Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Author "Thomas, Adrian"

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Alcohol Use and Social Anxiety in a College Student Population

Day, Jennifer (2006-12-15)

The results of epidemiological studies using clinical and community samples have shown a strong link between social anxiety and alcohol use. However, the results of studies that use a college student population to investigate ...

Are All Substance Users Created Equal? Factors that Influence Stigma toward Individuals with Substance Use Disorders

Raley, Kristin (2011-08-09)

Social stigma has been defined as a collection of negative attitudes, beliefs, thoughts or behaviors that influence an individual or group to fear, avoid, or discriminate against people with particular characteristics. ...

Brief Alcohol Intervention with College Students using BASICS: Face-to-Face versus Computerized Feedback

Butler, Leon (2007-12-15)

Research suggests that brief motivational models of intervention for alcohol use among college students are effective in decreasing risky drinking (Baer, Marlatt, Kivlhan, Fromme, Larimer, & Williams, 1992; Emrick 1975). ...

A Comparison of Life Threat and Betrayal as Risk Factors for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Kelley, Lance (2009-08-15)

Life threat has been underscored as the primary etiological factor for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since the publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III, APA, ...

The development and validation of the Auburn Psychology Term Test (APTT)

Smith, Dale (2006-08-15)

The construction and investigation of the psychometric properties of the Auburn Psychology Term Test (APTT), a yes-no test designed to measure psychology knowledge, is described in this paper. The relationships between ...

A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Sexual Offenders: The Role of Childhood Abuse in the Development of Psychopathology and Sex Offending Behavior

Farris, Kelly (2007-08-15)

The child development field has a relative lack of research considering the impact of child abuse and victimization from a developmental perspective, and even less research that examines the effects of multiple types of ...

Differential Functioning by High and Low Impression Management Groups on a Big Five Applicant Screening Tool

Cox, Brennan (2010-01-29)

The degree to which applicant personality test faking constitutes a real world threat is a topic of considerable debate among industrial and organizational psychologists. Researchers have investigated the faking problem ...

Distinctiveness of Avoidance and Numbing in PTSD

Pruneau, Genevieve (2008-05-15)

Although the avoidance and numbing symptoms of PTSD are grouped together on the same symptom cluster in DSM-IV-TR, studies of the PTSD symptom structure suggest they are distinct. Studies have validated the distinctiveness ...

The Effectiveness and Transportability of Group Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) with Community Families

Ridgeway, Lorraine (2007-12-15)

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a behavioral intervention that incorporates both operant learning and play therapy techniques to treat child disruptive behavior problems. Efficacy research indicates that PCIT ...

Examining Rater Agreement After Changing the Response Format of the BRIEF

Ferguson, Bill (2011-01-05)

Deficits in Executive Function (EF) have been demonstrated in various types of childhood psychopathology. Current clinical practice encourages evaluating deficits in EF across multiple perspectives. The BRIEF is a parent- ...

Individual Differences in Stable Motivational Qualities and Skill Acquisition: Dispositional Goal Orientation and Self-Efficacy

Cullen, Kristin (2007-08-15)

The current study extends previous research on skill acquisition to develop a more complete picture of the motivational variables that influence task performance. Participants completed measures of cognitive ability, global ...

Individual differences in the stressor-strain relationship: The role of ability-based emotional intelligence

Cox, Brennan (2007-08-15)

Researchers have uncovered several individual characteristics and situational variables that help explain and predict how, why, when, and which individuals will be affected by a potentially stressful encounter. Still, there ...

Influence of Alcohol Reinforcement on Choice in the Moment

Tseng, Andy (2010-05-07)

Behavioral economic theory suggests that individuals choose to perform certain activities (e.g. drug use) based on constraints of obtaining access to the activity (e.g. cost of obtaining drugs) and the available alternative ...

Physiological Effects of Suppression of Neutral and Traumatic Thoughts in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Amstadter, Ana (2008-08-15)

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is characterized by oscillation of cognitive intrusions and avoidance. Recent research findings suggest that thought suppression may lead to increased intrusive thoughts for trauma ...

Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in College Students Exposed to High-Magnitude versus Low-Magnitude Stressors

Eckardt, Elizabeth (2008-05-15)

Since the introduction of PTSD, exposure to trauma has been critical to the conceptualization of the disorder, although Criterion A, the stressor criterion, has undergone several transformations since it originally appeared ...

Predicting Objective Measures of Performance

Chirico, Kristina (2005-08-15)

In todays competitive job market, many organizations use various selection procedures in order to hire the best possible employees. Most selection tools such as structured interviews, mental ability tests, and personality ...

Preschool performance in the rural Southeast: Developing Speed DIAL norms for a local Head Start population

Mooney, Clarissa (2011-03-29)

Preschool assessment has gained considerable attention in recent decades (Brassard & Boehm, 2007). Federal legislation, including the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 1997) and the No Child Left Behind ...

Providing Personalized Feedback Regarding Alcohol Use in a Group Format to College Freshmen

Henslee, Amber (2008-08-15)

College student alcohol use has become an increasing public health concern in recent years. In particular, risky alcohol use behaviors such as binge drinking episodes and methods in which to intervene have become areas ...

The Refinement of a Multidimensional Computer Based Implicit Association Test as a Measurement of Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities

Vaughn, Edwin Daly (2009-07-01)

Currently, persons with disabilities (PWDs) account for approximately one-fifth of the adult US population (Steinmetz, 2006). Legislation has been passed to help protect PWDs (e.g., the Americans with Disabilities Act). ...

The Reinforcing Value of Alcohol in a Drinking to Cope Paradigm

Rousseau, Glenna (2008-12-15)

The present research was conducted to explore the relationship between negative mood and the reinforcing value of alcohol, while clarifying the role of coping motives. Participants with a history of recent alcohol use ...