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Creator:: Hall, Terry Lynn
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to examine self-perceived success as experienced in a learning environment, and its association with self esteem. The relationships between pretreatment-self esteem, posttreatment-self esteem, and perceived success experienced in a five-week clothing construction course were investigated. Measures of perceived sewing ability, perceived success, and course...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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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:: , according to Mahoney and Finch (1976:257). Individuals carefully choose and rehearse the words or actions

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

Creator:: Burnett, Marialyce
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to identity clothing purchasing habits of women 60 years of age and over. Data for this study were obtained from a questionnaire administered to 94 women, 60 years of age and over, living in Portland, Corvallis, and Eugene, Oregon. The sample was analyzed on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Creator:: Horn, Mona Jean
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to have begun with the Tsimshian Indian and passed to the Tlingits. The Chilkat division in Lynn

Creator:: Handorf, Linda Lee
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to assess reactions to and opinions about color and color performance by women ages 45 to 54 years. Hypotheses were developed to test relationships and differences between both perception and acceptance of color change and: 1) the three primary colors, 2) the two methods...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Johnson, Patricia White
Abstract:: The Russian Old Believers in Oregon maintain a manner of dress which distinguishes them in the communities in which they live. Originating as a group because of a schism within the Russian Orthodox Church in 1666, the Russian Old Believers migrated to the edge of the Russian Empire and beyond...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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