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The effects of locus of control and instructional method on self-efficacy with computers

Creator:: Whyte, Catherine K.
Abstract:: The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the interactive effects of locus of control and instructional method on perceived self-efficacy with computers. The two instructional methods in this experiment were intended to represent variations in the amount of control over the lesson that students would have, the amount of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: self-efficacy with computers AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Catherine K. Whyte for the degree of

The self-concept and perceived importance of athletic competition of winners and losers in special olympics

Creator:: Luttrell, William Lynn
Abstract:: Special Olympics International, an organization committed to providing sport opportunities for children and adults with mental retardation, has been a major advocate in promoting competitive experiences for the mentally retarded. Few studies have focused on the effects of participation in competitive athletics on individuals who are mentally retarded. The purpose...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: The Self-Concept and Perceived Importance of Athletic

Self-cathexis ad body-cathexis participants in selected environmental sport activities

Creator:: O'Neill, Judith Anne
Abstract:: Individuals participating in the enviromental sport activity courses of backpacking-orienteering, mountaineering, and scuba diving responded to pre- and post - test trials of the Self-Cathexis Scale ard the Body-Oathexis Scale. Two control groups composed of random samples of the university student population reponded to the Self-Cathexis Scale Body-Cathexis Scale: one...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -canexis is an aspect of the sd 1f-concept. For the purpose of this study, self-cathexis was measured by

An investigation into the possible arousal of psychological reactance as a consequence of interest inventory feedback

Creator:: Beller, Stephen Mark
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to determine whether feedback from vocational interest inventories leads to the arousal of psychological reactance. The data for the study was collected from 80 male and female subjects who were first year students at Oregon State University enrolled in Psychology 111, Personal Development. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: psychological reactance as a consequence of interest inventory feedback AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Stephen

Relationship of anxiety level and performance in NAIA intercollegiate basketball games

Creator:: Boutin, K. James
Abstract:: Five NAIA intercollegiate men's basketball teams and 53 players served as subjects to determine the role pre-game anxiety played in basketball game performance. The study involved four games in which Western Oregon State College competed against other small colleges in Oregon during the 19 -81 season. Performance in basketball was...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: creative self-expression, debili- tating psychological and psychosomatic symptoms and idiosyncratic

A correlation study of self-body cathexis of obese women and their attitudes toward physical activity

Creator:: Reynolds, Julia A.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the self-body cathexis of obese women and their attitudes toward physical activity. Fifty inventories were used for the research in this project. The volunteer subjects' ages ranged from 18 to 45 with a mean age of 28.9 years. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A correlation study of self-body cathexis of obese women

The construction and preliminary validation of an instrument to assess the food fantasies of individuals with eating disorders

Creator:: Bruyer, Annette
Abstract:: The study's goal was to develop and initially validate the Food Fantasies Questionnaire, a self-report therapeutic and research instrument which assesses the occurrence and content of highly irrational food cognitions (fantasies) common to eating disorders in relation to seven theoretically derived factors characterisic of the disorders: fear, anxiety, revulsion, pleasure,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: study's goal was to develop and initially validate the Food Fantasies Questionnaire, a self-report

The effect of peer presence upon health-related physical fitness test scores of college students

Creator:: El Baden, Bahia Mahmoud
Abstract:: The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of peer presence upon the health-related physical fitness test scores of college students. A total of 312 undergraduate college students, 156 males and 156 females, 18 through 29 years of age, randomly selected from the physical education activity...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of an audience having greater self-reported arousal; in some treatments this arousal was shown to

Coping behavior employed by Oregon school administrators in dealing with occupational stress

Creator:: Zieminski, Robert S.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . 2. "Verbalization" and "self-awareness" were reported to be the most effeCtive behavior factors. 3

A study of a Japanese-American basketball league and the assimilation of its members into the mainstream of United States society

Creator:: Nogawa, Haruo
Abstract:: The present study was a modified replication of the two pioneer works in the field of sport and ethnic groups by Pooley (1968) and Tindall (1973). This study investigated whether participation in an ethnic basketball league in Japanese-American communities affected the rate of assimilation of two groups of Japanese-American, high-school...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , psychological, and cul- tural attributes of the participants, direct observations and informal focused

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The effects of locus of control and instructional method on self-efficacy with computers

The self-concept and perceived importance of athletic competition of winners and losers in special olympics

Self-cathexis ad body-cathexis participants in selected environmental sport activities

An investigation into the possible arousal of psychological reactance as a consequence of interest inventory feedback

Relationship of anxiety level and performance in NAIA intercollegiate basketball games

A correlation study of self-body cathexis of obese women and their attitudes toward physical activity

The construction and preliminary validation of an instrument to assess the food fantasies of individuals with eating disorders

The effect of peer presence upon health-related physical fitness test scores of college students

Coping behavior employed by Oregon school administrators in dealing with occupational stress

A study of a Japanese-American basketball league and the assimilation of its members into the mainstream of United States society

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