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Relationships Among Gender, Casual Attribution And Depression, Joseph C. Yount

Dissertations

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The Short And Long Term Impact Of The Egan Human Relations Training Model On Empathy, Patrick J. Kennelly

Dissertations

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Comparison Of Scores Obtained On The Ppvt And The Ppvt-R, Jennie L.M. Choong

Dissertations and Theses

The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) is a widely used receptive vocabulary screening tool, but it is not without its limitations, such as inadvisable I.Q. usage and a standardization procedure that lacks scope. A revision of the PPVT, known as the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) was published in 1981, and contains a more complete standardization procedure as well as some structural changes of the test itself (Dunn, 1981). Speech/language pathology, whose diagnosticians most commonly use the age equivalent value, is a profession that would gain from information which deals with the equivalency of the PPVT-R to the original PPVT. …

Nonpsychotic Depression And Recall Of Interrupted And Completed Tasks, Joseph Mathew Malancharuvil

Dissertations

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Bidimensional Rule Difficulty And Problem Solving Strategy As A Function Of Intelligence And Conceptual Task Type, Donald E. Raney

Master's Theses

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Demographic Predictors Of Psychotherapy Dropout: Patient And Therapist Characteristics, Linda Papach Goodsitt

Master's Theses

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A Study Of Temporal Integration In The Auditory System Of The Goldfish (Carassius Auratus), Marian L. Patricoski

Master's Theses

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Depression And Irrational Thinking: A Vicious Circle, William P. Reich

Master's Theses

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The Forest Versus The Trees: The Relative Precedence Of Global Versus Local Features In Visual Information Processing, Susan Gelmini

Master's Theses

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Determinants And Validity Of Dispositions Made In Psychiatric Emergencies, Mary Catherine Moore

Master's Theses

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A Methodological Treatment Of The Programatic Use Of Real Time Attitude Assessment Techniques, S. R. Mcneal

Master's Theses

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A Watfiv Implementation And Evaluation Of A Rubric For The Reduction Of Extraneous Variability In The Observed Frequency Of Infant State Transitions, James A. Swartz

Master's Theses

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Organizational Surveys And Employee Attitudes: A Review And A Field Study, Patrick Calby

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Of Depression To Associations And Immediate Recall, Karen Eggen Gundersen

Master's Theses

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The Effect Of Depressive Affect On Judgments Of Frequency Of Occurrence, Carol L. Curt

Master's Theses

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Apparent Rotation: Apparent Movement In Depth Induced By The Alternate Presentation Of Disparate Stimuli, Linda Lawler

Master's Theses

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The Development Of Two Performance Appraisal Systems For Firefighters, Robert L. Holmgren

Master's Theses

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Interactionist Strategies For Assessing Personality And Behavior Differences Among Female Intercollegiate Athletes And Nonathletes, Frances Stewart

Theses and Dissertations

Thirty six female intercollegiate team athletes and 40 female non-athlete control subjects were studied in a two-experiment investigation designed to explore the personality patterns of female athletes; to measure any differences in performances of the experimental and control groups attributable to changing conditions, i.e., solo, coaction and competitive; and to explore the interactions of personality variables and performance. The previous research on personality, with Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Inventory and female athletes, is not plentiful and frequently in conflict. No previous research could be located that employed controlled competitive conditions with athletes—male or female. In Study 1, the team athletes …

Motivational Differences Between Depressed And Nondepressed Students In Detecting Noncontingency, Gerald D. Oster

Theses and Dissertations

The concept of learned helplessness assigns a mediating role to the recognition that events may be unrelated. However, current representation of individuals as "intuitive statisticians" unveils a lack of these information-processing abilities. This is particuIarIy apparent in the skill required to recognize noncontingent events. Similarly, in a series of experiments on the detection of contingent and noncontingent events, Allo and Abramson (1979) demonstrated that this “illusion of controI” couId discriminate between depressed and nondepressed students.

In extending their research, the concept of "contrast effects," on animal Iearning phenomenon, was introduced as a competing motivational framework to account for differences between …

Relationship Between Personality And Value Structure, William B. Pettus

Theses and Dissertations

Humankind has been interested in the study of individual differences throughout recorded history. Plato discussed the issue of individual variations in aptitudes and suggested having tests for selecting those persons most suited for the military, artisans and rulers (Tyler, 1965). Hippocrates proposed a two-fold classification system of body builds which he called ”habitus apoplecticus” and ”habitus phthisicus” (Tyler, 1965). The nineteenth century German astronomer, Bessel, discovered discrepancies among individuals in recording the time of the passage of stars across the meridian at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. This source of error, due to individual differences, became known as the ”personal …

Stages Of Adult Development For Women Religious And Married Women, Ellen Rufft

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the stages in the adult development of single women living in religious communities and compare these stages with those of married women. Specific research questions about each five year period from age 21 to 50 were answered by this study.

Questionnaires were sent to 200 women religious and 200 married women between the ages of 36 and 50 who live in the Pittsburgh area and are white, middle-class, and Catholic. In addition to requesting biographical information, these questionnaires asked participants to specify which five year period in their lives they experienced certain …

Components Of State Anxiety For Varying Levels And Dimensions Of Trait Anxiety, Dennis C. Donat

Theses and Dissertations

Recent research has provided support for a multidimensional view of trait anxiety to supplant the former unidimensional approach. Unidimensional measures of general trait anxiety have been found to be inadequate as predictors of state anxiety reactions across a wide variety of situations. As such, they are poor measures of general trait anxiety. The present investigation was conducted to examine the possible utility of a single anxiety trait score, summed from the subscales of the Stimulus - Response Inventory of General Trait Anxiety (S-R GTA), a multidimensional measure of trait anxiety, in supplementing the ability of individual subscale scores to predict …

An Investigation Of Identity And Self-Esteem In Traditional Married Women During Their Middle Years, And The Impact Of The Life Planning Seminar, Susan E. Ellett

Theses and Dissertations

There is contradictory evidence as to whether the middle years are problematic for women. The research indicates that the middle years, particularly the empty nest period, are traumatic for some women, but for others a time of relief. More recent research suggests that for women who do find the middle years problematic, certain types of group experiences may be helpful. The purpose of this study was to investigate this time of life for a specific population of women, traditional married women who have devoted their time primarily to raising a family. This study examined identity and self-esteem in these women …

Effects Of Cognitive Set On The Physiological, Subjective, And Behavioral Responses To Fearful Stimuli, Jerome D. Gilmore

Theses and Dissertations

This research investigated the effects of cognitive set on the physiological, subjective, and motoric responses of fearful and non-fearful subjects exposed to specific fear stimuli. High, moderate, and low mutilation fear subjects were given instructions designed to persuade them that they were or were not afraid of mutilation stimuli. The extent to which instructions differentially affected subjects in the three fear groups and produced differential effects on responses in the three modalities was examined. The degree to which the physiological, self-report, and behavioral channels responded concordantly was also investigated.

A series of hypotheses were derived which generally indicated that high-fear …

Mental Health Services For Ontario Correctional Clients, Benjamin Clyde Hoffman

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Human services and program evaluation literature suggests that correctional policy must be formulated in the context of an Empirical Penology that begins with the data of corrections (Conrad, 1973; Newman and Price, 1977; Law Reform Commission of Canada, 1976). The Ontario Ministry of Correctional Services is currently involved in policy discussions concerning the future provision of mental health service to its clients. As part of its discussions, a Ministry Task Force is examining mental health service delivery models. However, standardized descriptive data of the existing client target population and the current service are not available. Comprehensive service evaluation are also …

Developing A Sense Of Community: A Description Of The Process And Theoretical Considerations, Patricia Irene Mcinnis

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This study develops an understanding of the process of community development. The first part of the study presents a historical and theoretical consideration of the value of a psychological sense of community and the absence of this in today’s society. This section also introduces the concept of community development and its potential for creating a sense of community within a specific locality.

The research approach is described and is supplemented by an explanation of the role of the researcher as a part of the setting. The researcher’s entry and effort to gain a sense of legitimation in the setting is …

Planning Ahead Before And During The Retirement Years: Its Relation To Life Satisfaction And Self-Concept Age For Retired Males, Mary Elizabeth Close

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Forty retired males participated in interviews concerning amounts and types of planning before retirement and for the future, self-concept age, and life satisfaction. Twenty males who were 65 to 69 years of age were designated the “Newcomers” and twenty who were 70 to 75 years of age were designated the “Veterans.”

It was hypothesized that, as the amount of planning increased (None to Low to Medium to High), life satisfaction (L-SAT) would also increase to a maximal level after which it would decrease. Also, an inverted curved relationship was hypothesized for self-concept age in that, as self-concept age decreased, L-SAT …

An Evaluation Of Theoretical And Empirical Models Of Satisfaction With Occupational Choice Among Senior High School Students, Lissa Alexandra Cornwell

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The purpose of the present research was to assess dimensions of occupational choice of 99 male and 137 female grade twelve and thirteen high school students. The primary vehicle for this assessment was the application of Harren, Kass, Tinsley, & Moreland’s (1978) model of satisfaction with choice of major by college students. This theoretically generated and empirically tested model examines the relative infleunces of gender, sex role orientation, decision making style, and decision making process on decisional status defined by Harren et al. as satisfaction with choice. The 237 participants completed a Student Demographic Survey, the Bem Sex Role Inventory, …

Community Residential Environments For Mentally Retarded Adults: Staff Attitudes And Practices Regarding Resident Dependence And Independence, Diane Conway

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

A study was conducted to investigate staff attitudes and everyday behaviors and their relationship to the independence of mentally retarded adults in four community residences. Questionnaires administered to 15 front-line staff persons measured their perceptions of the amount of external control (situations in which staff assume control over residents’ environments), personal control (situations in which staff encourage of allow residents to exert control over their own environments), and shared control (situations in which staff encourage shared responsibility between staff and residents in exerting control over the environment). The questionnaires tapped staff perceptions of the degree to which each of these …

Pigeon Short-Term Memory: The Effects Of Intertrial Interval Duration And Illumination In A Successive Delayed Matching-To-Sample Procedure, Vic Grossi

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The aim of this research was to examine the effects of illumination and intertrial interval duration on pigeon short-term memory, using a successive matching-to-sample procedure. In phrase one the retention interval was manipulated individually for each bird. During the second phase, a correction procedure was implemented in order to reduce the number of responses made to non-match comparison stimuli. In the third phase, the birds were returned to a common baseline, in order to observe what effect elimination of the correction procedure had on the bird’s performance. In the final phase of the research, after achieving stable performance in the …