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Assessing The Durability Of Sociotechnical Systems Interventions: Toward A New Paradigm, William Ogden

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The Pedestal Effect And Pastors' Friendships, Tegan Blackbird

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Traditionally, the ministry has had a reputation for being a very lonely profession. Although widely acknowledged in the literature, no empirical research seems to be available investigating the nature of this alleged problem. On the basis of information gathered from the literature and fran a number of interviews with several pastors in the Grand Forks area, the present study set out to investigate ministerial loneliness by qualitatively assessing and comparing a) the nature of the friendships of a population of pastors with those of matched control laymen, and b) the amount of discomfort aroused by the presence of those pastors …

"Over The Horizon Of The Years": Laura Ingalls Wilder And The Little House Books, Janet Spaeth

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"'Over the Horizon of the Years': Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House Books" consists of five essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Wilder's writing which has been overlooked in critical analyses of her writing. The title is taken from the ending of The First Four Years: "'it is better farther on' . . . over the horizon of the years ahead." "Horizon" is a key word in a study of the Little House series, for Wilder had to examine the horizon behind her to write the books, which are autobiographical fiction, while projecting the optimism contained …

The Interpretation Of Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment As It Applies To A Philosophy Of Leadership For The Educator/Administrator, Fereshteh Nazerzadeh Kermani Gransar

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The present study has aimed to explore and uncover educational leadership insights which exist in Feodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. This study involves four major parts: a relatively comprehensive literature review, important aspects of the study areas, main disciplinary concepts, and the general status of the knowledge in this area.

Dostoevsky was fascinated by man. He once wrote: "Man is mystery. This mystery must be solved, and even if you pass your entire life solving it, do not say you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man."1

His master work, …

Perceived Inservice Needs Of Secondary School Business And Office Educators For Educating Disadvantaged/Handicapped Students., James Hugh Nelson Jr.

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The purpose of this study was to identify inservice needs as perceived by secondary business and office educators for effectively educating disadvantaged and/or handicapped students.A total of 500 participants were contacted by mail and asked to respond to a questionnaire survey. The response was 57.2 percent, or 286, of the 500 business and office educators.Nationally, business and office educators perceived all twenty inservice need items as being immediate in the mentally handicapped section. Nationally, the three most important items for educating mentally handicapped students were: (1) Determining mentally handicapped students' capabilities. (2) Identifying mentally handicapped students. (3) Developing positive attitudes …

A Study Of The Current Status Of The Grand Forks Public School System And The Extent To Which It Is Meeting The Requirements Outlined In Public Law 94-142 As It Relates To Physical Education And The Handicapped, Phillip Laird Yagla

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A Comparative Study Of The Competitive Levels Of Women At The University Of Minnesota, Crookston, Wayne Arthur Olson

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Four Utah Mormon Artists As Authors, Roxie Dale Trimble

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In researching the literary and visual art forms of four Utah Mormon artists/authors, considerable evidence supports the prognosis that natural parallels do exist between the written and visual works of artists/authors. Recent as well as past historical data also confirms this hypothesis.

To implement research personal interviews and written questionnaires were submitted. The resultant data compiled supports the prognosis that this parallelism does exist.

Recreation Planning : A User Oriented Study In Grand Forks, North Dakota, Bill Holler

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A Synthetic Longitudinal Study : Rural People's Ability To Adapt To Change During Rapid Rural Development And Decline, Gregory A. Poremba

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Sex Differences In Delinquency : A Test Of Popular Explanations, Donna Marie Urff

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The Combination Of Parental And Ethnic Influences On White, Black, And Hispanic Adolescent Drinking, Kevin M. Thompson

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A Study Of The Qualities Which Are Viewed By North Dakota Legislators And Mayors As Contributing To Success In Political Service And Election, Jeffery L. Obst

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Self-Esteem, Locus Of Control, And Sex-Role Attitudes In Battered Women, Michelle E. Penland

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In recent years, there have been numerous approaches to the study of wife abuse, e.g., sociological, psychoanalytic, and environmental. An approach recently suggested by Walker (1977-78, 1978, 1979a, 1980) incorporates the notion of learned helplessness. Her conceptualization of the psychological characteristics of abused women suggests that such women have a traditional attitude toward the female sex-role, a predominantly external locus of control, and low self-esteem. The present investigation was an attempt to validate Walker's model.

Responses to the Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS), the Rotter Internal-External locus of control scale (RIE), and the Texas Social Behavior Inventory (TSBI) were gathered …

The Role Of Women In Education: Antecedents, Current Status, And Change Strategies, Lois J. Fisher

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Statement of the problem. This historical-philosophical study examines the role of women in education. Currently women hold few positions of leadership or prestige in this profession. While women have long had an important role in education, that role has seldom been a high status position.

Purpose of the study. Understanding the role of women in education requires understanding the influences that have helped to shape that role. Those influences and antecedents are to be found in the subject-matter fields of history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and education. The explanation and description of this background material provides a philosophical and theoretical base …

Introducing North Dakota Writers To North Dakota Readers, Kathie Anderson

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My study of the literature of North Dakota began ten years ago, when the topic for the annual writers conference at the University of North Dakota was the literature of the Northern Plains. At that conference I listened to Lois Phillips Hudson, Thomas McGrath, Richard Lyons, and other regional writers. Since that conference, I have been reading the literature of North Dakota and learning about the writers, and I have introduced the literature of North Dakota to my students in Grand Forks and Bismarck. My students, like the rest of us, have had the initial reaction, "Literature--Here?"

This study consists …

Extraversion, Introversion And Anxiety In Relation To Affiliation In College Students, Thomas Matthew Krapu

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Similarities between personality defects resulting from disruptive, inadequate affective development and problems of extreme extraversion and introversion suggested that developmental ego psychology and object relations theories might be useful in understanding interpersonal functioning in general and how people affiliate in particular. Research on affiliation indicated that extraverts are more affiliative and introverts less affillative, under a condition of high anxiety. A greater predisposition to become anxious (trait anxiety) was also associated with reduced affiliative tendencies under a high anxiety condition. Other research suggested that women and first born subjects were more affiliative than men and later born subjects. The present …

Concepts In American Local History: Community In Winder, Idaho, Lorine S. Goodwin

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Recently the need for a more clearly defined structural basis for American local history has become acute. Concepts used in national history often fall short of the needs of local history. As a result, both professionals and amateurs are producing a rash of community histories without the benefit of adequate guidelines.

This thesis draws together a number of concepts useful in the development of American local history as a viable academic field of study. It tests these concepts in presenting the history of community in Winder, a small, rural population set in southeastern Idaho.

The Relationship Between Type A Coronary-Prone Behavior Pattern, Achievement, And Life Satisfaction, Larraine A. Felland

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This study examined the relationship between Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern, academic achievement and life satisfaction. The subjects were 87 undergraduates selected for their extreme scores on the Jenkins Activity Survey, Form T. There were 41 Type As and 46 Type Bs. Along with the Jenkins Activity Survey, Form T the participants were administered a life satisfaction survey similar to Soper's (1979) and their official academic gradepoint average was obtained from the Academic Records office. A point-biserial correlation indicated that there was a significant (p

The various relationships and their possible explanations and indications were discussed in depth. Significance of …

Population Movement And Growth In Utah County, Utah 1940 To 1980, Brian W. Maxfield

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Utah County, Utah, and more particularly the Utah Valley area, has undergone an enormous change during the last forty years. Rapid growth and urbanization brings with it the problems of urban sprawl. Controlling this sprawl is determined often times by an effective growth policy. Mapping and analyzing growth patterns and trends is a useful method in determining the effectiveness of the "growth towards the cities" policy of Utah County. Research was conducted by using maps, air photos, and field work in locating the growth history of the county.
Growth has been influenced by several factors among which are the physical, …

Research And Publication In Speech-Language Pathology And Audiology, S Gail Hollifield

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The Relationship Between Locus Of Control, Military And University Environments, And Psychological Well-Being., Edwin Woodrow Gunberg Jr.

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The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between locus of control and psychological well-being for different environmental situations. Two different environments were selected, the military environment as an example of a situation where events are frequently beyond individual control, and the university environment as an example of a situation where individuals have more control over the events in their lives. Internal and external subjects from both environments were compared on psychological well-being, a linear composite of self-concept and anxiety. The experimental hypotheses reflected the expectation that individuals with an internal locus of control would have higher …

Perceptions Of Watergate Among Adolescents, Lade Stuart

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Mormon Land Ownership As A Factor In Evaluating The Extent Of Mormon Settlements And Influence In Missouri 1831-1841, Wayne J. Lewis

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The purpose of this thesis has been to demonstrate as clearly as possible the full extent of Mormon Land in Missouri during the years 1831-1841. An identification has been made of the names of several thousand of these early Mormons and will further show the scope of Mormonism during this period. This study will add detail to what previous writers have stated about this trying period for Mormonism.

As accurately as possible, the author has identified where the Mormon settlements were, through graphs and charts. It has been demonstrated that the Mormon population extended beyond the traditional areas they have …

Attitudes And Attained Esl Proficiency Among First Generation Swedish Mormon Immigrants, Cecilia Nihlen

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In this thesis project, the relationship between attitudes toward target and native culture groups and attained ESL proficiency among immigrants was evaluated. The subjects were thirty adult native Swedes, all members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who had spent an average of 29 years in the United States. Fourteen were members of a Swedish-speaking branch, while sixteen were members of English-speaking wards. Significant differences were found in immigrants' attitudes toward the culture groups. High English proficiency related positively with a more positive attitude toward the target culture group. Those demonstrating high proficiency viewed the general native …

A Study Of Divorced Mormon Women In Salt Lake County: The Extent To Which They Use The Agencies And Institutions Available To Help Meet Personal, Financial, And Employment Needs, Melinda G. Stapley

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The purpose of this study was to (a) describe the characteristics of divorced Mormon women residing in Salt Lake County, (b) determine the extent to which these women were aware of and used government, private, and Mormon church agencies after divorce in helping them solve their problems, and (c) determine the extent these women felt each agency was effective.

Responses from the questionnaire indicated that more than half of these women could be categorized as displaced homemakers. Results showed significant decreases in income before and after divorce. The women in this study had higher than national average occupational levels and …

Stages Of Adult Development For Women Religious And Married Women, Ellen Rufft

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The purpose of this study was to determine the stages in the adult development of single women living in religious communities and compare these stages with those of married women. Specific research questions about each five year period from age 21 to 50 were answered by this study.

Questionnaires were sent to 200 women religious and 200 married women between the ages of 36 and 50 who live in the Pittsburgh area and are white, middle-class, and Catholic. In addition to requesting biographical information, these questionnaires asked participants to specify which five year period in their lives they experienced certain …

An Analysis Of Selected Undergraduate Student Developmental Programs Designed Especially For Disadvantaged Students, June K. Parisien Randall

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The United States House Of Representatives : An Organizational Analysis, Edith L. Lowery

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Relationships Between Sex-Role And Selected Self-Concept Dimensions For Male And Female College Students., Randolph Charles Moredock

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Problem. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between sex-role and self-concept for males and females, and to translate the findings into statements about male and female self-concept patterns. The null hypotheses tested were: (1)No relationship exists between sex-role and self-concept for males. (2)No relationship exists between sex-role and self-concept for females. (3)When males and females are compared across sex, sex-role, and sex by sex-role, no differences in self-concept exist.Procedure. The subjects, 90 males and 126 females, were undergraduate volunteers at the University of North Dakota. Each subject completed the Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS) and Bem …