Dissertations and Theses - Psychology
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The Role of Prior Knowledge in Interpretive Inferences and Reasoning
(2016-09-14)Successful literary reading requires not only an understanding of the literal aspects of the text, but also an understanding of the author’s message about the world. The purpose of the present research was to examine how ... -
Texting Healthy Eating Tips: A Single-Case Participatory Intervention Study with Mexican Undergraduates
(2016-11-08)Increasing attention has been paid to the potential of mobile-based text-messaging interventions as a behavior change strategy to prevent long-term overweight, obesity and obesity-related risks. In this study, a culture-specific ... -
Effects of Transcranial Stimulation on Memory for Social Information in Younger and Older Adults
(2016-11-08)Episodic memory decline is a normal and expected part of the aging process. However, not all types of memory show equal decline throughout the lifespan. Older adults experience deficits in the ability to remember associations ... -
Patterns and Mediators of Emotion Regulatory Disturbance in Panic Disorder
(2016-10-19)Emotion dysregulation is an oft-cited and potentially valuable explanation for panic disorder and other anxiety disorders. However, theoretical accounts conflict regarding whether panic disorder is associated with deficient ... -
The Relation Among College-going Culture in High Schools, Academic Mindset, and College Success
(2016-10-19)Data from 369 former public high school students attending the University of Illinois at Chicago were used to test a predicted mediation of the relation between college-going culture in high schools and college students’ ... -
The Complexity of Input and How It Contributes to Adult Second Language Acquisition
(2016-10-19)Previous research has explored the efficacy of different types of second language (L2) training in fostering adult L2 development (e.g., Norris & Ortega, 2000; Morgan-Short, Steinhauer, Sanz, & Ullman, 2012). However, ... -
Profiles of School-Based Peer Aggression
(2016-10-18)Research on school-based aggression has often described children’s involvement in peer aggression as either a target or aggressor and has not explored how children may endorse various levels of involvement. Using Latent ... -
A Culturally Targeted Smoking Cessation/HIV Medication Adherence Intervention for African American MSM
(2016-10-18)African American men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for the highest rate of HIV infections and AIDS cases in the US. African American HIV-infected MSM also report lower levels of antiretroviral adherence than Caucasian ... -
Parent, Child, and Family Predictors of Dropout in Psychosocial Treatment for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
(2016-10-18)Premature termination and dropouts are ongoing problems among children and adolescents receiving psychosocial treatment for mental health needs. A growing body of literature has identified parent, child, and family ... -
Programs Don’t Implement Themselves: Giving Voice to Teachers’ Experiences with Prevention
(2016-10-18)In recent years, growing pressures for accountability and effectiveness have fueled a push for evidence-based practice in education. In many instances, evidence-based practice has been operationalized as evidence-based ... -
Attentional Biases Toward Social Stimuli: Group Differences, Clinical Correlates, and Cognition
(2016-10-18)The present study examined attentional biases toward social information in 42 individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) and 47 healthy controls (HC). Participants completed a dot probe task designed to assess whether they exhibited ... -
The Impact of Personalized Emails on College Students' Academic Achievement
(2016-10-18)A growing amount of research has shown the benefits of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) on academic achievements and other related areas (Zins, Weissberg, Wang, & Walberg, 2004). SEL is the ability to understand emotions, ... -
Neurocognitive and Personality Mechanisms of Risk Behavior among Drug Users in Protracted Abstinence
(2016-10-18)The current study examined relationships between candidate personality and neurocognitive mechanisms of health risk behaviors among demographically representative samples of opiate and stimulant dependent individuals in ... -
The Effects of a Police Second Response Program on Domestic Violence Survivors
(2016-10-18)Second response programs are a coordinated community response to domestic violence (DV). The goal is decreased DV by providing survivors with resources and increasing the monitoring of offenders. However, program effects ... -
Cognitive Depletion and Motivation to Avoid Prejudice during Jury Deliberation
(2016-10-18)Racial diversity in juries ensures representation of minority voices and can reduce racial bias in verdicts. But can diversity also jeopardize verdict fairness by placing a strain on individual jurors’ self-regulation and ... -
The Relationship between State Math Anxiety and Working Memory Capacity
(2016-10-18)Previous work has found that math-anxious individuals perform more poorly on math-related working memory capacity (WMC) measures (Ashcraft & Kirk, 2001).However, based on previous work it is unclear whether having trait ... -
The Lesson and the Learner: The Effect of Individual Differences and Task Scaffolding on Category Learning
(2016-10-18)The majority of conceptual change studies have investigated either manipulations of the learning environment or examined the effect of individual differences on conceptual change (Basili & Sanford, 1991; Cordova, et al. ... -
Encouraging Bystanders to Intervene: A Test of Normative Influence in an Online Training
(2016-10-18)Bystander programs on college campuses encourage community members to respond to interpersonal violence through intervening, challenging harmful social norms, and supporting survivors (Banyard, 2015). Such programs often ... -
Deconstructing Counterspaces
(2016-07-01)Resistance to oppression needs further elaboration as a theoretical construct useful for a liberatory approach to community research and action. This is especially true in the context of such ostensibly neutral and ... -
Psychological and Neighborhood Factors Associated with Preventive Care Use by Women in Chicago
(2016-07-01)Given that half of all deaths in the United States are caused by modifiable health behaviors, improving use of preventive care could save more than 2 million life years annually. Women are more likely than men to forego ...
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