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This collection contains theses and dissertations by students in the Department of Psychology at Washington State University.
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A Short-term Intervention to Improve Emotion-processing Skills in Adolescents with Callous-Unemotional Traits
(2018)Research documents a robust relation between callous-unemotional (CU) traits and impairments in emotion recognition and perspective-taking in youth. However, few evidence-based treatments targeting these specific deficits ... -
REAL-WORLD ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONAL ABILITY AND COMPENSATORY STRATEGY USE IN COMMUNITY DWELLING OLDER ADULTS
(2018)Compensatory strategies such as assistive technology, external reminders, and environmental cues may help support everyday functioning and independence in the real-world. Currently, everyday functional ability is most often ... -
SOCIAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO U.S. MILITARY SERVICE-MEMBER WELL-BEING
(2018)The U.S. military has one of the highest suicide rates between its current members and veterans of any domestic occupation at an average of 22 suicides per day. The high toll that combat operations and military life have ... -
Knowing Your Baby Matters: The Impact of Temperament Guidance Materials for Parents
(2018)Past temperament guidance programs have been successfully utilized to improve caregiver understanding of temperament, foster responsivity in parent-child interactions, and teach strategies for appropriately responding to ... -
PREDICTING DECISION-MAKING STRATEGIES USING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN WORKING MEMORY AND IMPULSIVITY
(2018)The prototypical dual process model of decision-making posits that decisions are made through the interaction between two systems of information processing. System 1 is generally said to be automatic and heuristic based ... -
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Sexual and Transgender Prejudice
(2017)Research assessing negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay men, as well as bisexual and transgender individuals, has revealed many commonalities in individual and systemic factors associated with these prejudices, which ... -
CREATION AND VALIDATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL TOLERANCE OF GENDER NORM ENFORCEMENT INVENTORY
(2017)This document examines the creation and validation of the Organizational Tolerance of Gender Norm Enforcement Inventory (OTGNEI). The OTGNEI was created and validated over the course of five studies. In Study 1, subject ... -
EVALUATING THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES AND VALIDITY OF THE SECOND STEP KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT INTERVIEW (SSKA) IN A GERMAN SAMPLE.
(2017)A long-standing debate on the universality or cultural bases of socio-emotional competence points to the need to validate socio-emotional competence instruments cross-culturally to further our understanding of these ... -
Prenatal Origins of Infant Temperament: Exploring Interrelationships Between Pregnancy Anxiety, Physiological Stress, and Maternal Attachment Status
(2017)Previous research indicates that prenatal maternal mental health can confer risk for offspring development across various domains, including the development of infant temperament. Despite prior equivocal findings related ... -
A Randomized Control Trial of a High Intensity Interval Training Program on Psychological Outcomes
(2017)A RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL OF A HIGH INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING PROGRAM ON PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES Abstract by RICHARD LEWIS YOUNG, PhD Washington State University June 2017 Chair: Janet Beary The aim of this study was ... -
EXAMINING THE STRESS-CANNABIS LINK ACROSS THE STRESS SPECTRUM
(2017)Previous research has established a link between stress and cannabis. The overall goal of my dissertation was to further elucidate the nature of this link. In Study 1, moderators and mediators of the relationship between ... -
An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Item-Content and Diagnostic Validity of an Autism Screening Instrument
(2016)The present study investigated whether the diagnostic validity of a poorly-performing instrument (the Gilliam Autism Rating Scale – Second Edition, or the GARS-2) designed to screen for autism spectrum disorders could be ... -
TREATMENT DELIVERY: IMPROVING PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC RESULTS BY INTEGRATING AFFECTIVE FORECASTING PRINCIPLES
(2016)Research suggests that factors within the therapeutic environment such as the therapeutic alliance and client motivation are strongly tied to treatment success, yet the majority of psychotherapy research focuses on overall ... -
INFLUENTIAL FACTORS OF TRUST DECISION
(2016)This study aimed to explore factors affecting trust decisions: the carry-over effect of emotion on trusting someone psychologically close or distant in socially different contexts. First, based on previous findings that ... -
CROSS-CULTURAL INVARIANCE OF THE BIRTH SATISFACTION SCALE-REVISED (BSS-R): COMPARING US AND UK SAMPLES
(2016)Objective: This research sought to test the measurement invariance of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) across United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) samples. Multiple-group measurement invariance analyses ... -
EXECUTIVE FUNCTION SUBCOMPONENTS AND THEIR RELATIONS TO EVERYDAY FUNCTIONING IN HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS
(2016)Everyday functioning and its executive functioning cognitive correlates were investigated in healthy older adults (HOAs) using multiple methods of functional status. We were especially interested in the contributions of ... -
The Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Intervention Participation in Early Childhood Education
(2016)Exposure to early childhood trauma has been established as a marker of developmental risk over time (Briere & Spinazzola, 2009; Perry, 2008). The generational impact of trauma exposure and the relationship between parental ... -
USING PARALLEL LATENT GROWTH CURVE MODELS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND CO-MORBIDITY IN TWO RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS: SMOKING WITH CO-MORBID ADHD AND CO-MORBID SUD
(2015)This study investigated relationships between cigarette smoking and ADHD symptoms (Study A) and cigarette smoking and stimulant use (Study B). While cigarette smoking is highly comorbid with these two disorders, the ... -
Invariance, Convergent and Discriminant Validity Across Occasions For The Male Body Image Disturbance Scale
(2015)The Male Body Image Disturbance Scale (MBIDS) is a multidimensional questionnaire to assess the symptoms associated with body image issues in men (Freson, 2011). The initial research developed a 25-item, five-factor ... -
Temperament and behavioral difficulties across cultures: A comparison between German and U.S. toddlers
(2015)Research on temperament and the development of behavioral problems across cultures often focuses on comparisons of vastly different countries, such as North American and Asian countries. The present study compares toddler ...