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Exploring the terror management function of basic need-satisfaction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Self-determination theory suggests that experiencing autonomy, competence, and relatedness are basic psychological needs. Drawing from terror management theory, the present research considers whether need-satisfaction helps ...
Effects of alcohol primes on judgments related to drinking and driving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Although past research has tested the effects of alcohol related priming on behavior and judgments, previous studies have not investigated the effects of alcohol primes on judgments specific to drinking and driving. Based ...
Estimating working memory capacity for lists of nonverbal sounds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Working memory (WM) capacity limit has been extensively studied in the domains of visual and verbal stimuli. The previous studies have suggested a constant WM capacity of typically about 3 or 4 items, based on the number ...
Predictors of polypharmacy and off-label prescribing of psychotropic medications : a national survey of child psychiatrists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
In the current study we used a national survey of child psychiatrists to examine typical prescribing practices for children with anxiety, depression, and disruptive behavior disorders from a social judgment theory perspective. ...
The influence of basic need satisfaction on sexual risk behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Despite two-decade long HIV prevention efforts, recent reports suggest that new HIV infections are on the rise in the United States (CDC, 2008). To combat this, many researchers believe that we must achieve a greater ...
The interaction of positive and negative outcome expectancies on drinking: a latent growth modeling approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Despite the fact that a number of studies on expectancies have included measures of positive and negative expectancies, only a few have tested the ...
Effects of instrumentalization and personalization upon targets and agents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] To better understand the effects of instrumentalization (i.e., treating a person as a means[dash]as though their value resides in their utility) and ...
Motivation change in college students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study investigates the change of motivation of undergraduate students across an academic semester. Stepwise model comparison of individual change ...
To sleep, perchance to decide : the effect of sleep deprivation on error reactivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Previous research has shown a host cognitive decrements that result from sleep deprivation including impaired executive function and slowed reaction time (see Durmer & Dinges, 2005). The focus of this research is to ...
Correlates of affective instability in borderline personality disorder : an assessment using the electronically activated recorder (EAR)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Affective instability (AI) is a key feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Given the dynamic nature of affective instability, it is ideally ...
Effects of alcohol and emotion regulation on performance monitoring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Previous research indicates that alcohol dampens negative affect and is sometimes used in the regulation of psychological distress (see Greeley & Oei, 1999; Sher, 1987). Other work indicates that individuals using less ...
Beta-adrenergic modulation of context porcessing in autism spectrum disorders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Previous studies have shown improvements in cognitive flexibility and verbal problem solving following administration of propranolol, a beta adrenergic ...
Relationship between repetitive behaviors and executive function in high functioning children with autism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
It has been theorized that impairments in executive function may contribute to the repetitive behavior symptomatology associated with ASD. This study further elucidates the nature of the relationship between ASD-related ...
Consistecy [sic] in reporting of lifetime alcohol use disorder diagnoses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Previous research suggests a decline in the rate of lifetime alcohol use disorders (AUD) over time, indicating possible psychometric problems with ...
Getting over a relationship breakup : testing two interventions to facilitate recovery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Research suggests that individuals who have broken up from a romantic relationship and are also experiencing the transition to college may be particularly vulnerable to the stressors associated with both processes. The ...
Association measures : comparison of performance across binary matrices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Investigation of the performance of Dice (1945) measure of association when applied to three dimensional data. Variance for the measure is developed ...
Adolescent friendship quality and emotional adjustment: examining the role of mothers' own friendships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The present study examines associations between youths' friendships and the friendships their mothers have with other adults. It was hypothesized that youth whose mothers have friendships high in positive qualities would ...
Relational aggression in families of female juvenile offenders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Developers of family-based interventions have suggested that female juvenile offenders are more difficult to treat than their male counterparts due ...
The drunken self : the five-factor model as an organizational framework for charcterizing one's own drunkenness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study evaluated the use of the Five-Factor Model (FFM) as an organizational framework for understanding self-perceptions of drunkenness (i.e. ...
Youths' cross-ethnic friendships and associations with socioemotional adjustment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Relationships with peers and friends are important and influential in the lives of youth, especially in adolescence (Buhrmester & Furman, 1987). Although attention recently has been drawn to the important roles of race, ...