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Making Maternal-Child Home Visits: A Field Research Investigation, Mary E. Byrd

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Family Functioning And Physical Child Abuse: Are Certain Family Types More Prone To Abuse, Glenn D. Wolfner

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One Health Care Organization: A Study In Workplace Motivation And Organizational Culture, Jeanette T. Wallace

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Conceptualization And Facilitation Of Community Organizations: A Multiple Case Study, David Jonathan Tobin

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Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy: The Effects Of A Breastfeeding Promotion Nursing Intervention, Suzanne Hetzel Campbell

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Exposure, Affective Responses And Sexual Arousal To Sexually Explicit Materials, Donna Johnson

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Space-Time And The City: Glasgow And The Literature Of The Urban Peripheries, Lorraina Barr Pinnell

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Self-Esteem, Depression, Substance Usage, And Locus Of Control In Sexually Abused Adolescents, Norah Mary Sargent

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The Meaning Of Nurses' Work: A Descriptive Study Of Values Fundamental To Professional Identity In Nursing, May Solveig Fagermoen

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Transcendence As A Human Response To Life Threatening Illness: Description And Understanding Through Narratives, Jane Williams

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This study explored the phenomenon of transcendence as it occurs in the context of life-threatening illness. Transcendence is a term that is frequently used to describe a patient's response to suffering, but it is an elusive, poorly understood phenomenon.

Narrative interviewing and analysis was the method. Participants diagnosed with terminal cancer provided personal accounts of their experience during in-depth interviews. Three participants were interviewed after being selected by professional nurses working in an oncology clinic as having transcended their illness. The linguistic approach to systematic study of the accounts

(Gee, 1985, 1986, 1991; Riessman, 1993) and the voice-centered relational method …

The Psychological Modulation Of The Immune System: A Meta-Analysis, Sara D. Cottrill

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In the mid seventies, Robert Ader and Nicholas Cohen (1975) conducted and published a series of experiments that are generally recognized as a major turning point for the behavioral and physical sciences. In classical conditioning experiments, Ader and Cohen were able to weaken the immune system reaction against foreign material in rats. The experiments demonstrated that the "self-regulating and autonomous" immune system was vulnerable to behavioral factors. These experiments seemed to galvanize a community of scientists who had hypothesized like scientists and philosophers before them the role of emotional states in influencing physiological processes.

The preeminent discipline which has evolved …

The Exercise And Self-Esteem Model: Inclusion Of Physical Acceptance In Tests Of Model Constructs, Raquel D. Pino

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The present investigation examined the relationship between exercise and self-esteem in the context of the Exercise and Self-Esteem Model (EXSEM) (Sonstroem & Morgan, 1989). Physical acceptance and physical evaluation (competence), both at a general domain and a specific domain, were measured and included in tests of model constructs. The sample, comprised of fitness center members and university students (N = 526), completed a survey designed to assess exercise behavior and several self-perception variables. Using Structural Modeling Analysis, several models were examined and compared.

Of Subversion And Sexuality: A Discursive Analysis Of Late Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture, S. Elaine Craghead

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An Exploratory Study Of A Women's Health Nurse Practitioner-Client Interaction As Resource Exchange In A Clinic Environment, Rebecca Koeniger Donohue

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Multicultural Family Functioning And Attitudes Toward Family Counseling, Susan Alison Levin

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Changing Representations Of The Horse: A Study In Discursive Practices, Robin A. Muksian

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Attributions For Poverty: A Comparison Of Middle Class And Welfare Recipient Attitudes, Heather Ellen Bullock

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Stages Of Change, Dropouts, And Outcome In Substance Abuse Treatment, Janice Yusze Tsoh

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Despite the extensive evidence of the beneficial aspects of substance abuse treatment, questions on what contributes to successful outcome continue to arise. It is important to research who will be more likely to benefit from which modalities of treatment programs and for what length of treatment. Systematic investigations that include individuals' attitudes, intention and behavior towards their drug use are necessary to better understand the interaction between individual characteristics and treatment factors, as well as their effects on treatment retention and outcome. The Transtheoretical Model of Change offers a promising systematic framework for this purpose (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983, 1984, …

The Pursuit Of Beauty Through Thinness And The Impact Of Advertising On College Women's Attitudes, Lisa Marie Rocchio

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This experimental study examined the impact of exposure to advertisements that did or did not depict attractive female models on the self-esteem, attitudes toward the body, body satisfaction, and figure-ratings of college women with high or low levels of eating-disordered and gender-stereotypical behavior. In addition, a scale measuring attitudes and behaviors consistent with women's pursuit of beauty was developed, and its preliminary factor structure was assessed. A total of 180 predominantly European-American, heterosexual college students (122 women and 58 men) participated in the study. Results did not differ for women who participated in mixed-gender or single-gender groups. Women exposed to …

Client-Caregiver-Nurse Interaction In A Home Care Setting, Joanne Marie Dalton

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Our Beloved Lizzie; Constructing An American Legend, Gabriela Schalow Adler

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Lizzie Borden is a legendary figure in American culture who, unlike some others, has not received much scholarly attention. Yet her story has generated a great number and variety of texts, and several performance pieces as well. New texts continue to be published. This body of work begs to be examined, so that insights may be gained into the interactions of popular literacies and narrative forms. The study of different textual treatments of the same subject allows us to trace issues of gender, class, family, the construction of subjectivity and the intersections of genre, narrative and history.

The theoretical approach …

A Transtheoretical Investigation Of Immoderate Drinking In College, Jeffrey Peter Migneault

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Immoderate alcohol use is prevalent on college campuses and results in high levels of negative consequences including injury, social, academic, and occupational disruption, increased levels of sexually transmitted disease, and emotional complaint. This study applied the Transtheoretical Model of Change to immoderate alcohol use in a cross-sectional study of 629 college students. This model has proven useful as a tool of investigation of and intervention on many other health related behaviors.

The Transtheoretical Model is a model of intentional behavior change that is composed of five interrelated multi-dimensional constructs. This investigation developed measures of four of these constructs. Two measurement …

Measuring Stage Of Change For Exercise, Gabrielle Richards Reed

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This project continues the development and refinement of the URICA-E2, an instrument to measure stage of change for regular exercise based on the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change. In Study One, the URICA-E2, which is a proportionate measure of stage of change, was analyzed using Principal Component Analysis and refined into a 24-item instrument capturing not five, but six components of change: Precontemplation-Non Believer (PCN), Precontemplation-Believer (PCB), Contemplation (C), Preparation (P), Action (A), and Maintenance (M). The standardized scale scores from the URICA-E2 were clustered and seven profiles were found. They duplicated the six components and added a seventh which …

An Alternative School: An Alternative Solution, Elaine C. Lee

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The increased incidence of violent behaviors by adolescents has had a significant impact on society. Because these behaviors are now being seen more frequently in school settings, the need for alternative forms of education has become apparent to administrators throughout the country.

The purpose of this study was to determine if an alternative high school program using Montessorian philosophy would enhance academic relevance, improve academic achievement, enhance social development, and improve the emotional well-being of the Socially and Enotionally Maladjusted adolescent.

The participants were 18 students diagnosed as Socially and Emotionally Maladjusted. The treatment group was comprised of 12 students …

Protective And Risk Factors For Adolescents In A Residential School Setting, Beth Joann Shaw

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Approximately 50% of all American children and adolescents are currently at risk for developing personal and social problems (Weissberg, 1990). As a nation, how are we responding to this situation? Under the large umbrella of educational reform one option being debated is removing at-risk children living in poverty from their homes and placing them in residential educational facilities. Despite the rhetoric being exchanged, little empirical evidence exists that directly investigates the effects of removing children and adolescents from their homes.

This study investigated the protective and risk factors associated with the resiliency, achievement, and adjustment of adolescents from low income …

An Investigation Of The Relationship Of Self-Determination To Exercise Behavior In Icelandic Women, Gudrun Marteinsdottir

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The Seduction Novel Of The Early Nation: A Call For Sociopolitical Reform, Donna R. Bontatibus

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More About Jane Austen, Mary C. Braga

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To Make A Better Self: A Spiritual Reading Of Jane Austen's "Emma", Edith Agnes Kostka

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Group Cognitive Style And Its Impact On Strategic Decision-Making And Organizational Direction, Nancy Hasenyager Leonard

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