le ◽

Trung Thanh Nguyen ◽

Christian C. Voigt

Keyword(s):

Discriminant Function ◽

Discriminant Function Analysis ◽

Function Analysis ◽

Quantitative Description ◽

Southeast Asian ◽

Asian Countries ◽

Echolocation Call ◽

Echolocation Calls ◽

Pilot Work ◽

Southeast Asian Countries

This study is the first step towards more systematic monitoring of urban bat fauna in Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries by collecting bat echolocation call parameters in Ho Chi Minh and Tra Vinh cities. We captured urban bats and then recorded echolocation calls after releasing in a tent. Additional bat’s echolocation calls from the free-flying bats were recorded at the site where we captured bat. We used the obtained echolocation call parameters for a discriminant function analysis to test the accuracy of classifying these species based on their echolocation call parameters. Data from this pilot work revealed a low level of diversity for the studied bat assemblages. Additionally, the discriminant function analysis successfully classified bats to four bat species with an accuracy of >87.4%. On average, species assignments were correct for all calls from Taphozous melanopogon (100% success rate), for 70% of calls from Pipistrellus javanicus, for 80.8% of calls from Myotis hasseltii and 67.3% of calls from Scotophilus kuhlii. Our study comprises the first quantitative description of echolocation call parameters for urban bats of Vietnam. The success in classifying urban bats based on their echolocation call parameters provides a promising baseline for monitoring the effect of urbanization on bat assemblages in Vietnam and potentially also other Southeast Asian countries.

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