Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Psychological Sciences"
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Compelled to work or forced to? An examination of intraindividual variability in workaholism and the moderating role of challenge / hindrance stressors on positive and negative spillover
(2021-04-21)
While the construct of workaholism has received significant attention in the management and psychology literature, the current conceptualization views workaholism as a trait that is stable over time. This study seeks to ...
The Contrast Avoidance Model in Generalized Anxiety and Depression: A Longitudinal Panel Study
(2021-05-18)
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) are two of the most commonly comorbid diagnoses (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), suggesting they may share etiological and maintenance processes, ...
Defining and Measuring Complex PTSD: A Comparison of the International Trauma Questionnaire and the Self-Report Inventory for Disorders of Extreme Stress
(2025-05-30)
The inclusion of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) in the eleventh edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) was a landmark development for the field of traumatic stress. This followed ...
Delay Discounting of Monetary Outcomes by Detained Male Adolescents and College Students
(2021-03-26)
The main purpose of this study was to compare delay discounting of hypothetical monetary outcomes by adolescents adjudicated of illegal behavior to that of college students in order to lay a foundation for future discounting ...
Differences in Drinking Motives Among Social and Binge Drinkers in Relation to Maturing Out: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Pilot Study
(2025-07-30)
Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is associated with numerous interpersonal, mental, and health related consequences that can ultimately result in mortality. Past research suggests drinking motives, particularly drinking to cope, ...
Disobedience and Deviance: An Empirical Categorization of Insider Cybersecurity Behaviors
(2021-07-28)
Employees pose a significant threat to organizational cybersecurity. Researchers have called for increased examination of the traits and antecedents related to poor cybersecurity compliance. The current study contributes ...
Do as I say, not as I do: The effects of organizational response type on employee commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2023-05-04)
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for organizations to show that they value their employees. During the pandemic, organizations could have responded substantively by mandating masks, enforcing social distancing, ...
Do Resident-Induced Motivating Operations for Staff Behavior Carryover to Other Residents?
(2025-11-25)
In Applied Behavior Analysis, practitioners often train caregivers and staff members to follow a behavior plan; however, few if any studies have evaluated the motivation of the implementer to follow the established rules. ...
The Double-Edged Sword of AI for Employee Recovery: Understanding Its Dual Impact Through Competence Satisfaction and Frustration
(2026-04-21)
This thesis investigated the "double-edged sword" of artificial intelligence (AI) in the
workplace, examining how employees’ cognitive appraisals of AI affected work recovery.
Drawing on the Challenge-Hindrance Stressor ...
Early Olfactory Stimulation in Purpose-Bred Detection Dogs
(2022-05-06)
Experiences during critical periods of early development have been shown to significantly impact cognitive development in dogs. However, the effect of early odor experiences on the ontogenetic development of cognition in ...
The effects of chronic exposure to risperidone during adolescence on behavioral rigidity and impulsive choice in adulthood
(2024-04-30)
Risperidone is a second-generation antipsychotic that is commonly prescribed in children in adolescence. Its mechanism of action targets both serotonin and dopamine, both of which mediate different types of behavior, such ...
Effects of Gender and Destructive Leader Behaviors on Leader’s Evaluation
(2021-04-12)
Destructive leadership is beginning to be studied, but the current literature relies on examples of male leaders. While literature on positive leader behaviors shows a bias towards male leaders, little research looks at ...
The Effects of Rule-Following on Schedule Performance with Synchronous Schedules of Reinforcement
(2024-07-02)
Investigating the effects of rules on schedule performance when access to a reinforcer
covaries with a target response may increase our understanding of complex patterns of behavior
that occur under continuously changing ...
The Effects of Workplace Weight Discrimination on Social Pain Minimization and Interpersonal and Organizational Experiences
(2023-11-27)
Although a majority of employees in the United States are considered medically overweight or obese, workplace weight discrimination is a pervasive and harmful experience that negatively impacts employees and organizations. ...
Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Distress in Veterinary Support Staff
(2023-08-03)
In medicine, clinical scenarios arise that require practitioners to balance conflicting professional obligations. These ethical dilemmas can cause moral distress, which is defined as knowing the right thing to do but being ...
Evaluating Emotion as a Motivating Operation for Residential Staff Behavior
(2024-06-26)
Motivating operations offer a conceptual framework to understand and evaluate emotions within the context of behavior analysis. Emotions are antecedent variables that can have value- and behavior-altering effects on stimulus ...
Evaluating Olfactory Decline in Aging Dogs
(2024-09-24)
Aging is an important aspect of the dog life, impacting how dogs function in their roles as both companions and workers. However, the impact of dog aging upon key sensory modalities, such as olfaction, is not well understood. ...
Examination of Fear Extinction in Chronic Cannabis Use, Anxiety Disorders, and their Co-occurrence
(2025-07-23)
Comorbid cannabis use and anxiety are common, but the relationship is not well understood. The main active ingredient of cannabis is Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC). Acute THC intoxication has been shown to improve between ...
Examining Negative Body Talk Outcomes in a Dissonance-Based Eating Disorder Prevention Program for Men
(2025-07-29)
Previous research has shown that engagement in male negative body talk is common and related to muscularity-oriented behaviors and traditional disordered eating pathology, suggesting the importance of targeting male body ...
Executive Functions in Detection Dogs
(2021-07-12)
Researchers in the field of canine cognition have developed several tasks to study executive functions, like working memory and inhibitory control, in dogs. Findings from such tasks have provided new information regarding ...