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Providing Personalized Feedback Regarding Alcohol Use in a Group Format to College Freshmen
(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 ...
Providing Psychometric Support for the READI-SF among Clinic-Referred Latino Families
(2019-07-23)
Given the high prevalence of child mental health problems and their long-lasting negative consequences if left untreated, it is important to investigate factors that affect family engagement in psychological intervention ...
A Pseudo-Experimental Investigation of the Efficacy of Asynchronous Instruction for Novice Sight-Singers
(2021-07-19)
The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of teaching sight-singing to novice, vocal music readers using a structured instructional model through an asynchronous format. Sight-singing literature is inconclusive ...
The Psychometric Assessment of Meaning-making: Reactions to Everyday Dilemmas (Red)
(2006-12-15)
According to Robert Kegan (1994), many people are essentially “in over their heads” in trying to meet the conceptual and emotional demands of everyday life. In the workplace, this phenomenon may be exacerbated if jobs are ...
Psychometric Evaluation of the Child Rearing Inventory (CRI) in an Online Sample of Parents of Children Ages 3 to 12
(2023-06-29)
Parental tolerance has previously been defined as the function of how annoyed a parent becomes by their child’s defiant or disruptive behavior. However, there has been little research on parental tolerance as a construct ...
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Revised Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5-R) in a Trauma-Exposed Community Sample
(2023-07-27)
The Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5) is a widely used, well-validated structured diagnostic interview for PTSD. The CAPS-5 was recently revised to address limitations of the current instrument. This ...
Psychometric Properties of the Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System (DPICS): Investigating Updated Versions across Diagnostic Subgroups
(2016-11-09)
Evidence-based assessment requires the use of diverse methods that incorporate multiple informants and demonstrate adequate psychometrics. The Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System (DPICS) is an analogue behavioral ...
Psychopathy and Choice of Victims: Implications for the Sub-Categorization and Treatment of Juvenile Sexual Offenders
(2005-12-15)
Adolescent sexual offenders are responsible for a considerable portion of the sexual abuse victimization that takes place in American society today. Convicted sexual offenders report that they most often began their sexual ...
The Psychophysiological Impact of Burnout in Special and General Education Teachers
(2011-08-05)
Teaching is considered to be a stressful occupation. Many teachers experience ongoing stress from a variety of sources, which eventually leads to burnout, and ultimately is reflected in what has become an alarming rate ...
PTSD and Suicidal Ideation: An Application of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide
(2013-07-19)
The relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and passive suicidal ideation (P-SI) is well established, but the mechanisms underlying it are not well understood (Panagioti, Gooding, & Tarrier, 2012).This ...
Public Administration Revealed: A Trinitarian Approach
(2012-11-16)
This is an attempt to offer a window into the good that government can do through new possibilities beyond the practical and economical. Public administration theory has been moving away from its original narrow, scientistic, ...
Public Education Employee Perceptions of School Resource Officers
(2021-11-10)
Abstract
The use of School Resource Officers (SRO's) has become an increasingly popular strategy in attempting to create safe learning environments on school campuses in the United States. The implementation of SROs saw ...
Public enemies: A demographic analysis of federal fugitive wanted posters
(2012-07-31)
The primary purpose of this study is a determination of whether fugitives that comprise most wanted fugitive lists differ from those that make up wanted fugitive lists. Specifically, do federal law enforcement agencies ...
Public goods and private resources as determinants of county low birth weight incidence
(2018-04-24)
Infants born at low birth weight are at elevated risk of infant mortality, developmental delays, and adulthood cardiovascular disease. That low birth weight (LBW; <2500 grams) incidence varies two-to-three-fold between ...
Public Libraries and Democracy: The Library's Effect on Civic Engagement
(2013-07-19)
The modern public library is an agency that has grown out of the uniquely American democratic experience. Moreover, many in the profession tout these organizations as bastions of democracy. The key arguments contend that ...
Public School Choice: A Study of the Perceptions of Alabama Public School Principals
(2006-12-15)
Public School Choice is a controversial educational reform measure that is federally mandated through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). The federal Act (NCLB) contains 10 titles that outline assessment mandates, ...
Public school teachers during COVID-19: A study of performance using job demands-resources theory
(2021-07-14)
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public school teacher performance. The study uses job demands-resources (JD-R) theory to view the overall relationship between the positives and negative aspects ...
Publicizing Private Life: Criminal Conversation Trials in Eighteenth-Century Britain
(2010-08-03)
The project examines the gender relationships within the household, between master and mistress, master and servant, and within the servants’ quarters, alongside gendered experiences in the courtroom and constructions of ...
Pulsed Breakdown Phenomena in Partial Vacuum
(2012-08-06)
In this thesis, the pulse generation and pulsed breakdown phenomena have been studied in detail. Pulsed power is widely used in food processing, biotechnology, military defense, and industrial applications. The first ...
Purine Carbocyclic Nucleside Analogues as Antiviral Agents
(2010-12-07)
The carbocyclic nucleosides aristeromycin and neplanocin A are two of the most potent inhibitors of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase, an enzyme that plays a critical role in methyl transfer reactions during a viral replication ...