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The Effects Of Relaxation And Laughter On The Perceived Intensity And Affect Of Pain Tolerance., Simon Davies Jan 1989

The Effects Of Relaxation And Laughter On The Perceived Intensity And Affect Of Pain Tolerance., Simon Davies

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study described the effect of relaxation and laughter on the perceived intensity and affect of pain induced by a cold water pressor test. Equal numbers of female athletic and non-athletic subjects (N = 36) were selected from varsity athletes and undergraduates at Louisiana State University. All subjects were pre-tested on their tolerance to a cold water pressor test. Responses on visual analogue scales for perceived pain intensity (I) and affect (A), and submersion time were recorded. The volunteer subjects were randomly assigned to one of three groups: relaxation-inducing, laughter-inducing, or control. Following a 20 minute exposure to the audio …

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Leader Behavior, Organizational Effectiveness And Job Satisfaction Of Vocational Teachers In Malaysia., Ahmad Mohammad Sharif Jan 1989

Leader Behavior, Organizational Effectiveness And Job Satisfaction Of Vocational Teachers In Malaysia., Ahmad Mohammad Sharif

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purposes of this study were to identify the relationships of the perceptions of both leader behavior and organizational effectiveness to the job satisfaction of vocational teachers in vocational schools in Malaysia. Nine social and demographic characteristics of respondents were also investigated. The study was also aimed at determining the relative influence of the selected factors on the job satisfaction of respondents. A simple random sample of 250 teachers was selected, of whom 225 responded. The Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) - long form was used to measure job satisfaction, while the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire and the Index of Perceived …

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Re-Inventing The Public Sphere: Critical Theory, Social Responsibility, Schools, And The Press., John Pace Konopak Jan 1989

Re-Inventing The Public Sphere: Critical Theory, Social Responsibility, Schools, And The Press., John Pace Konopak

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examines the contemporary discourses of journalism and pedagogy from the standpoint of critical theory to assess the impact of technocratic rationality and instrumental logic on the practices of communication and education. It is premised on the observation that, spurred by the imperatives of trans-national capital accumulation, privatization inimical to democratic interests has begun to colonize public education. The study represents an effort to reactivate a concept and rhetoric of "social responsibility" that would animate a project of reclaiming cultural space to be occupied by a "public sphere," in a struggle analagous to that waged against feudalism and monarchical …

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Effect Of Knowledge On Teachers' Interactive Thinking And Children's Overhand Throwing Performance., Edward Walkwitz Jan 1989

Effect Of Knowledge On Teachers' Interactive Thinking And Children's Overhand Throwing Performance., Edward Walkwitz

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined the effects of knowledge of subject matter (overhand throwing) and of throwing-specific instructional strategies on teacher's interactive thinking. The impact of these two categories of teacher knowledge on lesson objectives, the quality of skill practice, and kindergartners' overhand throwing development over a unit of instruction were also explored. Eight kindergarten classroom teachers who possessed high generic teaching skill competence taught a six-week overhand throwing unit to the children (N = 150) in their intact classes. Prior to the unit, four of the teachers were exposed to a training program that increased their knowledge of overhand throwing. Four …

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Race Relations And Community Development: The Education Of Blacks In New Orleans, 1862-1960., Donald E. Devore Jan 1989

Race Relations And Community Development: The Education Of Blacks In New Orleans, 1862-1960., Donald E. Devore

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Throughout the history of the United States individuals and groups have used education as a means to improve their status in America--economically, politically, and socially. When slaves gained their freedom between 1862 and 1865, they, too, looked to education as a way to ameliorate the harmful effects of over two hundred years of slavery. In New Orleans freedmen and those free before the war viewed education almost as a panacea to the many problems within the black community. Black New Orleanians realized, of course, that the gains derived from education would take time to filter throughout the entire community. During …

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The Effects Of Type A Behavior And Anger-Proneness On Psychophysiological Response To Fear And Anger Imagery And An Anger Provocation, Mark J. Hurry May 1988

The Effects Of Type A Behavior And Anger-Proneness On Psychophysiological Response To Fear And Anger Imagery And An Anger Provocation, Mark J. Hurry

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A Behavioral Test Of The Affinity-Seeking Model: Nonverbal Tactics Among Strangers And Acquaintances., Dominique Marie Gendrin Jan 1988

A Behavioral Test Of The Affinity-Seeking Model: Nonverbal Tactics Among Strangers And Acquaintances., Dominique Marie Gendrin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This research examined the Affinity-Seeking model devised by Bell and Daly (1984). Two components of the model were considered: preinteraction expectancies constraining a social encounter and the competency of the individual as an affinity-seeker. It was hypothesized that strangers would approach a friendly target through the reciprocity strategy and an unfriendly target through the compensatory strategy by increasing behavioral cues of immediacy (e.g., eye-gaze, smiling/laughter, verbalizations, and proximity). It was hypothesized, on the other hand, that acquaintances would not increase their behavioral involvement in view of a friendly expectancy while they would compensate for an unfriendly one. The findings revealed …

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The Measure Of Adolescent Social Competence (Masc): Development And Initial Validation., Timothy Augustine Cavell Jan 1988

The Measure Of Adolescent Social Competence (Masc): Development And Initial Validation., Timothy Augustine Cavell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Measure of Adolescent Social Competence (MASC) was designed to offer a clinically practical way to assess adolescent social function within relevant contexts. The MASC is a 50-item, self-report measure constructed via the following steps: (a) item generation (N = 271 subjects from grades 7, 9, and 11); (b) item selection and development (N = 604 subjects from grades 7, 9, and 11); (c) response enumeration (N = 154 subjects from grades 7, 9, and 11); and (d) response evaluation by adult raters (e.g., parents, teachers, counselors). Initial validation of the MASC examined its relation to peer nominations, teacher ratings …

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Musical Reverberations: Echoes Of Friedrich Schlegel And Heinrich Heine In Nietzsche's Dionysian Aesthetics., Linda Fallon Duncan Jan 1988

Musical Reverberations: Echoes Of Friedrich Schlegel And Heinrich Heine In Nietzsche's Dionysian Aesthetics., Linda Fallon Duncan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Not only did Friedrich Nietzsche acknowledge his stylistic affinity for Heinrich Heine, but both writers--despite their overt criticism of certain aspects of German Romanticism--manifest significant parallels in style with the aesthetic formulations of the Romantic theorist Friedrich Schlegel for a new direction in contemporary literature. Friedrich Schlegel's Fragment 116 of the Athenaum, for example, designates this new poetic direction as "progressive universal poetry," and characterizes it as a poetic form capable of embracing the fluctuating multiplicity of the surrounding world as well as reflecting the developing ideas and individual personality of the poet-creator. The paradoxical result is a poetry that …

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The Relation Of Teacher Feedback To Student Achievement In Learning Selected Tennis Skills., Tony Eghan Jan 1988

The Relation Of Teacher Feedback To Student Achievement In Learning Selected Tennis Skills., Tony Eghan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study assessed the impact of teacher feedback on student achievement in learning three tennis skills (forehand, backhand, and the serve). It also described teacher feedback patterns in teaching beginning tennis. Subjects consisted of a professional tennis instructor and 40 undergraduate male and female students enrolled in two beginning tennis classes. Fifteen 30-min instructional sessions were videotaped and audiotaped within a 10-week period. Subjects were pretested and posttested on the three tennis skills. The tapes were coded for type and frequency of teacher feedback. The mean occurrence of teacher feedback directed to individual students was about 1 (M = 1.4, …

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'You Are About To Begin Reading': The Nature And Function Of Second Person Point Of View In Narrative., Darlene Marie Hantzis Jan 1988

'You Are About To Begin Reading': The Nature And Function Of Second Person Point Of View In Narrative., Darlene Marie Hantzis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study asserts that second person point of view functions as a distinct category of point of view, which has been discounted by critical theorists. Second person point of view is defined in this study as a particular use of the second person pronoun. The "you" in second person point of view texts generates an alternating pattern of identification and displacement that constructs an intersubjectivity among narrative elements--narrator, actant, and narratee(s). Therefore, common uses of the "you" to refer only to the reader (narratee) of a text or to the actant in a text do not constitute second person point …

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Entity Relationship Approach To Knowledge Base Systems., Sreerama Krishna Karukonda Jan 1988

Entity Relationship Approach To Knowledge Base Systems., Sreerama Krishna Karukonda

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A unified framework for knowledge base systems is proposed based on Entity-Relationship (ER) approach. Following the analysis and the specification of the real-world using Entity-Relationship approach, the knowledge base is implemented as a first-order logic system, a production system, or a frame-based system by mapping the appropriate symbolic data structures. An approach for analyzing and specifying real-world perceptions must provide appropriate semantic primitives. Therefore, a justification is provided for the semantic primitives proposed in Entity-Relationship approach by considering the fundamental issues in perception. A notation that allows Entity-Relationship approach to be used as a holistic representation is presented. Translation rules …

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The Relative Effects Of Salespersons' Ratings On Ability And Effort Criteria., Sandra Edwards Mckay Jan 1988

The Relative Effects Of Salespersons' Ratings On Ability And Effort Criteria., Sandra Edwards Mckay

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Performance appraisal is a crucial function of sales managers. Often, performance appraisal information is used as a basis for decisions relating to pay, promotion, and termination. Such decisions can have a substantial impact on the motivation, satisfaction, and productivity of members of the sales force. Despite its importance, little research has investigated the way in which decisions concerning salesperson performance are made. The primary goal of this research was to examine the relative effects of salespeople's ability and effort on decisions relating to promotion, compensation, transfer, and termination. A secondary purpose was to see if salesperson sex influenced these decisions. …

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Thinking Processes, Management Routines And Student Perceptions Of Expert And Novice Physical Education Teachers., Karyn R. Nelson Jan 1988

Thinking Processes, Management Routines And Student Perceptions Of Expert And Novice Physical Education Teachers., Karyn R. Nelson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined thought processes including problem-solving and interpretations of instructional situations of expert and novice physical education teachers at two grade levels. Four expert and four novice teachers (two each at the third grade and two each at the seventh grade) participated in the study. Thoughts, concerns, decisions, and awarenesses of expert and novice teachers during instruction were evaluated as well as their students' perceptions of the instruction. A total of 144 students were interviewed. Class rules and management routines established during the first week of the school year by two of the expert teachers (one at each grade …

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Cogmir: A Computer Model For Knowledge Integration., Zheng Xin Chen Jan 1988

Cogmir: A Computer Model For Knowledge Integration., Zheng Xin Chen

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Knowledge integration is an important topic for knowledge engineering. In this dissertation, we explore some aspects of knowledge integration, namely, accumulation of scientific knowledge and performing analogical reasoning on the acquired knowledge. Knowledge to be integrated is conveyed by paragraph-like pieces, these pieces will be referred to as documents. By incorporating some results from cognitive science, the Deutsch-Kraft model of information retrieval is extended to a model for knowledge engineering, which integrates acquired knowledge and performs intelligent retrieval. The resulting computer model is termed COGMIR, which stands for a COGnitive Model for Intelligent Retrieval. A scheme, named query invoked memory …

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Effectiveness Of The Healthy Weight Workshop On Weight Management Practices Of Paraprofessional Personnel Of The Cooperative Extension Service., Elizabeth S. Reames Jan 1988

Effectiveness Of The Healthy Weight Workshop On Weight Management Practices Of Paraprofessional Personnel Of The Cooperative Extension Service., Elizabeth S. Reames

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was designed to investigate the effects of participation by black female paraprofessionals in a weight management workshop on selected indices including dietary intake, nutrition knowledge, exercise practices, eating behaviors, anthropometric measurements and sick leave hours used. Nineteen subjects from one urban site were selected to participate in the workshop and 18 subjects from another urban site served as the comparison group. Data were collected from both groups one week before, one week after and six months following the workshop. Measurements obtained before the workshop showed that the two groups had similar characteristics and pretest scores. Anthropometric measurements indicated …

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Aspects Of Vowel Perception By Normal Hearing And Hearing Impaired Listeners., Joan Marie Besing Jan 1988

Aspects Of Vowel Perception By Normal Hearing And Hearing Impaired Listeners., Joan Marie Besing

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The effect of durational differences on the identification of vowel tokens was studied using ten normal hearing and six hearing impaired subjects. Stimuli were synthetically generated and varied in duration of the steady state, durations of the initial and final transitions and F1/F2/F3 location. Listeners were required to identify the given vowel token from a set of ten possible alternatives. The results from the normal hearing group supported the established effects of duration on the perception of vowels. However, these effects were different depending on the frequency locations of F1/F2/F3. Further, changes in the duration of the initial transition had …

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"Enantiodromia" By Jani Christou And An Original Composition, "Symphony No. 1"., Aristocles Carastathis Jan 1988

"Enantiodromia" By Jani Christou And An Original Composition, "Symphony No. 1"., Aristocles Carastathis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation consists of two parts: an analysis of a composition entitled Enantiodromia by Greek composer Jani Christou as it relates to the general musical style of his late works, and an original composition by the author entitled Symphony No. 1 for full orchestra. The purpose of Part One is to familiarize the reader with Christou's approach to composition, especially as it is evident in his late works. This part is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter attention is given to the biographical background of the composer emphasizing the philosophical influences on his music and providing a chronological …

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Lsu General Catalog 1988-1989, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1988

Lsu General Catalog 1988-1989, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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Comprehension And Memory Of A Sexual Script: A Test Of Schema/Scripting Theory., Janis Ruth Kirsch Jan 1988

Comprehension And Memory Of A Sexual Script: A Test Of Schema/Scripting Theory., Janis Ruth Kirsch

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Cognitive scientists have studied how individuals process non-sexual text, and schema/scripting theory appears to be a useful way of conceptualizing their findings. This study applied schema/scripting theory findings to sexual text and predicted that Atypical or unnecessary script actions would initially be remembered better than Typical script actions, but that over time Typical script actions would be remembered better as the generic script becomes increasingly important. The present study also incorporated findings from another line of research relevant to schema/scripting theory and predicted that the perspective taken by the reader while reading a story about a sexual encounter would affect …

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An Analysis Of Rice Import Demand In Selected Asian Economies., Wijepala Rupasinghe Jayawardana Jan 1988

An Analysis Of Rice Import Demand In Selected Asian Economies., Wijepala Rupasinghe Jayawardana

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The primary purpose of this study was to analyze the rice import demand behavior in seven Asian countries namely, India, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Three rice import demand models were estimated, the direct demand model which treats imports as a function of border prices and income, the residual import demand model where the imports are the excess of consumption over domestic production, and the reduced form model which incorporates both domestic demand and supply variables. Import demand functions were estimated by the ordinary least squares (OLS) method. Seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) was …

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The Relationship Between Learned Sexual Values And Adjustment In A Prison Setting., James William Robinson Jan 1988

The Relationship Between Learned Sexual Values And Adjustment In A Prison Setting., James William Robinson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The degree of environmental control exerted by female inmates was examined as a function of gender role identity. The sample was obtained at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, the only female prison in the state. The prison environment was assumed to offer very few control options. The options studied were those under the direct authorization of the social services division of the prison, and from individuals external to the prison. It was assumed that the flexibility found in androgynous individuals would allow for a greater level of perceived control than with either the masculine or feminine gender role identity …

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Lessons Of The Masters: Social Tension As A Creative Necessity In The Fiction Of Hawthorne, James, And Joyce., Craig Arthur Milliman Jan 1988

Lessons Of The Masters: Social Tension As A Creative Necessity In The Fiction Of Hawthorne, James, And Joyce., Craig Arthur Milliman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A study of talented characters reveals that three of the most influential novelists in English dealt with the often disabling image of the artist they had inherited from their Romantic forebears by insisting on dialectical tension between the artist and society as essential to the creation of literary art. The various talented characters in Hawthorne's short fiction, such as Aylmer, Rappaccini, Oberon, the Canterbury poet, the portrait painter of "The Prophetic Pictures," the woodcarver Drowne, and Owen Warland, fail to create art unless they retain certain links with their societies of origin. This tension between artist and society appears as …

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A Community Sample's Knowledge Of, Judgment Of, And Attitudes Toward Childrearing And Child Abuse., Harriet Schoenberg Williams Jan 1988

A Community Sample's Knowledge Of, Judgment Of, And Attitudes Toward Childrearing And Child Abuse., Harriet Schoenberg Williams

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The present study addressed an important void in the literature of child abuse prevention. The challenge in empirical development of preventive education in child abuse to the public lies in the identification of specific target behaviors which are (1) related to potential child abuse, and (2) amenable to education. This investigation examined individual's expectations, attitudes and beliefs toward childrearing, as well as individual's knowledge of childrearing and behavioral child management techniques. Data generated in this study also evaluated the presence of differential judgments of child abuse in a community sample. Two hundred and eighty-two community volunteers participated in this study. …

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The Dark Side Of Paradise: Race And Ethnicity In The Novels Of F. Scott Fitzgerald., Felipe Smith Jan 1988

The Dark Side Of Paradise: Race And Ethnicity In The Novels Of F. Scott Fitzgerald., Felipe Smith

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

According to author and scholar Ralph Ellison, the writers of the early twentieth century (with the exception of Faulkner) adopted Mark Twain's stylistic innovations in pursuit of their personal myth instead of "recreating and extending the national myth" by continuing Twain's development of "the Negro as the symbol of man." To Ellison, these writers had capitulated to a strong current prevalent in American thought: American self-definition in racially exclusive terms. They presented as reality stereotyped portrayals of blacks and other ethnic minorities which served as "key figure (s) in a magic rite by which the white American seeks to resolve …

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"The Trouble I'Ve Seen": Visions And Revisions Of Bondage, Flight, And Freedom In Black American Autobiography., David Lewis Dudley Jan 1988

"The Trouble I'Ve Seen": Visions And Revisions Of Bondage, Flight, And Freedom In Black American Autobiography., David Lewis Dudley

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation, an historical overview of black American autobiography from Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X, examines a recurring pattern and two related themes in the genre. Ever since the escaped slave narratives established bondage, flight, and freedom as the three-part pattern of their organization, black autobiographers have employed these same elements to tell their life stories. The creation of the free "I" is the pervasive theme of black American autobiography, freedom being won and the autobiographical self established through a symbolic struggle against and victory over a powerful father figure. This figure may be the paternalistic white culture in which …

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The Relation Between Major Life Events, Minor Events And Psychological Distress., James Cook Gilchrist Jan 1988

The Relation Between Major Life Events, Minor Events And Psychological Distress., James Cook Gilchrist

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The relation between life events and psychological distress has been a subject of considerable interest in recent years. Most previous research has focused on major life events. The present study investigated the role of minor daily events and their relation to symptoms of depression, anxiety and global psychological distress. Two scoring approaches were used for both types of events; frequency of occurrence and the subjective weighting of each occurrence. A total of one hundred and ninety one subjects volunteered from the community. Each subject completed the daily stress scale each day for seven consecutive days. At the end of the …

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Arguing Affect: The Rhetoric Of Peripheral Persuasion., Lewis Blaine Hershey Ii Jan 1988

Arguing Affect: The Rhetoric Of Peripheral Persuasion., Lewis Blaine Hershey Ii

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study explores the theoretical parameters of peripheral persuasion. Chapter one reviews social scientific approaches to the study of persuasion from researchers in communication theory, psychology, and marketing. This review reveals a bifurcation of the persuasion concept into cognitive and affective dimensions. After demonstrating a bias in social scientific research for the cognitive dimensions of persuasion, chapter one links the affective dimensions of persuasion with the concept of peripheral persuasion and emerging trends in rhetorical theory that emphasize narrative models of communication. Chapter two scrutinizes the distinction between cognitive or central routes to persuasion and affective or peripheral routes to …

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Adjustment Of Spouses With Caregiving Of Mentally Impaired, Physically Impaired, And Nonimpaired Elderly., Audrey Kay Sistler Jan 1988

Adjustment Of Spouses With Caregiving Of Mentally Impaired, Physically Impaired, And Nonimpaired Elderly., Audrey Kay Sistler

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In this research the relationship between coping, controllability, developmental level, and subjective well-being was examined within the context of caring for an impaired spouse. Seventy-seven older persons in three different categories participated in the study: (a) individuals who cared for a mentally impaired spouse, (b) individuals who cared for a physically impaired spouse, and (c) individuals who lived with a non-impaired spouse. Results indicated that the the non-caregivers had a higher level of well-being than caregivers of the physically impaired and caregivers of the mentally impaired. Caregivers of the mentally impaired individuals sought more social support and engaged in more …

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Diabetic And Normal Children's Understanding Of Illness Causality., Randi C. Mcallister Jan 1988

Diabetic And Normal Children's Understanding Of Illness Causality., Randi C. Mcallister

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine developmental levels of the understanding of illness causality among diabetic children as compared to normal children. Thirty diabetic and 30 normal children were interviewed in order to measure their conceptual understanding of various illnesses and of diabetes. The subjects were also tested on a set of conservation tasks in order to determine their general level of cognitive development. The data analysis consisted of multivariable analysis of variance; analysis of variance with each of the two illness interviews as a dependent measure; analysis of covariance; a correlation of scores on the conservation tasks …

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