Psychology Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Perspectives About Relocation and Loneliness in Residentially Mobile Adolescents
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Residential relocation is a stressful event associated with negative impacts on adolescent's friendships; however, this is may be temporary. The current study categorized adolescent-identified benefits and struggles of ... -
Perceived Control and Maternal Satisfaction with the Childbirth Experience
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)The quality of the childbirth experience, particularly whether the mother perceives a sense of control over the birth environment, can significantly impact postpartum adjustment. Although maternal "satisfaction" is a common ... -
Expressions of Emotion in Intergroup Apologies and Forgiveness: The moderating role of percieved perpetrator morality
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Apologies for intergroup harm have become increasingly common. Despite this, the evidence for the effectiveness of intergroup apologies in promoting forgiveness is mixed. One reason for the mixed findings across studies ... -
(In)visibility of Black women: Drawing attention to individuality
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Invisibility is defined as a lack of individuation of or lack of differentiation between group members, and is evident in poor recognition of individual faces. The current work tests the hypothesis that the non-prototypicality ... -
A Multiple Group Repeated Measures Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) Examination of the Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey (EALS) Among College Samples
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)The present study examined changes in university students' attitudes toward and knowledge of evolution measured by the previously validated Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey (EALS). Students were assessed at a ... -
Temporal Mechanisms Underlying Systematic Mood Fluctuation: Re-evaluating Time and Day
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Positive and negative moods fluctuate systematically during our waking hours and throughout the course of a week; however, the mechanisms underlying these changes have not been fully explored. These systematic changes may ... -
Attachment to Objects as a Compensatory Strategy
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Attachment theory has long considered the ways in which our close relationships serve as a source of security. Psychologists have recently begun to recognize that people also derive similar feelings of security from other ... -
Parental Influence on Children's Chronic Abdominal Pain Experiences: Exploring the Relationship between Parental Protective Behaviors and Child Quality of Life
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Initial studies examining relationships between parent behaviors and child functioning in chronic pain populations have documented positive associations between parental protective behaviors and child somatic complaints, ... -
Expressive Writing Intervention for Teens Whose Parents Have Cancer
(University of Kansas, 2011-02-03)The role of emotional expression was explored in the writings of adolescent children of parents with cancer. Participants ages 12-18 (n=40) were assigned randomly to write in 3 sessions about their thoughts and feelings ... -
The Development and Validation of the Academic and Social SOC Scale
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-16)Integrating approaches to self-regulation will greatly inform our understanding of psychological processes and their development. Empirical integration requires measurement tools that are sensitive to changes in self-regulation ... -
The Relationship between Affective Response to Exercise and Activity Level among Children
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-08)Childhood obesity is a health epidemic in the United States. There have been many interventions designed to prevent and treat childhood obesity, but these programs have seen only moderate success. Exercise enjoyment ... -
Inhibitory Processing of Sad Facial Expressions and Depression Vulnerability
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-17)Depression vulnerability has been frequently linked to selective attention biases, but these biases may partly result from an inhibitory deficit for processing depressive information (Joormann, 2004). Reduced inhibition ... -
Who I Am Is Who I Was: Exploring the Identity-Maintenance Function of Nostalgia
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-17)Nostalgia is defined as a sentimental longing for the past and appears to be a frequently experienced, positive, and self-relevant emotion (Wildschut, Sedikides, Arndt, & Routledge, 2006). Across two studies, I examine the ... -
Fit Index Sensitivity in Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling
(University of Kansas, 2011-07-29)Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (MSEM) is used to estimate latent variable models in the presence of multilevel data. A key feature of MSEM is its ability to quantify the extent to which a hypothesized model fits ... -
Optimism in Children Exposed to Child Maltreatment
(University of Kansas, 2010-10-07)Factors that predict optimism, the belief that positive things will happen in one's life, in youth who have experienced maltreatment were examined; specifically, positive family characteristics, life events, and social ... -
Spanish Translation of the Children's Hope Scale Using Quantitative Methods for Verifying Semantic Equivalence
(University of Kansas, 2010-02-23)Abstract The purpose of this study was to translate the Children's Hope Scale (CHS) from English to Spanish using quantitative methods in order to verify semantic equivalence of the adapted measure. The study utilized ... -
Text Messaging As An Adjunct to a Career and Life Planning Class With Undergraduate Students
(University of Kansas, 2010-07-19)Abstract Career decision making is a difficult process for many. Gordon & Steele (2003) found that for many students, even knowing where to begin can be a daunting process. Students' initial choices in a major or career ... -
The role of positive facial feedback in the stress response
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-01)This study investigated whether the old adage "grin and bear it" has proven value by testing how covert and overt manipulation of facial expression influences affective and physiological responses to stress. One hundred ... -
What underlies security? Neurological evidence for attachment's resource enhancement role
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-25)The sense of attachment security has been linked with a host of beneficial outcomes related to personal and relational well-being. Moreover, experimental research has demonstrated that the sense of attachment security can ... -
Reacting to the Past: A Developmental Examination of the Emotion Regulation Role of Autobiographical Memory Specificity
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-20)This study was designed to experimentally test the impact of the specificity of one's autobiographical memories on affect, and to examine how memory specificity may differentially impact emotional responses across development. ...