Psychology Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Evaluating Three Methods of Assessing Adherence to an Inhaled Corticosteroid Regimen for Pediatric Asthma
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-23)The effects of nonadherence to treatment regimens for pediatric chronic illnesses are significant. There are several characteristics of asthma therapy that make non-adherence likely. Accurate assessment of adherence is ... -
Self-Silencing and Well-Being among Turkish Women
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-28)“Silencing the Self” theory (STST; Jack, 1991) posits that societal devaluation of female–related self promotes self–silencing among women in romantic relationships and thereby threatens their well–being. A cultural ... -
Alpha-amylase, cortisol, and pupillary responses to social and non-social dynamic scenes in young children with autism spectrum disorder
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-27)The symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may manifest from deficits in attention/arousal; previous studies found altered autonomic and attentional responses in ASD. We found a larger tonic pupil size (Anderson & ... -
Processing indexical information demands resources: Evidence from the change deafness paradigm.
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-26)Information about talker identity, referred to as indexical information, and the way it is processed in spoken word recognition is a topic of much debate. Current theories of spoken word recognition suggest indexical ... -
The Examination of Endogenous Attention: Stimulus-Cue Learning in 4- and 9-Month-Olds
(University of Kansas, 2010-03-08)The present study used a stimulus-to-response task to test the presence of endogenous attention in 4- and 9-month-old infants. Infants were presented with a cue stimulus that predicted the location of a peripheral target. ... -
Prelexical Decomposition of Compound and Pseudocompound Words
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-12)Previous studies on morphologically complex words suggest early decomposition in the visual word process. In that case, morpheme-like constituents of pseudocompound words (e.g. mushroom) should also be decomposed during ... -
The Role of Hope in the Academic and Sport Achievements of
(University of Kansas, 2009-11-07)Previous investigations have observed that elevated hope is a significant predictor of both academic and athletic achievement among male and female track and field student athletes, even when controlling statistically for ... -
Effects of Sadness and Hostility on Depressive Attentional Allocation Processes
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-15)A large proportion of individuals with unipolar depression experience predominantly hostile as opposed to sad mood. The consideration of hostile mood states has been virtually ignored, however, in depression research. To ... -
Hope as a Predictor of Initial Treatment Response in a Pediatric Weight Management Program
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-02)ABSTRACT Jason Van Allen Clinical Child Psychology Program Departments of Applied Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, August 2009 University of Kansas The dramatic increase in pediatric overweight and obesity in the last ... -
Associations Among Peer Victimization, Social Anxiety and Children's Self-Reported Physical Activity
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-18)Psychosocial difficulties, including peer victimization and anxiety, have been found to influence physical activity engagement among school-aged children. Understanding the mechanisms through which these factors may exert ... -
Parent Social Engagement: Associations with early adolescents' social skills and social anxiety
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-18)Frequency of parent social engagement (PSE) was examined as a predictor of early adolescents' friendship-specific social skills (FSSS). The author hypothesized a stronger relation between PSE and FSSS would exist for more ... -
PREDICTING GLOBAL MEASURES OF DEVELOPMENT AT 18-MONTHS OF AGE FROM SPECIFIC MEASURES OF COGNITIVE ABILITY AT 10-MONTHS OF AGE
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-09)Composite scores from standardized tests taken in infancy have been shown to offer modest prediction to cognitive skills in later childhood. One possible reason for this is that early manifestations of mental development ... -
Sexual-Enhancement Drug Use in College-Age Men
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-18)Viagra and other erectile-dysfunction (ED) medications are typically associated with older men. There is thus little research on their use in college-age men. The purpose of the present study was to explore the use of ... -
Women's and men's reasons for giving in to sexual intercourse without a condom even though they wanted to use one
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-17)We explored men's and women's reasons for engaging in sexual intercourse without a condom, even though they wanted to use a condom. We explored the differences and similarities between the reasons men and women give for ... -
Do Men Ever Say No To Sex? Questioning Stereotypes About Sexual Gatekeeping
(University of Kansas, 2009-11-13)Gender stereotypes exist such that men are thought to be the initiators of sex, whereas women are thought to be the gatekeepers (those that accept or reject a sexual initiation). Research suggests that exceptions exist to ... -
GOALS, EXPECTATIONS, AND SATISFACTION IN THE MAINTENANCE OF WEIGHT LOSS
(University of Kansas, 2009-08-19)Obesity is a steadily growing epidemic with serious health related consequences. Over the last several decades, the treatment of obesity has evolved and now successfully yields weight losses of typically 5-10%. However, ... -
Caregiver Physical Health and Protective Factors Against Child Abuse and Neglect
(University of Kansas, 2009-08-18)Child abuse and neglect are influential negative experiences with long-lasting effects. A trend in child maltreatment prevention focuses on investigation of protective factors rather than risk factors. The present study ... -
Therapeutic Lifestyle Change: A brief psychoeducational intervention for the prevention of depression.
(University of Kansas, 2009-08-09)This study aimed to test the efficacy of a brief intervention for the prevention of depression among at-risk college students. Treatment group participants attended a one-hour psychoeducational session based on an acute ... -
Darwinian Happiness: Subjective Well-Being as a Signal of Evolutionary Fitness
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-18)The general premise behind evolutionary theory as it pertains to emotion and cognition is that, over the course of human evolutionary history, challenges often occurred for which some emotional or cognitive responses were ... -
Effects of sadness and hostility on depressive attentional allocation processes
(UMI ETD Administrator, 2009-12)A large proportion of individuals with unipolar depression experience predominantly hostile as opposed to sad mood. The consideration of hostile mood states has been virtually ignored, however, in depression research. To ...