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The Relation Of Compliance To Quality Of Life In Dialysis Patients., Linda S. Dietz Jan 1989

The Relation Of Compliance To Quality Of Life In Dialysis Patients., Linda S. Dietz

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The goal of the current study was to gain knowledge of the impact that dietary compliance has on quality of life for end-stage renal disease patients receiving chronic in-center hemodialysis. As a result of this type of research, health care professionals may better understand the individual and collective influence that various aspects of dietary compliance have on quality of life. This knowledge may be helpful in making future recommendations about the necessity of the dietary regimen. This study investigated the relation between three commonly employed physiological parameters of dietary compliance (blood urea nitrogen, potassium, and intersession weight gain) and four …

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Dangerousness: Risk Assessment For Violent Behavior., Charles Edward Shaffer Jr Jan 1989

Dangerousness: Risk Assessment For Violent Behavior., Charles Edward Shaffer Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Federal court decisions and state and federal legislation have made the legal concept of dangerousness the predominant criterion in involuntary mental health hospital commitments and in determining the least restrictive custody level in prison inmate custody assignments. However, no adequate consensual definition with empirical methods of measurement exists. Megargee's (1976) definition of dangerousness as the probability of violent behavior was used as the basis for an empirical approach to measuring dangerousness in this study. Recent studies in the literature (Monohan, 1984; Klassen & O'Conner, 1988) suggested that discriminant analysis might be an appropriate methodology for model development. Review of the …

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The Affective Variant Hypothesis: How Is Bulimia Nervosa Related To Depression?, Rita C. Prather Jan 1989

The Affective Variant Hypothesis: How Is Bulimia Nervosa Related To Depression?, Rita C. Prather

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Bulimia nervosa patients frequently score from mild to severe on measures of depressive symptoms. This association between bulimia nervosa and depression led some researchers to hypothesize that bulimia nervosa is a variant of the affective disorder of depression. The main purpose of this study was to provide further evaluation of the affective variant hypothesis of bulimia nervosa. It was postulated that bulimia nervosa patients with and without depression would differ from each other and from depressives without eating disorders on specific measures of cognitive, behavioral, and somatic symptoms associated with depression. Secondly, it was hypothesized that the nondepressed and depressed …

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Parenting Style And Family Environment Of Caucasian-American Versus Malaysian Families, James Eric Davison Jan 1989

Parenting Style And Family Environment Of Caucasian-American Versus Malaysian Families, James Eric Davison

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This study sought to determine whether functional Malaysian families differed from functional Caucasian-American families in family environment, parenting style, and marital adjustment, in terms of behavior-rating measures of family problem-solving and self-report measures of family environment and marital adjustment. Variables for the sample of 38 families were assessed using the Family Problem-Solving Behavior Coding System, the Problem-Solving Efficiency Scale, the Beavers-Timberlawn Family Evaluation Scale, the Family Environment Scale, and the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test. Significance was determined by comparing ratings between Malaysian and American families. Malaysian and Caucasian-American families were not significantly different regarding parenting style and family environment variables. …

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The Rorschach Response Patterns And Social-Emotional Functioning Of Learning-Disabled Children And Adolescents, Thomas L. Willette Jan 1989

The Rorschach Response Patterns And Social-Emotional Functioning Of Learning-Disabled Children And Adolescents, Thomas L. Willette

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The purpose of this study was to (a) describe the social-emotional functioning of Learning Disabled (LD) children and adolescents and (b) to describe the relationship between social-emotional functioning and reading ability of LD. Thirty subjects aged 9 to 16 years who qualified for a LD placement were administered the Rorschach Ink Blot test, using Exner's scoring system, and the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests. Exner's normative group was used as a comparison group to determine if the LD's Rorschach scores were substantially different from a non-Learning Disabled (NLD) group. Correlations were calculated between Rorschach scores and scores of the Woodcock Reading …

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A Comparison Of Mother-Fetal Attachment In Medically Low-Risk And High-Risk Primagravidae Women, Gila Ora Arnoni Jan 1989

A Comparison Of Mother-Fetal Attachment In Medically Low-Risk And High-Risk Primagravidae Women, Gila Ora Arnoni

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This study was designed to investigate how maternal-fetal attachment may differ between medically low risk and high risk primigravidae women. In addition, the validity of the attachment measure used was reviewed by statistically removing the influence of four variables (anxiety, marital satisfaction, life stress and sex role identity) that are documented to have some concomitant effect on maternal-fetal attachment. Results yielded no significant differences between groups on any of the measures, other than Marital Satisfaction, in which the high risk group indicated a greater degree of satisfaction. When the concurrent variables were covaried out from the attachment measure total and …

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Patient Attitudes Toward Self-Medication During Hospitalization, Elizabeth A. Reilly Jan 1989

Patient Attitudes Toward Self-Medication During Hospitalization, Elizabeth A. Reilly

Theses : Honours

This study explored patient attitudes toward the behaviour of self-medication during hospitalization using Ajzen's and Fishbein's model of Reasoned Action {1980}. The goal of Ajzen's and Fishbein's model is to predict and understand an individual's behaviour. This study adapted the model and identified seven variables which were thought to influence a person's intention to self-medicate. Two hypotheses were developed based upon the relationships between the variables in the model and their predicted effect upon the behaviour of self-medication. Correlational statistics were performed to determine the general relationships between a subject's specific and general attitudes toward the behaviour of self-medication, their …

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Ministerial Burnout Causes And Prevention: A Retreat Model For Clergy Self-Care, Renewal, And Support , Bruce N. Ursin Jan 1989

Ministerial Burnout Causes And Prevention: A Retreat Model For Clergy Self-Care, Renewal, And Support , Bruce N. Ursin

ATS Dissertations

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The Influence Of Psychoeducational Psychosocial Discussion Groups On Foster Care Adolescents, Joseph Roy Biggs Jan 1989

The Influence Of Psychoeducational Psychosocial Discussion Groups On Foster Care Adolescents, Joseph Roy Biggs

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The effectiveness of psychoeducational-psychosocial discussion groups, which focused on cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses to foster care, in helping pre-emancipated foster care adolescents meet intra- and interpersonal needs of impending exit from care, was investigated. Fourteen females and 16 males, ages 14 to 19, who had experienced histories of impermanence, were referred by child welfare personnel. A selected sample, pretest-posttest-follow-up, waiting list control group design was utilized. The eight-week treatment focused on variables of career decision-making strategy certainty, family environment perceptions, depression, self-perceptions and school-related behaviors with regard to teachers, peers, and academic tasks. Participants' responses to the Career Decision …

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A Study Of Three Specific Family Populations: Functional, Distressed, And Abusive, Brian A. Glaser Jan 1989

A Study Of Three Specific Family Populations: Functional, Distressed, And Abusive, Brian A. Glaser

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This study examined psychological processes which distinguish three specific parent/family populations: abusive, distressed, and functional. Variables were examined in the following areas: parent and child cognitions and attributions, parent and teacher perceptions of child behavior, child perceptions of parent behavior, and family problem-solving, interactions, and environment. A continuum of family functioning was predicted with functional families being the most healthy, distressed families next, and abusive families being the most dysfunctional. The sample consisted of 48 poor single parent, mother-headed families (15 abusive, 16 distressed, and 17 functional) with a child between the ages of six and eleven. Families and teachers …

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Occupational And Life Stress In Nursing: Is There A Relationship?, Christopher Billam Jan 1989

Occupational And Life Stress In Nursing: Is There A Relationship?, Christopher Billam

Theses : Honours

A population of two hundred and twenty nurses involved in direct patient care in a regional hospital were surveyed to assess if a relationship exists between occupational and life stress. A cross sectional survey design was used. The questionnaire contained four distinct categories: demographic information, Nurses' Stress Scale, a Life Events Inventory and a social support scale. A return rate of 49.5% was obtained, and several completed questionnaires were rejected, leaving the data from 1.04 questionnaires to be analysed. The nurses in this population reported low scores tor both occupational and life stress. However, the instrument used to calculate the …

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Star: A Computerized Tutorial In General Psychology, Barbara S. Chaparro, Charles G. Halcomb Jan 1989

Star: A Computerized Tutorial In General Psychology, Barbara S. Chaparro, Charles G. Halcomb

Publications

This study investigated the use of a computerized tutorial--Self-Test and Review (STAR)--in a computer-managed general psychology course. STAR consists of four major modules which provide the student with a variety of learning exercises, including practice quizzes, practice final exams, performance reviews, and structured study questions. The purpose of the study was to determine whether students would choose STAR as a study tool, the effect of lecture versus self-paced settings on the use of STAR, whether students who used STAR would perform better than those who did not, and the effect of the timing of feedback in STAR on performance. Students …

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Growing Up Female, Mary Vander Goot Sep 1988

Growing Up Female, Mary Vander Goot

Pro Rege

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Contributions Of Women's Studies To A Christian World View, Joyce Q. Erickson Sep 1988

Contributions Of Women's Studies To A Christian World View, Joyce Q. Erickson

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

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Is "Psychological Self-Defense" A Solution To The Problem Of Defending Battered Women W Ho Kill? Sep 1988

Is "Psychological Self-Defense" A Solution To The Problem Of Defending Battered Women W Ho Kill?

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Psychosocial Attitudes Affecting Counseling Of Homosexual Males With Aids/Arc, Norma A. Morehouse Aug 1988

Psychosocial Attitudes Affecting Counseling Of Homosexual Males With Aids/Arc, Norma A. Morehouse

Student Work

As the decade of the 1980s draws to a close, it ushers in the last decade of the twentieth century. "New Age" thinking, which attempts to withhold judgement and accept individuals as unique and necessary to the whole, challenges society to more fully understand those issues such as homosexuality which have in the past caused division. New Age thinking is defined by the researcher as a philosophy in which an holistic approach to health is essential. Mind, body, and spirit— respect for these is a healthy life.

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Home Environment: Perceptions By Pregnant And Non-Pregnant Adolescents, Victor Harms May 1988

Home Environment: Perceptions By Pregnant And Non-Pregnant Adolescents, Victor Harms

Student Work

Adolescent pregnancy has received a great deal of publicity in the past few years. This attention has intensified with new studies revealing increased incidence. The American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD) has addressed the issue in its several journals as well as the Guidepost. Most recently Maynard and Olson (1987) discussed the importance of using diagnostic inventories especially by those school counselors who would involve family members in the counseling experience.

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The Effect Of Gender Self-Schema On The Accuracy Of Job Evaluation Ratings, John R. Curtis Jr May 1988

The Effect Of Gender Self-Schema On The Accuracy Of Job Evaluation Ratings, John R. Curtis Jr

Student Work

Previous research has examined sex of evaluator and sex-type of jobs as sources of systematic bias on job evaluation ratings. The present study attempted to go beyond the global notion of sex of evaluator and examine the effect of the information processing characteristics associated with an evaluator's gender self-schema on evaluation ratings. Gender self-schema theory states that gender self-shematics possess more and have increased processing efficiency to relevant gender information. It was proposed that the content and information processing characteristics associated with gender self-schematics would increase the rating accuracy of gender relevant jobs and job evaluation factors. Eighty-four undergraduate college …

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An Exploratory Study Of Employee Perceptions Of Organizational Climate Openness And Freedom Of Expression In A Large Public Utitlity, Alison Vickery Rider Apr 1988

An Exploratory Study Of Employee Perceptions Of Organizational Climate Openness And Freedom Of Expression In A Large Public Utitlity, Alison Vickery Rider

Student Work

Like most formal organizations in the United States, the Omaha Public Power District is a bureaucratic hierarchy. In organizations such as OPPD, decision making and information sharing flows generally from the top down. Organizational stability is reached by establishing and maintaining standard operating procedures, and control is ever concentrated atop the pyramid.

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Malosi: A Psychological Exploration Of Mead's And Freeman's Work And Of Samoan Aggression, Jeannette Marie Mageo Mar 1988

Malosi: A Psychological Exploration Of Mead's And Freeman's Work And Of Samoan Aggression, Jeannette Marie Mageo

Pacific Studies

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Individual Differences In Functions Of Erotic Fantasy And Implications For The Use Of Fantasy In Clinical Practice, Joan P. Clayton Jan 1988

Individual Differences In Functions Of Erotic Fantasy And Implications For The Use Of Fantasy In Clinical Practice, Joan P. Clayton

Digitized Theses

Engaging in erotic fantasy is known to increase sexual desire and arousal. Clinicians routinely recommend fantasy as a treatment for desire and arousal dysfunctions but the effectiveness of such suggestions has never been tested. The first study compared fantasy training, simple encouragement to fantasize, and a distraction task on women's use of fantasy and arousal in the lab. Both fantasy interventions moderately increased use of fantasy while the distraction task somewhat lowered fantasy use although neither intervention group differed significantly from controls. Individual differences in use of fantasy outside the lab had little impact on fantasy use in this session, …

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The Analysis Of Multitrait-Multimethod Matrices: An Empirical And Monte Carlo Comparison Of Two Procedures, Richard Douglas Goffin Jan 1988

The Analysis Of Multitrait-Multimethod Matrices: An Empirical And Monte Carlo Comparison Of Two Procedures, Richard Douglas Goffin

Digitized Theses

This thesis evaluated the validity of the two most promising methods for Multitrait-Multimethod (MTMM) analysis. The two procedures evaluated were the Confirmatory Factor Analytic (CFA) method and the Composite Direct Product (CDP) method. These methods differ in that the former assumes that trait and method factors combine in an additive manner, while the latter assumes that a multiplicative relationship holds. The first stage in the analysis involved a comparison of the two procedures using ten empirical MTMM matrices. Monte Carlo simulations were utilized in the second stage of the analysis to provide further information that was pertinent to a comparison …

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Factors Associated With Use, Dependence And Problem Consequences: Application Of A Common Process Model Of Substance Abuse To Coffee And Tea, Kathryn Marie Graham Jan 1988

Factors Associated With Use, Dependence And Problem Consequences: Application Of A Common Process Model Of Substance Abuse To Coffee And Tea, Kathryn Marie Graham

Digitized Theses

Recent thinking has suggested that there may be a common process of addiction or substance abuse, regardless of the substance. A review of over 400 studies of the correlates of abuse of alcohol, tobacco, food, and caffeine (Graham & Ekdahl, 1986) identified a number of variables that appeared to be general predictors of substance abuse. The present research tested the common process model of substance abuse by using variables identified as likely common process factors in the existing literature to predict abuse of a substance for which research on predictors has been lacking.;Questionnaire scales were developed for each predictor variable …

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Information And Affective Value In Risk-Taking Behaviour, Erin Clare Hewitt Jan 1988

Information And Affective Value In Risk-Taking Behaviour, Erin Clare Hewitt

Digitized Theses

The purpose of the present investigation was to determine whether individual differences in uncertainty orientation could predict risk-taking in situations where outcomes were based on chance or skill. Drawing on research by Sorrentino, Short and Raynor (1984), it was predicted that in both chance and skill situations, uncertainty-oriented persons would choose options of intermediate risk more than risky or cautious ones, and that this difference would be greater than that for certainty-oriented individuals. Three studies were conducted to test the general hypothesis. The first was a chance situation where subjects chose between two that varied in probability and payoff, which …

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A Study On Disagreements Between Patients And Psychiatrists, Their Nature, Type, Contributing Variables, And Consequences, Patricia Rose Petryshen Jan 1988

A Study On Disagreements Between Patients And Psychiatrists, Their Nature, Type, Contributing Variables, And Consequences, Patricia Rose Petryshen

Digitized Theses

This research identified disagreements between patients and psychiatrists on problems, goals, and methods for treatment. Specifically, their nature, type, contributing variables, and consequences were investigated.;The study was conducted at two provincial psychiatric hospitals in Ontario. Subjects included patients (n = 135) diagnosed as depressed, manic, neurotic, or schizophrenic. The attending psychiatrist (n = 29) also participated in the study.;Two to five days after admission to hospital, patients were interviewed according to a checklist on problems, goals, and methods for treatment. At the same time, the psychiatrist completed an identical checklist. Patients were observed for discharge against medical advice (AMA) and …

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Infant-Mother Attachment As A Function Of Maternal Sensitivity, Cognition, Personality, And Social Support, Philip Bruce Smith Jan 1988

Infant-Mother Attachment As A Function Of Maternal Sensitivity, Cognition, Personality, And Social Support, Philip Bruce Smith

Digitized Theses

The purpose of this study was to test hypotheses derived from attachment theory relating quality of the infant-mother attachment relationship to maternal variables of sensitivity to infant cues, perspective taking, knowledge about infancy, attitudes toward children, personality, perceptions of own child-rearing, and social support. Fifty twelve-month-old infants and their mothers were videotaped at a laboratory in the Ainsworth strange situation and in a brief questionnaire situation designed to reveal individual differences in maternal sensitivity to infant cues. A laboratory interview with mothers was the source of data used in assessing perspective taking ability. Mothers completed at home questionnaires regarding knowledge …

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The Effects Of Setting Events On The Social Interactions Of Preschool Children, Carolle Marie Trembley Jan 1988

The Effects Of Setting Events On The Social Interactions Of Preschool Children, Carolle Marie Trembley

Digitized Theses

Children with poor peer relationships are assumed to have a deficit in social skills. Three experiments were designed to examine the possibility that social behavior is controlled by environmental conditions so that the deficit is in performance of social skills rather than learning.;In Experiment 1, children's social behavior was observed under four different conditions: dyads with cooperative toys; dyads with solitary toys, triads with three children or triads with two children and an adult. Four low interactors and 9 high interactors were observed in a cooperative toys dyad and one of the other conditions in an Alternating Treatments Design. Low …

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Clients' Expectations And Results Of Psychological Therapy For Dysmenorrhea, Helene Suzanne Wallach Jan 1988

Clients' Expectations And Results Of Psychological Therapy For Dysmenorrhea, Helene Suzanne Wallach

Digitized Theses

Dysmenorrhea affects womens' productivity, social life and sleep patterns, and is exacerbated by stress and negative affect. This study had two main goals: (a) to find an effective psychological treatment for dysmenorrhea and (b) to investigate the effect of matching treatment to expectations. Specifically, this study proposed that (a) women would benefit more from a cognitive or somatic treatment than they would from a wait-list period, (b) a combined treatment (combining cognitive and somatic elements) would be superior to either treatment alone and (c) matching treatment approach to expectations would result in more benefit from therapy.;Three studies were conducted addressing …

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Information Search And Causal Analysis: The Role Of Personal Involvement, J Douglas Hazlewood Jan 1988

Information Search And Causal Analysis: The Role Of Personal Involvement, J Douglas Hazlewood

Digitized Theses

How do people explain events with multiple possible causes? Past research has indicated that perceivers are usually content with discovering single, sufficient causes for observed events as opposed to considering multiple causation. We argue that this tendency for information search to be directed toward the role of single causes is, primarily, a manifestation of low involvement processing; perceivers will search for information relevant to multiple possible causes when they are suitably motivated to arrive at accurate causal conclusions.;Three experiments were conducted to test this hypothesis. High involvement subjects were told that the purpose of the study was to assess their …

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Dysfunctional Attitudes And Vulnerability To Depression: Implications For Stress Appraisals And Coping, Douglas Bruce Cane Jan 1988

Dysfunctional Attitudes And Vulnerability To Depression: Implications For Stress Appraisals And Coping, Douglas Bruce Cane

Digitized Theses

In recent years a number of models of depression have been developed which provide a theoretical basis for identifying factors that may increase a person's risk for depression. One such model, Beck's cognitive model of depression, hypothesizes that individuals who endorse a large number of dysfunctional attitudes are at risk for depression, and that the interaction of dysfunctional thinking with stressful life events results in depressive symptomatology. Using a measure of daily hassles to assess stress, the present study provided an evaluation of this proposed interaction. In addition, the stress appraisals and coping responses employed by these vulnerable individuals to …

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