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Applications Of The Scientific Method In Recent Studies Pertaining To Survivors Of Incest, Jane E. Dillingham

Master's Theses

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Elderly Patient Satisfaction At An Outpatient Clinic, Dennis E. Dew

Master's Theses

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Demographic Differences In Persistence Intentions Related To Differences In Social Integration, Academic Integration, Social Support, Gender And Parents' Educational Level, David L. Letwat

Master's Theses

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Relationship Nature And Intensity: Their Association With Jealousy In Dating Relationships, Danielle Oakley-Minchk

Master's Theses

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Relations Among Time Spent In Child Care Centers, Background Characteristics And Academic Performance Of Entering Kindergartners, Mary Kathryn Christian

Master's Theses

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A Meta-Analysis Of The Treatment Of Internalizing Disorders In Children And Adolescents, Kathryn Ann Mcglinchey

Master's Theses

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Procrastination, Stress And Coping During College Exam Preparation, Stephen J. Serio

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Between Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status And College Persistence Intentions, Deborah Zukerman

Master's Theses

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Examination Of Individual Differences In Literacy Achievement, Ramie A. Robeson

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Between Parenting Styles And Children's Self-Esteem, Rebecca J. Reese

Master's Theses

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Career Possible Selves And The Conscious Use Of A Metaphor In An Adventure Retreat, Juliet C. Duerlinger

Master's Theses

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The Role Of Intentions And Task Performance In Career Development, Terri E. Jennings

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Between A Violent Family History And Current Functioning In An Abusive Relationship: The Mediational Role Of A Normative View Of Domestic Violence And An Anxious Attachment Style, Christine C. Danner

Master's Theses

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Impact Of Sex-Role Identification On Partner Preference And Relationship Satisfaction, Carolyn A. Mildner

Master's Theses

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The Role Of Mentoring On Job Satisfaction And Career Success: A Meta-Analytical Investigation, Melissa Delaney

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Of Self-Efficacy And Outcome Expectations In Relation To Interests In Science Careers, Deepika C. Reddy

Master's Theses

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Validation Of A Brief Version Of The Career Barriers Inventory, Kelley Pederson Reed

Master's Theses

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An Examination Of The Relationship Between Knowledge Of Parenting And Attitudes Of Parenting In Adolescent Mothers, Frances M. Preiss

Master's Theses

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Therapeutic Value Of Companion Animals On Psychosocial And Physiological Well-Being: A Review Of The Literature., Maria G. D'Anna

Master's Theses

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An Exploratory Study Of The Traumatic Stress Experienced By Professional Caregivers Exposed To Children Injured By Violence, Heather R. Carlson

Master's Theses

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Predicational Organization And Its Enhancement Of Memory, Kristin M. S. Lang

Master's Theses

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Fears In Children With Chronic Constipation: Reliability And Validity Of The Defecation Anxiety Scale, Elizabeth Page Clawson

Theses and Dissertations

Pediatric constipation can lead to various negative emotional and physical consequences including abdominal pain, painful defecation, toileting fears, anxiety about pain and intestinal dysfunction. In addition, constipation can lead to socially compromising and embarrassing situations due to associated overflow incontinence. These unpleasant physical and emotional symptoms may in tum lead to conditioned avoidance behaviors, which serve to further maintain the cycle of stool retention and constipation. Presently, there have not been any studies directly addressing the role of conditioned aversion in the etiology and maintenance of constipation. This study examined the psychometric properties of the Defecation Anxiety Scale (DAS)- a …

Applicants' Experience Of Social Support In The Process Of Seeking Psychotherapy, Stephen M. Saunders

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

Examined informal social support during the process of seeking psychotherapy, conceptualized as four steps: realizing there is a problem; deciding therapy might help; deciding to seek therapy; and contacting the clinic. 315 psychotherapy applicants (aged 18–62 yrs) completed a questionnaire asking them whether they had talked to anyone about the problem prior to seeking therapy, whether they had help at any of the steps, and from whom they had obtained such help. Results indicated that social support was important across the process. Almost three-fourths of all Ss had help with at least 2 of the 4 steps, and almost one-third …

Female Aggression In Semi-Contact Sports, Karla Ann Sipple

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The main purpose of the present study was to investigate female aggression in semi-contact sport. More specifically, two areas were examined: the types of aggression, hostile or instrumental, that occurred in girls basketball and soccer and the types of aggression that were committed within both sports. The subjects (N = 57) for this study were female athletes ( ages 15-18) who were sampled from various Midwestern high schools: basketball athletes (n = 32) and soccer athletes (n = 25). Subjects responded to a modified form of the Bredemeier Athletic Aggression Inventory (BAAGI-S). One way ANOVA's indicated non-significant differences for the …

Solving Problems By Analogy: The Benefits And Detriments Of Hints And Depressed Moods, Paula T. Hertel, Alicia J. Knoedler

Psychology Faculty Research

In Experiment 1, mildly depressed (dysphoric) and nondysphoric subjects tried to solve logic, problems that were analogous to subsequent target problems; then they attempted target solutions with or wit hour hints in the form of the analogues' themes. Target solutions were impaired by the hints in the nondysphoric group alone. Experiment 2A was a no-training control to verify that transfer did indeed occur. In Experiment 2B, all subjects received hints in the transfer phase; the training phase was either problem oriented (as in Experiment 1) or memory oriented. Again, nondysphoric subjects solved fewerproblems following problem-oriented training than did both dysphoric …

The Relationship Of Student Retention To Teacher/Student Personality Types At Summit Christian College, C. Joseph Martin

Dissertations

For the past 3 decades, retention studies have emerged as being of significant importance to the smaller colleges and universities, especially the private colleges and universities, including Summit Christian College. With the decline in the high-school population, which was predicted to occur in the mid-70s, retention was going to be of even more importance to the smaller educational institutions. All of this pointed toward a time when colleges would have to compete for the high-school graduate in a more aggressive manner. It was possible that unless new ways of coping with the drop-out rate were initiated, a number of smaller …

The Kinetic Family Drawing As A Measure Of Minuchin's Structural Family Concepts Among Hispanic American Families With Substance-Abusing And Nonsubstance-Abusing Adolescents, José Osorio-Braña

Dissertations

Problem. There is a need for validation of new cultural-sensitive tests for assessing the Hispanic population in the United States that will take into account their cultural competence in the psychological evaluation practice. The purpose of this study was to explore the suitability of the Kinetic Family Drawings as a measure of Minuchin's Structural Family Theory among Hispanic American families with substance-abusing and nonsubstance-abusing adolescents.

Method. The Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD), the Structural Family Interaction Scale-Revised (SFIS-R), and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scales (FACES II) were administered to 141 families, 74 with an adolescent with substance-abusing problems and 67 …

A Case Study Comparison Of Brief Group Treatment And Brief Individual Treatment In The Modification Of Denial Among Child Sexual Abusers, John F. Ulrich

Dissertations

Problem Statement. O'Donohue and Letourneau (1993) demonstrated success in modifying denial among child sexual abusers with brief group treatment when probable incarceration existed for subjects who did not admit. This current study replicated and enhanced their treatment model while omitting the adverse legal consequences for subjects remaining in denial. Brief individual therapy was used as a comparison treatment condition. Factors theoretically contributing to denial were explored.

Methodology. Ten subjects were evaluated as individual case studies in two non-randomly assigned treatment conditions. Five subjects received nine group therapy sessions and five received nine individual therapy sessions. Subjects were selected from …

The Tacit Dimension Of Organizational Learning, Thomas Reeder Robinson

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations

This research was conducted to observe the self-reflections of an organizational participant group to further understand the organizational learning phenomenon. The participant group consisted of the 15 managers, spanning three levels of management, of a large engineering group in the southeastern United States.

The intent of the research was to generate theory, rather than to test theory. To accomplish this objective, a qualitative research methodology in a participatory action framework was modeled from Keating's (1993) Organizational Learning Process (OLP) to co-construct participants' organizational reflections. The methodology included individual interviews designed to elicit spontaneity that co-generated organizational perspectives. These perspectives were …

The Effects Of Visual Field Size On Search Performance, Heather A. Lang '96

Honors Projects

In the fields of both cognitive development and cognitive aging, similar patterns of performance on selective attention tasks have been found between children and older adults. Presently, there exist few studies of selective attention across the lifespan. A 1995 study by Shapiro, Shapiro, Cointin, and Forbes addressed this absence through investigating search performance in a cross-sectional, life-span study. In the Shapiro et al. study, a compelling pattern of performance was found: in conjunction conditions, which require serial searches, older adults' performance differed significantly from the younger adults' performance across increasing display size only in target absent trials. The present study …