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Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Prevalence and risk factors associated with substance use and abuse by Rhode Island health care professionals, George Anthony Kenna

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The influence of cognitive reserve on neuropsychological functioning after coronary artery bypass grafting, Susan Anne Legendre

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Latent Transition Ananlysis as a Sensitive Outcome: Analysis for Longitudinal Data, Rosemarie A. Martin

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Latent transition analysis as a sensitive outcome analysis for longitudinal data, Rosemarie Ann Martin

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Stress management during pregnancy: An investigation of the psychosocial, behavioral, and cognitive correlates, Leanne Marie Mauriello

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Factors influencing transition from early intervention, Nina June Pinnock

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Problem Behavior Theory in an Ethnically Diverse Female Prison Sample, Kristen J. Quinlan

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Assessing the relationship between neuropsychological constructs and alcohol use among college students, Louis Francis Ruffolo Jr.

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Computerized Behavioral Observation: Implications for Improving Accuracy and Reducing Bias, Charles Sicotte

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Development and Validation of Transtheorectical Measure for College Student Spiritual Expression, John A. Ward

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Development and validation of transtheoretical measures for college student spiritual expression, John A. Ward

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Predictors for readiness to engage in low-risk HIV behaviors in men who have sex with men, Steven Lee White

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Family Functioning of Portuguese Families with a Clinically Depressed Family Member, Marco S. Andrade

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Adult Attachment Patterns: The Relationship Between Security of Attachment and Adjustment to Prison and Separation From Loved Ones, Steven Kenneth Diehl

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Help-seeking behaviors among Latino and Latina college students, Cecilia Maria Duarte

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A proposed model of medical staff-family communication in the context of cancer: Psychometric, model and mediational testing, Dana Anne Gionta

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Factors Affecting Performance on the Lahi- A Complex Continuous Performance Task, Daniel Kretchman

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Quality of discourse organization on a story-reconstruction task in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and normally developing peers, Sonia C. Mashikian

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INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN TODDLER EMOTION COPING: THE IMPACT OF TEMPERAMENT AND SOCIALIZATION EXPERIENCES ON REGULATION DEVELOPMENT, Elena Mirsky

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MMPI-2 Scores as a Predictor of Outcomes on the Phase II Profile Integrity Inventory, Lynne Dawn Murray

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An Examination of the Nature of Reading Fluency, Emily D. Russell

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Highly significant findings in psychology: A power and effect size survey, Rose Marie Ward

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An analysis of the predictive power of the transtheoretical model of behavior change applied to dietary fat intake, Julie A. Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Assessing depression treatment and outcomes using insurance claims data, Gregory Andrew Allard

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The Development of a Measure of Attention in Children, Janette Baird

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Dialogue in the development of a consilience index: A quantum approach to integrating qualitative and quantitative practices in the social sciences, Kathleen S. Cady-Webster

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The Potential Clinical Utility of Methods for Estimating Prior Standing in Specific Cognitive Domains: A Feasibility and Illustration Study, Stephen Correia

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Nonviolence training program evaluation, Maram Hallak

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Cultural Predictors of Asian/Pacific Islander Women’s HIV/AIDS Protective Behaviors, Jennifer C. Huang

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Beliefs About Women Held by African American Women and Men Differing in Level of Acculturation, Jean M. Jacob

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Integrating the Transtheoretical Model: A Quantitative Analysis in the Area of Sun Exposure, Janet L. Johnson

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Movin' on up to the 21st century: Multiculturalism… making the abstract applied, Vonda Dionne Jones-Hudson

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Development, validation and factorial invariance of transtheoretical model measures for recovery from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, Patricia Janet Jordan

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The relationship between a sense of community and social disorganization and neighborhood deprivation, Sharon Kingston

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The relationship of community and prevention coalition characteristics to rates of adolescent substance abuse, Ilene Klein

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School psychologists' knowledge of family violence and their identification of children from violent homes, Anne Maile Lamoureux

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APPLYING THE TRANSTHEORETICAL MODEL OF CHANGE TO STRESS MANAGEMENT AMONG ADOLESCENTS: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF DECISIONAL BALANCE AND CONFIDENCE MEASURES, Leanne M. Mauriello

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Effects of Reading Disability in Adolescents on Self-Concept and Future Expectations, Miriam I. Meyer

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Examining the structural and philosophical positions of community-based organization practitioners, Dana Scott Mills

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CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND ADULT HEALTH: PROTECTIVE FACTORS AS MEDIATING VARIABLES, Jennifer Ann Morrow

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Sexual negotiation and the influence of gender and power in heterosexually active men and women, Seth Michael Noar

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The relationship between teacher perceptions of self, others, and instructional methods and intentions to teach HIV/AIDS prevention, Lindsey Knight Pineo

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Testing the Invariance of the Transtheoretical Model Utilizing a Population of Smokers, Rose Marie Ward

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Development and Initial Validation of a Structured Interview for the Detection of Malingered Mild Head Injury, Margaret Anne Ackley

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Integrating theories and methods in assessing longitudinal change in heterosexual HIV risk among women, Gary J. Burkholder

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Understanding the Efficacy of Residential Treatment for Female and Alaskan Native Adolescents: Outcome Study and Meta-Analysis, Kathleen Cady-Webster

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Teacher opinions about the nature and treatment of reading deficits in adolescents, William Vincent Catone

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A Study of Language Used in Magazine Reports of Rape and Sexual Assault Trials, Laura B. Chorbajian

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Universal Newborn Screening for Developmental Risk, Grace Cox Ashton

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A Mediational Coping Model of Sociopersonal Well-Being and Quality of Life, William Burton Disch

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A Study of the Effect of Projective Drawings on the Hindsight Bias, Elizabeth A. Dufresne

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The design and implementation of a depression prevention program, Karyn Mary Forsyth

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An Assessment of Decisional Balance, Self Efficacy, and Condom Stages of Change Among White and Minority Women, Shirley Amanda Gazabon

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Becoming long-term caregivers: A qualitative study of meaning-making and transformation in families of persons with mental retardation or other developmental disabilities, Beatrice Rose Guilbault

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An investigation of children's timing abilities as a model for understanding the nature of ADHD deficits, Timothy John Heitzman

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The influence of cultural values in the judgment of student behavior, Eliana Shavitt Lesser

Regulating tempo in a continuation finger-tapping task, Arthur Allen Little

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Regulating Tempo in a Continuation Finger-Tapping Task, Arthur Allen Little

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Are IQ Discrepancies Between SES Groups Primarily the Result of Verbal Scale Differences?, Carol Lee MacNaught

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Can the Influence of Base Rate Information be Distinguished from the Influence of Gender Stereotypes in the Psychiatric Diagnostic Decision Making Process?, Maureen McCormick

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Staff support of parents in the pediatric intensive care unit: What are we doing and is it what parents want, Lori Kay Myren-Manbeck

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To Parcel or Not to Parcel: The Effects of Item Parceling in Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Brett A. Plummer

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Boundedness, global stability, and periodicity of some difference equations, Norman Ray Prokup

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AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY, EXPERIENCE WITH RACISM, AND MEANING IN LIFE AMONG BLACK COLLEGE STUDENTS, Brian L. Ragsdale

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Health promoting behaviors in women with and without sexual assault histories, Jennifer Parsons Read

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Relationship of Maternal Age to Risk Factors and Infant Outcomes for Children of Young Mothers, Candace A. Reynolds

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Evaluating the efficacy of the Rhode Island Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program (TDVPP): A process and outcome approach to determining the success of both primary and secondary prevention projects, Amy Beth Silverman

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Elimination of the Hindsight Bias in Individual Versus Group Decision Making, Holly Anne Sindelar

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A Comparison of Administration Procedures for the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure: Flow-Charts vs. Pen-Switching, Jessica Somerville

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RECOVERED AND CONTINUOUS MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE: A QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS, Linda Ribble Stoler

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Blood glucose estimation accuracy in children with diabetes: An investigation of repeated practice with latent growth curve modeling, Julie Ann Wagner

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Attatchment Classification Among 18 Month Old Children of Adolescent Mothers, Lynne M. Andreozzi

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Attachment classifications among eighteen-month-old children of adolescent mothers, Lynne Meredith Andreozzi

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Practitioners' familiarity with psychotherapy research and their relative weighting of research and experience in formulating beliefs, Charles Miga Boisvert

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The relationship of ethnicity to diabetes self-care and medical outcomes in African-Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus, Mary K. de Groot

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Phonological representations of adult poor readers: An investigation of specificity and stability, Jean A. Dietrich

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Assessing Self-Efficacy Among Incarcerated Women: Scale Development and Psychemetric Properties, Cheryl Hevey

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A validation study of the Boston Qualitative Scoring System (BQSS) for the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test, Debbie Jo Javorsky

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Maltreating Caregivers: An Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Change, Lisa M. Jones

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Statistical power and effect size in the field of health psychology, Jason Edward Maddock

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How Subject Characteristics Influence Attention Task Performance: A Structural Modeling Approach, Kristen A. McKiernan

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A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Understanding Psychological Empowerment in Community Prevention Coalitions, Bradley Farrell McMillan

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Observed Conflict, Sexual Experience, Pornography, and Coercive Behavior as Predictors of Men’s Sexual Arousal to Sexual and Violent Images, James Allen Miller

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Parental Socialization and the Child's Development of Internal Concepts of Self and Others, Elena Sylvie Mirsky

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Predicting, explaining and understanding adolescent exercise behavior using longitudinal and cross-sectional approaches, Claudio Renato Nigg

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Predicting Smoking Cessation In Pregnant Latina and White Women, Ivory Roberts Clarke

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A Media Skills Intervention for Adolescents on Gender Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors, Barbara E. Silver

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PUERTO RICAN FAMILY FUNCTIONING, ACCULTURATION AND ATTITUDES TOWARD FAMILY COUNSELING, Maria Vazquez

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How diverse is ethnic diversity in books for young children, Jacque Lynne Washkwich

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The Learning Network Model of School Psychological Services: A heuristic framework for a formative program evaluation and organizational development plan, Christopher Scott Willis

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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ASSESSING PREDICTORS OF SMOKING CESSATION: AN APPLICATION OF SIGNAL DETECTION METHODOLOGY, Sonya V. Benisovich

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Predicting Mathematics Performance: A Structural Equation Model, Linda N. Bruno

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An Exploratory Study of Attachment Styles and Their Relationship to Emotional Intelligence in a Young Adult Population, Steven Kenneth Diehl

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The Relationship of Physical Activity to Self-Concept and Perceived Stress in Adolescent Females, Anne C. Dineen

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Examining Cultural Identity in the Prediction of High-Risk Behavior in Latino and Latina Adolescents, Cecilia Maria Duarte

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Quantitative Methods for Assessing Change: Application to Condom Use, Kerry E. Evers

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Quantitive methods for assessing change: Application to condom use, Kerry Elizabeth Evers

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Borderline personality disorder subtypes among hospitalized female adolescents, Carol Jeanne Faulkner

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An empirical analysis of personality disorders in female adolescents, Jaclyn Friedman-Lombardo

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Resiliency among lesbian and bisexual women during the process of self-acceptance and disclosure of their sexual orientation, Colleen Jeanette Gregory