Psychology Ph.D. Dissertations
Dissertations from 2015
Evaluating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Insomnia: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Kyoung deok Baik
Cybervetting: A Common Antecedents Model, Julia Lizabeth Berger
Mindfulness meditation training for spiritual struggles: A randomized controlled trial, Margaret Feuille Bockrath
Weight-Related Humor: Effects on Expression of Attitudes about Obesity, Jacob M. Burmeister
The Relationships between Acceptance, Avoidance, and Immunity in Medical Rehabilitation, Victoria L. Carhart
Relationships of Organizational Justice and Organizational Constraints With Performance: A Meta-Analysis, Christopher S. Chang
Shame as an Alternate Mechanism for the Abusive Supervision-Performance Relation and the Role of Power Distance Values, Michael A. Daniels
Effects of Mindfulness Training on Individuals Experiencing Post-Breakup Distress: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Melissa D. Falb
Exploring the Time Course of Object Persistence in Apparent Motion: Studies with the Simple Apparent Motion Display and the Ternus Display, Samuel D. Jaffee
Secondary Stigma For Professionals Who Work with Marginalized Groups: A Comparative Study, Samantha R. Jesse
Age Differences in Identity Processing Styles and Self-Consciousness: A Moderation Analysis and Examination of Ageism, Robert Michael Kirk
The Provider-Consumer Relationship and Individual Well-Being: Perspectives of Adults with Serious Mental Illness and their Mental Health Care Providers, Lawrence Andrew Osborn
Retaliatory Behavior as a Response to Executive Compensation, Nicole L. Petersen
Marked: A Policy Capturing Investigation of Job Applicant Tattoos as Stigmatizing Marks in Blue and White Collar Employment, Ryan P. Whorton
Dissertations from 2014
An Evaluation of the Impact of Cue Exposure on the Relationship Between Pain Level and Craving For Prescription Opiods, Lisham Ashrafioun
Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Stress-Related Inhibitory Gating Impairment, Rachel Atchley
Safety-Specific Person-Environment Fit: Relation with Safety Behaviors, Job Attitudes, and Strain, Ashlie Rae Britton
Planning and the Survival Processing Effect: An Examination of the Proximate Mechanisms, Leisha Colyn
Playing Violent Video Games Alone or with Others Present: Relations with Aggressive Behavior, Aggressive Cognition, and Hostility , Jason Drummond
Responding to Spiritual Struggles: Experiential Avoidance and Mindfulness in Adjustment, Carmen Kay Oemig Dworsky
The Benefits and Trajectory of Airbrushing-Based Media Literacy Among Girls, Allison Kiefner-Burmeister
Simulating Response Latitude Effects in Attitude Surveys using IRT, Christopher Lake
Recovery and Transformations from Loss in Adults with Serious Mental Illness, Jaclyn Leith
Caribbean Blacks And Acculturative Stress: The Moderating Role of Religious Coping, Devon Superville
Incidence and Attributions of Uncivil Events: Should they be Studied Separately?, Scott Withrow
Dissertations from 2013
Sanctification of Work: A Potential Moderator of the Relationship between Work Stress and Health , Lisa Backus
The Short-Term Effects of Viewing Sexually Objectifying Media: A Test of Objectification Theory, Sarah Domoff
Abusive Supervision and Group-Level Perceptions: Looking at the Social Context of Abuse in the Workplace, Purnima Gopalkrishnan
The Relationship between Direct and Indirect Contact and Weight Bias, Afton Koball
Excessive Appetite for Pornography: Development and Evaluation of the Pornography Craving Questionnaire (PCQ-12), Shane Kraus
Assessing the Effects of Observing Non-Performance-Based Aggression during Online Violent Video Game Play on Aggressive Behavior, Elizabeth Kryszak
Longitudinal Effects of Self-reported Marital Strengths on Couples' Observed Conflictual Interactions Across the Transition to Parenthood, Katherine Kusner
Predictors of Coparenting: Infant Temperament, Infant Gender, and Hostile-Reactive Parenting, Michelle LeRoy
Job Insecurity and Religious/Spiritual Coping: Sacred Resources for Employment Uncertainty, Steven Lucero
The Assessment of Mindful Food Parenting and Its Relation to Parental Feeding Practices and Child Food Intake , Molly Meers
Farming and Work-Family Facilitation: An Examination of Positive Spillover and Crossover Effects among a Sample of Farm Couples, Justin Sprung
Association of Maternal Employment with Attitudes, Subjective Norms, and Perceived Behavioral Control Regarding Meal Preparation Among Mothers of 4-5 Year Old Children, Amy Storfer-Isser
Reward Comparison in the Striatum, Emily Webber
Dissertations from 2012
Spiritual Identity Formation: Testing a Model of Religious Conversion Processes, Jeremy Cummings
Does Trauma Lead to Religiousness? A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Traumatic Events on Religiousness and Spirituality During the First Three Years at University, Maria Gear Haugen
Image Theory: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Feedback on Decision Making, Erin Gerbec
Exacerbation and Attenuation of Ego-Depletion, Justin Gilkey
The Roles of Group Identity and Ideology in Examining the Effects of Social Consensus on Weight Bias, Amanda Gumble
From Discrimination to Action: Understanding Empowerment in the Deaf Community, Alexis Hamill
Decoy Effects in a Consumer Search Task, Beth Hartzler
Predicting Use of Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategies by College Student Drinkers, Erica Hoffmann
Do Cognitive Resources Play a Role in Object Functionality and Affordance Effects when Computing Spatial Relations?, Brandi Klein
Processes of Strain Crossover between Dual-Earner Couples, YoungAh Park
Decision-Making Competence, Life Regrets, and Subjective Well-Being in Mature Adults, Olivia Pethtel
Development and Validation of a Measure of Workplace Climate for Healthy Weight Maintenance, Katherine Sliter
But We're Here to Help! Positive Buffers of the Relationship between Victim Incivility and Employee Outcomes in Firefighters, Michael Sliter
Dissertations from 2011
Abusive Supervision as a Predictor of Deviance and Health Outcomes: The Exacerbating Role of Narcissism and Social Support, Katherine Alexander
Adolescents' Perceptions of Rejection Status and Potentially Rejecting Situations, Tracie Baker
Using the Health Belief Model to Predict Injecting Drug Users' Use of Harm Reduction, Erin Bonar
Examining Empathy, Cognitive Distortions, and Social and Physical Aggression in Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Adolescents, Angela Capuano
Applications of Differential Functioning Methods to the Generalized Graded Unfolding Model, Nathan Carter
How Do General Evaluations of Corporations Develop? Test of an Impression Formation Model, Dalia Diab
Worry, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Health Behaviors, Paul Goetz
Living in the Community with Serious Mental Illness: Community Integration Experiences of Clubhouse Members, Shinakee Gumber
A Test of an Auditory Motion Hypothesis for Continuous and Discrete Sounds Moving in Pitch Space, Molly Henry
Using Spiritual Resources to Prevent Declines in Sexuality among First-Time Parents, Krystal Hernandez
Self-Objectification among Overweight and Obese Women: An Application of Structural Equation Modeling, Marissa Oehlhof
Children's Coping with Chronic Kidney Disease and Concurrent Adjustment, KristiLynn Volkenant
Hedonic Hunger and Self-Control: The Impact of Palatability, Power of Food and Dietary Restraint on Self-Control Depletion, Kathleen Young
Dissertations from 2010
When Mom has a Serious Mental Illness: The Mother-Young Adult Relationship, Caregiving, and Psychosocial Adjustment, Kristen Abraham
The Association between Acceptance and Health for Individuals who are HIV-Positive, Eileen Delaney
Seeking Your Center: Assessing a Computer-Based Psychoeducational Intervention for Spiritual Struggles in College Freshmen, Carol Faigin
Evaluating a Spiritually Integrated Intervention for Depressed College Students, Meryl Gibbel
Hormones and social behavioral development: Influences of corticosterone in the neonate rat, Kelley Harmon
The influence of goal orientation on Karasek's (1979) job demands-control model, Jason Kain
Compulsive Text Messaging: Do Youth Need to Kick the Habit?, Kelly Lister
Age Differences in Processing Strategies of Emotionally Difficult Trade-off Decisions, Xiaodong Ma
“It’s About Give and Take”: The Importance of Parental Felt Obligation in Adolescence, Christine McAuliffe
Effects Of Rhythmic Context on Time Perception in Individuals with Parkinson Disease, Nathaniel Miller
Anxiety and Cognitive Performance: A Test of Predictions Made by Cognitive Interference Theory and Attentional Control Theory, Jebediah Northern
The Role of Individual Differences in the Job Choice Process, Shuang-Yueh Pui
The Relation of Response Evaluation and Decision Processes and Latent Mental Structures to Aggressive and Prosocial Response Selection, Kristyn Saveliev
Attitudes Toward Holistic and Mechanical Judgment in Employee Selection: Role of Error Rate and False Positive and False Negative Error, Maya Yankelevich
Dissertations from 2009
Service Without a Smile?! Exploring the Roles of Customer Injustice, Anger, and Individual Differences in Emotional Deviance, Patricia Barger
Understanding the Relationship between Spiritual Struggles and Physical Health: A Physiological Study, Kavita Desai
To Be Or Not To Be…Motivated: A Comparison Of Students' Goal Orientation Within Direct Instruction And Constructivist Schools, Courtney Galliger
Modification of Weight Bias: Examining the Effects of Social Influence on the Expession of Anti-Fat Attitudes, Jessica Harper
Goal Location Memory in Pigeons: Roles of the Hippocampal Formation and Visual Wulst, Meghan Kahn
A longitudinal analysis of the role of religious appraisals and religious coping in adults' adjustment to divorce, Elizabeth Krumrei
Risky Living: A Comparison of Criminal Risk-Taking and Risk Perception in Adolescent and Young Adult Non Offenders and Offenders, Kimberly Laurene
Why Do Mommy and Daddy Love You More? An Investigation of Parental Favoritism from an Evolutionary Perspective, Anthony Lauricella
Theory of Mind, Social Information Processing, and Children's Social Behavior, Sarah Martin
Role of Meaning Making in the Association between Multiple Interpersonal Traumas and Post-Traumatic Adaptation, Sarah McElroy
Physical and Psychological Correlates of the Drive for Muscularity: Gender and Grade Differences, Jennie Neufeld
A Multitrait-Multimethod Approach to Isolating Situational Judgment from Situational Judgment Tests, Nicholas Salter