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Title: An evaluation of an intervention for HPV risk reduction among college-aged women
Author: Sweeney, Jocelyn
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Health education
Description: The goal of the study was to examine the effectiveness of a group intervention in reducing risk in relation to human papillomavirus (HPV) among sexually active, college-aged women. Using a randomized design, the current study examined the effectiv...

Title: Associations between food choice values of parental guardians, socioeconomic status, home food availability, and child dietary intake
Author: Lyerly, Jordan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Previous research has found that food choice values (FCVs), socioeconomic status (SES), and home food availability (HFA) are associated with child dietary intake. However, the relationships between these variables have been poorly studied. Therefo...

Title: Development and Initial Validation of a Comprehensive Model of Forgiveness Following Interpersonal Conflict
Author: D'Angelo, Amanda
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: Psychological research on forgiveness has become increasingly prevalent over the past several years. However, there remain significant gaps in the theory guiding this research. This dissertation developed and tested a comprehensive model of the st...

Title: Development and Initial Validation of a Comprehensive Model of Scarcity
Author: De Sousa, Maysa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This dissertation aimed to develop a comprehensive model of scarcity. While socioeconomic factors partially explain these disparities, the traditional indicators used in most of the literature fail to fully capture the relationship between SES and...

Title: Development and Initial Validation of a Measure of Internalized Diet Culture
Author: Morris, Victoria
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research
Description: Scholars argue that a unique diet culture exists in Westernized nations which conflates health outcomes and moral character, by attaching morality to food choices, eating and exercising behaviors, and physical appearance. Several seemingly separat...

Title: Perfect people, perfect environment: Applying Person-Environment Interaction theory to examine the impact of Instagram use on health-related psychological outcomes among perfectionists
Author: Papay, Kimberly
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Personality
Description: Perfectionism was once thought to be a detrimental personality trait that impacts health and psychological outcomes in negative ways. However, modern conceptualizations demonstrate that this trait is multidimensional and that impacts on outcomes ...

Title: The Nature and Dimensionality of Repetitive Thought
Author: Greene, Taryn
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Background: Current popular conceptualizations of the psychological process Repetitive Thought (RT) appear of limited accuracy due to construct confusion (i.e., equating RT with other similar constructs like rumination or worry), possible construc...