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Coping resources mediating the relationship between stressful life events and delinquent behavior among adolescents

Creator:: Sim, Hee-og
Abstract:: Stressful events of both major and minor magnitude in the lives of children and adolescents are significantly related to emotional and behavioral problems (Compas, 1987a; Johnson, 1986). It is also apparent, however, that this relationship is complicated and that individuals vary greatly in their responses to stress. The purpose of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Characteristics of trainee counselors in terms of Eysenck's progressive scientific paradigms, intelligence, personality, & ideology, and success in graduate study

Creator:: Hazell, Brian Edwin
Abstract:: Current gross categorical models of classification for human behavior are unsatisfactory, a science by consensus that is unreliable, invalid, and gives rise to psychological tests that use sophisticated statistics to poorly mirror diagnoses that are already unreliable and without scientific validity. Both for diagnosis and progress in therapy, current diagnostic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Examination of adolescents' sources of subjective task value in sport

Creator:: Stuart, Moira E.
Abstract:: Sport is an avenue for children and adolescents to improve physical skills as well as enhance their psycho-social development. Despite the benefits of sport, numerous children and adolescents choose not to be physically active. Consequently, several investigators have sought to determine why some children choose to participate in sport, while...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: to numerous psychological and physical health risk factors, including negative affect, decreased

Effect of peer group presence on selected psychomotor measurements with educable mentally retarded children

Creator:: Bowman, Ruth Ann
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: - able mentally retarded (EMR) children's fitness test scores obtained from a group testing environment

The construction and preliminary validation of an instrument to assess the food fantasies of individuals with eating disorders

Creator:: Bruyer, Annette
Abstract:: The study's goal was to develop and initially validate the Food Fantasies Questionnaire, a self-report therapeutic and research instrument which assesses the occurrence and content of highly irrational food cognitions (fantasies) common to eating disorders in relation to seven theoretically derived factors characterisic of the disorders: fear, anxiety, revulsion, pleasure,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Objective Measures Developed Specifically to Assess Eating Disorders 41 b. Other Psychological Measures Used

The effect of peer presence upon health-related physical fitness test scores of college students

Creator:: El Baden, Bahia Mahmoud
Abstract:: The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of peer presence upon the health-related physical fitness test scores of college students. A total of 312 undergraduate college students, 156 males and 156 females, 18 through 29 years of age, randomly selected from the physical education activity...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: testing: method A co- acting; method B, audience; and method C, individual. In the co- acting group, four

Adolescent substance abuse treatment incorporating "Rites of Passage"

Creator:: Mason, Michael J.
Abstract:: This investigation assessed the effectiveness of an adolescent substance abuse treatment program that incorporated "Rites of Passage." Named Gender Based Treatment (GBT), the treatment program sought to address the adolescents' developmental needs through the use of rituals, myth and story telling, and rites of initiation. Employing quantitative and qualitative analysis,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -line psychological theory that understands substance abuse as either a cognitive distortion (Woody

Food preferences of Thai adolescents and their mothers' attitudes and knowledge about foods and nutrition

Creator:: Sananmuang, Ratana
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between adolescents' food preferences and their mothers' attitudes and knowledge about foods and nutrition in Phitsanulok Province, Thailand. Subjects included 30 boys and 35 girls randomly selected from 11th grade classrooms at two high schools in Phitsanulok, and their mothers....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 168 J: Testing the Difference Between Two Models 169 K: Recommended Dietary Allowances for Thai Boys

An investigation of the relationship between adolescent substance abuse and personality in a residential treatment center

Creator:: Toray, Tamina
Abstract:: Over the past ten years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of drug addicted teens in this country. Accompanying this increase in drug usage of adolescents has been an rise in the number of treatment and evaluation centers to serve the adolescent drug abusing population. Comprehensive and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: investigating psychological problems of adolescents. This current investigation utilizes the MMPI to profile

Learned helplessness and the satisfaction-paradox : a test of concepts and relationships

Creator:: Schober, Brigitte I.
Abstract:: The satisfaction-paradox, defined as the state of being satisfied with objectively unsatisfactory living conditions, represents a dysfunctional state of the poor for both the government and individuals by creating long-term poverty. Traditional rationales classify the reasons for this phenomenon as conscious decisions of individuals or shiftlessness and thereby results in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . A longitudinal, primary data set, including psychological variables and refined operationalization

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Coping resources mediating the relationship between stressful life events and delinquent behavior among adolescents

Characteristics of trainee counselors in terms of Eysenck's progressive scientific paradigms, intelligence, personality, & ideology, and success in graduate study

Examination of adolescents' sources of subjective task value in sport

Effect of peer group presence on selected psychomotor measurements with educable mentally retarded children

The construction and preliminary validation of an instrument to assess the food fantasies of individuals with eating disorders

The effect of peer presence upon health-related physical fitness test scores of college students

Adolescent substance abuse treatment incorporating "Rites of Passage"

Food preferences of Thai adolescents and their mothers' attitudes and knowledge about foods and nutrition

An investigation of the relationship between adolescent substance abuse and personality in a residential treatment center

Learned helplessness and the satisfaction-paradox : a test of concepts and relationships

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