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An exploration of the sequential cascade of changes in parenting practices engendered by Parent Management Training – Oregon
(Wichita State University, 2011-12)The goal of this research is to better understand the sequencing and timing of changes in parenting behaviors engendered by PMTO, and the transactional interaction among those changes. Focusing on the treatment group, ... -
An exploratory study of nurse aides' communication behaviours: giving 'positive regard' as a strategy
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-03)The aim of this study was to identify the communication behaviours and strategies used by socially skilled geriatric nurse aides working with residents in long term care facilities. -
Exploring demoralization in the specific problems scales of the MMPI-2-RF in an impatient psychiatric sample
(Wichita State University, 2018-05)This concurrent and construct validity study attempted to link the Restructured Demoralization Clinical Scale (RCd) of the Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory- 2- Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF, Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008) ... -
Exploring fit between competitiveness and competition in gamification
(Wichita State University, 2020-12)Gamification research has mainly focused on interpersonal competitiveness and interpersonal competition in exergames. These concepts describe a disposition towards competing with others and the act of competing with others. ... -
Exploring for idioms of distress used by individuals under community corrections
(North American Journal of Psychology, 2022-09-01)Major Depressive Disorder and psychological distress in general often go unreported in correctional populations. A common technique used to capture underreporting of symptoms is to probe for idioms of distress, or culturally ... -
Exploring older persons use of computer-mediated communication technologies
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2013-05-08)Older persons receiving services in community settings, rather than Nursing Homes, are at risk of social isolation. Computer mediated communication offers technological resources which recipients of Home and Community-Based ... -
Exploring the applicability of interdependence theory to CNA-resident relationships
(Slack, 2012-01)This study explored the quality of certified nurse assistant (CNA)-resident relationships. Of interest was the extent to which interdependence theory could be used to code CNAs' responses to questions about their relationships ... -
Exploring the applicability of selection, optimization, and compensation model to the personal goals of nursing home residents
(Wichita State University, 2015-05)Selection, optimization, and compensation theory (SOC) is a major theoretical framework through which human development has been studied. It is a process-oriented model that provides accounts for how gains are maximized ... -
Exploring the educational aspirations-expectations gap in eighth grade students: implications for educational interventions and school reform
(Routledge, 2012)Over the past three decades, more and more students are expressing a desire to attend college, yet for many members of disenfranchised groups, this goal is often not attained. While many factors contribute to these ... -
Exploring the impact of using a private social network on independent living residents' social isolation and loneliness
(Wichita State University, 2016-05)Older adults are often on the wrong side of the digital divide. However, recent Pew surveys suggest that they may be closing the gap. Fifty-nine percent of adults over 65-years-of-age are online. Computer use by older ... -
Exploring the use of a private social network to reduce isolation among independent living residents
(Oxford University Press, 2015-11)Researchers have reported that older adults’ use of computers is associated with reduced depression, and isolation (Cotten, et al., 2014; Czaja et al. 2014 ). These studies involved conventional software such as Facebook. ... -
Exploring transformational leadership
(Wichita State University, 2015-05)While leadership development programs have a variety of intended outcomes, personal transformation is a common outcome across most of these programs. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the process ... -
Exploring website gist through rapid serial visual presentation
(Springer Nature, 2019-11-20)Background: Users can make judgments about web pages in a glance. Little research has explored what semantic information can be extracted from a web page within a single fixation or what mental representations users have ... -
Extending the Task-Technology Fit model to e-textbook usage for students and instructors
(Wichita State University, 2016-05)Companies are starting to produce more and more textbooks in electronic format, which means users, students and instructors, are starting to use this new technology. Many models already exist to explain the factors that ... -
Factor structure of the Assessment of Qualitative and Structural Dimensions of Object Representations (AOR) scale
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015-11-02)The Assessment of Qualitative and Structural Dimensions of Object Representations assessment instrument (AOR; Blatt, Chevron, Quinlan, Schaffer, & Wein, 1992) is one measure of parental representations used in the literature ... -
Factor structure of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire in a clinical sample
(Guilford Publications Inc, 2013-09)None of the published factor analyses of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire Negative (ATQ-N; Hollon & Kendall, 1980) have been with adult clinical populations. To address this omission, we examined the factor structure ... -
Factor structure of the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory scales in psychiatric inpatients
(Elsevier, 2012-05-10)This study examined the factor structure of the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) Personality Patterns and Clinical Syndromes scales in 331 individuals undergoing short-term hospitalization in a Midwestern ... -
Factors associated with early marijuana initiation in a criminal justice population
(Elsevier B.V., 2017-01)Purpose: Initiation of marijuana during adolescence is associated with negative outcomes and is more common among those with criminal justice involvement. We sought to determine demographics, psychosocial factors, mental ... -
Factors associated with Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participants eating healthy foods and engaging in exercise
(2005-05)As barriers to engaging physical activities or consuming healthy foods increase, the frequency of reported exercise and consumption of healthy foods decreases. The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument that ... -
Factors contributing to the survival of self-help groups
(Springer, 2002-06)Despite the growing utilization of self-help groups, there have been only a handful of studies that have examined the factors that contribute to their survival. The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that ...