College of Arts & Sciences

The association of caregiver stress and violence exposure to attachment organization and schema development during middle childhood: An urban perspective

Popple, Jody Anne (2003-05)

This study investigated caregiver (N = 48) stress and exposure to violence in relation to children's (ages 8 to 12 years, N = 50) attachment representations and views of self, world, and future. Life stress was measured ...

The Behavioral immune system and attitudes toward COVID-19

Kempthorne, Johnmark (2020-12-15)

The Behavioral Immune System acts as the first line of defense against harmful pathogens. One of the primary functions of this system is the emotion of disgust. It compels individuals to adopt socially conservative attitudes ...

Farmer’s progress: The trial-and-error path to a sustainable agricultural future

DeVries, Hannah E (2020-09-08)

Alongside the growth in popularity of sustainable movements, the number of small farms continues to increase throughout the United States. Despite many obstacles, people from various backgrounds have transitioned to become ...

Independent educational evaluations: What non-school based licensed psychologists have learned

Carter, Christopher Wayne; 0000-0001-9908-4520 (2020-11-02)

The purpose of this study was to examine the essential experiences that licensed psychologists (LPs) had when conducting Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs). Three LPs participated in in-depth one on one semi-structured ...

Dealing with missing data in the work environment at King Khalid University

Asiri, Zahra (2020-09-08)

This study is about missing data mechanisms developed by Rubin (1976), including missing data completely at random, missing data at random, and missing data not at random. This study utilizes a scenario at King Khaled ...

Dealing with missing data in the work environment at King Khalid University

Asiri, Zahra (2020-09-08)

This study is about missing data mechanisms developed by Rubin (1976), including missing data completely at random, missing data at random, and missing data not at random. This study utilizes a scenario at King Khaled ...

A content analysis of battering interventions: Development of a unified framework for treating relationally violent men

Slack, Christopher S. (2020-12-07)

Men’s violence against women in the form of intimate partner violence (IPV) has been an ongoing concern worldwide. While awareness of IPV and interventions for survivors of IPV have grown over the last several decades, ...

An exploratory factor analysis of the Woodcock-Johnson IV tests of cognitive abilities and tests of oral language for the 9- to 13- year old age range

Rowden, Ashley Sabrina; 0000-0002-8924-8031 (2020-11-24)

Scientific understanding of the nature of intelligence has steadily evolved over the years; however, the past century has seen an explosion of research aimed at understanding the construction of intelligence, the relationships ...

Attitudes among psychologists working with Borderline Personality Disorder

Nelson, Lindsey J. (2020-08-11)

The purpose of the study is to provide a baseline for the attitudes of psychologists responding to patients identified as meeting criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). A review of the literature has indicated ...

Mexican Americans' attitudes toward Mexican immigrants

Macias, Jaqueline; 0000-0002-7236-380X (2020-09-08)

This study aimed to determine the relationship between acculturation, ethnic and national identity, political ideology and partisanship, prejudice, and disgust within Mexican-Americans. Previous studies indicated that ...

Handle With Care: A Pedagogical Theory of Touch in Teaching Dance Technique Based on Four Case Studies

Collen, Robin Latshaw (2002-12)

The purpose of this study was to investigate how human touch may be used within a modern dance technique class to facilitate effective teaching and learning. This inquiry was based on two initial assumptions: (a) touch ...

Dancing dolls and extended bodies: A posthuman exploration of lively objects in twentieth and twenty-first century ballets

Bennett, Mara Patricia Mandradjieff (2020-04-27)

This dissertation investigates the on-going theme of dolls and doll-like characters in Western ballets starting in nineteenth century France. It specifically analyzes French choreographer Maguy Marin’s Cendrillon (1985), ...

Sexual orientation, heterosexism, and mutuality in friendship relationships between lesbian and heterosexual women

Naudin, Blanca Moreno; 0000-0003-1004-2610 (2020-08-13)

Women are socialized to base their self-worth on their ability to have meaningful relationships (Miller, 1986a; Miller & Stiver, 1997). However, in a patriarchal culture, they rarely find in their interactions with men the ...

Biracial identity development: A study of colorism and racial invalidation

Gandy, Rachelle Leigh (2020-08-17)

I examine the impact familial and social dynamics play in bi/multiracial (my term for non-monoracial people) women’s sense of their own racial identity. I argue for the need to reevaluate our understanding of colorism when ...

Synthesis of doxorubicin-ablumin conjugates via cobalt coordination chemistry: The effect of reaction conditions on overall protein stability

McGhee, Avione (2020-07-23)

Polymer-drug conjugates have become a common tool in therapeutics to reduce the chances of pharmacotoxicity, often seen in patients undergoing chemotherapy, and to enhance targeted drug delivery. The demand for more novel ...