Browsing Department of Psychological Sciences (MU) by Thesis Semester "2006 Summer"
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A behavior genetic study of self-harm, suicidality, and personality in white and African-American women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)This study is an examination of genetic and environmental risk leading to suicidal and self-harm behaviors in a representative sample of female young adult twins, and racial differences in the strength of those risk factors. ... -
College students' reasons for abstaining or limiting drinking: factor structure, predictors, and relations to abstention and alcohol-related outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] All addictive behavior can be conceptualized as a balance between impelling and inhibiting forces. Increasing knowledge of how motives (both approach ... -
Conversational self focus in youths' friendships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)The present research considered conversational self-focus, a previously unstudied variant of normative self-disclosure in which one conversation partner re-directs conversations to focus on the self. It was hypothesized ... -
Perfectionism, self-discrepancy, and disordered eating in black and white women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)The current study investigates the relation between perfectionism and self-discrepancy, and whether their confluence predicts later disordered eating in a sample of Black and White college women. The combination of high ... -
Postconditioning manipulation of context associative strength on conditioned responding in conditioned taste aversion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)These experiments examined the effect of manipulating context associative strength on conditioned responding to a conditioned stimulus using a conditioned taste aversion procedure. In Experiments 1and 3, subjects were given ... -
The roles of parents and friends as information sources regarding children's and adolescents' adjustment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Others' reports of youth distress (e.g., parent, aggregated peer reports) typically evidence small to moderate agreement with youth self-reports (e.g., Achenbach et al., 1987; De Los Reyes & Kazdin, 2005). Recent findings ...