Browsing by Subject "Major psychology"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)This study examined the validity of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D) in a sample of 69 elderly medical inpatients and outpatients from Audie L. Murphy ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This study presents a model for categorizing attitudes on the basis of their cognitive and affective components and tests the model in a topic area of applied interest: college students and AIDS risk. The study examined ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)This dissertation examined the training literature focusing on potential factors that could influence the effectiveness of training interventions, and used meta-analysis to quantify the impact of these factors. A total ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Two studies investigated the relationship between personality variables and the accuracy of confidence judgments (calibration). The personality variables were openness (from the NEO-FFI, Costa & McCrae, 1985), authoritarianism ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1997)This study examined the overlap and differences among three classes of vivid dreams: nightmares, lucid dreams, and archetypal dreams, with special emphasis on archetypal dreams. Archetypal dreams, the least studied class ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)Military personnel who had exhibited serious suicidal behavior participated in a controlled study to investigate the effects of an intensive cognitive behavioral, problem-solving treatment intervention administered in a ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)This study was designed to demonstrate that global self-esteem moderates reactions to violations of self-expectancies. Aronson & Carlsmith (1962) found that subjects whose low performance expectancies were disconfirmed by ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Theories of metaphor differ in their predictions about what types of features will be present in a metaphor's interpretation. To test competing views, subjects in Experiment 1 were asked to list attributes of words in ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Heatherton and Baumeister (1991) formulated escape theory as a way to understand the literature on binge eaters. One of the primary propositions regarding binge and restrained eaters pertains to their high self-awareness ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This research examines the relation of stress and social support to psychological adjustment of preadolescents and adolescents during a school transition. 124 sixth graders and 131 ninth graders reported on social support ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)A causal model of employee substance use was developed from research emanating from both traditional drug abuse literature and findings gleaned from industrial/organizational readings. It was hypothesized that work related ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The present cross-sectional study examined the validity of the hopelessness theory of depression (Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989) for preadolescent children drawn from clinical-outpatient Ns = depressed and 34 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)The frequency and severity of women's fear of rape and anxiety symptoms were investigated in a random sample of 89 women in the Portland, OR area, 91% of whom were Anglo. The instruments administered were: The Modified ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This study investigates characteristics of the working models of attachment theory. Working models are the cognitive-affective concomitants of the attachment styles (secure, anxious/ambivalent, and avoidant) proposed by ...