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College Students' Development Of Social Support And Its Relationship To Pre -Orientation Experiences, Brent J. Bell
College Students' Development Of Social Support And Its Relationship To Pre -Orientation Experiences, Brent J. Bell
Doctoral Dissertations
The work of any life transition involves specific tasks, often including the re-establishment of social support in a variety of forms (Weiss, 1974). College students are particularly affected by transition, often disrupting established support systems while transitioning into adulthood. To assist with this transition, campuses offer a number of services (e.g., admissions/alumni programs, campus visits, pre-orientation programs, first-year orientation, first-year seminars). Such services are defined in this study as Comprehensive Transitional Programs (CTP). Little is known about how CTP impact social support. This study focused on adapting the Campus Focused Social Provisions Scale (CF-SPS), as an instrument to measure social …
Gender Differences In Coping: Implications For Depression And Crime, Amanda Howerton
Gender Differences In Coping: Implications For Depression And Crime, Amanda Howerton
Doctoral Dissertations
It is a common cultural belief that women employ emotion and passive focused coping methods more frequently than men. Likewise, most empirical evidence supports the idea that women are more likely to cope by modifying their emotional responses to stress, whereas males most often use and are more proficient with the problem solving approach (Billings and Moos 1984; Endler and Parker 1990; Milkie and Thoits 1993; Pearlin and Schooler 1978; Stone and Neale 1984). Despite considerable theoretical and empirical attention to these issues, there are still several gaps that remain in our understanding of the ways in which gender and …
Creativity Or Creativities: A Study Of Domain Generality And Specificity, Zorana Ivcevic
Creativity Or Creativities: A Study Of Domain Generality And Specificity, Zorana Ivcevic
Doctoral Dissertations
A series of studies investigated domain generality and specificity in creativity. Preliminary studies developed behavior report measures based on act-frequency and life-space approaches. The main studies examined two aspects of generality and specificity in creativity. A first group of studies analyzed the structure of creative behavior and the second group of studies concerned personality correlates of creativity. Dimensions of creative behavior were identified in a factor analysis of behavior reports and referred to creative life-style, arts, and intellectual achievement. Moreover, these dimensions were replicated in college students and professional adults. Groups of individuals with similar patterns of behavior were identified …
The Effect Of Memory For Serially Presented Causal Information On Judgments Of Contingency, Christopher A. Barnes
The Effect Of Memory For Serially Presented Causal Information On Judgments Of Contingency, Christopher A. Barnes
Doctoral Dissertations
Four experiments investigated whether memory errors might account for errors in contingency judgments. Participants viewed contingencies one event at a time, later recalled the frequencies of the four event types, and judged the extent that they were related. Contingency judgments were more highly correlated with participants' memory of the contingency than with the actual contingency (Experiments 2 & 4); thus implying that inaccurate mental representations of the contingency contribute to erroneous judgments. Decreasing the time to view each event (i.e., from 3 to 5 s) increased the perceived difficulty of recalling event frequencies (Experiments 1 & 2), decreased the percentage …