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Jung's Word Association Test: Response Norms Annd Patterns Of Disturbances, Ross E. Keiser

Master's Theses

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A Psychometric Study Of An Evaluation Instrument Designed To Measure Adults' Health Knowledge And Attitudes, David William Rivers

Master's Theses

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Relationships Between Affective Reactions To Winning And Losing And Causal Attributional Style, Joseph C. Yount

Master's Theses

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Intensive Case Studies Of The Most And Least Successful Subjects In A Holistic Program And A Social Skills Training Program For Schizophrenics, David Lukoff

Master's Theses

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Pregnant Women's Expectations Of Newborns, Margery Salter

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Gender Of Respondent, Nature Of Assault, Severity Of Assault, And Resistance Of Victim On Respondents' Perceptions Of Assault Victims, Glenn N. Paule-Carres

Dissertations

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Locus Of Control Modification As A Function Of Siituational Control And Performance Feedback : A Replication And Extension, Ronald J. Kline

Master's Theses

Fifty-four middle school age (sixth to eighth grade) children took part in a study designed to examine the effects of situational control and performance feedback on locus of control orientation. The subjects took part in a task situation in which they were asked to read three fictitious experiments and decide from a list of ten results which ones were actually found in the experiment and which were not. Pre and post-task measures were obtained on two locus of control scales. The Locus of Control Scale For Success - Failure (Epstein and Komorita, 1971) was answered in direct relation to the …

An Alternative Explanation For The Origin And Effects Of Sex Roles, Mary F. Chewning

Honors Theses

Since the onset of the Women's Liberation movement in 1970, psychology literature has been flooded with studies investigating psychological sex differences, especially with regard to sex roles. This construct has been subdivided into the domains of masculine, feminine, androgynous, and undifferentiated, and persons classified under each of these categories have been examined in terms of how their "sex role'' influences their overt and covert behaviors. This ad hoc procedure for studying sex roles is useful in describing behaviors, one of psychology's professed goals. It may even prove valuable in striving toward the more ubiquitous goal of predicting behavior from preceding …

Therapeutic Use Of The Mandala, Laura Rienè

Theses

The thesis "Therapeutic Use of the Mandala" explores the application of mandalas in art therapy, hypnosis, and counseling psychology. It examines the mandala’s historical and cross-cultural significance, tracing its use in meditation, healing, and self-integration across Buddhist, Jungian, and indigenous traditions. The study outlines a structured therapeutic process, which includes relaxation, guided visualization, and spontaneous drawing to access subconscious emotions and promote psychological healing.

A central theme of the research is the mandala’s role as a visual tool for emotional release and self-discovery. The thesis argues that creating mandalas allows individuals to externalize unresolved emotions, providing insight into …

A Developmental Analysis Of Attentional Processes In Educabley Mentally Retarded And Normally Developing Children, Ronald T. Brown

Integrated Health Sciences Faculty Research

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Disability And Monstrosity: Further Comments, Hanoch Livneh

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

The author discusses possible explanations for stereotypical and negative reactions toward physically disabled persons in literature and society. Cited are examples of physical deformity, animalism, and monstrosity. The reminder of mortality and fallibility produced by disability is considered.

The Development And Validation Of A Sentence-Completion Method: A Semi-Structured Projective Technique Designed For Personality Study, Esdon N. Bacchus

Dissertations

Problem. There are very few objective instruments available for use in the psychological diagnosis of emotional impairment at the elementary-school level. The determination of emotional impairment has often been based on clinical judgment and subjectivity. In addition, psychological instruments have been attacked from the standpoint of reliability and validity. Major concerns relate to the seriousness of misclassification and the limited success-rate of rehabilitation efforts. The sentence-completion method is popularly used by clinicians. However, the available incomplete-sentence blanks used at the elementary-school level rely almost entirely on face validity. Public Legislation 94-142 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 specifically require that …

A Comparison Of The Effects Of Age Stereotypes On The Performance Evaluations Of Two Different Jobs, Mitchell P. Siegel

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

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Narrative Actions In Psychoanalysis, Roy Schafer

Heinz Werner Lectures

Narratives of Space, Narratives of Time

Perception Of Subordinates' Job Evaluation Factors To Determine Supervisor-Subordinate Agreement, George Edward Romot

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

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Mental Health Services In Prepaid Health Care Plans In St. Louis, Karenlee Robinson

Theses

This project examines the integration of mental health services into prepaid health care plans in St. Louis, with a focus on their role in preventive health care and cost reduction. Conducted in 1979, the study explores the philosophical and structural shifts in health care delivery, particularly the growing adoption of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and prepaid group practices. It emphasizes the evolving understanding within the medical field of the importance of psychosocial factors in health, illness prevention, and treatment outcomes.

The author, Karenlee Robinson, argues that traditional fee-for-service models often neglect the psychological components of patient care, leading to inefficiencies …

Assimilation And Acculturation In The Middle Eastern Community Of Jacksonville, Florida, Gladys David Howell

Correspondence and Textual Material

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Rules Of Order: Or So To Speak, Arthur Emanuel Blank

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

How members of a social unit acquire their shared knowledge about the social world was approached in Sherif's (1935, 1936) writings on norm formation and in the phenomenological descriptions of Schutz (1971, 1973) and Berger and Luckmann (1967). Both traditions presume that shared understandings originate in face-to-face encounters, but they diverge in that the phenomenologists argue that talk, and the construction of "typifications," plays a prominent role in the acquisition of shared knowledge. For the phenomenologists, a "typification" enables members to categorize behavior as a known event and permits individuals to consider disparate behaviors as belonging to the same class …

The Creative Imagination Scale And The Inventory Of Childhood Memories And Imaginings For Children: A Normative Study And Comparison, Susan A. Myers

Theses

1361 Ss of ages 8-45 were told that they were to be tested for creative imagination, and were then given the Creative Imagination Scale (CIS), which contains 10 test-suggestions that ask subjects to imagine various sensations and states of awareness: for example, that an arm is light, their hand is becoming warm from the sun, they are eating a delicious orange, they feel that time is slowing down, and they are reexperiencing themselves back in first grade in elementary school. Following administration of the Self-Scoring Form of the CIS, the Inventory of Childhood Memories and Imaginings for Children (ICMIC), a …

Empathy, Assertiveness, Socialization And Values: And Their Relationship To Altruism In College Students, Ornum William Edward Van

Dissertations

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Victim Blame As A Strategy For Coping With Criminal Victimization: An Analysis Of Victim, Community, And Police Reactions, Dennis P. Rosenbaum

Dissertations

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Willingness To Accept The Sick Role In Men And Women Professionals, Kimberly Evans Merrill

Dissertations

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Passage Recall: Schema Change And Cognitive Flexibility, Paula T. Hertel, M. Codsen, P. J. Johnson

Psychology Faculty Research

Investigated the effects of subsequent related information and individual differences in cognitive flexibility on prose recall. 70 undergraduates read a passage and then were given either consistent or contradictory incidental information. Errors in cued recall, reflecting the nature of the subsequent information, were more frequently produced after a 3-wk delay than after 2 days. These results were consistent with R. J. Spiro's (1975) findings with free recall. In addition, 3-wk Ss were more confident about correct recall than errors, indicating that errors resulted, in part, from retrieval processes. The negative relationship of spontaneous flexibility and the positive relationship of adaptive …

Children's Responses To Medically Induced Discrete, Acute Pain, Brenda D. Ballard

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Three experiments were carried out with children in a private office on the measurement of distress caused by allergy treatment injections and on a behavioral technique to alleviate this treatment-induced distress. In Experiment 1 a rating scale to measure observable indices of distress with children receiving injections was developed and its construct validity and reliability determined. In Experiment 2, norms were derived for the sample of children studied and the nature of the expression of distress according to age and sex was examined. In Experiment 3 two treatments for alleviating the treatment-induced distress, (a) sensory information, and (b) systematic reinforcement …

Training Abusive Parents In The Use Of Anger Control Procedures For Improving Parent-Child Interactions, Sharlyne M. Nomellini

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a home-based multicomponent anger management program utilizing self-control procedures for: (a) decreasing frequencies of aversive parent behaviors directed toward target children and (b) altering parents'; angry feelings and subjective urges to physically harm their children in provocation situations. Abusive parents from three at-risk families were trained in the use of anger management skills tb aid them in coping with arousal on cognitive, somatic, and behavioral levels, simultaneously. Results indicated that the training procedures were successful in significantly reducing rates of aversive parent behavior exhibited in the home across …

Transfer Of Household Management Skills From A Board And Care Home To An Experimental Apartment Via Programming Common Stimuli, Richard W. Couch

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

A random multielement design was used in two replications to assess the effectiveness of programming common stimuli to enhance the transfer of household management skills from a group home for mentally disabled adults to an experimental apartment. Salient stimulus items were taken from the subjects' group homes (training site) and placed in an experimental apartment (testing site) as the participants were advancing through a program to teach them independent living skills. The results suggest that the transfer of household management skills was enhanced by programming in stimuli from the training site.

The Effects Of Self-Monitoring, Emg Biofeedback, And Relaxation Tapes In The Treatment Of Tension Headaches, Daniel A. Viens

Masters Theses

Tension headache is an important medical-behavioral disorder because of its high incidence and the personal discomfort and disruption of normal activities that frequently accompany it. Several behavioral strategies have been applied in the treatment of this disorder. Two of the most prominent treatments are EMG biofeedback and Progressive muscle relaxation exercises. Research has shown both of these strategies to be effective treatments of tension headache but much debate still ensues as to which is the more effective treatment. The effects of different self-monitoring procedures have never been compared during EMG biofeedback or Progressive muscle relaxation treatments of tension headache.

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The Relationship Of Self-Concept And Locus Of Control, Dirk David Sheehan

Masters Theses

Purpose of the Study:

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate whether relationships could be found between certain characteristics of one's self-concept and locus of control. This paper is a report of that study.

Method of Study:

Data contained in this study were gathered by utilizing the Tennessee Self Concept Scale and the Rotter's I-E (Internal-External) Scale. A total of one hundred 1980 Rantoul High School psychology and physics students were administered the above standardized tests. The sex factor was included to see if there were any noticeable characteristics among students with relationship to their test scores.

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A Correlational Study Of The Personality Inventory For Children, The Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale And The Devereux Child Behavior Rating Scale, Luis J. Rivero

Masters Theses

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The Relationship Of The Jourard Self-Disclosure Questionaire-40 To Two Measures Of Actual Disclosure And Three Personality Measures, Mark Fraser

Masters Theses

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