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  • Life course perspective : a journey of participation in physical activity

    Creator:
    Li, Kin-Kit
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    A life course perspective provide a meta-theoretical framework to understand human development. This perspective is characterized by studying the changing lives within the changing environment (George, 2004). Building upon the literature in the psychosocial paradigm and ecological models, Manuscript 1 discusses the uniqueness and the practical importance of a life...
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    Dissertation
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    DISSERTATION OF Kin-Kit Li for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Exercise and Sport Science

  • Exploring intimate violence typologies for women and men : implications for research and practice

    Creator:
    George, Roxanne G.
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    Typologies of intimate violence are part of an emerging paradigm towards a multifaceted, multi-theoretical approach to understanding the causes and effects of intimate violence. For this new paradigm to be implemented into research and practice, there are several gaps in the knowledge base that must be addressed. In particular, there...
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    Dissertation
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  • The Impact of Causal Uncertainty on Dyadic Satisfaction

    Creator:
    Needham, Shana M.
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    One's ability to determine the cause and effect nature events is important for navigating within the social realm. However, the ability to determine these relationships is not always as clear. According to Weary and Edwards (1996) causal uncertainty (CU) is the result of an individual perceiving themselves as someone who...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , I would like to thank the Oregon State University‟s School of Psychological Science for

  • The influence of attitudes about death on advance directive completion

    Creator:
    Srinivasan, Erica G.
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    Surveys of both patients and health care providers have indicated strong interest, up to 95%, in favor of advance directives, which are legal documents that express patients' healthcare treatment decisions. Despite the widespread support for advance directives, actual completion rates are very low, ranging from 4% to 20% for the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    campaign designed to motivate communities to improve physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual

  • An investigation of possible selves across stages of exercise involvement with middle-aged women

    Creator:
    Whaley, Diane E.
    Abstract:
    In order to develop effective interventions designed to encourage more middle-aged individuals to engage in regular exercise, there is a need to further understand the mechanisms involved in the decision to exercise. One appropriate conceptual framework involves future-oriented self-conceptions, or possible selves (Markus & Nurius, 1986). Possible selves, both hoped-for...
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    Dissertation
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    An investigation of possible selves across stages of exercise

  • Bereavement experiences following a death under Oregon's Death with Dignity Act

    Creator:
    Srinivasan, Erica G.
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    Oregon residents with a terminal illness have had the option to use aid-in-dying under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act (DWDA) since 1997. The DWDA allows terminally ill Oregonians to make a request for lethal dosages of medication, prescribed by physicians for the purpose of self-administering to end one's life....
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    Dissertation
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    , behavioral, psychological and spiritual components (Dent, 2005) and that is a multi-dimensional

  • The effects of age and neuroticism on stress reactivity and cortisol diurnal rhythms : findings from the Normative Aging Study

    Creator:
    Proulx, Jeffrey A.
    Abstract:
    We examined the effect of daily stress, age, and emotional stability/neuroticism on stress reactivity, using cortisol diurnal rhythms. We used data from the Normative Aging Study (Spiro & Bosse, 2001). The 72 men in this study ranged from 67-93 (M =79.29, SD =4.88). Multilevel modeling showed that higher daily stress...
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    Masters Thesis