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Serum Neuroleptics, Psychiatric Status, And Neurological Side Effects: A Radio-Receptor Assay Investigation In Acutely Psychotic Inpatients, Longin Thomas Kucharski

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The Relationship Of Social Problem Soliving To High School Preformance, Barry Alan Plummer

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This research project is undertaken to explore the relationship between social problem solving and the academic and social performance of high school youth. Psychologists have stated that social problem solving is an important component of psychosocial competence. Similarly, both theory and research have linked social problem solving to overt behavioral adjustment to school in populations of young children. In this study, the broader notion that academic and social performance in high school will be strongly related to social problem solving was tested.

A total sample of 128 male and female students from grades 9 - 12, from selected classes and …

The Child's Adjustment And Development Following The Death Of A Parent: A Critical Analysis Of The Research And Its Implications, Ellen B. Berlinsky

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A model for evaluating studies was developed, based on standards for methodological adequacy of empirical investigations and critiques of reviewers of the parental bereavement literature, in order to determine whether or not there are immediate or long term differences between individuals who experience the death of a parent during childhood and those who do not ~ The assessment model which included a five point scale for rating studies, was applied to research conducted primarily from 1960-1980. Much of the research was found to be methodologically flawed, with fewer than half the studies judged to be minimally acceptable. The methodologically adequate …

National Stereotypes And Their Relationship To Self-Perceptions In Irish, Italian, And American College Students, Caroline M. Salvatore

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This study examined self-perceptions, and, their relationship to heterostereotypes and auto stereotypes in three groups: Irish students from the University Colleges of Dublin, Galway, and St. Patrick's College in Dublin; Italian students from the - University of Palermo in Sicily; and American students at the Community College of Rhode Island, Bryant College, and the University of Rhode Island.

It was predicted that, as a reflection of greater cultural homogeneity, a higher degree of within-group similarity would be found in the self-perceptions of both Italian and Irish students than in the self-perceptions of American students. It was further predicted that differences …

The Effects Of Hue And Lightness Upon Color Preference And Their Relationship To Five Manifest Needs, Elaine Puntch Gelineau

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A three-part investigation was conducted in an effort to begin to understand the psychological meaning of color preference behavior. Phase 1 used a Q-sort technique to assess intraindividual stability of preference judgments over a five-week interval. Phase 2 used principal components analysis to discern the manner in which preference judgments were being made. Phase 3 used canonical correlation analysis to evaluate a hypothesized relationship between color preference and personality; with five scales from the Personality Research Form, purported to measure manifest needs, serving as the criterion measure. Munsell standard papers, a standard light source, and a screening test for color …

An Investigation Of Grief And Adaptation In Parents Whose Children Have Died From Cancer, Therese Ann Rando

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In an effort to investigate parental experience and adaptation to a child's terminal illness, fifty-four parents (twenty-seven married couples) were administered a structured interview and two objective instruments: the Grief Experience Inventory (Sanders et al. 1978) and the Parental Experience Assessment Form (Rando 1979) from two months to three years following the death of their · child from cancer. The parental grief experience was analyzed with respect to the variables of: support received during the illness, the influence of previous loss, the length of the child's illness, the length of time since the death, the sex of the parent, the …

Screening For School Readiness, John Alan Kataja

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Mirror-Image Discrimination In Adult Females, Edna L. Bik

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The Search For Selfhood In The Fiction Of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Phyllis Louise Doyle

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Perceived Motivation And Evaluation: Effects Of Intention Cues And Effort Cues On Attribution Of Responsibility And Evaluative Judgments Of Elementary School Teachers, Mary Ann F. Ford

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Emotion And Music: A Correlation Study, Martha Estina Banks

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An Analysis And Description Of Walt Whitman's Composing Process, Christopher Charles Burnham

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A Study Of Cognitive Functioning Of Social Drinkers, Joy Reed Macvane

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The Effectiveness Of Imipramine In The Treatment Of Enuresis: The Significance Of Type Of Enuresis And Reported Level Of Sleep, Robert Alexander Marzilli

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Iceland As Metaphor For Integration In The Works Of William Morris, Emily Louise Meredith

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A Parallel Study Of Two British Women Poets: Ruth Pitter And Elizabeth Jennings, Indu Suryanarayan

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The Development And Evaluation Of A Group Intervention Technique For A Unique Parenting Role: Separated And Divorced Fathers, Timothy Richard Swann

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George Eliot And Feminism, Barbara Anne Vonvillas

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Restoration Idealism: The Influence Of Preciosite In The Plays Of William Wycherley, Howard Allen Goldman

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A Mechanism Of Action Of Gold In Rheumatoid Arthritis. A Biochemical And Morphological Investigation Of The Direct Effect Of Gold Sodium Thiomalate (Gst) On Human Synovial Cells In Culture, Ronald Lee Goldberg

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Gold sodium thiomalate (GST) effects on cultured rheumatoid synovial cells were used as a model to investigate a mechanism which can explain clinical benefits gained by patients from gold therapy. Synovial tissue obtained from patients with rheumatoid arthritis who were undergoing reconstructive joint surgery was used to obtain explant culture of synovial cells. The experiments described were performed on growing monolayer cultures during the second to fifth passages. Synovial cells were exposed to GST at pharmacologically relevant concentrations (10-100 uM). Vacuoles were found by phase contrast microscopy in synovial cells in culture after 2 days of exposure to 100 uM …

Perceived Motivation And Evaluation: Effects Of Intention Cues And Effort Cues On Attribution Of Responsibility And Evaluate Judgements Of Elementary School Teachers, Mary Ann Ford

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This study investigated the relationship between responsibility ascriptions and teacher evaluations of pupils' achievements, emphasizing the examination of differential intention and effort effects. The purpose of this study was to clarify distinctions between information about "intention" and information about "effort" that are suggested by the underlying theory of attribution but have been neglected in prior experimental tests of the theory. An additional purpose of the study was an examination of the theoretical assumption that ascriptions of responsibility mediate evaluative judgments.

It was hypothesized that both situational and motivational cues would affect evaluative judgments. It was predicted that locus of outcome …

Theatre Of Discord: The Dissonance Of Language And Light In Selected Plays Of Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee And Harold Pinter, Robert Lawrence Mayberry

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Stress Reduction In The Treatment Of Essential Hypertension: A Clinical Trial Utilizing Assertion And Relaxation Coping Skills, Adolph Malcolm Printz

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Playing The Game: The Work Of Tom Stoppard, Bobbi (Roberta) Wynne Rothstein

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The Lyric Voice From Wyatt To Donne: An Essay In The Poetic Process, John Joseph Salesses

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Classroom Climate As A Function Of Student And Teacher Characteristics, Grouping Policies And Teacher Morale, Rickey Bernard Silverman

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The Use Of Self-Monitoring To Promote Verbal Interactions In Primary Grade Children With Low Levels Of Social Responsiveness, Gerald P. Champagne

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A Study Of Sexuality In Selected American Novels Since 1945, Susan Frances Vik

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Some Factors Affecting College Students' Willingness To Interact With Hospitalized Mental Patients, Joan E. Wilkins

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Since the Mental Health Service Acts of 1963 and 1965, increasing numbers of psychiatric patients have been discharged back into communities for continuing treatment. Many communities have reacted negatively to this influx of ex-patients. Since the nature of the public's reaction affects the establishment of community facilities as well as the course of ex-patients' stays in the community, it is important for mental health professionals to better understand public reaction to mental patients.

Since multiple factors influence behavior, the primary purpose of the present investigation was to simultaneously investigate, through the use of a multivariate design, a variety of subject, …

The Modification Of Impulsive Behavior With Learning Disabled Boys: A Verbal Self-Instructional Approach, Vicki Lynn Moss

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Seventy-six impulsive, learning disabled boys were tutored individually for five half-hour sessions. Experimental subjects were trained in verbal self-instructional techniques, which taught them how to think aloud and which necessitated good attention to task. Control subjects were tutored in a more traditional manner, with tutors receiving no specif1c instructions. Half of each group worked with academic tasks, while the other half worked with copying, visual-perceptual, and other non-academic tasks. Results indicated that all groups improved significantly from pre- to post-testing on measures of impulsivity (latency and accuracy), classroom behavior and performance, and achievement. None of the Training by Trials, nor …