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Development of a Behavior Checklist to Assess Stress Tolerance in an Assessment Center

This paper discusses the development of a Stress Tolerance Scale for the purpose of use at assessment centers. Charles P. Lankford discusses the behavioral checklist used in a study of graduate students in business administration and the assessment of their stress reactions.

Date: December 1982

Creator: Lankford, Charles Paul

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Academic Achievement: Effects of Congruency, Consistency, Differentiation, and Modal Personality Types

This investigation explored relationships between four determinants of first-semester undergraduate academic achievement derived from Holland's (1973) theory of vocational development. Groups of 438 male and 468 female students completed the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and were categorized in terms of congruency, consistency, differentiation, and modal personality type. Undergraduates with congruent college-major choices enjoyed greater academic success than students with incongruent cho… more

Date: August 1977

Creator: Reuterfors, David Lawrence

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Blood Pressure Biofeedback and Relaxation Training: The Effects of Home Practice on Reduction of Blood Pressure in Persons with Essential Hypertension

Blood pressure biofeedback at home was compared with relaxation training and a combination of the two procedures for the treatment of essential hypertension, Ten subjects were taught to monitor blood pressure (BP) at home with electronic sphygmomanometers designed for self-use. Although situational factors appeared to have rather potent effects on BP levels, results suggested that training to control BP did generalize across situations. Although pretreatment BP level seemed to be related to the… more

Date: August 1980

Creator: Bradley, Robert W. (Robert Wayne)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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The Perceived Relationships of Young Adults Reared in Stepfamilies with their Grandparents and Stepgrandparents

This study proposed that the perceived quality of the custodial grandparent/grandchild relationship in step families will not be interrupted by the parental separation and remarriage and that the determinants of the quality of this relationship would be similar to that associated with the grandchild/grandparent relationship in intact families. The research by Shoire and Hayslip (1988) who studied grandparenting indicates that four variables are significant in this perceived relationship (in ord… more

Date: August 1997

Creator: Haberstroh, Chris L.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Logic, Emotion and Closure: Motivations for Choices of Faith

Spirituality and religiosity can play key roles in individual lives through influencing health, social relationships, political views, as well as many other facets (Newberg, D'Aquili & Rause, 2001; Milevsky & Levitt, 2004; Hirsh, Walberg & Peterson, 2013). As important as religious and spiritual beliefs are to societies, cultures, and individuals, little is known about which psychological factors determine choices of faith. Although there are likely many determinants of religious, spiritual, at… more

Date: August 2016

Creator: Jenkins, Elizabeth

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Family Interaction Patterns, Child Attachment, and Child Emotional Adjustment

The present study examined the links between whole family interaction patterns, parent-child attachment, and child emotional adjustment in a sample of 86 community families with children between the ages of 8 and 11. Family interactions were observed and coded with the System for Coding Interactions and Family Functioning (SCIFF; Lindahl, 2001). Target children completed the Children’s Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CCSQ; Yunger, Corby, & Perry, 2005), and the Behavior Assessment System for… more

Date: August 2014

Creator: Demby, Kimberly P.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Relationship of Internal-External Locus of Control and Performance in a Weight-Control Program

This study explores the relationship between internal-external locus of control and some characteristics of overweight subjects in a weight-control program in the summer and fall of 1973. Only white, female, over-weight, and obese subjects were used. From this study, it appears that Rotter's I-E concept applies to weight loss. This one significant finding lends support to research that internals control their impulses better than externals and that internals seem to learn and retain relevant in… more

Date: August 1974

Creator: Thomas, Bruce M.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Effect of Nucleus Circularis and Lateral Preoptic Lesions on Osmotically Induced Drinking

The area most widely associated with osmoreception has been the lateral preoptic nucleus. However, Hatton (1976) proposed that the nucleus circularis could be the actual osmoreceptor in the hypothalamus. The present study supported Hatton by using 30 rats which were randomly assigned to sham, lateral preoptic, and nucleus circularis lesion groups. After a 2-week post-operative period, half of each group was injected with isotonic saline while the other half was injected with hypertonic saline. … more

Date: August 1982

Creator: Wallace, Forrest Layne

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Reaction Toward Rape as a Function of Rater Sex, Victim Sex, and Form of Injury

Raters' response toward victim and perpetrators in the context of rape is examined. More blame is attributed to a female than a male victim by all raters, particularly if the female victim is described only as being raped. Detailed description of different forms of injury resulting from the rape tends to act as a mediating factor in the amount of blame assigned to victims. Whereas the delineation of injury tends to decrease the amount of blame assigned to the female victim, this pattern is reve… more

Date: August 1990

Creator: Ee, Juliana Soh-Chiew

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Attitudes Toward Psychodiagnostic Testing and Doctoral Clinical Psychology Students' Professional Expectations and Training

Responses of 111 doctoral clinical psychology students to Garfield and Kurtz' (1973) Testing Attitude Scale were subjected to a 2 x 2 factorial analysis. Attitudes toward psychodiagnostic testing were found to be related both to academic versus nonacademic professional expectations (academics scoring more negatively, M = 32.69, than nonacademics, M = 37.19), F (1, 107) = 5.994, p < 0.016, and to internship training exposure (non-interns scoring more negatively, M = 34.64, than interns, M = 38.8… more

Date: August 1976

Creator: Steele, J. Richard

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Initial Interview: Impact of Gender and Sex-Role Orientation

The present study examined the impact of gender and sex-role orientation on therapy effectiveness. Previous research suggested that same-sex pairings and androgynous therapists would be most desirable. Interviewers (therapists) were 25 male and 15 female third-year doctoral psychology students, each interviewing a male and a female undergraduate student (client). Results did not support the hypothesis that gender and sex role were powerful predictors of therapy effectiveness. However, this stud… more

Date: December 1984

Creator: Tang, So-kum Catherine

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Double Binding Communication: Emotionally Disruptive Effects on College Students

This study investigated the emotionally disruptive effects of double binding communication, as compared with overtly punitive, and warm, accepting interactions. Forty-two college undergraduates scoring above the mean on the Neuroticism Subscale of Eysenck's Personality Questionaire were each directed to play the part of a small child in a spontaneous role-played family interaction. A pre-post mood test (Multiple Adjective Affect Check List), sensitive to changes in depression, hostility, and an… more

Date: May 1983

Creator: Loos, Victor Eugene

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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How Much Do Self-Disclosers Reveal to Professional Groups?

Previous studies of help-givers have stressed subjects' perceptions using nine generic problem areas and a list of 100 descriptive adjectives. The present study attempted to specify major personality variables entering into subjects' perceptions of adviser, high school counselor, college counselor, counseling psychologist, clinical psychologist, and psychiatrist. The personality variables of self-disclosure and risk were studied, as well as a comparison using the 100 descriptive adjectives. The… more

Date: December 1976

Creator: Lankford, Charles P.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Rational Behavior Therapy in a Retirement Community

The objectives of this investigation were to develop, implement, and determine the effects of rational behavior therapy for residents in a retirement community. The question addressed was, "Will rational behavior therapy, relative to a discussion group and control group, exhibit significant changes in level of rational thinking and depression?" Drawing upon a cognitive theory of depression relevant to the aged population and upon rational behavior therapy literature, it was hypothesized that sh… more

Date: May 1982

Creator: Caraway, Marsha Lynn

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Locus of Control as a Function of Seminary Training

This study sought to determine if the locus of control of seminarians is altered as a result of graduate theological training. Gaskins' (1978) locus of control scale was selected because it included God as one of several external controls. This scale was either mailed or administered directly to first year and graduating students from two Southern Baptist and two Disciples of Christ seminaries. The 187 responses revealed no significant difference between the locus of control scores of the two l… more

Date: August 1982

Creator: Nicholson, Stephen David

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Impact of a Death Laboratory on Self-Concept, Generalized Anxiety and Death Anxiety

The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of a death education laboratory approach on the participants. Measures of death anxiety, general anxiety, and self-concept were thought to be of particular importance and thus were used as dependent variables. The study was designed to obtain measures of the variables through appropriate testing administered immediately following participation in a death lab and one month after participation in the 16-hour death lab. This design was selected be… more

Date: August 1978

Creator: Thomas, Bruce M.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Stress Level, Background Variables, Premorbid Health Ratings, and Severity of Psychological Disorders Using DSM-III-R Ratings

This study predicted that individuals diagnosed as having higher levels of stress, based upon DSM-III-R, Axis IV ratings, would also be diagnosed as having more severe forms of mental illness. Conversely, it predicted that individuals with higher premorbid health ratings, according to DSM-III-R, Axis V, would be diagnosed as having less severe forms of mental illness. Highly significant correlations were found between stress ratings and severity of disorder. Significant inverse relationships we… more

Date: August 1988

Creator: Eads, Julie A. (Julie Anne)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Effects of Note-Taking and Trust Level on Self-Disclosure of Prisoners

This study investigated the effects of trust level and note-taking upon the level of self-disclosure among prisoners. Sixty inmates at a federal prison were administered the Rotter Interpersonal Trust Scale. Next, using a median split, participants were divided into two groups of high and low mistrust. Subjects within each of these groups were then randomly assigned to a high, low, or no note-taking condition. Each prisoner then discussed an intimate topic for thirty minutes. Level of self-disc… more

Date: August 1989

Creator: Gontz, Barbara J. (Barbara Jeanne)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Attribution of Blame Toward the Rape Victim

This study investigated the impact of victim provocativeness and rape history upon male and female subjects' perceptions of attribution of blame toward the rape victim. One hundred and forty-four subjects (a) read one of 12 fictional case reports of a rape incident from a sexual abuse center which systematically varied level of victim provocativeness and rape history and (b) completed a nine-item Rape Questionnaire (RQ). Data were analyzed by a 2 (subject's sex) x 3 (level of provocativeness) x… more

Date: August 1987

Creator: Schult, Deborah Gail

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Variables Affecting Grandchildren's Perceptions of Grandparents

While many studies have investigated grandparenthood from the point of view of the grandparent, few have considered this issue from the perspective of the grandchild. In this respect, a number of variables (i.e., grandchild age and gender, parents' marital status, and grandparents' age, gender, education, kinship position, residential proximity to and frequency of visiting with grandchildren, perceived influence on the grandchild, style of grandparenting, and relationship with the parents) were… more

Date: May 1988

Creator: Shore, R. Jerald (Robert Jerald)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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An Examination of the Relationship Between Holland's Vocational Scales and a Measure of Interpersonal Needs

Previous research has provided evidence of relationships between vocational interests and other psychological variables. Test scores from the VPI and FIRO-B for 699 white male job applicants were subjected to multiple regression analyses to determine if individual interest scales could be predicted by particular configurations of interpersonal need scales. It was hypothesized that Enterprising, Realistic, and Investigative interests would be predicted by Inclusion and Control needs and Social i… more

Date: August 1986

Creator: Crumpton, Gerald W. (Gerald Wayne)

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Prediction of Extrapyramidal Effects of Neuroleptic Therapy Using Visuomotor Tasks

The present study attempted to predict the serious side effects of akathisia and parkinsonism on the basis of individualized measurement of changes in visuomotor functioning. The following were the hypotheses for this investigation. 1. A deterioration of visuomotor ability as measured by a modification of Haase and Janssen' s (1965) Handwriting Test will predict which patients undergoing neuroleptic therapy will experience the extrapyramidal symptoms of akathisia and parkinsonism (symptom group… more

Date: May 1978

Creator: Hopewell, Clifford Alan

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Holland's Self-Directed Search: A Measure of Interests of Abilities?

This study examined the relationship between the sub-components of Holland's Self-Directed Search and independent, objective measures of ability using a comprehensive battery of well-validated tests of primary abilities corresponding to each of Holland's six vocational interest types. The sample consisted of 149 female undergraduate students, ages 18-25. Correlation of the ability measure test scores with the four Self-Directed Search subcomponents revealed that the subtests were not related to… more

Date: December 1985

Creator: Williams, Richard Earl

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Stress-Management Training: A Multisystem Therapy Appraoch

This research was a controlled group outcome study to determine the effectiveness of a multisystem therapeutic intervention for hyperarousal to stress. It was assumed that the hyperarousal syndrome is a generalized and undifferentiated response which involves multisystems of the organism, including physiological-autonomic aspects, cognitive appraisals and imagery, affective components, and an array of overt and covert behavioral responses. If the hyperarousal syndrome persists over a period of … more

Date: August 1978

Creator: Shields, Ruth V.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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