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Adolescent Female Drug Abusers And Their Families: Some Variables Associated With Successful Treatment Outcome, Dorothy M. Bianco

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Relationships Among Stages Of Change, Types Of Psychopathology, And Psychotherapy Outcome (Symptoms, Diagnosis, Client Motivation), Eileen A. Mcconnaughy

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The Effect Of Desipramine, Mianserin, And Yohimbine On Alpha(2)-Adrenoceptor Functional Sensitivity In The Rat: A Behavioral Analysis, Patricia Ann Seymour

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Time's Fools: Time In Shakespeare's "Henry Iv", Robert Peter Jackson

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Women Coping With Psychological Distress: The Self-Change And Therapy-Change Experiences Of Psychologists, Counselors, And Laypersons, John C. Norcross

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Personality Correlates Of Parental Maltreatment, Lorraine Helen Huckel

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This study investigates relationships among parent-child affectional interactions (nurturance vs. neglect and acceptance vs. rejection) and parental power assertion (verbal aggression and violence) experienced during childhood and adolescence, additional aspects of personal/familial history (incest, continuity of parental relationships, spousal violence, recent stressful life events, gender, family geographic mobility, family income, parental educational status), and current psychosocial functioning (self-esteem, psychophysiological distress, attributional style, anxiety, interpersonal affect, succorance, dominance, impulsivity, hostility-aggression, assertion, manifest rejection of children, violence approval, antisocial activity) in a mixed-sex sample group of 331 volunteer student subjects.

All variables were assessed on the basis of subjects' responses to a …

Statistical Power Of Psychological Research: The Artifactual Basis Of Controversial Results, Joseph S. Rossi

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The statistical power of psychological research was examined in three studies. The purpose of Study I was to provide a general assessment of statistical power in psychological research. All of the studies using statistical tests in the 1982 issues of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (N = 142) were evaluated and compared to the results of a previous survey. Results indicated that the power of psychological research has increased over the past 20 years but that power must still be characterized as low. These results are limited because accurate estimates of effect …

The Group Method Of Data Handling: Applications In Oceanography And Fishery Science (Gmdh, Ivakhnenko, Modeling), Michael Haskell Prager

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Recidivism Among Male Dwi First Offenders And Intervention, Michael R. Obolensky

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Personality Correlates Of Parental Maltreatment (Child Abuse, Childrearing, Incest), Lorraine Helen Huckel

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Perceived Need For Family Services: Alternative Sources Of Needs Information (Needs Assessment, Chronic Schizophrenia; Key Informant), Charlotte I. Giese

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The Impact Of Personality And Systems Variables On Smoking Cessation And Recidivism: An Extension Of The Transtheoretical Model Of Change (Life Events), Duane Valentine Lapsanski

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Factors Predicting Pattern Of Math Courses And Mathematical Aptitude Test Scores Among High School Women And Men, Mary A. Kanarian

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The present investigation was designed to extend the research on cognitive and social factors predicting both pattern of enrollment in mathematics courses across the high school years and twelfth grade mathematical aptitude test scores among women and men. A total of 226 seniors enrolled in a high school located in an upper-class neighborhood in New England volunteered to participate and completed a booklet containing: a student consent form, the Attitudes toward Mathematics Scales (Fennema & Sherman, 1976), the Agency and Communion Competency Scale (White, 1979), and a background questionnaire. A member of the school staff obtained eighth grade Space Relations …

The Effects Of Story Consequence And Story Theme On The Moral Reasoning Of Seventh, Ninth And Eleventh Graders, Kevin Plummer

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Various stage models have been proposed as a means of organizing and understanding the construct of moral reasoning. Kohlberg’s (1976) simple stage model is the most rigid application of structuralism as he suggests that moral reasoning is based almost exclusively on the structural capacities of the reasoner. Significant criticism has been levied against this model as it has not fared well under scientific scrutiny. Rest (1979) has extended Kohlberg’s paradigm in his design of a complex stage model. Rest (1979) suggests that situational factors play a major role in reasoning about moral problems. This results in complex stage patterns as …

A Comparison Of Five Rules For Determining The Number Of Components In Complex Patterns, William R. Zwick

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The performance of five methods for determining the number of components to retain (Horn's parallel analysis, Velicer is MAP, Cattell is SCREE, Bartlett's test and Kaiser's eigenvalue greater than unity) was investigated across seven systematically varied factors (sample size, number of variables, number of components, component saturation, equal or unequal numbers of variables per component, and the presence or absence of unique and complex variables). Five sample correlation matrices were generated at each of two levels of sample size from the 48 known population correlation matrices representing six levels of component pattern complexity. The performance of the parallel analysis and …

Design And Prototype Implementation Of Scan: A Programming Language For Scene Analysis, Margaret Sabe Kulos

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Reconciliation And Subversion In The Novels Of Charles Brockden Brown, Michael Patrick Sullivan

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Auditory Attention And Vigilance In Presenile Dementia And Chronic Depression In Males, Mary Elizabeth Leimkuhler

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Relationships Of Visible Nonverbal Behaviors And Characteristics Of Teachers To High School Students' First Impressions Of Teachers' Abilities In Classroom Control, Mary Cecil Weyhing

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The relationships of visible nonverbal behaviors and characteristics of teachers to high school students' immediate impressions of teachers' abilities at classroom control were examined through two studies. The first was a correlational study: 44 college students were videotaped simulating teachers entering a classroom and beginning ,an initial class meeting. Students from a large comprehensive high school serving a middle-class and working-class town in New 'England rated the videotaped teachers. Three groups of seven students each rated approximately one-third of the teachers on ability to control a classroom; four groups of six students each rated teachers on attractiveness; three groups of …

The Role-Taking Construct And Its Relationship To Social Acceptance, William P. Geary

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This research was undertaken to examine the role-taking construct as being a composite of two different component abilities, interrelating multiple elements and controlling the self. Each of these abilities was examined developmentally, and in relationship to social acceptance, intelligence and socioeconomic status. Developmental psychologists have stated that role-taking is an important social-cognitive ability for appropriate social behavior and peer acceptance. In a similar manner, research has linked a delay in role-taking ability to peer acceptance problems in certain populations. In this study, the multidimensionality of role-taking and its relationship to social acceptance in normal elementary school population is examined.

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The Effects Of Visual Angle And Stimulus Orientation On Transient-Sustained Processing, Eugene Francis Heitz

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Art And Homosexuality In Frank O'Hara's Poetry, Alice C. Parker

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A Structural-Functional Model Of Moral Development: The Effects Of Story Consequence And Story Theme On The Reasoning Of Seventh, Ninth And Eleventh Graders, Kevin Gerard Plummer

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Neuropsychological Functioning Of Congenital Heart Disease Children, Julie M. Mack

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Language Deficits Following Temporal Lobectomy In Patients With Complex Partial Epilepsy, Maria Deinzer Lifrak

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Acute And Chronic Effects Of Antidepressants On Opiate Systems, Katherine Anne O'Neill

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Developmental Changes In The Influence Of Social Context Upon Children's Conceptions Of Peers (Friends, Playmates, Work Partners), Jacqueline Breault Wilk

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A Comparison Of Five Rules For Determining The Number Of Components In Complex Patterns (Factor Analysis), William Ryan Zwick

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The Politics Of Madness, Hope Landrine

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A Social Cognitive Analysis Of Stereotyping, Cathryn M. Noseworthy

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The present investigation applied a social cognitive approach to stereotypes. The emphasis of this approach on the limitations of the information processor, focuses on the mechanisms people employ to cope with vast amounts of information input and the biases inherent in such mechanisms. One of the most pervasive of the se mechanisms, categorization, is also an essential element to stereotyping. Consequently, this approach leads to a view of stereotypes as categorization schemas with attributes such as race or sex tagged to category labels. This position was explored using the female sex-role stereotype as an exemplar. The structure and content of …