Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Editorial Board & Iowa Academy Of Science Officers And Directors

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

No abstract provided.

Ms 084 Guide To Francis Catlin, Md Papers (1942-1996), Francis Catlin (1925-2014)

Manuscript Finding Aids

The Francis Catlin, MD papers contains photographs, pamphlets, magazines, university and government publications, notes from his medical research and experiments, and letters to colleagues documenting the research and the professional life of Francis Catlin, MD.

Contemporary Christian Music: Where Rock Meets Religion, Jay R. Howard

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

...In the midst of this controversial relationship between rock music and religious messages, and as a response to a feeling of being "locked out" of the secular music industry, there has been a burgeoning Christian recording industry using rock music, known as Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). CCM involves the pairing of a Gospel message or Christian worldview with popular forms of rock music...

A Proposed Paradigm Of Personality As Explored Through The Relationship Between Moral Reasoning And Cognitive Flexibility, Karen I. Madgwick

Dissertations

Problem. Personality, a construct representing the dynamic integration of the individual, remains complicated, both in theory and in research. The purpose of this study was to explore a conceptual paradigm of personality through the relationship between cognitive flexibility and moral reasoning. Researchers had not looked at the relationship between cognitive flexibility, as measured by the Stroop Color and Word Test, and moral reasoning, as measured by the Defining Issues Test (DIT). This study focused on the relationship between cognitive flexibility and moral reasoning. It looked for more than an understanding of the relationship, however, thus affording beginning research in the …

A Validation And Comparative Study Of Kinetic Family Drawings Of Native American Children, Sheryl A. Gregory

Dissertations

Problem. Research on how Native American (NA) children draw their families and how perceptions of their families are reflected in their family drawings is lacking. The purpose of the study was (1) to validate the Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD) as an appropriate instrument for use with this population, and (2) to compare Native American and Caucasian children's KFDs.

Method. The KFD and Semantic Differential Scales were administered to 52 Native American children from the Potawatomi and Iroquois tribes, ages 6-14. A matched sample of 104 KFDs of Caucasian children from Southern Michigan was used for comparison. The data were analyzed …

Stressors That Affect Psychotherapists' Therapeutic Functioning, Donald E. Wallace

Dissertations

Problem. The purpose of this study was to look at the stressors psychotherapists experience in their work to determine those that are positive and those that are negative. In addition, this study looked at stressors viewed as positive and negative by several subgroups of psychotherapists based on personality characteristics, gender, age, educational training, level of experience, preferred therapeutic school, and marital status.

Method. The Stressors Check List. Mvers-Briaas Type Indicator. and a demographic sheet were given to a sample of 244 psychotherapists employed at 12 comprehensive mental health centers in the State of Indiana. Statistical analyses included t-tests, one-way …

A Correlational-Developmental Study Of Sexual Symbols, Actions, And Themes In Children's Kinetic Family And Human Figure Drawings, Peggy Joan Rodgers

Dissertations

Problem. Sexual characteristics normally included in children's drawings need to be identified. This study sought to gain definitive information regarding the relationship between (1) child's age, (2) child's sex, (3) media exposure, and (4) sexual characteristics included in Human Figure Drawings (HFD) and Kinetic Family Drawings (KFD).

Method. The HFD, the KFD, and an interview schedule concerning exposure to various media were administered to 560 non-clinic and 81 clinic children, ages 6-18. Sexual characteristics in children's drawings and the amount and type of media the children had experienced were analyzed qualitatively and by Chi-square and Discriminant Analysis. Significance was set …

A Cross-Cultural Study Of The Collectivism-Individualism Paradigm: The Influence Of Confucian Values On The Conflict-Handling Behavior Of Male Graduate Business Students In Hong Kong And The United States, Randy Ki-Kwan Chiu

Dissertations

Problem. The Collectivism-Individualism literature argues that there is a difference in the way that Americans and the Chinese handle conflict based on differences in culture. It is also speculated that these differences have been influenced by Confucian values. However, these positions have not been conclusively supported by empirical findings.

Method. Both the Chinese Value Survey and Thomas and Kilmann's Management-of-Differences Exercise were administered to 124 U.S. White American graduate business students and 142 Hong Kong Chinese graduate business students. Three null hypotheses were formulated. These hypotheses stated that there is no linear combination of Integration, Human-heartedness, Confucian work dynamism, and …

Gender And The Politics Of Underdevelopment And Resistance In The Philippines, Ligaya. Lindio-Mcgovern

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Cognitive Evaluations Using Human Figure Drawings: An Empirical Investigation Of Two Methods, Steven C. Abell

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Catholic Elementary Schools In Chicago's Black Inner City: Mission And Organizational Effectiveness, Sheila Nelson

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Family Environment And Late Adolescent Personality As Reflected In Gender-Role Socialization, Steve Macuk

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Factors Related To Multiple Role Adjustment In Mexican American Working Women, Mary Ann H. Garcia

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Factors Related To Patient Report Of Cognitive Difficulties Following Head Injury, Gene E. Alexander

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Lateralization Of Asynchronous Stimuli, Mark A. Stellmack

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Review Of Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths To Healing Ourselves And Our World, Ward Churchill

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

When I was a little boy, my mother, bless her heart, used to buy me books like Ben Hunt's Indian Crafts and Lore in a forlorn effort to keep me somewhat "in touch" with the indigenous aspect of my heritage. Hence, early on, I was exposed to such boy scoutish "homages" to things Indian as using uncooked macaroni to simulate the bone employed in making chokers and breastplates, making "peace pipes" out of wooden dowels, and pasting carefully colored bits of graph paper to tee-shirts in an effort to create the appearance of a beaded "Indian costume." It was, mom's …

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1992 Vol. 12 No. 4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Nancy Rash's superb study exemplifies the sort of reevaluation that results from tearing down the artificial walls of the gallery and the salon and relocating an artist within an accurate historical and cultural context. Rash introduces Bingham the total person: artist, certainly, but also writer, politician, legislator, polemicist, and social activist. Indeed, Bingham considered himself a public servant who just happened to be also a painter. This important distinction has been blurred by generations of critics who refused to see the "whole" Bingham and who consequently constructed an image of an artist depicting-in the scenes of Missouri life that form …

Review Of The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions & Government Policies And Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers And Government Policy, Paul A. Olson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Both of these books concern the force of myth. James Clifton's The Invented Indian, a book put together by Clifton with sixteen other authors, represents an account of the collaboration between Native Americans and whitesanthropologists, poets, do-gooders, and government policymakers-to create a stereotypical "Indian" and an equally stereotypical history of Indians. The stereotypes are conveyed as "facts" in school texts, the media, and "scholarship," i.e., that perhaps hundreds of millions of Indians lived in America when Columbus came, that Pocahontas saved the Virginians and Squanto the Pilgrims, that the United States Constitution derives from the Iroquois, that Indians worshipped Mother …

Review Of Historical Atlas Of The American West, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is another in the well-known series of historical atlases published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Most are defined by states; this one attempts the huge task of treating the entire western half of the United States, including the Great Plains.

Willa Cather's Women: Gender, Place, And Narrativity In O Pioneers! And My Antonia, David Laird

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In a dissertation submitted to the Department of Rhetoric and Oratory at the University of Wisconsin in 1895, Zona Gale argued that American writers were a timid lot, lacking originality and unwilling or unable to see what was happening around them, the harsher truths of a social reality. They drew their material from art rather than from nature, books rather than life. "They had," she said, "all drawn from the same sources, imitated the same models and had not won their material so much from men as from books. "¹ Like Zona Gale, Willa Cather was critical of writers …

Law On The Great Plains: An Introduction, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka is one of the most important cases in American jurisprudence. Almost everyone recognizes the name of the case and its importance for ending legal segregation in the United States, but almost no one pays any attention to its setting, Kansas and the Great Plains. Does this case represent part of a distinctive legal culture of the Great Plains? Until recently, we have had no way to answer this question because no one has ever attempted a systematic study of law on the Great Plains. This issue of the Great Plains Quarterly is the …

Review Of Reluctant Frontiersman: James Ross Larkin On The Santa Fe Trail, 1856~57., Michael A. Amundson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the fall of 1856, wealthy James Ross Larkin of St. Louis joined a wagon train headed by William Bent, bound for the trader's post on the Santa Fe Trail. Seeking relief from chronic health problems, Larkin instead found adventure. His heretofore unpublished journal of his trip and subsequent travels in New Mexico provides a rare glimpse into antebellum southwestern life. Besides the extensively annotated diary, Barbour also includes background introductions to Larkin, the Santa Fe Trail, the frontier of health seekers, and an 1856 comparison between the trail's endpoints of St. Louis and Santa Fe.

Review Of Word Ways: The Novels Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Alanna Kathleen Brown

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

D'Arcy McNickle is best known for his ethnohistorical works, They Came Here First (1949), Indians and Other Americans (1959), and Native American Tribalism: Indian Survival and Renewals (1973). He also is recognized for his extraordinary efforts on behalf of Indian self-determination while a member ofJohn Collier's Bureau of Indian Affairs staff. Yet in reading John Purdy's thorough and sensitive analysis of McNickle's three novels, The Surrounded (1936), Runner in the 'Sun (1954), and Wind from an Enemy Sky (1978), it may ultimately be McNickle's work in fiction that most effectively preserves Indians' social and spiritual values while stimulating Euro-Americans to …

Notes And News For Vol.12 No.3

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Review Of Gennans In The New World: Essays In The History Of Immigration, Jorg Nagler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is a collection of nine essays Frederick C. Luebke published between 1965 and 1985 and one essay specifically written for this volume dealing with German-American historiography of the last decades. The essays-including revisions and addenda-reflect Luebke's impressive contribution to the social, political, and cultural history of German Americans and provide an overview of the substantial German immigration to the United States. The essays also delineate Luebke's changing focus from the Great Plains and Midwest of the nineteenth century to an enlarged nationwide perspective of Germans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To go even beyond this agenda, Luebke …

Review Of Texans In Revolt: The Battle For San Antonio, 1835, Charles Kenner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Unless they take special note of the date in the title, many readers will assume this is yet another rehash of the siege of the Alamo. Instead, it is the first monograph-if scarcely seventy pages of text can be called that---devoted to the opening campaign of the Texas Revolution. In the autumn of 1835 several hundred Texas volunteers gathered before San Antonio, elected officers, and began a haphazard series of events that ended with a Mexican capitulation in early December.

Review Of Lone Stars: A Legacy Of Texas Quilts, 1936-1986 And Nem-Aska Quilts And Quiltmakers, Lynn White

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

These lovely volumes are celebrations of quilts, of women, and of the states they represent. They are intended for a lay audience of quilters and quilt collectors and, more broadly, anyone interested in graphic arts.

Frontier Solons: Nebraska's Territorial Lawmaker, 1854-1867, James B. Potts

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the thirty-seven years since Earl Pomeroy maintained that the political history of the midnineteenth century American West needed "further study and clarification," Howard R. Lamar, Lewis Gould, Clark Spence, and other specialists have produced detailed studies of politicallife in the western territories. Their works have shed light on the everyday workings and failures of the American territorial system and have elucidated the distinctive political and economic conditions that shaped local institutions in Dakota, Wyoming, and other western regions and influenced what Kenneth Owens has labelled "the pattern and structure of western politics."¹

Review Of Campaigning With King, Joseph G. Dawson Iii

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For half a century the name of Charles King meant entertaining fiction about the institution that he knew and revered-the United States Army. King was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (Class of 1866), a professional soldier, and veteran of the Civil War, Reconstruction duty in the South, the Indian Wars, National Guard assignments, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine campaign. His writings revealed much about the life of soldiers and officers during the late nineteenth century.