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Effects Of Casual Attributions Of Performance Outcome On Nature Of Self-Statements And Self-Esteem, Samuel Horace Wood

Master's Theses

36 college students participated in a study to determine the role of causal attributions of success and failure on the modification of self-esteem. Although Brockner (1979) has suggested that the key to augmenting self-esteem is the increasing of positive self-evaluation that follows success, several studies suggest that it is not the positive self-evaluation after success but the negative self-evaluations after failure that are crucial in determining one's level of self-esteem. Thus it was hypothesized in the present study that if external attributions were made for failures while internal attributions for success were maintained, self-esteem would increase. Subjects high and low …

Regulation Of Sodium Intake In The Mongolian Gerbil, Kevin Douglas Stark

Master's Theses

In the present study, two experiments were conducted to examine how the gerbil (Merinos Unguiculatus) responds to a chronic sodium deficiency. Adult male gerbils with a mean body weight of 79.81 grams, were maintained for a baseline period on a normal Purina Rat Chow and then they were placed on a salt-free diet. In addition they had ad lib access to a salt solution and water in a two bottle test situation. The saline concentration was cut in half and doubled to test for regulation. There was no significant overall increase in saline consumption (expressed as a percentage of total …

Masculinity, Femininity, & Androgyny : The Interaction Of College Students With Preschoolers, Jan Alexandra Jones

Master's Theses

The rel ationshi p between sex-typing and the interacti on of col l ege students with 2- to 4-year-ol d male and female children was examined. Seventy-one Introductory Psychol ogy students were admini stered the Bern Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), which was scored in terms of the 7 factors introduced by Walker & Preston (1979). Small groups of 3 and 4 individuals were randomly selected to spend 20 minutes in the Child Development Lab, where they had the opportunity to interact with the children, to play with the toys, to observe, and to inter­ act with each other. The behavior of …

State-Trait Anxiety And Incidental Learning Of Shapes And Colors In Learning Disabled Adolescents, Ladonna Gail Cabell

Master's Theses

The present study attempted to examine the effects of anxiety on incidental learning of colors and shapes. The central task was the learning of six eve syllables with meaningfulness association values between 2.41 and 2.49. The incidental taslc was the learning of the color or shape that the syllable was printed on. The subjects were thirty-four male and female adolescents identified as learning disabled. The subjects were divided into three anxiety groups (high, medium and low) using Spielberger's State­ Trait Anxiety Inventory. The results· indicated that anxiety (state or trait) had no significant effect on incidental learning in adolescent subjects. …

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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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 …

Student Perceptions And Use Of A University Health Service, Susan A. Lueger

Master's Theses

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Birth Order Effects On Style Of Life As Revealed By Thematic Apperception Test Stories Of Adolescents: An Examination Of Some Adlerian Hypotheses, Norman N. Silverman

Master's Theses

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Racial Differences In Reactance And Learned Helplessness, Sandra Elveta Lowe

Master's Theses

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Locus Of Control Beliefs, Territoriality And Feeling Of Safety In Elderly Urban Women, Janice Normoyle

Master's Theses

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Some Properties Of A New Temporal Illusion, Kathryn A. Markell

Master's Theses

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Psychological Androgyny: Are Women Leaving Stereotypic Sex Roles More Quickly Than Men?, Charles Wolfson

Master's Theses

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The Prevalence Of Childhood Depression Among 6-11 Year Old Boys Seen By A Community Mental Health Center, Fred M. Kerman

Master's Theses

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An Investigation Into The Dynamics Underlying Men's Attitudes Toward The Social Role Of Women, Carl Robinson

Master's Theses

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Idealized Partner Preference In Homosexual Males, Tom Boyden

Master's Theses

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Identity Status And Its Relationship To Identifcation [Sic] And Decision-Making Style In College Students, David F. Cella

Master's Theses

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Inter-Racial Attitudes, Friendship Choices And Preferences In A Desegregated School, Pramod Raikar

Master's Theses

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Teaching Peer-Tutoring Behaviors To Severely Emotionally Disturbed Children, Ann Marie Timothy

Master's Theses

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Religious Experience, Personality Style, Moral Character, And Social Intelligence In Relation To Performance On Interpersonal Helping Skills, Donald Joseph Miro

Master's Theses

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Client Characteristics Related To Retention In A Drug Abuse Inpatient Program, Paul Fedirka

Master's Theses

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Role-Taking Abilities And Intellectual Level In Disturbed And Normal Adolescent Girls, Claudia Devries Beversluis

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Ego-Threat And Task Importance On The Anagram Performance Of Depressed-Anxious, Nondepressed-Anxious, And Nondepressed-Nonanxious College Students, Matthew M. Zarantonello

Master's Theses

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Sex And Age Differences In The Labeling And Intensity Of Emotion, Marita Leonie Desselles

Master's Theses

In the present study, the relationship of sex and age of subject to emotion labeling, affect intensity and gender identity was examined. Subjects were 120 naive volunteers recruited from University of Rich-

mond undergraduate classes and community organizations, 60 of whom were male and 60 female. All participants were administered the Emotion Research Questionnaire (ERQ) along with the Bern Sex Role Inventory (BSRI). Dependent variables were the total number of anger responses (ERQ-A), Mean Affect Intensity (MN-INT) , Mean Anger Intensity (A-INT) and Mean Fear Intensity (F-INT). The BSRI gave Masc (BEM-M) and Fem (BEM-F) scores for each subject. Results …

The Importance Of An Educational Phase To The Stress Inoculation Of Anxiety, Susan Elizabeth Naggs

Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the importance of an educational component to the stress inoculation training (SIT) package, as well as the generalization of such training to non-targeted stressors. Twenty-eight students from introductory speech classes at the University of Richmond were matched in sets of four and placed into one of the following groups: Ed only, Skills only, Combo, and No treatment Control. Pre and post measures of anxiety were obtained through the administration of the STAI, SE, TAS, and AAT scales. The three treatment groups attended a speech anxiety workshop where various components of the SIT …

Images Of Women And Men In Contemporary Pop Song: Production And Perception, Gloriaa Norgang

Master's Theses

This study explored the images of women and men presented in the 1978 top 25 pop songs. An evaluation of these images was made by 23 women and 21 men. Each evaluator chose one of seven descriptors (objectifier, diminutizer, user, appreciating, used, diminutized, and objectified) to describe each female and male character in each pop song. Chi square analyses indicated that the sex of character effect on the descriptor frequencies was significant for women and men evaluators. Differences between women and men evaluators were not significant for female nor male characters. Analyses of data from both women and men evaluators …

Salt Appetite During Acute Sodium Deficiency In The Gerbil, Elvira K. Perewiznyk

Master's Theses

In the present study, two experiments were conducted to examine the gerbil's response to acute sodium deficiency. Adult male gerbils were either exposed to a 1% b.w. subcutaneous injection of 1.5% formalin or a vehicle control injection. Within each injection level, half the animals were further assigned to either an isotonic saline or a water vehicle. Immediately following the injection, each S had access to isotonic saline and water as their drinking fluid. The formalin dissolved in water group displayed a significant increase in saline consumption, but at the same time decreased their water intake, in comparison to the water …