Browsing by Author "Correia, Christopher"

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Alcohol Use and Related Risk Behaviors Among College Students and Military Personnel

Lyle, Sarah Brice (2011-12-13)

To date, no published studies have been conducted examining alcohol use specifically among military veterans who are attending college. Studies on whether interventions designed for either veterans or college students are ...

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 ...

Alcohol, Sleep and Five-Factor Personality Characteristics: A Latent Profile Analysis

Hafftka, Raina (2020-03-05)

To date, a substantial body of research has demonstrated that undergraduate students are often found to experience poor sleep quality, as well as frequently high levels of alcohol usage. Furthermore these two concerns are ...

Antisocial Personality Disorder vs. Psychopathy: An analysis of the literature

Everett, David (2006-05-15)

Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy are disorders related by their associations with criminal behavior. Antisocial Personality Disorder is a pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others beginning ...

Assessing to Learn and Learning to Assess: Examining Assessment Fidelity for the Parent-Child Interaction Coding System

Baker, Kaitlin (2012-11-06)

Fidelity to treatment protocol has been found to predict treatment outcome (Schoenwald, Sheidowm & Chapman, 2009; Henggeler, Schoenwald, Liao, Letourneau, & Edwards, 2002) and is especially important to evaluate within the ...

Association between fear and visual memory for central and peripheral details

Anderson, Christopher (2006-12-15)

The present study sought to determine if phobic individuals have improved memory for stimuli that are related to their phobic fear relative to non-anxiety provoking stimuli. Four hundred fifty-eight participants were ...

The Attentional Blink Effect in Spider Phobia

Farshid, Arash (2011-08-08)

Extant research suggests that individuals with spider phobia relative to non-anxious controls display a shorter attentional blink (AB) in response to spider-related target words. Common methodological limitations of such ...

A Brief Abstinence Test for College Student Smokers: Testing the Utility of a Novel Choice Task

Irons, Jessica (2007-08-15)

Cigarette smoking among college students is prevalent and correlated with other unhealthy behaviors. Reinforced abstinence (e.g., contingency management) has been demonstrated to be an effective method for reducing substance ...

Classic and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Latent Profile Analysis

Feiszli, Kevin (2015-12-04)

Some trauma survivors, especially those exposed to chronic interpersonal trauma, exhibit a wide range of psychological sequelae beyond the classic symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Foremost among these are ...

Comparing Startle Reactivity in Cannabis Dependent Females with Cannabis Withdrawal Syndrome vs. Non-User Controls Matched on Psychopathology: A Test of the Allostatic Model of Addiction

Preston, Thomas (2023-07-28)

Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) is expected to increase in the United States, necessitating research examining markers that may predict CUD trajectory. As chronic and harmful cannabis use develops, homeostatic thresholds to ...

Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Investigation Using Factor Mixture Modeling

Feiszli, Kevin (2017-06-21)

It has long been established that the experience of traumatic events can result in pathological distress. Some of these reactions, such as hyperarousal or the avoidance of trauma-related cues, are recognized as prototypical ...

Comprehensive Recidivism Data from Juvenile Delinquents and Juvenile Sex Offenders

Cook, Patrick (2010-10-15)

Each year in the United States, juveniles commit a significant percentage of the total number of sex offenses. Moreover, available recidivism data examining sexual re-offense rates with juvenile sex offenders vary considerably ...

The Conceptualization of Personality Disorders: Categories Versus Dimensions

Burgess, Danny (2008-08-15)

The classification of mental disorders is organized as a categorical system, such that each disorder is a separate entity defined by an exclusive list of symptoms. Research has revealed many problems with the categorical ...

Dieting, Alcohol Use, and Impulsivity in a Sample of Undergraduate Students

Heidelberg, Natalie (2011-07-01)

Dieting behavior is correlated with frequency and quantity of alcohol use and alcohol related problems. Research has also shown that dieting behaviors are correlated with impulsivity, as measured by self-report questionnaires. ...

Differentiating between Children with and without ADHD Using the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System and Conners' Continuous Performance Test-II

Peden, Sarah (2010-08-12)

The Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) is a relatively new measure of executive functioning (EF) that has not been fully evaluated for its potential of differentiating between children with and without ADHD. ...

Discrepant Dyadic Alcohol Use in the Development of Relationship Dissatisfaction: The Mediating Role of Alcohol-Specific Conflict

Lofgreen, Ashton (2012-03-21)

Extant research demonstrates a link between intimate partners’ discrepant alcohol consumption and declines in relationship satisfaction, as well as higher rates of relationship dissolution (e.g., Homish & Leonard, 2007; ...

Effects of Dopamine Challenges on Clocked Fixed-Interval Schedule Performance for Rats Prenatally Exposed to Methylmercury and Selenium

Reed, Miranda (2007-08-15)

Fish consumption has been linked with health benefits, but fish are also a source of methylmercury (MeHg), a neurotoxicant implicated in well-documented population poisonings. To examine putative MeHg-induced alterations ...

Essentialist Beliefs About Homosexuality: Structure and Implications for Prejudice - A Replication of Haslam and Levy, 2006

Raley, Kristin (2008-08-15)

Past studies have indicated that essentialist beliefs are associated with prejudicial attitudes. In this study, 300 Auburn University undergraduates responded to measures assessing the degree to which participants ascribed ...

Evaluating Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) with a Professional Sample

Jimenez, Giselle (2020-11-03)

The Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) model is a prevention model designed to teach parent management skills to any adult who interacts with children (Gurwitch et al., 2016). To date, the limited published studies ...

Evaluation of Rape Prevention Programming for Female College Students

Lawson, Kathryn (2006-12-15)

Acquaintance rape is a common phenomenon on American college campuses, and considerable research effort has been directed at developing effective prevention programs for both potential victims and potential perpetrators. ...