Browsing Theses (UMKC) by Thesis Department "Psychology (UMKC)"
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Graph Format Effects in Processing Health Outcome Information
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Decision support tools that incorporate predictive risk estimates can be used to assist patients and their families in making better-informed choices about treatment options. The format utilized to present predictive ... -
Healthy Eating Information and Food Choices
(2020)The obesity rate amongst American university students has become an item of concern for many colleges and universities across the country. College students are heavily exposed to many unhealthy dietary trends, being reliant ... -
The Impact of Sleep Quality on Energy Intake, Eating Behavior, and Physical Activity
(2015)Obesity is associated with numerous health risks and is prevalent across all stages of the lifespan, although it tends to increase with age. As such, the college years are an important time for the development of obesity. ... -
Measuring smokers' inhibitory control to smoking cues by a novel mouse trajectory tracking method
(2019)Deprivation from nicotine has been shown to affect executive cognitive functioning in smokers causing an inability to maintain cognitive control over their behavior, which may be directly linked to smoking relapse. Past ... -
Negative Mood Impacts the Relationship between Explicit and Implicit Age-Related Attitudes
(2015)The Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, and Schwartz, 1998) has become a widely used method of measuring individuals’ implicit preferences based on the speed of sorting words or images into respective ... -
Night eating syndrome: survey of assessment and treatment practices
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-14)The purpose of this study was to examine how treatment professionals who specialize in eating disorders assess, treat, and monitor treatment outcomes for night eating behavior. Members of the Academy for Eating Disorders ... -
Non-Monogamous Individuals compared to Monogamous Individuals: The Differences in Their Relationships, Specifically Sexual Risk Behaviors and Level of Trust
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between sexual-risk behaviors and relationship style (i.e., non-monogamous versus monogamous individuals). Data were collected from an adult sample (ages 18 ... -
Physical activity in adolescents: an expanded theory of planned behavior approach with interaction effects
(2021)Obesity in adolescents in the United States has increased at an alarming rate over the past decade, with concerns related to the issue centered around a lifetime of greater prevalence of poor health outcomes for these ... -
Polypharmacy in patients with Multiple Sclerosis: effects on fatigue, perceived cognition, and objective cognitive performance
(2013-06-24)OBJECTIVE: Many individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) take multiple medications on a regular basis, also referred to as polypharmacy. In other patient populations, polypharmacy has been associated with fatigue and ... -
Predictors of Receipt of Counseling Services from Religious Leaders in African American Church Populations
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)African Americans (AAs) are disproportionality affected by mental health issues. They are more likely to experience chronic depression, greater impairment from depression, and serious psychological distress than the ... -
Preferences for Shared Decision-Making Between Physicians and Patients: Is Age a Factor?
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Shared decision-making (SDM) is a tool suggested for improving patient-doctor relationships, health decision satisfaction, and health outcomes in all patient populations. The assumption that older patients desire purely ... -
Quality of life in individuals with eating disorders
(2013)Quality of life is an important aspect of the assessment of medical and psychiatric disorders, such as eating disorders. Eating disorders affect both the emotional and physical wellbeing of individuals who suffer from ... -
The Relationship Between Positive and Negative Religious Coping, Depressive Symptoms, and Adherence to Health Behaviors in Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients: The Role of Pereceived Control
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)Cardiovascular disease is a diagnosis that requires the use of effective coping strategies to manage the disease itself, as well as the challenges associated with it (e.g., lifestyle changes). Religious and spiritual coping ... -
The role of health risk perception variables on smoking-related outcomes in a motivational interviewing-based intervention for college students
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-04-16)The role of health risk perception in smoking behavior was prospectively evaluated in a cluster-randomized trial for smoking cessation in college students. Optimistic bias, future precaution effectiveness, perceived ... -
The role of physical health on life satisfaction in people with serious mental illness
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-20)The purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of physical health and mental health on quality of life reports in people with serious mental illness. Examining the role of physical health is especially ... -
Self-Controlled Food and Leisure Activity Decision-Making
(2021)The experiment aimed to examine the effects of stress, coping, weight status, age, and attribute weightiness on health decision-making in females and males. Participants completed an online experiment consisting of ... -
Smoking cessation counseling: What do physicians really say and how do they say it?
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)The U.S. Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline recommends that physicians provide tobacco cessation interventions to their patients at every visit. While many studies have examined the extent to which physicians ... -
Social Support and Health Behaviors in Cardiac Rehabilitation: Depression as a Mediator
(2015-05-26)Social support and psychological factors (i.e., depression) have been linked to negative outcomes, such as recurrence and mortality, following a cardiac event. Further, these constructs have been associated with health ... -
Sympathetic Arousal During Approach-Avoidance Decision- Making
(2015-08-12)In response to emotional stimuli, individuals exhibit increased sympathetic nervous firings, which stimulate eccrine gland activation. This eccrine activity changes the electrical properties of the skin, or electrodermal ... -
Temporal discounting and body mass index in college students
(2013)Overconsumption of food and drink can lead to overweight and obesity, which in turn can lead to chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. Current data show that two-thirds of the adult population in the United ...