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The Effect Of Applying Persuasive Communication To Realistic Job Previews, Chun-Ling Chen

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Single Gender Versus Coeducational Environments On The Self-Esteem Development And Academic Competence Of High School Females, Carol Langlois

Master's Theses

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Buddhas & Bratwurst: Ethical Identity In Global Contexts, Patrick Mcdonnell

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Ngo Narratives Of Human Rights And Rehabilitation In Cambodia: A Transnational Advocacy And Policy Framework For Appropriating Identity Amidst A Quest For Transitional Justice, Henrik J. Mann

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Experiences Of Ethnic Acceptance And Prejudice In English Language Learning: Immigrants' Critical Reflections, Jeffrey T. Labelle

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Transition From Advanced Beginner To Competent Nurse In The Labor And Delivery Unit, Janice Mcmillin

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Hospital Volunteers: A Study Of Motivation, Judith Blanchard

Master's Theses

This study was conducted using in-depth interviews of 21 hospital volunteers to determine what motivations were operative in their choice to volunteer in a hospital and to determine whether any significant differences with regard to their motivation could be ascertained on the basis of age or gender. The study further probed the satisfaction and needs of these volunteers relative to their choice and motivation.

The study found that a combination of altruistic concerns, personal interests, and needs were fundamental to the study participants' volunteer choices. No clear differences in motivation were found on the basis of gender. Retirement from employment …

The Life-Long Diminution Of Anxiety Response As A Consequence Of Reproductive Experience, Ilan M. Mcnamara

Master's Theses

Reproductive experience (RE), associated with hormonal fluctuations and enriching environmental stimuli, enhances spatial memory and blunts responses to stress/anxiety. Whereas stress reductions occur during lactation, the persistence of the RE-anxiolytic effects is unclear; and little research has focused on the HP A axis, amygdala, and other anxietyrelated areas. Using an elevated plus maze (EPM), we examined anxiety in nulliparous (NP), primiparous (PP), and multiparous (MP) females (zero, one, or two litters, respectively) at 6, 10, 14, 18, and 22 months of age. Brains were subsequently analyzed for neurodegeneration in dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN). RE significantly dampened anxiety (defined by time …

Friedrich Nietzsche's Reception As A Marker Of American Intellectual Culture : Crane Brinton And Walter Kaufmann's Interpretations During The World War Ii And Postwar Eras, David Marshall Schilling

Master's Theses

Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy has endured a torrent of both insightful analysis and faulty interpretation in America. This thesis seeks to examine a comer of this intellectual history, specifically some of the connections between political events and American readers' reception of Nietzsche's work. Chapter 1 introduces the study, arguing that an intellectual row created during the World War I era persisted into the Depression and World War II years. Chapter 2 analyzes Crane Brinton's Nietzsche and that historian's attempts to explain Nietzsche in terms of World War II politics, namely fascist thought. Brinton's efforts to establish a link between Nietzsche and …

The Relationship Between Age And Depression : A Self-Efficacy Model, Brandyn M. Street

Master's Theses

From an applied perspective, it is useful for clinicians and researchers to know what variables are more likely to be related to depressive symptoms for some groups than for others. From the social-cognitive perspective, symptoms of depression are linked to people's beliefs that they are unable to regulate or control their own functioning. The purpose of the present study was to test social cognitive theory and its claims about self efficacy by examining whether age and sex differences in depression are a function of emotion regulation, emotional self-efficacy and response styles to depression. The results indicated that females had a …

Heeding The Call To Action: Public Policy Engagement For Children, Kevin Hickey

Master's Theses

What do individual motives and organizational factors have to do with individuals from public charities joining and participating in child-focused advocacy coalitions? A mail survey of members of child-focused advocacy coalitions in California was conducted in order to investigate the correlation between incentives for joining advocacy coalitions and level of advocacy activity. The study also examined the relationships among incentives and level of advocacy activity and other factors, including role in the coalition, job function, official duty, and organizational size. Four hundred surveys were mailed, yielding a final valid response rate of 36.8%.

The study found that strategic incentives, such …

A Study Of The Effect Of Organizational Structure On Employee Satisfaction In Youth-Serving Organizations In The San Francisco Bay Area, Kirah J. Caminos

Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the respective effects of mechanistic and organic organizational structures on employee satisfaction. Employees from four youthserving nonprofit organizations participated. The respondents were primarily direct service and administrative professionals in the field, but they also included interns and executive staff. It was hypothesized that satisfaction would be positively correlated with organic organizational structure and negatively correlated with mechanistic organizational structure.

The measuring instrument was a survey questionnaire created for this study. The data were responses to 50 Likert-based questions that assessed three variables: mechanistic structure, organic structure, and employee satisfaction.

The research hypothesis …

Making The Connection: Art And Community, Daliah Khoury Massehian

Master's Theses

This study examines the role of the community arts in addressing social issues in communities. Using data gathered from community arts organizations in two San Francisco neighborhoods, this study examines the histories, missions, methods for measuring results and ideologies of San Francisco community arts organizations for the purpose of uncovering the development of the community arts movement in San Francisco, prevalent perceptions among practitioners about community art's ability to impact civil society and theories around why the community arts are an effective agent for effecting social change.

This study uncovers that the community arts grew out of a grassroots movement …

Occupational Stereotypes Of Asian Americans, Angie Wong

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Readback On A Spatial Navigation Task, Amy Louise Lynn

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Client Satisfaction, Employment Status, And Treatment Outcome Among Drug Abusers, Rula Nasser-Mazzawi

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Goal Orientation And Its Relationship To Organizational Commitment, Amy Elizabeth Klein

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Values As Moderators Of Stressor-Strain Relationships Among Urban School Teachers, Troy Grant Buchanan

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Predicting Group Membership In A Youth Organization, Stacey Humphress

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Interpersonal Activities And Interests As Predictors Of Girl Scout Involvement, Sandra S. Williams

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Do Salient Cues And Self-Relevant Task Aid Prospective Memory Performance?, La Quisha D Beckum

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Communication Patterns In Hostage Negotiations, Bryan Ulrich Mcclain

Master's Theses

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The Role Of Gender, Ethnicity And Personality On Conflict Resolution Style, Hazel Madariaga Cadelina

Master's Theses

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Work Overload In Relation To Civilian Life Among Deactivated Reservists, Julie R. Fernandez

Master's Theses

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Person-Organization Values Congruence And The Work Commitment Of High-School Principals, Jacqueline Mcevoy

Master's Theses

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"Paper Sack Brown" : Effects Of Age, Skin Tone, And Stereotype Threat On Cognitive Performance And Self-Efficacy Among African Americans, Breonte Stephan Guy

Master's Theses

Divergent African American skin tones have led to negative stereotypes and outcomes regarding darker-skinned African Americans in many domains, including educational and occupational (Hill, 2002). This study assessed the effects of skin tone and stereotype threat (Steele and Aronson, 1995; Steele, 1997) on cognition in younger and older African Americans. A 2(Skin Tone: light, dark) X 2(Age: young, old) X 2(Stereotype Threat: Threat, Non-Threat) between subjects design was used. Seventy-four African American adults ranging in age from 18 to 86 years completed a battery of cognitive measures. Darker-skinned adults performed more poorly on three tests of intelligence, a paired-associates memory …

The Presence Of Pups After Birth : Effects On Spatial Memory And The Pre-Synaptic Protein Synaptophysin, Abbe Hoffman Macbeth

Master's Theses

A newly maternal rat goes through many changes when she gives birth, mostly due to prolonged elevation of hormones, particularly estrogen. Estrogen has been shown to increase memory capabilities by increasing synaptic activity in the CA1 hippocampus, but exactly how is still unknown. The current project uses reproductive experience to determine whether high hormone levels experienced during pregnancy and lactation affect spatial memory and synaptophysin, a pre-synaptic protein that controls vesicle exocytosis and thus may be responsible for enhanced synaptic connectivity. We found that reproduction itself does not affect memory of a spatial task, but the presence of pups has …

Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor And Maternal Behavior : Neuronal Alterations In The Medial Preoptic Area And Suppression Of Pup Attacks, Lillian Flores Stevens

Master's Theses

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), by virtue of its relationship to various neurotransmitter systems, hormones, and to estrogen in particular, may play a role in maternal behavior. To explore this possible role, female virgin Sprague Dawley rats received continuous intracerebroventricular infusions ofBDNF sense oligonucleotide and were exposed to pups for maternal behavior testing. Behaviorally, BDNF sense had no effect on maternal behavior but did significantly suppress pup attacks during the first 24 hours of exposure. BDNF had a significant effect on neuronal morphology in the medial preoptic area (mPOA) as well, such that neurons in this region exposed to BDNF had …

The Expanding Use Of Information Technology In The Social Services: A Study Of Small Nonprofit Social Service Organizations In The Bay Area, Jenifer Fay

Master's Theses

A survey was sent to 243 nonprofit social service organizations in six Bay Area counties on August 6, 2002. There were 72.surveys completed and returned by the stop of data collection on September 30, 2002. This survey was distributed as part of a research study identifying the access and use of e-mail and the Internet by nonprofit social service organizations in the Bay Area. The study also investigated perceptions held by nonprofit organizational leaders regarding the usefulness and impact of technology on the social service field.

Survey results identified that proximity to the Silicon Valley increases the likelihood of IT …

Predicting Occupational Injuries Among California Hired Farmworkers, Monique E. Brammeier

Master's Theses

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