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Development Of The Inventory Of Life Span Events, Julie A. Dickison
Development Of The Inventory Of Life Span Events, Julie A. Dickison
Psychology Theses & Dissertations
The possible relationship between stressful life events and subsequent illness has been studied in the past few decades, resulting in several widely-used questionnaires. However, these measures tend to focus on recent events and attempt to remove subjective rating of a stressful event by the respondent. These two factors may limit these scales clinical utility. An alternative measure, the Inventory of Life Span Events (ILSE) is proposed, to quantify the life-stress burden for childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and across the entire life span. ILSE was compared to other leading measures for life events, hassles and perceived stress, and was more closely related …
The Relations Between Parenting Stress, Father Involvement, And Leisure, Among Fathers Of Preschool-Age Children, Patricia Mehl Brown
The Relations Between Parenting Stress, Father Involvement, And Leisure, Among Fathers Of Preschool-Age Children, Patricia Mehl Brown
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study examined relations between fathers' parenting stress, father involvement in child care giving, and family leisure activity among 46 fathers of preschool age children. Results indicate that the relations between parenting stress and father involvement depend on child gender. A negative association was found between parenting stress and father involvement in caregiving among fathers of boys but a positive association was found between these two variables among fathers of girls. furthermore, higher levels of family play are associated with lower levels of parenting stress among fathers of boys. Results also indicated a negative association between father involvement and mothers' …
Experimental Verification Of Finite Element Analysis For Deep Denting Of Cylindrical Shells, Rajkumar Rajagopalan
Experimental Verification Of Finite Element Analysis For Deep Denting Of Cylindrical Shells, Rajkumar Rajagopalan
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation presents results from research in experimental and numerical studies related to deep denting of mild steel pipes. Two sets of large scale steel pipes having similar aspect ratios, diameter to thickness (D/t) of 64 and length to diameter (L/D) of 4.5 to 5 were tested in the laboratory and analyzed by nonlinear finite element method (FEA). The experiments were performed on a set of 12 inch diameter, 0.1875 inch thick, 60 inch long, and a set of 8 inch diameter, 0.125 inch thick, 36 inch long pipes using an MTS axial torsional testing equipment and Tinius Olsen universal …
Stress And Its Effects On Decision Making, Jeffrey H. Sornberger Ii
Stress And Its Effects On Decision Making, Jeffrey H. Sornberger Ii
Honors Capstones
What is decision-making? Webster(1986) defined a decision as: the act of deciding or settling a dispute or question by giving a judgment; the act of making up one's mind; a judgment of conclusion given; firmness of mind. One re-occurring word In these definitions is Ujudgment". Is the decision-maker in the right frame of mind to have good judgment? The question may be; what can happen to a person to cloud his/her judgment? One thing that may lead to poor judgment in decision making is stress, or a crisis.