Browsing by Author "Correia, Christopher"

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Examination of an Attachment Training for Mentoring Effectiveness

Brooks, Shalonda (2011-08-01)

Youth mentoring can be defined as a unique relationship between an adult and child or adolescent that is characterized by mutual respect, reciprocity, transmission of knowledge from mentor to mentee, and social-emotional ...

Examining Blood Alcohol Concentrations Through a Simulated Drinking Game Procedure

Silvestri, Mark (2011-07-05)

Alcohol consumption on college campuses is a prevalent activity, with over half of college students reporting alcohol consumption at least once in the past month, and it embodies “binge” drinking, consuming 4 (5 for males) ...

Family Conflict Typology, Maternal Engagement, and Early Childhood Adjustment: A Latent Class Analysis

Bailey, Alyssa N. (2021-12-10) ETD File Embargoed

Family conflict is a broad construct which can encompass violent and non-violent types of conflict. Problematic child outcomes have been associated with exposure to violent and nonviolent forms of inter-parental conflict, ...

Further Validation of a Parental Tolerance Measure

Loper, Miranda (2006-05-15)

Tolerance for child misbehavior is defined as the amount of annoyance experienced when a child misbehaves. This construct has received relatively little attention in the field of child psychology and most of this research ...

The Impact of Flexible Work Arrangements on Employee Engagement

Brown, Victoria (2016-01-06)

A flexible work arrangement pilot program was implemented in the corporate office of a mid-size organization. To assess the impact of flexible work arrangements on employee engagement, surveys were administered prior to ...

The Impact of Unusually Distressing Events on Veterinary Professionals

Kramper, Sharon (2021-08-02)

Previous studies have catalogued safety hazards and frequency of workers’ compensation claims in the veterinary workplace. However, distressing events other than workplace injuries have not been collected and analyzed, and ...

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 ...

Influences of Drug and Toxicant Exposure on the Microstructure of Responding

Johnson, Joshua (2011-05-03)

A recent quantitative model has been used to examine the microstructure of behavior, and has described a bout of responding by three separate measures: within-bout response rate, bout initiation rate, and bout length. These ...

Information-processing biases toward interoceptive stimuli in claustrophobia

Smitherman, Todd (2006-12-15)

The present study endeavored to ascertain whether claustrophobic individuals manifest information-processing biases toward interoceptive stimuli, consistent with recent conceptualizations of this disorder. Nine hundred one ...

Latent Class Analysis of Drinking Game Consequences Among College Drinkers

Hoyer, Dennis (2021-05-21)

Participation in drinking games has been identified as one specific alcohol-related context linked to increased risk among college students. Despite advances in drinking game research, questions remain about the different ...

A Longitudinal Examination of Individual Adaptability as an Antecedent of Training and Transfer Outcomes

Vaughn, Edwin, III (2011-07-27)

The current workforce faces increasingly complex work demands requiring high levels of individual adaptability. Utilizing Ployhart and Bliese’s (2006) conceptual framework, the current investigation empirically examined ...

Measuring Psychological (In)flexiblity: A Psychometric Evaluation and Comparison of Existing Measures

Thomas, Kelsey (2022-12-06)

Psychological (in)flexibility, the tendency for behavior to be guided by psychological reactions rather than chosen values, is a central construct of interest in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT; Hayes, Strosahl, & ...

More Than Meditation: The Role of Dispositional Mindfulness in Alcohol and Marijuana-Related Problems

Philip, Andrew (2010-05-27)

Mindfulness refers to experiencing one’s self and environment in a conscious and unbiased manner focusing on the temporary, passing quality of thoughts, feelings, and life. Treatment providers have employed mindfulness-based ...

Neurobehavioral Consequences of Aging and Chronic Methylmercury Exposure: Interactions with Dietary Selenium

Heath, John (2008-08-15)

Methylmercury (MeHg), although a well-described toxicant to the adult and developing nervous system, is inadequately understood in adult onset, low-level chronic exposure. Among the known effects are somatosensory deficits ...

The opportunity for alternative reinforcement shortens bout length in BALB/c C57BL/6 mice

Johnson, Joshua (2008-08-15)

A recent mathematical model has been suggested to partition response rate into two independent components that are estimated through a log survivor analysis of inter-response times. One component is thought to tap motivational ...

The percentile IRT schedule: High rate behavior as a tool for examining the toxic motor effects of methylmercury

Donlin, Wendy (2005-05-15)

Methylmercury exposure has become a topic of interest in both the toxicology literature and among the general media within the last decade. Concern about methylmercury’s toxicity has grown with the discovery that ...

Pleasurable Insights: Conceptualizing the role of Sexual Pleasure within Intimate Relationships

Cunningham, Karlene (2013-07-08)

Sexual pleasure is commonly thought of as the central construct motivating sexual behavior. However, there is very little empirically-based work on the conceptualization and measurement of sexual pleasure. The current study ...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Post Concussion Syndrome in Relation to the Alcohol Use Among Members of the Armed Force Who Served in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom

Caruso, Margaret (2020-06-23)

Alcohol use is an established behavior and a growing concern within the Active Duty Service Members and Veteran communities. Previous research has found both Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Post-Concussion Syndrome ...

Pour Decisions: The Relationship Between Intoxication, Free-Pour Accuracy, and Subjective Impairment

Schultz, Nicole (2019-04-23)

Reducing risk associated with college student drinking is a major public health concern. The free-pour assessment has the potential to inform interventions aimed at reducing risks associated with college student drinking. ...

Predicting Motivation to Change

Diulio, Andrea (2012-01-10)

Motivation to decrease alcohol consumption has been a focus of past research with college students. However studies on the predictors of motivation among college students have produced mixed results. There is some theoretical ...