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Religion And Sex-Guilt: Implications For Women, Gail M. Althaus

Graduate Research Papers

In the therapeutic environment, clients present issues of sexuality at continually increasing rates (Bruess & Greenberg, 1988; Gordon, 1976). Current research supports the hypothesis that religion influences sexuality across a wide range of attitudes and behaviors (Bullis & Harrigan, 1992). The mental health professional, in order to create effective interventions, must be prepared to understand and address clients' religious and sexual issues (Bullis & Harrigan, 1992; Gray & House, 1991).

Northern Iowa Softball 1994, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

--1994 Alphabetical Roster
--Contents --1
--General Information --1
--Softball Quick Facts --1
--Department of Intercollegiate Athletics --1
--1994 Softball Outlook --2
--Head Coach Meredith Bakley --3
--Assistant/Pitching Coach Dr. Gene Bruhn --3
--Panther Profiles --4-6
--Seniors --4
--Juniors & Sophomores --5
--Newcomers --6
--1994 Opponent Facts --7-8
--All-Time Series Records --9
--Missouri Valley Conference --10
--1993 Missouri Valley Conference Standings --10
--1993 Missouri Valley All-Conference Teams --10
--1993 Season Results --11
--1993 Panther Softball Stats --12
--Division I Records (Since 1983) --13
--Year by Year Results --14-15
--This is Northern Iowa --16
--First Class Facilities --17
--1994 Northern Iowa …

Northern Iowa Today, V77n2, Winter 1994, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

UNI Today

Inside This Issue:
--Getting off the couch
--Health lifestyle choices are key to successful health care reform
--Departments Quest for Wellness in the workplace
--A "well" place to teach wellness
--Wellness program is pushing the limits of our facilities
--Decade at risk
--The 36 pages that jolted education
--Taking a ride on the information highway
--Research potential in the electronic universe
--A decade of leadership
--A conversation with President Constantine W. Curris
--Alumni Profile: James Barron
--Appreciating the differences
--College & University
--Class notes
--Perspective
--Make the healthy choice the easy choice

The Need For Expanding School Choice In Iowa, Dean W. Lemke

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Allowing parents and students freedom of school choice is the established state policy in Iowa. Because of the success of this policy, further expansion of the existing public funding of elementary and secondary school choice is needed to provide Iowa families full choice of public and nonpublic schools.

My perspective is that of an Iowa native who attended a public school, is an engineering graduate of a state university in Iowa, and has been employed 22 years in public service. My wife is from a family of public school teachers and has taught in public schools for 20 years. Our …

Iowa Journal Of Communication, Volume 26, Number 2, Fall 1994 [Download Entire Issue]

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

Marking Gender In Solitude: Ritual Exclusivity In The "Mens' Movement", Monika P. Strom

Iowa Journal of Communication

The search for self-actualization that once drew Henry David Thoreau to the woods of Walden now prompts thousands of men to pack up emotional baggage for a weekend's commune with other men in the great outdoors. As participants in the so-called "men's movement" of the 1990s, their object is to "know deeply who you are as a man. Realize you are not alone" (Stanton 116). The men's movement is more accurately a coagulation of equal rights activism, consciousness-raising, academic men's studies, and mythopoetic "Wild Man" ritualism. The trends share a groping toward self-understanding, as well as recognition of the need …

Hazing In U.S. Fraternities And Sororities, Lisa Melancon

Graduate Research Papers

Due to the high occurrences of accidents and incidents from hazing, the public is addressing the moral and legal issues of hazing in fraternities and sororities. Accidents as a result of fraternity and sorority pledging has been a hot topic of discussion for over the past ten years in higher education. 1 There have been numerous incidents where one or more persons were injured or killed participating in sorority or fraternity initiations.

Silencing Voices By Celebration: The Paradox Of "The Year Of The Woman", Suzanne M. Daughton

Iowa Journal of Communication

One particularly ironic paradox of contemporary American society is that one of the most successful rhetorical strategies for silencing a voice is to celebrate that voice. The celebrator becomes a (mis)interpreter whose message is louder, and more widely received, than the original. In this essay I will argue that this is precisely what happened to the voices and concerns of women in the 1992 United States presidential campaign.

The Diagnosis Of Multiple Personality Disorder In Adults, Sandra L. Larkin

Graduate Research Papers

Professional interest in multiple personality disorder (MPD) was heightened by the 1973 report of the treatment of "Sybil" (Lindsley, 1992), who had sixteen alternate personalities (Kluft, 1984; Rathus & Nevid, 1991). It was not until 1980, however, that the American Psychiatric Association recognized MPD as a legitimate mental illness (Smolowe, 1990). MPD, long considered a rarity, is being diagnosed, treated, and researched with increasing frequency (Kluft, 1984). Knowledge and recognition of the disorder are essential to its proper treatment (Lindsley, 1992). This paper will present a literature review of the development and diagnosis of this disorder.

Review Of David Arnason's Fifty Stories And A Piece Of Advice, John Streamas

Short Story

No abstract provided.

Postdivorce Variables Related To Children's Adjustment To Their Parents' Divorce, David J. Berns

Graduate Research Papers

The divorce rate has steadily increased in the United States. In 1960, fewer than 10 out of every 1,000 marriages ended in divorce, but the figure more than doubled by 1980 (Cherlin, 1981, cited in Emery, Hetherington & DiLalla, 1985). In 1984, 50 percent of all first marriages ended in divorce (Glick, 1984) with an even higher rate of divorce for remarriages (Berns, 1985). Many of these divorces involve children. With estimates of at least 50 percent of the children born in the 1980s likely to find themselves in a divorce situation before their 18th birthday (Glick & Lin, 1986), …

The Ability Of Children With Specific Language Impairment To Comprehend Contrastive Stress In Sentences, Nicole M. Vancleave

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

Recently, researchers have studied the ability of children with specific language impairment to produce various prosodic cues, including contrastive stress (Ellis Weismer, 1992). However, there is a lack of information about the abilities of such children to comprehend this information. The purpose of the present study is to examine the capabilities of children with specific language impairment to comprehend contrastive stress in a variety of sentences.

A Road Map For Consensus Building A Road Map For Consensus Building, David H. Swim

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Throughout the history of our nation, education has been controversial as individuals and various groups (administrators, businesses, philosophers, politicians, parents, religious groups, students, teachers) have expressed their concern about the quality of American education. In most geographic regions/states there has been an unresolved debate regarding the definition of education, the relationship between school and community/society, the distribution of decision-making power in educational matters, and the means for improving all aspects of our educational systems. Therefore, it is the opinion of this author that a road map for negotiating the twists and turns of this diverse and bewildering landscape needs to …

Interview With Bharati Mukherjee, Scott Cawelti

Short Story

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Students’ Performance In Physics Achievement Between Prisms Learning Cycle Approach And The Traditional Teaching Methods In A Selected Rural High School In Taiwan, Frank Feng-Sen Li

Graduate Research Papers

The main purpose of the study is to investigate comparative consequences between two teaching approaches. The PRISMS approach and a non-PRISMS traditional approach, were employed in this study. Students' attitude towards physics related to those two teaching approaches is also examined.

In order to obtain statistically significant results, a sample with 180 11th grade young people was randomly chosen from the population of 565 students. Several scholastic assessment instruments were used to test students' achievement and examine students' attitudes towards physics. Integrated Process Skills Test II, High School Physics Test I, and Force Concept Inventory were employed as tests in …

Factors Associated With Self-Esteem, Sex-Role, And Academic Achievement Among Adolescents, Shiou-Shiang Juor

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this research was to investigate factors associated with self-esteem, sex-role, and academic achievement among adolescents. Subjects were high school students ranging from 9th to 10th grade. Three forms were used in this study: the Bem sex-role Inventory, the Coopersmith Self-esteem Inventory (CSEI) and the Attitude toward Achievement Inventory. Results showed that adolescents classified as masculine or androgynous in gender-role orientation were found to have higher self esteem than adolescents classified as feminine or undifferented. Further, the adolescents classified as androgynous and masculine had higher ability in academic achievement as measured by grade point average. The results also …

Editorial Board & Iowa Academy Of Science Officers And Directors

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Of The Iowa Academy Of Science, 1993-94, Paul E. Rider

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

Since 1976, annual reports have served as a continuing record of the activities of the Iowa Academy of Science and an archive for its history. These augment the 100 year IAS history written in the centennial year of 1975.

This report covers the period from July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1994. It is based on the official records of the Academy (committee reports, Board minutes, correspondence) as well as the recollections, impressions and thoughts of the author.

Editorial Board & Iowa Academy Of Science Officers And Directors

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

No abstract provided.

Traumatic Brain Injury, Kris Marie Franzen

Graduate Research Papers

During my freshman year in college, I met many interesting students, professors, and professionals. One of my most memorable acquaintances was with a young gentleman, approximately 19 years old, whose physical appearance and personality was relatively different from most other students on campus. As I spent the first few weeks of precalculus class sitting directly behind him, I became increasingly puzzled by his peculiar speech and his persistent need to have mathematical concepts and instructions continuously repeated. During mealtime, I regularly observed him sitting alone or with "superficial" friends in the same general section of the resident's dining area. His …

Iowa's Wolf In Populist Clothing: Norman Baker, 1925-1936, Eric Scott Juhnke

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

During the depression years of the late 1920s and 1930s, Muscatine, Iowa's Norman Baker stood as both a powerful and controversial figure in rural eastern Iowa. Baker's successful business empire, which at its height included a radio station, mail order enterprise, newspaper, magazine, and a cancer quackery hospital, earned the Muscatine tycoon millions of dollars in revenue over the course of a decade. Despite this business success, Baker's brash personality, vituperative broadcasting style, and fraudulent medical claims were subjects of constant controversy.

Considering both Baker's suspect reputation and the poor agricultural conditions of the day, the question remains: How did …

Perceptions Of Special Education Adolescent Students Toward Mainstreamed Classrooms, Linda L. Hansen

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to examine the perception of special education adolescent students toward mainstreamed, regular education classrooms and to determine if their perception differs from that of their non-handicapped peers. Students in grades 6 through 8, located in an urban, midwestern middle school, participated in the study. Of the 202 students consenting to participate, 37 were special education students and 165 were non-special education students. The eight participating classes were team taught by the special education teachers and regular education teachers (RSDS model) in content area subjects. Participating special education adolescents were classified as non-categorically disabled; it …

Concurrent Validity Of The Multiple Stressor Attribution Inventory, Heidi Minette Endelman

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to examine the concurrent validity of an instrument designed to measure children's attributional style. This instrument, the Multiple Stressor Attribution Inventory (MSAI), was designed by Dr. William Panak. The subjects in the study were 132 elementary students from a suburban setting in the Midwest. In the Spring of 1993, the MSAI along with the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ; Kaslow, Tanenbaum, & Seligman, 1978), the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI; Kovacs & Beck, 1977), the Hopelessness Scale for Children (HSC; Kazdin, Rodgas, & Colbus, 1986), and the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Anxiety and Depression (MAACL-AD) …

An Evaluation Of A Preschool Tutorial Program, Jody Lee Sunde

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The University of Northern Iowa Center for Urban Education (UNI-CUE), located in Waterloo, Iowa, offers a variety of programs, including the Academic Skills Achievement Program (ASAP). The Academic Skills Achievement Program is designed to provide tutoring services, addressing both academic and social needs, to children in a variety of educational settings. The tutors are university undergraduates who provide a community service while at the same time earning two hours of elective credit. The target of this evaluation is one component of the Academic Skills Achievement Program, specifically the Head Start site located at UNI-CUE. The purpose of this evaluation is …

The Effectiveness Of Two Organizational Strategies In Sixth Grade Social Studies, Liesa Brobst Bailey

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two organizational strategies (outlining and mapping) in sixth grade social studies. Furthermore, the study sought to determine if the effectiveness of these strategies was dependent upon student learning preference; sequential or global. The effectiveness of the two organizational strategies was determined by comparing differences in group mean scores, using a 2 x 2 factorial ANOVA repeated over one factor (organizational strategy used). The study was replicated a second time. Students were asked to read and study information on the Canadian province, Nova Scotia, using the strategy: outlining and mapping, …

Aids Knowledge And Homophobia In Community Active Elderly, Lydia Heyel Adams

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to identify the level of AIDS knowledge and presence of homophobia among a group of community active elderly in the Cedar Falls-Waterloo area. Demographic factors including gender, age, education level, annual income, religious faith, level of religious activity, personal knowledge of a person who is gay, personal knowledge of a person with HIV/AIDS, history of a blood transfusion, and history of HIV testing were also assessed to determine if they had a statistically significant effect on AIDS knowledge and homophobia. The relationship between AIDS knowledge and homophobia was also examined to determine if they …

Use Of The Experiential Learning Model With Adolescent County 4-H Council Members, Vanette M. Grover

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Experiential learning can be traced to centuries ago, but actual models were not developed until the 1970s and beyond. The Iowa 4-H and Youth program, which is part of the Extension Service United States Department of Agriculture, has had experiential learning as its foundation since its inception early in the 20th century. Yet even 4-H, with it's well-known "learn-by-doing" philosophy, did not have a specific process with which to model learning experiences until 1992. This study examined the effectiveness of a cooperative training session which utilized the experiential learning model given to high school age leaders of the Northeast Iowa …

The Effect Of Incentives On Employee Motivation For Renewed Participation In Worksite Health Promotion Programs, Donald Eugene Owens

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to describe (a) the incentives employees value strongly enough to become involved in a worksite fitness program, and (b) the incentives their employers offer to encourage involvement in a worksite fitness program. Specifically, the study was designed to answer the following questions: 1. What incentives would entice employees who had once exercised regularly but have discontinued exercising to become involved in a worksite fitness program? 2. What incentives are currently offered to employees at Principal Financial Group to become involved in the company's fitness program? An extensive review of related literature indicated that when …

Differences In Attributions Between College-Age Female Recreational Players And Scholarship Athletes, Leanne Rae Wagner

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of skill level on the attributions made by recreational players and scholarship athletes. The subjects consisted of volunteers from the general population of St. Ambrose University (n = 11) and the University of Northern Iowa intercollegiate volleyball team (n = 12). The subjects were asked to perform two individual skill tests. The scores from the skill tests were recorded but not used in the analysis. Performance feedback was manipulated to create a ·perception of success in one skill test and failure in the second skill test. After completing each of …

Humanistic Art Therapy Techniques, Richard J. Hemann

Graduate Research Papers

Because verbalization is our primary mode of communication we are more adept at manipulating and more facile in saying what we want to say and refraining from saying what we don't want to say than through other communicative modes. Art is a less customary communicative vehicle for most people and therefore less amenable to control. Unexpected things may burst forth in a 1 picture ••• sometimes totally contrary to the intentions of its creator. This is one of the most exciting potentialities in art therapy. Unexpected recognitions often form the leading edge of insight, learning, and growth. (Cook, 1991, p. …