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The Relationship Of Ptsd In Vietnam Veterans To Family Dysfunction As Mediated By Marital Functioning: A Structural Model, Catherine A. Mora

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This Is My Body Which Will Not Be Given Up For You: The Postmodern Feminist Avant-Garde And The Female Body, Carla Marie Oleska

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Social Support: A Fieldwork Study Of Adjusting To Life In A Nursing Home, Barbara J. Patterson

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Family Background And Personality Factors Influencing Health-Related Attitudes And Behaviors Toward Medical Treatment, Virginia Ann Rockhill

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Woman Across Time: A Literary History, Deborah Ann Brown Robinson

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Metacognitive Training Affects The Application Of Learning Strategies But Not Academic Performance, William Wilbur Latimer Iv

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The Cognitive Control Of Leveling-Sharpening And Acceptance Of Interpersonal Violence In Adults, Bertram S. Gibbes

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The cognitive performance of three groups of college students (N = 251, 135 males, 116 females) who differed in their attitudes toward accepting interpersonal violence were compared as they processed two leveling-sharpening measures used to assess their leveling-sharpening cognitive control. Two leveling-sharpening test stimuli were used, one aggressive and one nonaggressive. The first leveling-sharpening test was neutral in content while the second portrayed an interpersonal (inter-sex) aggressive scene. Subjects were administered the Burt (1980) scale of Acceptance of Interpersonal Violence and classified into three groups of either High Acceptors, Moderate Acceptors, or Rejectors of interpersonal violence. Using Santostefano's (1985, 1986, …

Relations Among Verbal Working Memory, Listening Comprehension, And Reading Skills, Joanna S. Futransky

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Previous research suggests that verbal working memory deficits contribute to problems experienced in reading and in listening comprehension. The primary purpose of the present study was to explore the role of verbal working memory in listening comprehension for fifth-grade students. Additionally, the present research investigated the association between working memory and the two components of reading: decoding and comprehension. A third goal of the study was to investigate the power of listening comprehension, decoding ability-memory skills, and IQ to predict reading comprehension.

Data from 136 fifth-grade students with average to above average cognitive ability was analyzed for the study. Each …

Perceived Emotional Maltreatment And Self-Esteem: Potential Mediating Environmental Factors, Carla M. Picariello

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This study is an exploratory examination of potential buffer factors which may prove promising in future longitudinal studies addressing resiliency to parental emotional maltreatment (EM). Two additional goals were to replicate previous findings of the relationship between EM and self-esteem on a high school sample, and to further psychometric work on a measure of perceived parental EM.

The overall hypothesis of this study regarding the primary goal was that subjects scoring high on a measure of EM and high on a measure of self-esteem (classified as EM High SE) would be significantly more likely to make use of potential buffer …

Models Of Shame, Family Functioning, And Psychosocial Outcomes In A College Population, Sherri Nelson Fitts

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An empirical investigation of shame was conducted, using a structural equation modeling approach with a sample of 750 undergraduates. The general model being tested involved three sets of latent constructs: functioning as the independent variable, shame as the mediating variable, and five psychosocial outcomes as the dependent variables. Five models were generated, one per outcome variable. Three of the outcomes were maladaptive ones: substance use, depression, and suicide ideation. The remaining two, risk-taking propensity and achievement orientation, were more neutrally toned. It was hypothesized that family dysfunctioning would be directly related to shame; and in turn, shame would be directly …

The Role Of Working Memory In Phoneme Awareness, Bernadette F. Evans

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The primary goals of this study were to examine the association between working memory and phoneme awareness, and to explore the relationships of these phonological processes with decoding and comprehension components of reading ability. Previously, only a few studies had examined the role of working memory in phoneme awareness, and the findings were inconclusive. A further goal of the present study was to examine whether simple phoneme awareness tasks (requiring counting or segmenting of phonemes) relate differently to reading skills than do compound phoneme awareness tasks (requiring deletion or manipulation of phonemes).

Second-grade children whose reading skills were normally distributed …

Transformational And Transactional Church Leadership Perspectives Of Pastors And Parishioners – An Extension, James L. Bray

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There is a gap between a theoretically ideal pastoral term (ten years) and the more frequently observed term of less than three years. This study is part of a series of studies undertaken to determine 1) whether pastors and parishioners differ in their expectations of church leadership along Transformational and Transactional lines, 2) whether that difference is associated with tension in pastor/parishioner relations, and 3) whether that tension causes pastors to have brief tenures.

This research operationalizes and extends the Transformational and Transactional leadership perspectives into a religious setting. A review of the social science literature, as well as, the …

Factors Influencing Self-Disclosure Patterns Of Black College Students, Stanley Gene Cosby

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An experiment was performed to assess how gender, college environment, examiner's race, examiner's gender, target person's race (disclosure recipient), and target person's gender influence self-disclosure. These six factors were investigated by having the participants rate their degree of willingness to self-disclose to a Black male target person, Black female target person, White male target person, or White female target person. Jourard's Self-Disclosure Questionnaire was used. It is composed of six topic areas: Attitudes, Taste, Personality, Work, Money, and Body. The subjects consisted of 240 Black (120 male and 120 female) undergraduate students. One hundred twenty of the students attended a …

An Intervention Designed To Modify Attitudes Toward Acquaintance Rape In College Students, Pamela Reed Gibson

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The Effects Of Age And Occupation On Selective Attention: American Adaptation Of The Bedini Test Of Distributed Attention, Concetta Mary Di Leonardo

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Knowledge Acquisition And Development Of An Expert System For Type Synthesis Of Mechanisms, Biwu Yang

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Modelling Vessel Mobility: The Gulf Of Mexico Shrimp Fleet, John Michael Ward

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Validity Studies On The Family Functioning Scale: Family Of Origin Version, Laura Ann Green

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The Course Of Change In Time-Limited Psychotherapy, Kathy Laighton Harvey

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Levels Of Attribution And Change In The Transtheoretical Model: Development, Synthesis And Application, Stanley Leake Hughes

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Psychosocial Factors Related To The Maintenance Of Weight Loss In Very Low-Calorie Diets, Sharon Ann Michael

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A Transtheoretical Analysis Of Change Among Cocaine Users, Dena Rosenbloom

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A Transtheoretical Analysis Of Strategies In The Recovery Process From Alcohol Problems, Matthew Gordon Snow

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The Land And Moral Responsibility In The Work Of Wendell Berry, Edward Donley Taft

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In The Belly Of This Story: The Role Of Fantasy In Four American Women's Novels Of The 1980s, Bettina Havens Letcher

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A Voice In Ramah: Rhetorical Structure And Cultural Context In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Pamela Ann Marks

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Chretien De Troyes' Perceval: Androgynous Development Of The Hero, Michele F. Cooper

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An Exploratory Investigation Of Stepfamily Functioning, Joan Elizabeth Crook

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The Development Of Adaptive Behavior Of Mentally Retarded Adults As A Function Of Level Of Mental Retardation And Institution Versus Community-Based Residence, Frank D. Scott

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Reading Allegory In The Old Poet And The New: The "Canterbury Tales" And The 1590 "Faerie Queene", Mark A. Sherman

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