Psychology Ph.D. Dissertations
Dissertations from 2022
Exploring Potential Downsides of Job Crafting, Melissa A. Albert
Acceptability, Feasibility, and Preliminary Efficacy of Emphasizing Peer Relationships in a Facebook-based Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention for College Students, LaNaya M. Anderson
Impact of Organizational Signals on Dynamic Performance Appraisal, Jordan Dovel
Military Sexual Trauma, Combat Trauma, and Disordered Eating among United States Military Veterans: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Underlying Mechanisms, Emily Lauren Ferrell
Dating Couples' Spiritual Intimacy Predicts Relationship Satisfaction and Commitment Beyond Emotional Intimacy, Daniel Flint
Using Fecal Microbial Transfer to Alter Drinking Behavior in a Rat Model of Alcoholism and Correlations with Dopamine Receptor Expression, Brittany Ann Halverstadt
Pathways between Relational Spiritual Processes, AA Sponsorship Alliance, and Sponsee Recovery Goals, Allison C. Hart
Understanding Families of Adults with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Measure of Service and Support Needs Grounded in Family Members' Experience, Sarah E. Russin
Communication Privacy Management Among Emerging Adult Children of Mothers with Depression, Kevin Walker
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Pilot Online Mindful Self-Compassion Program for Medical Students, Rachel S. Wasson
Dissertations from 2021
Are Fruit Snacks Like Fruit? Children's and Parents' Evaluations of Deceptive Packaged Foods, Lauren Ann Dial
Empowerment Education to Promote Youth and Community Health, Elizabeth A. Emley
Women's Accounts of Their Experiences with the #MeToo Movement, Jessica Hartl Majcher
Domain-Specific Perfectionism in Adolescents: Using Expectancy-Value Theory to Predict Mental Health, Hannah R. Koerten
How Readers Process Narrative Information Involving Characters' Decisions, Lingfei Luan
Dispositional Algorithm Aversion: A Criterion-Related Validity Study, Sarah R. Melick
Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Selective Optimization with Compensation, Mary Moeller
Gambling Disorder and Comorbid PTSD: Pathological Dissociation as a Mechanism of Clinical Severity, Louis H. Moore III
Goal-Setting, Planning Abilities, and Resourcefulness as Protective Factors for Court-Involved Youth, Mercedes B. Pratt
Associations Between Self-Reported Reasons for Abstinence, Durations of Abstinence, and Continued Abstinence from Gambling Over a 6-Month Period, Joseph A. Rosansky Sr.
The Homing Pigeon Hippocampus and the Spatial or Feature Encoding of Reward Probability and Risk, Brittany A. Sizemore
Too Tired to Escape Tiredness: Work Stress Undermines Healthy Leisure Decision-Making, Claire E. Smith
Incentive Contrast in Humans: Behavioral and Electroencephalographic Studies, Sanna Yuan
Dissertations from 2020
The Role of Mindfulness, Perceived Discrimination, and Diabetes-Related Distress in Predicting Health Behaviors and Glycemic Control, Leah M. Bogusch
Is It Remembered or Imagined? The Phenomenological Characteristics of Memory and Imagination, Jared Branch
Social Support and Youths' Resilience in Disadvantaged Neighborhood Contexts, Sindhia Colburn
The Relation of Unwanted Consensual Sex to Mental Health and Relationship Variables: The Role of Motivations, Maren Wright Froemming
Socializing Adolescents to Cope With Trauma: Caregiver and Peer Influences, Lynnel C. Goodman
The Dictator Game as a Test of the Social Affiliative Function of Counterfactual Expression, Mark G. McCoy
Conflict or Solidarity: Understanding Sibling Relationships in Families Coping with Parental Mental Illness, Catherine Elizabeth Petrowski
Sacred or Profane? Emerging Adults' Sanctification and Desecration of their Non-Marital Relational Sexuality and Links to Relational, Psychological, and Spiritual Adjustment, Julie M. Pomerleau
Youth Views of Neighborhood Needs: A Photovoice Collaboration, Lindsey T. Roberts
Altered Cognitive and Psychophysiological Components of Psychological Flexibility in Individuals With Overweight/Obesity, Tanya S. Watford
Dissertations from 2019
Neurocognitive aging in homing pigeons (Columba livia): Further investigation into hippocampal-dependent memory impairment and testing of the cholinergic hypothesis of cognitive decline, Vincent Jesse Coppola
Heuristics in the Context of Long-Form Short-Story Reading, Christopher William Gamsby
Applying An Intersectional Framework to the Experiences of Low-Income, First-Generation, Sexual Minority College Students, Sabrina Marie Gonzales
Examining Alexithymia in Affective Events Theory, Nicholas Howald
Multifaceted Development of Social Identity in Adolescence: The Role of Diverse Backgrounds and Discrimination, Cjersti Jayne Jensen
Intention to employ behavioral tactics to moderate gambling: Effects of gambling history and imagined mood, Brent Alan Lang
A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Predicting Applicant Faking, Brendan Lortie
Improving Construct Validity and Measurement of Post-Traumatic Growth, Gina Marie Mattei
Comprehension and Interpretation of Common Language Effect Size Displays, Kelle Moracz
Practitioner Resistance to Structured Interviews: A Comparison of Two Models, Samantha A. Nesnidol
The Influence of Attentional Entrainment on Temporal and Spatial Predictions of Inferred Motion, Timothy Patrick
A Pilot Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention to Reduce the Negative Effects of Sexual Objectification Among College Women, Cassandra Pentzien
Comparing Atheist, Non-Religious, And Religious Peoples' Cardiovascular Reactivity: A Laboratory Stressor, Rolf Armand Ritchie
Bringing Situational Judgement Tests to the 21st Century: Scoring of Situational Judgement Tests Using Item Response Theory, Tom Haim Ron
The Effects of Experienced Cyber-Aggression on Subsequent Aggressive Behavior among College Students, Aaron Edward Sedlar
Mindfulness and Acceptance for Sexual Minorities Experiencing Work Stress, Rajinder J. Singh
Faking on Personality Tests: The Relationship Between Intelligence and Personality, Georgi P. Yankov
Assessing Metacognitive Illusions: Fluency, Timing, and Judgments-of-Learning, Lauren T. Yeager
The Role of Mindfulness in Cardiovascular Recovery from Stress, Mariya Zaturenskaya
Dissertations from 2018
Inferred Statistics and Ecological Validity in Bayesian Reasoning, Christopher B. Arnold
The Impact of Trait Cognitive Defusion and Cue Elaboration on Chocolate Craving and Cognitive Resources, Nova G. Hinman
Participant preference in interventions in occupational health psychology: Potential implications for autonomy, Kristin A. Horan
Reward processing alterations for natural reward in alcohol-preferring (P) rats: Incentive contrast, reward discrimination, and alcohol consumption, Justin James McGraw
So You've Had the 'Ah Ha' Moment, Now What? Sustaining Organizational Creativity, Sara McKersie
The Reconceptualization and Measurement of Workplace Interpersonal Distrust, Hanyi Min
Is it them? Or is it you? Examining Perceptions of Workplace Incivility Based on Personality Characteristics, Alison M. Rada-Bayne
Effects of Concussions on Cognitive Performance: An FMRI Study, Joshua M. Ricker
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Latinos Living with HIV/AIDS: A Pilot Randomized Control Outcome Study, Tatiana Rodriguez-Klein
Evaluation of a Brief Cognitive Defusion Training For Sweet Cravings Among College Students, Maija Broox Taylor
Development and Validation of a Situational Judgment Test that Assesses Managerial Effectiveness in Providing Family-Friendly Supervision, Tatiana Haralinova Toumbeva
Dissertations from 2017
The Efficacy of Acceptance Based Behavior Therapy Versus Cognitive Therapy for Test Anxiety and Working Memory Performance, Erin E. Bannon
Who benefits from usual care? Using latent profile analysis to identify differential treatment outcomes, Francis Tony Bonadio
Get ACTive! A pilot acceptance and commitment therapy workshop, Jessica E. Borushok
Attachment, Bullying, and Romantic Relationships in College Students, Qijuan Fang
Understanding Factors Related to Surviving a Disaster: The Survival Attitude Scale, Wendy Renee Fogo
Faking is a FACT: Examining the Susceptibility of Intermediate Items to Misrepresentation, Garett C. Foster
Citizen participation to promote social justice and individual well-being in Detroit Michigan, Sarah Greenberg
Weight, discrimination, and performance: Using self-determination theory to explain workplace outcomes related to weight, Alexandra A. Henderson
The Effects of Message Framing on Soda Consumption in Young Adults, Debra A. Hoffmann
Honey, I'm Home: The Provision and Perception of Work Recovery Support in Working Dyads, Kelsey-Jo Ritter Kessie
Using MM-IRT-C to Explore the Relationship between Depression and Pre-employment Tests, Rachel Throop King
Do psychological characteristics of addiction treatment professionals predict acceptance of harm reduction interventions?, Kirstin J. Lauritsen
Health Kick: Promoting healthy eating in youth sport using an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy based intervention, Jenna M. Marx
Antecedents of older nurses' intentions to continue working in the same organization after retirement, Yisheng Peng
Decomposing Variance Components for Risk Perceptions Using Generalizability Theory, Yi Wang
Toward an explanation of HR professionals' intuition-based hiring in a decision-making context, Yuyan Zhang
Dissertations from 2016
An analysis of outcomes in maltreated youth: The transmission of neighborhood risk through caregiver aggression and depression, Kelly E. Amrhein
The Role of Coping Socialization by Peers and Parents in Adolescents' Coping with Cyber-victimization, Stacey Lynn Bradbury
The Relationship of Online Gaming Addiction with Motivations to Play and Craving, Nicole Alexandra Cross
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Employing Harm Reduction Strategies Among Ecstasy Users, Alan Kooi Davis
A National Study of Child and Family Therapists: The Relationships between Parent Engagement, Supervision and Training, and Burnout, Morgan E. Dynes
Examining the relationship between organizational constraints and individual deficits in executive functioning on employees' extra-role work behaviors., Jasmine Yasi Khosravi
A Model of Rural Delinquency: Collective Efficacy in Rural Schools, Jennifer Hayman Lackey
Do Female Thriftiness and Bragging about Thriftiness Peak Near Ovulation?, Patrick J. Nebl
Relational Spirituality and Trajectories of Observed Emotional Intimacy During the Transition to Parenthood, Emily A. Padgett
On the popularity of emotional intelligence: An examination of contributing factors, Thaddeus B. Rada
Minority Stress and Substance Use in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, and Questioning Adults: An Exploration of Outness and Family Attachment, Justine Michelle Ray
Developing a Health Numeracy Scale to Assess Medical Decision Making Among Older Adults, Jiaxi Wang
An Initial Evaluation of a School-Based Psychoeducational Program Teaching Adolescents to Cope with Traumatic Stressors, Samantha Lindsey Zbur
Using Icon Array as a Visual Aid for Communicating Validity Information, Don C. Zhang