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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Trait And State Determinants Of Preference For Abstract Art, Tara Brady
Trait And State Determinants Of Preference For Abstract Art, Tara Brady
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Relationship Schemas: Knowledge Of Risks, Benefits, And Schema Complexity, Rosalie Belle Guerrero
Relationship Schemas: Knowledge Of Risks, Benefits, And Schema Complexity, Rosalie Belle Guerrero
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Investigating The Executive Flexibility Model, Nancy Jane Yanchus
Investigating The Executive Flexibility Model, Nancy Jane Yanchus
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Development Of Emotional Intelligence: Identifying Components And Correlates In Preschool-Aged Children, Claire T. Penick
The Development Of Emotional Intelligence: Identifying Components And Correlates In Preschool-Aged Children, Claire T. Penick
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Influence Of Womanist Identity On The Development Of Eating Disorders And Depression In African American Female College Students, Theresa Ford
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Long-Term Debt In College And University Institutional Finance, James Alan Shultz
Long-Term Debt In College And University Institutional Finance, James Alan Shultz
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Parents' Construction Of Emotional Abuse And Neglect Of Children Aged Birth To Six Years In A Rural District In Uganda, Edreda Tuwangye
Parents' Construction Of Emotional Abuse And Neglect Of Children Aged Birth To Six Years In A Rural District In Uganda, Edreda Tuwangye
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Child abuse and neglect are endemic not only in Western countries but also in developing countries such as Uganda. An investigation was conducted to establish how parents living in rural Uganda construe child abuse and neglect. The study is of theoretical interest on two counts. First, there is evidence to suggest that Western accounts of child abuse and neglect may not apply to developing countries, a matter of importance given the dominance of Western research in the thinking of policy and intervention studies. Second, most of the research assumes that abuse and neglect are self-evident constructs and there is seldom …
Killing Ostriches: Young Women, Family Violence And Youth Work, Judy Kulisa
Killing Ostriches: Young Women, Family Violence And Youth Work, Judy Kulisa
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Using a phenomenological approach, this study, "Killing Ostriches" sought to investigate the experience of violence in the home of a small group of young women living in the northern suburbs of Perth. Seven young women between the ages of 17-26 took part in the study. Five of these young women claimed to have experienced violence in their family of origin and the: remaining two, introduced for triangulation purposes, claimed not to have done so. The study sought, not only to explore the lived experience of violence in the home for these young women, but to also investigate their experience of …
Leisure Patterns, Constraints And Socio-Demographic Characteristics Of Korean Immigrants In Western Australia, Sooyoung S. Tcha
Leisure Patterns, Constraints And Socio-Demographic Characteristics Of Korean Immigrants In Western Australia, Sooyoung S. Tcha
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This study investigated the patterns of and constraints to leisure participation of Korean immigrants in Western Australia. The socioeconomic and demographic attributes of Korean immigrants were examined using descriptive statistical methods and their effects on leisure participation were rigorously analysed using quantitative techniques, based on data that were collected from Korean immigrants in Western Australia. The study showed that Korean immigrants participated in more passive leisure activities such as home-based ones. Participation in more active or western style leisure activities especially sports was found to be considerably low. The study also looked at which variables could explain the change in …
Suggestibility In Children: A Review: Suggestibility Differences Between Children With And Without Mild Intellectual Impairment, Rebecca Purchon
Suggestibility In Children: A Review: Suggestibility Differences Between Children With And Without Mild Intellectual Impairment, Rebecca Purchon
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Literature review: The following review outlines the broad area of children and suggestibility with a focus on children with intellectual disabilities. Key determinants of suggestibility including cognitive, social and stress factors underpinning the phenomenon are examined. Secondly, methodological issues such as poor ecological validity and generaliseability to the child-victim context are discussed. Relevant studies in the field are examined in light of these methodological issues. The implications of generalising from ecologically invalid studies for legal and psychological professionals are discussed. Finally, future directions for research such as effects of different ages, differences in ethnicity and IQ differences on suggestibility are …
Managing The Information Overload : A Case Study Of Managerial Staff In A Government Department, Kerttu Hamilton
Managing The Information Overload : A Case Study Of Managerial Staff In A Government Department, Kerttu Hamilton
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Research shows that the amount of information has grown vastly and information technology has greatly increased its availability. This has caused changes in the organisational environment, placing greater and greater demands on the individuals' and organisations' capacity to absorb and process information. Since information is considered to be a valuable and necessary asset, and as time for processing information is limited, an individual will have to make choices about what information to process. An exploratory case study was conducted to ascertain what rationale do individuals in an organisational setting use for making decisions about what information to process from the …
Indeterminacy In First And Second Languages: Case Studies Of Narrative Development Of Chinese Children With And Without Language Disorder, Bee Hong Lo
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Bilingual children with specific language impairment (SLI) from non English speaking background (NESB) present a major diagnostic problem to speech pathologist and educationist in an English speaking country. There has been no known study on the simultaneous narrative development involving bilingual Chinese children with and without SLI. This longitudinal case study examined the relationship of Chinese (L1) and English (L2) in narrative development in a child with no language difficulty (Child LN) and a child (Child L1) diagnosed as having SLI. The hypothesis posed for this study was that Child L1 has the same developmental profile for narrative skill in …
Gender Differences In Coping Responses For Partners Of Problem Drinkers, Patricia O'Brien
Gender Differences In Coping Responses For Partners Of Problem Drinkers, Patricia O'Brien
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis is compiled in two parts. Each part is an independent piece of work intended for separate publication. Consequently each part has separate page numbering. The list part is a literature review with relevant appendices attached. The second part is a research report incorporating the collection and analysis of data. This research report also has its own appendices. A general appendices section at the end of the thesis supplies documentation not included in either the literature review or the study. The literature review is to be submitted to the Clinical Psychology Review and the research report to the Journal …
Living With A Transvestite : A Phenomenological Study Of Wives And Committed Partners Of Transvestites, Heather Christine Freegard
Living With A Transvestite : A Phenomenological Study Of Wives And Committed Partners Of Transvestites, Heather Christine Freegard
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Being a man or woman is at the core of human social lives and personal identity, and guides appropriate behaviours such as dress, mannerisms and relationships. Transvestism, or the practice of wearing the clothes of the other gender, challenges societal values and guidelines for behaviour. The attitude of society to this practice has varied from veneration to vilification depending on the period of history and the culture of the people. In western countries, although there is little social or legal repression, transvestism is largely a hidden phenomena. The tradition of comic drag has dominated public recognition of cross-dressing. Hence transvestites …
Psychological Sense Of Community In Jewish Adolescents Of Perth, Western Australia, Darren M. Stein
Psychological Sense Of Community In Jewish Adolescents Of Perth, Western Australia, Darren M. Stein
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This paper explores Psychological Sense of Community (PSC) in the Jewish adolescent population of Perth. The main aim was to investigate the differences between student attending the private Jewish School (Carmel) or another school within the metropolitan area. Participants were recruited from Carmel School, W A Maccabi (Jewish sport club) and by using a snowball sampling technique. The total sample included 167 students (60 males and 107 females) in years 10, II and 12. Participants' PSC was assessed by the modified Sense of Community Index (SCI). Results showed significantly higher PSC in Carmel students (ᵽ< .05), males (ᵽ< .01) and Somewhat observant individuals (ᵽ< .0 I). No relationship was found between PSC and whether one lived in the central Jewish suburbs. The relationship between PSC and length of time lived in the community was not a positive, linear one as expected. Results that were contrary to those in the literature may be effected by the community's traditional gender stereotypes and high numbers of migrants. Limitations of the study and implications for future research are discussed.
Research Problem: What Are The Differences Between Wadjela And Nyungar Criteria When Assessing Organisational Effectiveness Of Non-Government Human Service Organisations?, Keith Truscott
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Wadjela and Nyungar experts (of managerial, administrative, service staff), from the same South-West city location in Western Australia were randomly chosen from the non-government human service field for separate workshops and asked the question “what makes a non-government human service organisation effective?" The purpose was to compare the group consensus answer between the two separate workshop groups. The Nyungars are the Indigenous people in the South-West of Western Australia and the Wadjelas are the Non-Indigenous people living in the same area. The results listed five criteria, in order of priority that made non-government human service organisations effective. For the Wadjela …
Constructing Compatibility : Managing Breastfeeding And Weaning From The Mothers' Perspective, Yvonne Louise Hauck
Constructing Compatibility : Managing Breastfeeding And Weaning From The Mothers' Perspective, Yvonne Louise Hauck
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Breastfeeding involves phases of initiation, continuation, and weaning. Research to date has focused upon its initiation and continuation rather than the later phases, when the child is weaned from the breast. Selective aspects relating to weaning have been explored to determine infant feeding practices such as the timing of food introduction. However, that research has focused upon developing countries where the impact of infant feeding patterns and weaning practices have a significant impact on infant growth and child health. The weaning process or final phase of breastfeeding from the mothers' perspective has not been examined within the western world. In …
Shamanism And Alien Abductions : A Comparative Study, Simon Brian Harvey-Wilson
Shamanism And Alien Abductions : A Comparative Study, Simon Brian Harvey-Wilson
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Some UFO researchers (ufologists) claim that being abducted by aliens can be compared with shamanic initiation experiences in traditional societies in that both types of experience may be similarly transformative, leading to a more spiritual or animistic world-view, a deep concern for the environment and the development of paranormal abilities such as healing. This qualitative study is designed to investigate the validity of such claims. The research aim is to see whether the experiences and subsequent world-view of eleven alien abductees (eight women and three men) from a local abduction support group are similar to those of the typical shaman …
The Double Edged Sword Of Depersonalization: An Examination Of Depersonalization's Role In The Police Profession, Michael J. O'Connor
The Double Edged Sword Of Depersonalization: An Examination Of Depersonalization's Role In The Police Profession, Michael J. O'Connor
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
The role of depersonalization is the central focus of this study. A major issue in examining the role of depersonalization is whether the present concept of burnout is an appropriate indicator of bumout for police officers. The commonly accepted conception of burnout is a process of emotional exhaustion that leads to depersonalization, followed by a reduction in work accomplishment. Depersonalization, by this conception, is a symptom of burnout. By definition,depersonalization is the psychological distancing of emotional and psychological trauma in stressful situations—a coping technique.
For police officers, depersonalization acts as a shield of emotional armor to maintain a sense of …
How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor And Luxury In Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture, Robin Veder
How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor And Luxury In Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture, Robin Veder
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
"How Gardening Pays" is a case study of the formation and transmission of cultural practices and interpretations of flower-gardening as profitable leisure, idealized labor, and luxury consumption in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture. Mid-nineteenth-century cant about American flower-gardening as an anti-materialistic and morally improving occupation was premised upon the multiple functions of flower gardening in British working-class culture. Methodologically, this dissertation is unlike most intellectual histories of the ideological significance of nature in American culture, or formal studies of the physical attributes of horticultural history, because it demonstrates how ideologies and material practices were interrelated.;The first half of this dissertation focuses on …
A World Of Goods: The Printer's Economy In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Kari S. Richardson
A World Of Goods: The Printer's Economy In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Kari S. Richardson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Bacchus And Bellum: The Anglo-Gascon Wine Trade And The Hundred Years War (987 To 1453 A.D), Christopher D. Turgeon
Bacchus And Bellum: The Anglo-Gascon Wine Trade And The Hundred Years War (987 To 1453 A.D), Christopher D. Turgeon
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Personality Qualities Associated With Visual Image Preference And Creativity, Marlene H. Stemme
Personality Qualities Associated With Visual Image Preference And Creativity, Marlene H. Stemme
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
1999 Missouri-Madison Recreation Survey: Tables Of Visitor Characterisitics By Recreation Site, Brian Glaspell
1999 Missouri-Madison Recreation Survey: Tables Of Visitor Characterisitics By Recreation Site, Brian Glaspell
Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications
Four reports were produced following the 1999 Missouri-Madison Recreation Survey administered by ITRR for PPL Montana from May 1999 through September 1999. The primary purpose of the study is to provide an update to the information from the 1994-95 study which was used for development of the comprehensive recreation management plan for the corridor.This report presents tables of results from the study organized by recreation site.
An Investigation Of Social Skill Group Counseling Intervention With At-Risk Students, Kathy A. Bennett
An Investigation Of Social Skill Group Counseling Intervention With At-Risk Students, Kathy A. Bennett
Theses
The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefits of teaching social skills to a group of 14 at-risk kindergarten students that were identified by their classroom teachers as exhibiting social skills deficits. A pre-test and post-test experimental design was devised using the Social Skills Direct Observation by Sheridan (1997). Students participated in a group social skills training program for five weeks. A statistical comparison between the pre and post test data was then performed by means of a nonparametric procedure. Results of the Wilcoxon's Matched Pairs-Signed-Ranks Test were indicative of positive gains in the students' acquisition of social …
Just For Money? : An Exploratory Study Into The Motivations Of Nude Dancers, Elaine Vance
Just For Money? : An Exploratory Study Into The Motivations Of Nude Dancers, Elaine Vance
Dissertations and Theses
Women working as nude dancers have been depicted both in academia and popular literature either as victims of patriarchal exploitation and economic oppression, or as empowered women choosing the most profitable form of work out of the limited options provided for them. This study explores these opposing motivational factors for the entrance and continuance of nude dancing, integrating the theoretical framework of Sex Positive feminism with Strauss and Corbin's (1990) grounded theory approach. Sex Positive feminism asserts that sex work is neither oppressive nor exploitative but rather can be a consensual and legitimate avenue resulting in an increase in women's …
Frontmatter (The Christian Librarian 43:1)
Frontmatter (The Christian Librarian 43:1)
The Christian Librarian
No abstract provided.
Reasons To Filter, Mike Cobb
Reasons To Filter, Mike Cobb
The Christian Librarian
This article intends to give reasons that, in the mind of this author, justify Internet filtering in the author's library on the campus of Liberty University. These are given in a very brief format, and are not intended to be inclusive, but rather to fos ter ideas, debate, and discussion.
Techtrends, Joe Matthews
Techtrends, Joe Matthews
The Christian Librarian
A computer's operating system is the "central nervous system." This software controls what the computer system does internally. That is, it controls the flow of information into the computer. processes the data or information and then moves the data into a file stored on the magnetic disk or displayed on a workstation screen or perhaps printed.
Frontmatter (The Christian Librarian 43:2)
Frontmatter (The Christian Librarian 43:2)
The Christian Librarian
No abstract provided.