Psychology Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Project MSSE: Maternal Sleep and Social Environment in the Short-Term Postpartum
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)The postpartum period is a time of considerable excitement and joy for new mothers as well as stress and change. While the majority of postpartum research has been conducted during the first three postpartum months, less ... -
Pediatric obesity treatment in rural settings: Association between psychosocial functioning and health outcomes
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Objective. Evaluate associations between psychological functioning, weight, and diet in rural children participating in family-based pediatric obesity interventions. Methods. One hundred and forty-eight children participated ... -
THE IMPACT OF MEASUREMENT ERROR ON CONTINUOUS TIME PANEL MODELS
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Prior studies have shown that analyzing a continuous time panel model with the Exact Discrete Model (EDM) is less biased and more efficient than approximate methods such as Latent Differential Equations (LDE). Simulation ... -
A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Children's Report of Sleep Patterns
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Sleep is essential for learning, memory, neurobehavioral functioning, and emotion regulation. The importance of sleep in children has led to the creation of numerous sleep assessment instruments. However, there is a dearth ... -
The Effect of Body Mass Index, Negative Affect, and Disordered Eating on Health-Related Quality of Life in Preadolescent Youth: A Moderated Mediation Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Objective: To examine the indirect effect of BMI z-score on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) through disordered eating attitudes and behaviors in a community sample of preadolescent children, as well as the degree ... -
The Role of Adherence on Health Outcomes in Pediatric Chronic Conditions: A Meta-Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Increased adherence to medical regimens has been suggested to lead to improved health outcomes. It is unknown what level of adherence is necessary to achieve improved health in different pediatric chronic conditions. In ... -
EFFECTS OF MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA ON TREATMENT OUTCOMES AND PATTERNS OF ATTRITION IN COGNITIVE PROCESSING THERAPY
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Military sexual trauma, or MST, is the term used by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to refer to experiences of sexual assault or repeated, threatening sexual harassment that a veteran experienced during his or her ... -
RACIST EVENTS AND POST-RAPE DISCLOSURE PATTERNS IN BLACK COLLEGE STUDENTS
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The relationship between racial identity well-being (psychological, emotional, social, and physical health), experiences and appraisal of racist events, and the behaviors that follow rape have been substantive areas of ... -
The Role of Informational Medium on Decisions to Respond to a Message
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The dangers of texting while driving has been clearly reported in distracted driving studies. People generally see texting while driving a dangerous behavior but they do it. A new line of research in the area of driving ... -
The Role of Affective Shifting in Positively Reframing and Coping with Negative Autobiographical Memories
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Research suggests that positively reframing past negative experiences is beneficial for coping, but little work has investigated the cognitive abilities underlying this process. Using both experimental and ideographic ... -
fMRI of Prose Comprehension in High- and Low-Performing Older Adults
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Characterization and clinical detection of early Alzheimer's disease is difficult due to significant neurocognitive variability present in both healthy and pathological aging. This poses a problem for memory and aging ... -
Mealtime Behaviors Associated with Consumption of Unfamiliar Foods by Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Background: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show greater food refusal than their typically developing peers. The current study examined parent and child mealtime behaviors associated with consumption of ... -
College Students' Perceptions of Sexual Consent
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Consent is a key issue in defining sexual violence, yet few studies have examined the normative ways that college students believe that ambiguous behaviors should be interpreted within a sexual encounter. In the present ... -
Changes in Body Image and Sexuality in Rural Breast Cancer Survivors During a Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance Intervention
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)This study evaluated changes in body image dimensions in breast cancer survivors after a weight control trial and predictors of those changes. Postmenopausal rural breast cancer survivors enrolled in an 18-month phone-based ... -
IMPORTANT WORDS IN THE LEXICON: THE INFLUENCE OF CLOSENESS CENTRALITY ON LEXICAL PROCESSING
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Network science is an interdisciplinary field drawing on computational and mathematical tools from mathematics, computer science, and physics. Network Science utilizes networks to examine real world complex systems. Within ... -
Relations among maltreatment history, substance use, and coping in youth in foster care: Examination of moderation models
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Child maltreatment is associated with a range of negative outcomes, including health risk behavior such as substance use (SU). This study aimed to test relations among maltreatment history, coping behavior, and SU behavior ... -
Relationship Norm Strength: Measurement Structure, Dyadic Interdependence, Correlates, Causes and Consequences
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The study of norms and close relationships are two pillars of social psychological scholarship, yet the two topics are rarely studied in tandem. When relationship norms have been the subject of empirical study, researchers ... -
Mother Recollections of a Tornado
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Abstract The goals of the present study were to explore how meaning-related features of mothers’ individual recollections of a devastating tornado and its aftermath related to mothers’ perceived stress approximately one ... -
MIBEN: Robust Multiple Imputation with the Bayesian Elastic Net
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Correctly specifying the imputation model when conducting multiple imputation remains one of the most significant challenges in missing data analysis. This dissertation introduces a robust multiple imputation technique, ... -
Selecting an Optimal Measurement Model and Detecting Differential Item Functioning Using Bayesian Confirmatory Factor Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)I investigated the sampling behavior of DIC and WAIC in the context of selecting an optimal measurement model in Bayesian SEM, as well as the utility of highly constrained parameter estimates in detecting differential item ...