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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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Housing Deterioration And The Maintenance Decision, Peter J. Conlin

Master's Theses

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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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The Use Of Conceptual Models In Loss Counseling, Jean Lawrence

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 …

Evaluation Of Courses/Instructors: Book Cost Information And Commitment, Gerald L. Stremel

Master's Theses

The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between level of commitment to a college course, and information pertaining to the cost of book(s) for the course, and how such variables would interact to affect the subsequent evaluation of the course/instructor. It was expected that a state of cognitive dissonance would be present between the high commitment-higher than average cost group and the low commitment-higher than average cost group, which would manifest itself by less favorable evaluations of the course/instructor by the low commitment-higher than average group, than in the other five experimental groups. Results partially supported the prediction. …

Racial Differences In Reactance And Learned Helplessness, Sandra Elveta Lowe

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

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

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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Pregnant Women's Expectations Of Newborns, Margery Salter

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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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 …

Avoidance Learning Of Anxiety : An Application Of Signal Detection Theory, Maribeth Ekey

Master's Theses

The purpose of the present study was to test the appli­ cation of Signal Detection Theory to a model for the development of anxiety. An attempt was made to condi­ tion anxiety responses to decreasing magnitudes of a noxious stimulus through the negative reinforcement of avoidance behavior. An analogue based on Mandler and Watson's (1966) interruption theory was designed. Data from 32 male and female volunteers from the University of Richmond subject pool were used in the final analy­ sis. All students were pretested with Sarason's (1972) Test Anxiety Scale and placed in high- and low-anxiety groups according to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A Validation Study For The Position Of Bank Teller Utilizing The Job Matching System, Richard Dennis Newcomb

Master's Theses

This study attempted to validate the Job Matching System utilizing both objective and subjective proficiency measure. The participants were tellers from two area banks. It was found that the Match Index scores (r) that were obtained from the administration of the Life Activities Inventory could be used to predict success on the jo (with success defined as above or below average proficiency levels_ whether objective or subjective it was shown that the Job matching System, with certain notation, did not show adverse impact for any of the minority groups included in this study. Certain limitations upon the results of this …

Field Dependence And Recall Of Related And Unrelated Lists Of Words, Lynda L. King

Master's Theses

This study dealt with the particular cognitive style known as field-independence and field-dependence as an influential factor upon the number of words recalled from categorized and uncategorized lists of words across three trials. After being tested for cognitive style using Witkin's Group Embedded Figures Test, 6 subjects from each of three identified styles, field-independent, medium, and field-dependent, were given a related (categorized) list of words while 6 different subjects from each of the cognitive styles were given an unrelated (uncategorized) list of words. Each word list was presented three times with recall after each trial for every subject being recorded. …

A Test Of Two Theories Of The Necker Cube Reversal Illusion, Phillip Powers Woodson Jr.

Master's Theses

The Necker cube reversal illusion was used to test the satiational and constructional theories of this illusion in an experimental paradigm. The paradigm involved one group of 51 university students who were tested under three experimental conditions. All three test sessions involved their watching a Necker cube for a continuous 2 minute period. Each session was separated by at least a 1-day interval. One session involved the plain cube. Another session involved a fixation mark in the center of the cube and a third session had the mark sequentially appearing in four different locations in the central region of the …

Construction Of A Multiscore Measure Of Depressive Moods And Affects, David John Berndt

Master's Theses

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Personality Traits Of Alchoholic Subtypes, John M. Zivich

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Interpersonal Skills Training On Locus Of Control, Michael J. Banks

Master's Theses

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Interview Intake Procedures: A Client Satisfaction And Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation, Elicia J. Herz

Master's Theses

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John Stuart Mill--Individuality Or Utility?, William Hoffman

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Feedback And Knowledge Of Response On The Voluntary Acceleration Of Heart Rate, Sharon A. Moskowitz

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.