Browsing by Author "Lamke, Leanne"

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Adolescent Action-taking: Associations with Identity Style, Possible Selves, and Parental Support

Swart, Sarah (2006-05-15)

Action-taking is the intentional behavior in which adolescents engage. Productive action-taking promotes positive youth outcomes and future goal-achievement. The aims of the current study were to examine variation in ...

The Beliefs About PVA Harm Survey: Testing the factor structure, validity, and relationship to use of parental verbal aggression and stress

Griffin, Melody (2008-12-15)

Recent prevalence data indicate that parental verbal aggression (PVA) (e.g., yelling/screaming, threatening to hit, swearing, insulting, and threatening to send away) is used by a majority of parents at one time or another ...

Disliking in Dyads and Groups: The Role of Mutual Dislike and Peer Rejection in Children’s Subsequent Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems

Cleary, David (2005-08-15)

The purpose of this study was to examine the link between children’s mutual dislike relationships and subsequent behavior problems. Mutual disliking and peer rejection were assessed among children in kindergarten and first ...

Measurement of Emotional Expressiveness in Preschool Children: Comparing Direct Assessments of Affect Expressiveness with Measures of Social Competence

Akers, Carolyn (2007-05-15)

The primary purposes of this study were to document the frequency and rate of affect expression for preschool children engaged in dyadic play, to determine the contextual constraints on such affect expression imposed by ...

Negative adult romantic relationship experiences and working models of self and other

Taylor, Lisa (2005-08-15)

Internalized working models of self and other are blueprints of relationships that affect how people think about themselves and others in social relationships. The model of self is associated with an underlying anxiety ...

The Relationship among Marital Quality, Sexual Frequency, Sexual Disagreement, Depression, and Married Women’s Sexual Satisfaction

Long, Amy (2005-08-15)

Women’s sexual satisfaction is linked to several relational and individual factors. In particular, sexual satisfaction appears to covary with the general quality of women’s marital relationships and the level of intimacy ...

The Relationship Between Geographic Mobility and Feelings of Mastery During Adolescence

Jensen, Laura (2005-12-15)

The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of geographic mobility and demographic characteristics on feelings of mastery in adolescents. Participants (N = 1,268) were part of the second wave of the National ...

The Relationships Between Conflict, Marital Satisfaction and Couples' Time Spent in Joint Activity

Buckley, Rhonda (2005-12-15)

The purpose of this study is to examine the links between marital satisfaction, couples’ time together in joint, leisure activity and relationship conflict. Current literature has established the positive link between ...

Romantic Relationship Attachment and Identity Style as Predictors of Adolescent Interpersonal Competence: A Mediation Model

Paulk, Amber (2008-08-15)

Since interpersonal competence is such a significant predictor of a variety of important outcomes for adolescents, the central goal of the current study was to investigate the developmental factors of attachment style and ...

Therapeutic Alliance as a Mediating Factor Between Couple Attachment and Therapeutic Outcome

Whelchel, Holly (2005-08-15)

The purpose of this thesis was to examine how the therapeutic alliance mediates the relationship between the anxiety and avoidance dimensions on a couple attachment measure and subsequent relationship satisfaction scores. ...

Trust in Dating Relationships: The Role of Communal Orientation

Thorsen, Philip (2006-12-15)

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between communal orientation and trust in recently established dating relationships. We expected that the degree to which one’s partner was perceived to have a ...