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Accounts And Self Image: A Pilot Study, Jarrett Bourne
Accounts And Self Image: A Pilot Study, Jarrett Bourne
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Communication by Jarrett Bourne on April 23, 1996.
Individual Differences In Word Association And Inference Generation From Brief Discourse, Alison L. Clark
Individual Differences In Word Association And Inference Generation From Brief Discourse, Alison L. Clark
Theses : Honours
When people read a short discourse, both more and less skilled readers make word associations. However, it has also been found that, whereas more skilled readers generate inferences from the text, less skilled readers do not (Long, Oppy, & Seely, 1994). The present study partially replicates and extends the study of Long et al. (1994) by investigating the pattern of word associations and whether less skilled readers may be able to generate inferences if given more time to process the discourse. In particular, the study investigates whether word association are made and inferences are drawn as part of an automatic …
Self-Disclosure Among Women In Similar Crisis Situations: Case Studies, Stephanie J. Butler
Self-Disclosure Among Women In Similar Crisis Situations: Case Studies, Stephanie J. Butler
Masters Theses
Using volunteers who were single mothers of young children who were products of unplanned pregnancies in a non-marital situation, six interviews were conducted and disclosure and narrative communication patterns were observed. Each interview was videotaped and observations and comparisons were made about the subjects interviewed. Common themes identified included an overall willingness to discuss the father of the child, a correlation between the relationship with the father and the feelings felt toward the father, worries about money, the importance of talking to other people, a feeling that mother and child were a "package deal" in that if a man they …