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Creator:: McKean, Doris Spears
Abstract:: A study of student performance in relation to concentrated color in the environment was conducted in an elementary school near Portland, Oregon. Third grade classrooms served as laboratories, with the total third grade student population of 83 students serving as subjects. The project covered a four week period of time....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: psychological factors associated with human response to color. About the same time, around 1900, Jastrow and

Creator:: Butzer, Peggy A.
Abstract:: The significance of dress in a first encounter situation has been demonstrated empirically: clothing serves as a vehicle for communicating information from one person to another. Thus, it is influential in affecting the formation of first impressions. This study was undertaken to explore the elements of dress that are most...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: psychological life and know- ledge to be the structural aspect of psychological life (Furth, 1981, p. 206

Creator:: Olstrom, Janet Marie
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationships among satisfaction with clothing, satisfaction with physical appearance, concern over weight, self-esteem, and participation in leisure-time activities among a sample of full-time homemakers. To test these relationships, five measures were used. Satisfaction with clothing was measured by comparing the actual...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -psychological approaches (Rosencranz, 1950). This seminar was followed by a similar one in 1951 (Sybers and

Creator:: Lauritsen, Chrisanne Clark
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between innovativeness in clothing and textiles and; self rating of innovativeness, adoption leadership, venturesomeness, perceived sewing competence, age, education, social status characteristics, social participation, sources of information, and continuation of learning. The sample consisted of 67 women who sew who...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: adoption leadership, venturesomeness, perceived sewing competence, and selected demographic factors AN

Creator:: Dersch, Fay Avis
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to investigate relationships among time orientation, clothing influentials, importance of selected garment characteristics, sources of clothing information, and clothing values. The measures developed for the study were a clothing influential measure, a garment characteristic measure, and a source of clothing information measure. Two measures...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: physical, social, intellectual, and psychological ones. These changes occur at different rates in

Creator:: Cron, Marie Elizabeth Gilbert
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: considered when determining a person's age: chronological, biological, psychological, sociological

Creator:: Shields, Edith A.
Abstract:: Perception between people is part of the process of nonverbal communication. Person perception including body, facial expression, facial features, and clothing is part of the process that results in the formation of impressions of persons by each other. The purpose of this study was to investigate clothing perception and develop...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: down by the viewer. Each noticed item or aspect of that item of clothing was counted as one response

Creator:: Paeth, Linda Kirk
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between clothing interest and body awareness, between clothing interest and selected demographic variables for college men and women, and between body awareness and selected demographic variables for college men and women. To assess these relationships two measures were used. Body awareness,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: one aspect of body apparently overlooked by clothing behavior researchers, body awareness. Body

Creator:: Snyder, Janet Lovseth
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of the clothing behavior of disadvantaged adolescents in a rural community as it relates to the factors of social class, security level, peer acceptance and self-selection of clothing. This study was selected because very little research in clothing behavior has been done in disadvantaged rural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , such traits as good looks, liking for school, leadership and friendship were often attributed to

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