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Effects Of Casual Attributions Of Performance Outcome On Nature Of Self-Statements And Self-Esteem, Samuel Horace Wood Aug 1980

Effects Of Casual Attributions Of Performance Outcome On Nature Of Self-Statements And Self-Esteem, Samuel Horace Wood

Master's Theses

36 college students participated in a study to determine the role of causal attributions of success and failure on the modification of self-esteem. Although Brockner (1979) has suggested that the key to augmenting self-esteem is the increasing of positive self-evaluation that follows success, several studies suggest that it is not the positive self-evaluation after success but the negative self-evaluations after failure that are crucial in determining one's level of self-esteem. Thus it was hypothesized in the present study that if external attributions were made for failures while internal attributions for success were maintained, self-esteem would increase. Subjects high and low …


Masculinity, Femininity, & Androgyny : The Interaction Of College Students With Preschoolers, Jan Alexandra Jones May 1980

Masculinity, Femininity, & Androgyny : The Interaction Of College Students With Preschoolers, Jan Alexandra Jones

Master's Theses

The rel ationshi p between sex-typing and the interacti on of col l ege students with 2- to 4-year-ol d male and female children was examined. Seventy-one Introductory Psychol ogy students were admini stered the Bern Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), which was scored in terms of the 7 factors introduced by Walker & Preston (1979). Small groups of 3 and 4 individuals were randomly selected to spend 20 minutes in the Child Development Lab, where they had the opportunity to interact with the children, to play with the toys, to observe, and to inter­ act with each other. The behavior of …


Regulation Of Sodium Intake In The Mongolian Gerbil, Kevin Douglas Stark May 1980

Regulation Of Sodium Intake In The Mongolian Gerbil, Kevin Douglas Stark

Master's Theses

In the present study, two experiments were conducted to examine how the gerbil (Merinos Unguiculatus) responds to a chronic sodium deficiency. Adult male gerbils with a mean body weight of 79.81 grams, were maintained for a baseline period on a normal Purina Rat Chow and then they were placed on a salt-free diet. In addition they had ad lib access to a salt solution and water in a two bottle test situation. The saline concentration was cut in half and doubled to test for regulation. There was no significant overall increase in saline consumption (expressed as a percentage of total …


State-Trait Anxiety And Incidental Learning Of Shapes And Colors In Learning Disabled Adolescents, Ladonna Gail Cabell Apr 1980

State-Trait Anxiety And Incidental Learning Of Shapes And Colors In Learning Disabled Adolescents, Ladonna Gail Cabell

Master's Theses

The present study attempted to examine the effects of anxiety on incidental learning of colors and shapes. The central task was the learning of six eve syllables with meaningfulness association values between 2.41 and 2.49. The incidental taslc was the learning of the color or shape that the syllable was printed on. The subjects were thirty-four male and female adolescents identified as learning disabled. The subjects were divided into three anxiety groups (high, medium and low) using Spielberger's State­ Trait Anxiety Inventory. The results· indicated that anxiety (state or trait) had no significant effect on incidental learning in adolescent subjects. …


Student Perceptions And Use Of A University Health Service, Susan A. Lueger Jan 1980

Student Perceptions And Use Of A University Health Service, Susan A. Lueger

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Birth Order Effects On Style Of Life As Revealed By Thematic Apperception Test Stories Of Adolescents: An Examination Of Some Adlerian Hypotheses, Norman N. Silverman Jan 1980

Birth Order Effects On Style Of Life As Revealed By Thematic Apperception Test Stories Of Adolescents: An Examination Of Some Adlerian Hypotheses, Norman N. Silverman

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Racial Differences In Reactance And Learned Helplessness, Sandra Elveta Lowe Jan 1980

Racial Differences In Reactance And Learned Helplessness, Sandra Elveta Lowe

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Ego-Threat And Task Importance On The Anagram Performance Of Depressed-Anxious, Nondepressed-Anxious, And Nondepressed-Nonanxious College Students, Matthew M. Zarantonello Jan 1980

The Effects Of Ego-Threat And Task Importance On The Anagram Performance Of Depressed-Anxious, Nondepressed-Anxious, And Nondepressed-Nonanxious College Students, Matthew M. Zarantonello

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Religious Experience, Personality Style, Moral Character, And Social Intelligence In Relation To Performance On Interpersonal Helping Skills, Donald Joseph Miro Jan 1980

Religious Experience, Personality Style, Moral Character, And Social Intelligence In Relation To Performance On Interpersonal Helping Skills, Donald Joseph Miro

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Client Characteristics Related To Retention In A Drug Abuse Inpatient Program, Paul Fedirka Jan 1980

Client Characteristics Related To Retention In A Drug Abuse Inpatient Program, Paul Fedirka

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Role-Taking Abilities And Intellectual Level In Disturbed And Normal Adolescent Girls, Claudia Devries Beversluis Jan 1980

Role-Taking Abilities And Intellectual Level In Disturbed And Normal Adolescent Girls, Claudia Devries Beversluis

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Locus Of Control Beliefs, Territoriality And Feeling Of Safety In Elderly Urban Women, Janice Normoyle Jan 1980

Locus Of Control Beliefs, Territoriality And Feeling Of Safety In Elderly Urban Women, Janice Normoyle

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Some Properties Of A New Temporal Illusion, Kathryn A. Markell Jan 1980

Some Properties Of A New Temporal Illusion, Kathryn A. Markell

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Psychological Androgyny: Are Women Leaving Stereotypic Sex Roles More Quickly Than Men?, Charles Wolfson Jan 1980

Psychological Androgyny: Are Women Leaving Stereotypic Sex Roles More Quickly Than Men?, Charles Wolfson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Idealized Partner Preference In Homosexual Males, Tom Boyden Jan 1980

Idealized Partner Preference In Homosexual Males, Tom Boyden

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


A Psychometric Study Of An Evaluation Instrument Designed To Measure Adults' Health Knowledge And Attitudes, David William Rivers Jan 1980

A Psychometric Study Of An Evaluation Instrument Designed To Measure Adults' Health Knowledge And Attitudes, David William Rivers

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Relationships Between Affective Reactions To Winning And Losing And Causal Attributional Style, Joseph C. Yount Jan 1980

Relationships Between Affective Reactions To Winning And Losing And Causal Attributional Style, Joseph C. Yount

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


The Prevalence Of Childhood Depression Among 6-11 Year Old Boys Seen By A Community Mental Health Center, Fred M. Kerman Jan 1980

The Prevalence Of Childhood Depression Among 6-11 Year Old Boys Seen By A Community Mental Health Center, Fred M. Kerman

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


An Investigation Into The Dynamics Underlying Men's Attitudes Toward The Social Role Of Women, Carl Robinson Jan 1980

An Investigation Into The Dynamics Underlying Men's Attitudes Toward The Social Role Of Women, Carl Robinson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Inter-Racial Attitudes, Friendship Choices And Preferences In A Desegregated School, Pramod Raikar Jan 1980

Inter-Racial Attitudes, Friendship Choices And Preferences In A Desegregated School, Pramod Raikar

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Intensive Case Studies Of The Most And Least Successful Subjects In A Holistic Program And A Social Skills Training Program For Schizophrenics, David Lukoff Jan 1980

Intensive Case Studies Of The Most And Least Successful Subjects In A Holistic Program And A Social Skills Training Program For Schizophrenics, David Lukoff

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Identity Status And Its Relationship To Identifcation [Sic] And Decision-Making Style In College Students, David F. Cella Jan 1980

Identity Status And Its Relationship To Identifcation [Sic] And Decision-Making Style In College Students, David F. Cella

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Teaching Peer-Tutoring Behaviors To Severely Emotionally Disturbed Children, Ann Marie Timothy Jan 1980

Teaching Peer-Tutoring Behaviors To Severely Emotionally Disturbed Children, Ann Marie Timothy

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Jung's Word Association Test: Response Norms Annd Patterns Of Disturbances, Ross E. Keiser Jan 1980

Jung's Word Association Test: Response Norms Annd Patterns Of Disturbances, Ross E. Keiser

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Pregnant Women's Expectations Of Newborns, Margery Salter Jan 1980

Pregnant Women's Expectations Of Newborns, Margery Salter

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Locus Of Control Modification As A Function Of Siituational Control And Performance Feedback : A Replication And Extension, Ronald J. Kline Jan 1980

Locus Of Control Modification As A Function Of Siituational Control And Performance Feedback : A Replication And Extension, Ronald J. Kline

Master's Theses

Fifty-four middle school age (sixth to eighth grade) children took part in a study designed to examine the effects of situational control and performance feedback on locus of control orientation. The subjects took part in a task situation in which they were asked to read three fictitious experiments and decide from a list of ten results which ones were actually found in the experiment and which were not. Pre and post-task measures were obtained on two locus of control scales. The Locus of Control Scale For Success - Failure (Epstein and Komorita, 1971) was answered in direct relation to the …


Evaluation Of Courses/Instructors: Book Cost Information And Commitment, Gerald L. Stremel Jan 1980

Evaluation Of Courses/Instructors: Book Cost Information And Commitment, Gerald L. Stremel

Master's Theses

The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between level of commitment to a college course, and information pertaining to the cost of book(s) for the course, and how such variables would interact to affect the subsequent evaluation of the course/instructor. It was expected that a state of cognitive dissonance would be present between the high commitment-higher than average cost group and the low commitment-higher than average cost group, which would manifest itself by less favorable evaluations of the course/instructor by the low commitment-higher than average group, than in the other five experimental groups. Results partially supported the prediction. …