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The Effects of Peer Tutoring and Group Counseling on Academic Achievement and Behavior of At-Risk Junior High Males 

Hunter, Monica (2005-08-15)
This study investigated academic achievement and behavior of 8th and 9th grade male students by examining their grade average and frequency of discipline office referrals before and after the peer tutoring and group ...

The Effects of Sexist Language on Attribution of Blame Following Sexual Assault 

Lively, Lisa (2012-05-04)
This study investigated the relationship between the sexist language used to describe women, whether that language was presented implicitly or explicitly, and blame ratings following the reading of an acquaintance-based ...

The Efficacy of No-Suicide Contracts with Clients in Counseling on an Outpatient Basis 

Bartlett, Mary (2006-08-15)
Clients at two outpatient facilities who self-identified as having expressed suicidal thoughts or engaged in suicidal behaviors during some point in their counseling treatment were invited to participate in a survey to ...

An Empirical and Existential Examination of Narcissistic Functioning 

Peebles, Scott (2006-08-15)
The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) and its factors have been shown to simultaneously predict both psychological adjustment and lack thereof. Results from a host of empirical studies suggest that although one ...

An Examination of Emerging Adults’ Career Development 

Cobb, Megan (2013-05-31)
Emerging adulthood has been posited as a new developmental phase in which the individual has graduated from adolescence but has not yet accomplished milestones traditionally associated with adulthood (e.g., beginning a ...

An Examination of Social Relationships and Experiences of African American Students at Predominantly White Institutions and Historically Black Colleges and Universities 

Jones, Teresa (2013-11-25)
African American college students have historically faced many forms of rejection and isolation at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), particularly during the early years of academic integration (Allen, 1992; ...

An Examination of the Relationship Between Athletic Identity and Career Maturity in Student-Athletes 

Houle, James (2010-12-10)
This study explored the extent to which athletic identity, belief of financial sustainability through participation at the professional level, scholarship status, and career decision-making self-efficacy predict career ...

An Examination of the Relationship between Helicopter Parenting and College Adjustment and the Effects of Emotional Intelligence 

Buchannon, Chenetra (2015-12-03)
The term, helicopter parenting, was coined to describe how the parents of the children born in the millennium generation are involved in every aspect of their children’s lives in developmentally inappropriate ways, especially ...

An Examination of the Role of Meaning in Posttraumatic Growth Following Bereavement 

Aguirre, Maria (2008-08-15)
A growing body of research indicates that some individuals who experience a traumatic event are able to experience posttraumatic growth, that is, experience positive changes as a result of surviving and coping with the ...

Examining the Influence of Parental Behavior on Adolescent Problem Behavior 

Pressley, Felicia (2014-01-09)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which parents’ behaviors influence to an adolescent’s involvement in the juvenile justice system. Previous research suggests, adolescents involved in the juvenile ...

An Experimental Examination Of Children's Sleep Quality And Improvements Resulting From A Parent Education Intervention 

Lee, Donna (2007-08-15)
The role of sleep in neurobehavioral functioning has been extensively studied. Empirical evidence has shown that functions of learning, memory, and emotional regulation can be influenced by sleep. A large number of children ...

An Exploration of the Relationships Among Depression, Womanist and Racial Identity in African American Collegiate Women 

Simpson, Caroline (2008-05-15)
Available evidence suggests that women face an increased vulnerability to depression because of economic instability, isolation, and constricting forces associated with traditional beliefs about the roles of women (Graveline, ...

An Exploratory Study: Higher Education’s Response to a Death Among Community Members 

Devore, Lisa (2011-08-05)
The purpose of the current study was to conduct an exploratory assessment of how colleges and universities address a death among their community including existing practices, programs and training efforts. The Campus Death ...

Exploring the Effects of Reality Television on Body Image: Does Feminist Identification Matter? 

English, Erin (2014-07-24)
Research has demonstrated that sociocultural factors exert tremendous influence on the development and maintenance of body dissatisfaction (Thompson et al., 1999). The mass media generally, and reality television in ...

Exploring Themes in Multicultural Counseling Movement 

Yilmaz, Funda (2008-08-15)
The Multicultural Counseling Movement (MCM) is increasingly gaining popularity as the world we live in changes and counselors from all specialties are expected to help more and more people transition into the new milieu. ...

Finding the Others Like Me: Facebook Use and Invisible Minorities' Satisfaction With Social Support 

Kerzin, Emily (2016-07-08)
In the face of oppression, stigmatized minority individuals demonstrate strategies of resilience such as affiliation with a group of similar others for support and connection. Invisible minorities, however, may have ...

Forgiveness of Historical and Current Racial Offenses: A Study of Intergroup Forgiveness Among African Americans 

Erguner, Tekinalp (2007-05-15)
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the conditions needed for historically oppressed groups to forgive historical offenses and current experiences of racial/ethnic offenses. This study includes a sample of 147 ...

Graduate Students, Negative Perfectionism, Perceived Stress, and Disordered Eating Behaviors 

Wilson, Carmilya (2009-04-28)
Much of the literature on Disordered Eating Behaviors has examined their relationship with different risk factors. Among those factors examined have been perfectionism and stress. One form of perfectionism, Negative ...

How Did You Sleep?: Effects of an Individualized Sleep Hygiene Intervention Program on College Students’ Sleep 

David, Lauren (2016-07-20)
The purpose of the current study was to test an individualized sleep hygiene intervention designed by the investigator for college students experiencing poor quality sleep. The intervention was intended to assess for problem ...

Humor in Therapy: Expectations, Sense of Humor, and Perceived Effectiveness 

Blevins, Teresa (2010-07-12)
Research has shown that humor holds valuable power to increase psychological well-being. The present study explored: (1) the perceived effectiveness of humor as a therapeutic tool based on the social influence model; and ...