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  • Attitudes toward surrogate mothering theory and measurement

    Creator:
    Vee, Regina M.
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    Surrogate motherhood is a very complex issue with many groups having vested interests. In order to measure attitudes specific to surrogacy a 20-item Likert Scale with high reliability was developed through item analysis (N=131, Part-whole correlation range 0.749-0.478). Correlation of surrogacy attitudes was subsequently related to six other instruments: AIDS,...
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    : Redacted for privacy Knud S. Larsen Surrogate motherhood is a very complex issue with many groups having

  • Reported Communication Experiences of Married Women Transitioning to Motherhood: A Case Study

    Creator:
    Hanna, Sarah Elizabeth
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    This thesis investigates the reported communication experiences of married women transitioning to motherhood. The study involves a series of focus groups in which new mothers share their communicative experiences, explaining how they are navigating their new roles as mothers while also performing roles as wives, daughters, and workers. Informed primarily...
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    her motherhood role will function among her existing roles. One aspect of her role 23

  • The effect of concentrated color on student performance

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    McKean, Doris Spears
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    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....
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    psychological factors associated with human response to color. About the same time, around 1900, Jastrow and

  • Relationship between the similarity of food preferences among parents and children and parental attitudes

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    Dean, Ailene Deanna
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    The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between the similarity of food preferences among parents and children, and parent attitudes. Thirty-five children of preschool ages and their parents served as subjects for this study. All children were enrolled in preschool programs established by the = Family Life...
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    forms of malnutrition are associated with decelerated mental development and psychological

  • Consumers' attitude toward metric conversion for clothing sizes related to selected variables

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    McCauley, Lynda Dianne
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    The purpose of the study was to explore the possible acceptance of metric conversion for clothing sizes and sizing standardization by a selected sample of female ready-to-wear clothing consumers. A questionnaire was designed to elicit consumer's positive or negative attitudes toward metric conversion for clothing sizes and sizing standardization. The...
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  • Self-cathexis ad body-cathexis participants in selected environmental sport activities

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    O'Neill, Judith Anne
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    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...
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    -canexis is an aspect of the sd 1f-concept. For the purpose of this study, self-cathexis was measured by

  • Evaluation of color change in textiles by middle-aged women

    Creator:
    Handorf, Linda Lee
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    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...
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    psychological and subjective function (Sheppard, 1968, p. 10). Color Deficiencies Most common theories on the

  • A comparison of noise environments between offices of Langton Hall and other offices on the Oregon State University campus

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    Healey, John Patrick
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    specific noise 4 sources. This aspect of the study alone may provide the means for establishing the

  • Perception of clothing clues by five-, nine-, and thirteen-year-olds

    Creator:
    Butzer, Peggy A.
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    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...
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    psychological life and know- ledge to be the structural aspect of psychological life (Furth, 1981, p. 206

  • 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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