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  • Spiritual leadership : voices of women community college presidents

    Creator:
    Jones, Kristen (Kristen Annette)
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    The purpose of this study is to name and give voice to the spiritual expression of leadership by women community college presidents. The following questions guided the research: (1) How do women community college presidents describe spirituality? (2) How does spirituality convey itself in the reflections, self-expression, and practice of...
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    spiritual aspect of leadership is conveyed in their thinking, self-expression, and practice. My intent in

  • Profiles in courage of community college leaders

    Creator:
    Kruger, Mari L.
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    The purpose of this study is to explore the lived experience of courage among community college leaders across the United States. The following questions guided the research: (1) What is the courageous experience like for a community college leader? (2) What is the process of courage development? (3) What are...
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    interest and support. To my Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) cohorts who all became wonderful

  • 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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    Psychological Harm ................................................. 39 BackgroundVariables

  • Scenes of language

    Creator:
    Duerst, Gretchen
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    spread the ashes, staring at each other, waiting for leadership. Finally, Carolyn said a prayer as Mom

  • Internal and external trigger cues of impulse buying online

    Creator:
    Burnett, Sandy E.
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    Online shopping is one of the fastest growing forms of shopping with sales reaching $141.4 billion in 2004 (Shop.org, 2005). With the tremendous growth of online retailing, and the prevalence of impulse buying today, this study's purpose was to investigate the internal and external factors of impulse buying in an...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Intergenerational responses to the death of a child

    Creator:
    White, Diana L.
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    The death of a child is a traumatic family event. This qualitative study examined the experiences of parents and grandparents in 10 families who had lost a baby to SIDS, stillbirth, or birth defects. Key questions focused on support given and received, meanings attributed to the loss, continuing bonds, and...
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  • Birthing Experience: Feminism, Symbolic Interaction, and (Re) Defining Birth

    Creator:
    Roland-Schwartz, Michele L.
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    In this paper, my aim is to call attention to the meanings women attach to their birthing experiences using the symbolic interaction perspective in conjunction with a feminist lens. I argue that the obstetrical model of childbirth defines the course of the relationship between the laboring woman and attendant, limiting...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Non-industrial textile production as optimal experience : applicability of the Flow Theory to clothing and textiles subject matter

    Creator:
    Blood, Janet
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    The purpose of this research study was to test a psychological theory of motivation called the Flow Theory by Csikszentmihalyi as it relates to non-industrial textile production activities. In using the Flow Theory, researchers attempt to explain why individuals continue participation with a specific activity; namely that the activity induces...
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    The purpose of this research study was to test a psychological theory of motivation called the Flow

  • Recounting, rethinking, and reclaiming menstruation

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    Ashford, Teresa L.
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    I assessed influences on women's attitudes toward and experiences with menarche and menstruation using feminist qualitative methodologies. Bronfenbrenner's ecological model interpreted through a feminist lens was the organizing framework for the study, focusing as it does on the sociohistorical and multilayered context wherein the women developed. Fourteen college women between...
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    , and how the nature of this psychological material changes as a function of a person's exposure to and

  • The effect of a mail-mediated intervention on exercise behavior

    Creator:
    Levy, Susan S.
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    Self-determination theory suggests that social contexts that promote a sense of autonomy, competence, and relatedness will increase internalization of behavioral regulation and lead to more self-determined forms of motivation, the prototype of which is intrinsic motivation. A positive relationship between internalization of exercise behavior regulation and actual levels of exercise...
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    Behavior INTRODUCTION Despite the overwhelming evidence of the physiological and psychological health