Browsing by Author "Bruce Compas, Ph.D."
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Lorence, Margarita E. (2014-07-26)Department: PsychologyPrevious attempts to influence food intake have fallen short as rates of obesity continue to increase. Contributing to the increase are the myriad of factors that influence food intake including physiology, emotion, and ...
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Pineda, Ashley Quizon (2007-06-21)Department: PsychologyThe role of children’s attributional style as a partial mediator of the relation between parenting behaviors and children’s depressive symptoms was examined in children and adolescents (grades 2-8). We also examined moderated ...
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Ngo, Victoria Khanh (2006-07-31)Department: PsychologyThis study examined the cultural validity of the Child Behavior Checklist, by employing an Item Response Theory analysis to determine measurement inequivalence in both the items and scales for 1st grade African-American ...
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Maxwell, Melissa A. (2011-08-01)Department: PsychologyOne community sample (N = 607) of youths generated self-reported responses to body dissatisfaction, from which the Adolescent Responses to Body Dissatisfaction (ARBD) inventory was constructed. A second similar sample (N ...
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Carter, Jocelyn Smith (2008-06-13)Department: PsychologyThis study examined the cognitive diathesis-stress model of depression in a sample of adolescents at varying risk for depression based on their mother’s depression history. Adolescents’ negative cognitions were examined ...
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Berlin, Kate L. (2007-05-30)Department: PsychologyMothers and their adolescent and young adult daughters at risk for breast cancer may experience stress as a result of being at risk for the disease. The current study examined psychological and biological stress responses ...
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Ball, Shellene Marie (2011-03-15)Department: PsychologyThe efficacy of Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) for treating child conduct problems is well-documented. There are nonetheless, however, several significant limitations with BPT including effect sizes that generally are ...
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Yarboi, Janet M. (2018-08-24)Department: PsychologySickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, life-threatening condition that affects more than one every 400 African American newborns. In addition to being at greater risk for cognitive impairment, children with SCD are also ...
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Henry, Lauren Marie (2018-09-21)Department: PsychologyBackground: Early adversity is a risk factor for later psychopathology, but current methods preclude the identification of specific links between types of adversity and internalizing versus externalizing symptoms. The ...