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Psychology Discipline Assessment Preliminary Report 2002/2003, Psychology Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

Psychology Discipline Capstone Assessment Report 2001-2003, Psychology Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Professionally-Facilitated Group Support On Psychological Well-Being Among Clients With Cancer, Joann C. Harper Phd, Ms, Rn

Dissertations

Many persons suffer from cancer, some of whom seek psychological relief through group support. Despite the widely held belief that group support helps, its efficacy has not been consistently evident in the scientific literature. The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of professionally-facilitated group support on the psychological well-being of clients with cancer between persons who participated in professionally-facilitated group support with those who did not. A comparison design measured effect by the Psychological General Well-Being (PGWB) index. Each study enrollee was diagnosed with a new or recurrent cancer within 18 months of study entry. ANCOVA was …

Might A Psychosocial Approach Improve Our Understanding Of Itching And Scratching?, Herbert M. Adler

Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Faculty Papers

No abstract provided.

California Institute Of Integral Studies -- Catalog 2003-2004, Ciis

CIIS Catalogs Archive

This is the 2003-2004 catalog of courses, staff and faculty for the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).

Teaching Freud In The Language Of Our Students: The Case Of A Religiously Affiliated Undergraduate Institution, Diane Jonte-Pace

Religious Studies

If the psychoanalyst must speak in the language of the patient, we, the teachers of Freud and religion, surely must teach in the language of our students. Who is Freud-and what is religion-in this language? The answer depends in part on academic context: Freud is taught in religious studies departments at public universities, private unaffiliated colleges, and religiously affiliated seminaries, colleges, and universities. This essay describes a course on "Religion in the Theories of Freud and Jung" at a religiously affiliated West Coast university with approximately four thousand undergraduate students.

A Model For Runaway Outreach, Constance Lewis Cromartie

Educational Specialist, 2000-2009

Various types of runaway outreach methods and practices were investigated. A proposed model of runaway outreach was suggested based on the results of other documented and practiced methods of outreach. The sources used were from published literature, and a training manual devised by a runaway serviees program. The suggested model is congruent with other successful teen runaway outreach programs and it supports the position that adolescents and their families must be reached and supported before, during and after a runaway episode.

Quality Of Attachment And Perceived Parental Injunctions In Adult Children Of Alcoholics And Non-Alcoholics, Paula Gallagher

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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The Role Of Stress Resiliency And Perceived Procedural Fairness In The Coping Processes Of Layoff Survivors, Sue E. Schonberg

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Supporting And Being Supported: Receiving And Providing Social Support In Mothers Of Young Children, Jennifer S. Feenstra

Doctoral Dissertations

Social support research has long focused on one aspect of support, receiving support. The present study expands social support to include both receiving and providing support, applies the ideas of social exchange theory to this expanded concept, and test hypotheses pertaining to this broader definition of social support. The emotional, tangible, and information/advice support received from and provided to sixty-five mothers of young children in their relationships with their spouse, parents, and others was assessed on a weekly basis for four weeks. Greater perceived support from friends and family and greater support received and provided in the relationship with spouse …

Power And Consent: Relation To Self-Reported Sexual Assault And Acquaintance Rape, Tracey A. Martin

Doctoral Dissertations

College students think about and act differently with regards to power and consent in their relationships. The purpose of this study was to investigate how those attitudes and behaviors may relate to sexual assault and acquaintance rape. Power was examined at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and socio-cultural levels. In addition, two perspectives on power were studied: power as dominating others and power as a sense of personal empowerment or control. A scale to measure this distinction was created.

Three theories on the relation among power, consent, and sexual assault/rape were examined: (1) consent may moderate a relation between power and sexual …

Living The Stereotype: Connections Between Male Behavior And Male Images, Andrew Paul Smiler

Doctoral Dissertations

This project examined some linkages and discrepancies between theories that describe the acquisition of gender typical attributes in childhood with theories that describe the maintenance of those attributes in adulthood. This perspective included the idea that there are several well known ways of enacting masculinity, related to well known stereotypes (e.g., jock, business, sensitive new age guy), and highlighted within sex variability. Because a distinction between biological sex and gender was made, the sample was not restricted to males despite focusing on the masculine. One focus of the project was the consistency with which an individual enacts a particular stereotypical …

Spatial Properties Of Photophobia, James Michael Stringham

Doctoral Dissertations

The squint response corresponding to photophobia (light-induced discomfort) was assessed via electromyography as a function of stimulus size, retinal locus (superior, inferior, temporal, nasal), and retinal eccentricity in three subjects. These results were compared to the same subjects' psychophysically-determined spatial distributions of macular pigment, to examine in detail the attenuation of photophobia by macular pigment. Results indicate that the photophobia response is preferentially biased to prevent the fovea from exposure to potentially damaging short-wavelength light. In this regard, macular pigment appears to act as a spatially-integrated filter, serving to attenuate photophobia to a great extent. Photophobia and macular pigment therefore …

Conceptualizing And Measuring The Life Space And Its Relation To Openness To Experience, Marc A. Brackett

Doctoral Dissertations

The Life Space is divided into four domains that surround personality, which broadly encompass a person's biological foundations, owned possessions, interactions and daily activities, and group memberships. In Study 1, a revised measure of the Life Space (the College Student Life Space Scale) was developed. Factor analysis of the items within each domain resulted in 96 meaningful and reliable factor-based scales that provided a rich description of college students' personal surroundings and everyday behavior. A second-order (hierarchical) factor analysis of the first-order scales resulted in seven global Life Space dimensions. In Study 2, the first- and second-order Life Space scales …

Effect Of Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, Hostile Attributional Bias, And Peer Status On Problem Behavior, Donna M. Perkins

Doctoral Dissertations

Early experiences tend to influence internalizing and externalizing behavior. Children experiencing harsh, noncontingent discipline often understand relationships as unpredictable and filled with conflict. They take this understanding into interactions with other children, behave aggressively, and are rejected by peers, reaffirming their hostile view and increasing the likelihood of aggression.

Social rejection has also been found to be associated with internalizing behavior, with rejected boys being higher internalizers than rejected girls. Because boys' relationships are more of group form and girls more of dyadic form, whether reciprocated friendships moderate group rejection was examined.

Aggressive and depressive children tend to attribute hostile …

Sexual Harassment, Amy E. Street, Jane Stafford, Tamara A. Bruce

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Psychology Discipline Unit Mission 2002-03, Assessment Of Student Learning Committee

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

Self-Efficacy, Jennifer T. Gosselin, James E. Maddux

Psychology Faculty Publications

The study of self-efficacy is concerned with understanding this important aspect of self and identity—people's beliefs about their personal capabilities and how these beliefs influence what they try to accomplish, how they try to accomplish it, and how they react to successes and setbacks along the way.

Depression, Anxiety, And Locus Of Control In Asthmatic Women, Elizabeth Ann Seebode

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Level Of Motivation, Treatment Modality, And Change In Parenting Skills Among Parents Involved In A Child Protective Service Agency, Marielia Gavlick

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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An Assessment Of The Level Of Job Satisfaction Of Middle School Teachers From Selected Affluent Suburban Public School Districts In Essex County, New Jersey, Anthony V. Lanzo

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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On Being-In-Community : A Phenomenological Explication Of The Experience Of Being-In-Community : In The Context Of The Community Building Workshop Tm And Business, Carl Holroyd

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

A call for business to introduce a humanistic workplace ethos within a supportive work community resounds throughout the western world. Scott Peck's model of community building workshops is explored as a tool for creating a business ethos centred-on human flourishing which embraces the principles of socially responsible community. The CBW provides a concrete experience of a psychological and physiological sense of deep-community. In -Peck's vernacular, this is termed as being in-community. In my research the experience of being-in-community is explicated via phenomenological analysis, which allows some of the eidetic structures of the phenomenon to come to light. The experience is …

Review Of The Three Ecologies, By Felix Guattari, Matthew Wolf-Myer

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.

Personal Projects And Motives For Drinking Behavior In College Students: An Exploratory Study, Nicole Ann Shiber

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Goals are used as ways to guide behavior. Goals have also been suggested to be related to an individual's decisions to use alcohol. A well-accepted model is the motivational model of alcohol use which utilizes goals and other factors that weigh into the final common pathway” which is a motivationally influenced decision. Part of this motivational model are the four motives for drinking established by Cooper (1994), which are enhancement, coping, social, and conformity. In addition, this motivational model has a strong affective component and is considered an emotional regulation model of alcohol use. College students' general life goals for …

The Relationship Between Correctional Officers' Personality And Job Satisfaction, Performance, And Turnover, Robin A. Lemmon

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined correctional officers' personality and job satisfaction, performance, and turnover. Two hundred newly hired correctional officers from 9 facilities across a Midwestern state were administered the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF). They were contacted 3 to 5 months after their date of hire and then again 6 to 8 months after their date of hire to complete the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ). At that time employment status and performance evaluations were also collected. A discriminant function analysis was used to identify which of the five global factors from the 16PF discriminated between correctional officers who stayed, those who …

The Relationship Of Attitude, Social Influence, And Self -Efficacy To Diabetes Type Ii Outcomes, Autumn Lee Keefer-Ward

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the Attitude-Social Influence-Self Efficacy model and its relationship to Type II diabetes outcomes. One hundred-twelve adults ages 55–75 with Type II diabetes were recruited from a physician's office in West Central Indiana. Participants completed instruments that assessed (a) attitude, (b) social influence of the physician, (c) diabetes-specific self-efficacy, and (d) diabetes-specific quality of life. A measurement of metabolic control was also obtained. Multiple regressions were performed using (a) quality of life, and (b) metabolic control as criterion variables. Only one subscale of the self-efficacy variable scale, Managing the Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes, …

The Admissibility Of Expert Testimony In Washington On Post Traumatic Stress Disorder And Related Trauma Syndromes: Avoiding The Battle Of The Experts By Restoring The Use Of Objective Psychological Testimony In The Courtroom, Dr. Brett C. Trowbridge

Seattle University Law Review

This Article focuses on three types of syndrome evidence-rape trauma syndrome, child abuse syndromes, and battered person syndrome-all of which seem to be closely related to the diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Part II provides background regarding the Frye test, explains how mental disorders are defined in the manual clinicians use, DSM-IV-TR, and outlines PTSD and associated syndromes. Parts III, IV, V, and VI address both legal and psychological concerns regarding specific syndromes and identify what types of testimony Washington law allows in each of these three areas. Part VII discusses the concerns regarding the scientific validity of …

Preaching The Doctrine Of Covenant And Its Impact Upon The Spiritual Discipline Of Prayer, John Keith Franklin

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Fact-Finding In Civil Domestic Violence Cases: Secondary Traumatic Stress And The Need For Compassionate Witness, Ann E. Freedman

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Perceptions Of Selected New Jersey Superintendents On The Role Of Administrative Experi Ence In The Hiring And Selection Of Elementary Principals, Drucilla W. Clark

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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