Scientific Annals of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece VOLUME 7 INFORMATION SCIENTIFIC ANNALS  OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN GREECE ΙSBN 978-960-19-0490-0 Edited annually by the Psychological Society of Northern Greece (PSNG): Volume 7, 2009 Legally responsible: George Grouios, President of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece. Phone: +30-2310-992177. E-mail: ggrouios@phed.auth.gr Executive Committee of PSNG: George Grouios  Mary Kosmidis Symeon Vlachopoulos Angeliki Leondari Panayiota Metallidou Anastasia Efklides Andreas Brouzos Vasiliki Deliyianni-Kouimtzis    President Secretary Treasurer Member Member Ex officio member Ex officio member Ex officio member  Editors of the Scientific Annals of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece Editor-in-Chief: Andreas Brouzos Assistant Editors: Anastasia Alevriadou Associate Editors: Plousia Misailidi Anastasia Efklides   Symeon Vlachopoulos Panayiota Metallidou Fotini Bonoti George Panagis     Editors of the 7th Volume: Andreas Brouzos Plousia Misailidi Anastasia Efklides University of Ioannina, Greece University of Ioannina, Greece Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Editorial Board George Grouios Shulamith Kreitler Angeliki Leontari Diomedes Markoulis Robert Neimeyer Markku Niemivirta Jose M. 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Τόμος 7, 2009                                                                                               Volume 7, 2009 ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΗ ΕΠΕΤΗΡΙΔΑ  ΤΗΣ  ΨΥΧΟΛΟΓΙΚΗΣ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑΣ ΒΟΡΕΙΟΥ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ έτος ιδρύσεως 2002 SCIENTIFIC ANNALS OF THE  PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN GREECE founded 2002 ΕΡΕΥΝΕΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΨΥΧΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΗΣΗ Επιμέλεια Σύνταξης και Έκδοσης:                   Ανδρέας Μπρούζος                   Πλουσία Μισαηλίδη                   Aναστασία Ευκλείδη STUDIES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT Editors:          Andreas Brouzos          Plousia Misailidi          Anastasia Efklides ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ                                                                               ELLINIKA GRAMMATA Τόμος 7, 2009                                                                                                  Volume 7, 2009 CONTENTS Authors list .........................................................................................................................XI Reviewers list ....................................................................................................................XIII Preface          George Grouios ..........................................................................................................XV Prologue          Plousia Nisailidi.........................................................................................................XVII The Method for Assessing the Accuracy of Non-verbal Communication of Emotions (MAANCE): Factorial and discriminant validity          Konstantinos Kafetsios and Kelly Campbell .......................................................................1 The Wisdom Questionnaire (WQ): Construct validity          Despina Moraitou and Anastasia Efklides..........................................................................31 Machiavellian beliefs and locus of control in Greek children: A relationship that needs re-examination          Demetrios S. Alexopoulos and Helen Koukli.......................................................................65 Factor invariance of two forms of the ‘‘Multisource Assessment of Children’s Social Competence Scale’’          Marios Goudas, Evmorfia Magotsiou, and Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis.........................................97 Primary school teachers’ use of strategies for self-regulated instruction and enhancement of students’ self-regulated learning           Mariza Chatzistamatiou and Irini Dermitzaki...................................................................115 Identifying strategies of self-regulated learning in Language: Relations with the objective and self-evaluated performance          Panayiota Metallidou, Xanthi Arambatzi, Katerina Dardagani,          Olympia Karambela, and Eleni Takou ...........................................................................145 Perceptions of teacher effectiveness: Their relationship with academic performance          Georgia Stephanou and Argyris Kyridis..........................................................................181 The Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students: Reliability and validity in a Greek university student sample          Evangelia Karagiannopoulou and Pavlos Christodoulides ...................................................217 Investigating the relationship of the ratio 2D:4D with mental retardation: A pilot study          Maria Ganou, Antonia Ypsilanti, and George Grouios .......................................................245