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Predicting Mathematics Performance: A Structural Equation Model, Linda N. Bruno

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The relationships among personality and socialization factors that may contribute to mathematics performance were investigated using structural equation modeling. Five nested models were examined: a full model, a mediational model, a model eliminating the mediator, a regression model, and a model combining the significant paths from other models. Preliminary analyses (i.e., MANOVAS, follow-up univariate ANOVAS) revealed that men reported significantly higher math self-efficacy than women. Evaluation of the structural models identified the full model as the best representation of the data. This model examined the relationships among gender, gender schema, math anxiety, math self-efficacy, math attitude, math experience, math socialization, …

Adolescent Students With Behavior Disorders: Teacher's Current Referral Practices, Nancy Ruth Smith

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This study combined qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate teachers' practices when referring adolescent males and females to special education under the behavior disorder classification. Sixteen teachers were interviewed for the qualitative study. It was found that: teachers refer more males than females to special education for having a behavior disorder; females are more likely to be referred to guidance counselor as a means of addressing emotional/behavioral concerns within the school setting; within the classroom males tend to demonstrate more externalizing behaviors and females more internalizing behaviors; and teachers tend to demonstrate more leniency with females in the discipline process. …

An Empirical Analysis Of Personality Disorders In Female Adolescents, Jaclyn Friedman-Lombardo

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Borderline Personality Disorder Subtypes Among Hospitalized Female Adolescents, Carol Jeanne Faulkner

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"A Certain Something": Reclaiming Grace Sartwell Mason, Diane Wellins Moul

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Quantitive Methods For Assessing Change: Application To Condom Use, Kerry Elizabeth Evers

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The Relationship Of Glucose Testing Attitudes And Behavior To The Stages Of Change: Application Of The Transtheoretical Model To Diabetes, Janet Marie Dryfoos

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Acute Confusion In The Elderly Hospitalized Patient: An Exploration Of Experienced Nursing Care, Karen L. Dick

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Image And Attitude: The Impact Of Media Images On The Self-Esteem, Body Image And Sexual Attitudes Of College Students, Robyn Lynn Reed

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Psychosocial Adaptation To Cancer: A Structural Model And Classification Scheme, Robert Adam Schnoll

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Rites Of Passage In The Plays Of David Mamet, Ira Schaeffer

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Factors Related To Hiv Risk: Predictors Of Risky Sexual Behavior And Attitudes Toward Microbicide Use, Patricia Ann Lee

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The Relationship Of Physical Activity To Self-Concept And Perceived Stress In Adolescent Females, Anne C. Dineen

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Three major hypotheses regarding physical activity, stress and self-concept in adolescent females were tested using 214 high school students as subjects. These hypotheses generated four predictions: 1) Females who are more physically active will report that experienced stressful events are less upsetting than will females participating in less activity; 2) Females who are more physically active will have higher physical ability self-concept scores than those females who are less physically active; and 3) Certain factors such as age and physical ability self-concept are more likely to result in girls' participation in physical activity; 4) Certain factors such as age and …

Examining The Association Between Personal And Cultural Values And Cross-National Customer Satisfaction, Adel A. Al-Weqaiyan

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Although most marketing scholars agree that customer satisfaction is a critical determinant of post purchase attitude and product choice, research has remained largely confined to the US and few Western European countries. Given the increasing size of markets in developing countries, and that customer satisfaction is at the heart of all marketing activities, international marketers should have a deeper understanding of the determinants of satisfaction responses of the international customer.

A review of present satisfaction literature reveals the domination of the expectation-disconfirmation paradigm. Proponents of this paradigm suggest that satisfaction following a product experience depends on the magnitude and direction …

Correlates Of Early Reading Performance In A Transparent Orthography, Kurt Johann Muller

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Resiliency Among Lesbian And Bisexual Women During The Process Of Self-Acceptance And Disclosure Of Their Sexual Orientation, Colleen Jeanette Gregory

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Childhood Sexual Abuse And Family Functioning Linked With Eating And Substance Misuse: Mediated Structural Models, Kimberly Jeanne Mitchell

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A Cluster Analytic Test Of The Transtheoretical Model Applied To Exercise Behavior, Gregory J. Norman

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An empirical typology was created to test the application of the Transtheoretical Model (TIM) to exercise behavior. It was reasoned that if a meaningful typology of exercise could be created that depicted construct relationships posited by the TIM, then this would be supportive evidence for the application of the model to understanding behavior change related to exercise. A sample of 342 adults between the ages of 18 and 75 completed a survey through a random telephone interview. The sample was 62% female, 95% white, and an average age of 43 years. The sample was randomly split into two subsamples to …

Quantitative Methods For Assessing Change: Application To Condom Use, Kerry E. Evers

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This study attempts to understand more about how to quantitatively assess longitudinal change within the Transtheoretical Model applied to the area of condom use among college students. A total of 215 sexually active male and female undergraduate students completed both assessments one month apart. Measurement development was conducted on the Condom Use URICA scale, which was then used in a cluster analysis. A four cluster solution was reliably replicated across two random samples (R²=.99), and the clusters were then examined in terms of their external validity using MANOVAs. The four clusters showed significant differences on variables associated with …

The Effect Of Developmental Process On The Cognitive Complexity Of Stereotypes, Susan Blanchard Bosco

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Diversity training, which deals with enabling people from different populations to work together, has been lead to date by practitioners. Much of diversity training includes helping people to become less stereotypical in the way they view people who are from groups different from their own. The lack of theoretical foundation for this training has been reflected in the lack of positive outcomes to diversity training and even the use of diversity training experiences as the basis for discrimination lawsuits against organizations. One area of theory which has lacked exploration is the relationship between how a person develops his or her …

Indicated Silences In American Novels, Catherine Adamowicz

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Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define the silence as the opposite and inferior condition of speech, reproducing and reinforcing the man/woman hierarchical binary.

This study, defining silence as the complement of speech, analyzes the significant of silences indicated by words and/or punctuation. Its purpose is to illustrate that the author's uses of silence reflect her subject position during a particular historical moment, that trends in uses evolve gradually, and that their direction can be predicted. The principle novels and authors used as examples are At Fault and The Awakening by Kate Chopin, …

Variations In Attention As Measured By Accuracy And Reactions Time Over The Course Of A Continuous Performance Task, Kevin J. Smith

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This study developed and examined new methods to identify and quantify moment to moment fluctuations in attention as measured during an auditory Continuous Performance Task (CPT). The study had three major components. The first was the investigation of methods to describe and quantify fluctuations of good performance in CPT data. The results of that investigation were two different techniques, one which examined the number and length of hit runs (one or more consecutive successful target detections) in the data, and the second which examined response data via a spectral analysis process. Where applicable, the methodologies were thoroughly tested to assess …

A Quantitative And Qualitative Assessment Of Adolescent Hiv-Risk Predictors, Michelle A. Lang

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HIV-risk was assessed, and staged by the Transtheoretical Model, among 239 adolescents, ages 13-19 (mean age 15), with a 163-item self-administered questionnaire, supplemented with qualitative data from 28 focus groups. Thirteen psychometrically reliable scales were isolated and validated with 457 youth pooled from previous samples: factual, transmission, and perceived AIDS knowledge, misconceptions, perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, homophobia, substance use and abuse, communication assertiveness, condom use assertiveness, and risk histories for self and partner(s). AIDS risk was defined by frequency of unprotected occasions and number of intercourse partners. Sexual activity was indicated by 54 percent of the sample. Young men reported significantly …

Individual Differences In Timing Measures: Continuation Tapping, Relaxation Time, Reaction Time, And Critical Flicker Fusion, Anna S. Klevak

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In order to investigate human time sense individual differences in timing were studied in a sample of 39 healthy adults at rest. Fast Muscular Relaxation Time, Preferred Muscular Relaxation Time, Critical Flicker Fusion Threshold, Continuation Tapping, and Simple and Choice Reaction Times were examined with the aim of determining both linear and non-linear relationships among the measures. Several significant linear relationships among the variables were obtained. Subjects with higher Critical Flicker Fusion threshold exhibited significantly less overall variability in timing, (p < 0. 001) and showed a slower increase in variability with increasing interstimulus interval. The Simple Reaction Time was positively correlated with the Fast Relaxation time (p < 0.05). The finding of a positive association between Choice Reaction time and Simple Reaction time (p < 0.001) was replicated in the present research. Subjects whose scores were located in the middle of the Preferred Muscular Relaxation Time (PMRT) distribution of scores exhibited less overall variability in Continuation Tapping (p < 0.05) in comparison with subjects who were located at both ends of the PMRT distribution of scores. The effect was attributed to the mechanism of a biological clock.

Some evidence for a relationship between the continuation tapping task and the single-response tasks was found. There was a …

Training Caregivers To Intervene In The Exploratory Play Of Young Children With Developmental Delays, Susan L. Curley

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Play, particularly exploratory play, can be viewed as the arena in which a series of interactions between a child and the environment occur. However, children with developmental delays appear to be less able to fully engage in exploratory play and utilize the environmental information that such play provides (Krakow & Kopp, 1983). There is also preliminary evidence that caregivers can be trained to use behaviors that facilitate exploratory play when engaged with their children (Belsky, Goode, & Most, 1981). The purpose of the present study was to explore the potential of training caregivers to facilitate the exploratory play of developmentally …

Oral Contraceptive Use: The Application Of The Transtheoretical Model, Sara Suzanne Johnson

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"The Freiris Of Berwik": A Critical Edition, Edward-David E. Ruiz

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Variations In Attention As Measured By Accuracy And Reaction Time Over The Course Of A Continuous Performance Task, Kevin Joseph Smith

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Investigating The Effect Of The Degree Of Newness Of A Discontinuous Technological Innovation On Individuals' Judgments, Paschalina Ziamou

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Fay Weldon: A Contemporary Critical Voice, Victoria Pickett Kirby

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