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Visual Expressions of Anxiety : An Exploration of how Students with Anxiety Perceive and Interact with Formal Learning Environments

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Andersen, Kristen S.

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The purpose of this thesis is to better understand how students who experience anxiety that interferes with their daily functioning perceive and interact with their formal learning environments such as classrooms and lab spaces so that instruction in these spaces may be improved. Specific attention was paid to the ways...

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Masters Thesis
The Effectiveness of a Malleable Mindset Intervention in an Introductory Psychology Course

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Bostwick, Keiko C. P.

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Students who believe that their intelligence is able to grow over time (malleable/ growth mindset) perform better on measures of academic success than students who believe that intelligence is a fixed trait that cannot be changed (fixed mindset; Dweck, 2000). Previous research on the effectiveness of mindset interventions have demonstrated...

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Attitude toward parents as a dimension of reverse transfer

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Flora, Thomas George

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The major purpose of the study was to compare reverse transfer students and four year college students for attitude toward mother, father, and both parents. A secondary purpose was to collect demographic data on the reverse transfer students. The experimental and control groups were chosen from the winter term enrollment...

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A predictive model for identifying the highly anxious freshman

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Jerome, Jerry Blair

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Personality characteristics of selected community college dropouts

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Edelbrock, Gary Ray

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The Purpose of the Study The central purpose of this study was to determine if certain personality characteristics differ between community college persisters and those who drop out of school. The following 12 a priori hypotheses involving six Adjective Check List personality scales were tested: 1. Male persisters would have...

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Relations of appraised stress, coping strategies, and negative affect among college students : a structural equation modeling approach

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Eisenbarth, Christopher A.

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College is recognized by many researchers to be an exceptionally stressful period of development. Despite considerable theoretical and empirical attention, many questions still remain regarding the experience of stress among college students. There is a dearth of multivariate investigations in this area and, to date, no clear consensus exists among...

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Clothing evaluative criteria : a comparison between hedonic shoppers and utilitarian shoppers

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Yeh, Chun-Lan

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According to Engel, Blackwell, and Miniard (1993), evaluative criteria is defined as "the standards and specifications used by consumers to compare different products and brands" (p.51). Many studies have investigated factors that might influence the importance of clothing evaluative criteria used by consumers in the decision making process. However, few...

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Masters Thesis
Supporting independence : a collective case study of foster alumni in community and technical colleges

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Forte, Catherine P.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of foster alumni in community and technical colleges, with a focus on Washington State, using a qualitative research approach. Foster alumni may be considered a sub-set of first generation students, yet they have needs that extend beyond those of other...

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Relationship between moral development and personality type of University undergraduates

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McMahon, Timothy R.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between moral development and year in school, gender, and personality type for university undergraduates. Moral development was measured by the Defining Issues Test (DIT) and personality was assessed using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The sample consisted of 320 freshmen,...

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The Impact of Internet and Videogame Use on College Student Development

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Calhoun, Benjamin W.

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In recent decades, there has been a tremendous change in the college student experience. In many ways this change has been driven by developments in technology, which have in turn changed the way students conduct research, socialize, and recreate. This thesis seeks to gain an understanding as to how Internet...

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