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Decreasing Bouts of Prolonged Sitting Among Office Workers
(2015-05)Health care costs of preventable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, and obesity are higher than ever, and indicate the need for behavioral interventions. Research has shown that individuals who ... -
Defensiveness in Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Scores of Physically Abusive Parents
(2019-06)There is a paucity of research on the personality test profiles of physically abusive parents. Given that personality assessment is typically a major component of dependency evaluations, the lack of studies in this area ... -
Depletion Today Keeps the Apple Away: Effects of Workplace Resource Processes on Daily Health Behavior and Recovery
(2016-12)The workplace has become an increasingly demanding environment in which individuals must expend personal resources in order to meet job demands (Hobfoll, 1989). Without ample opportunity to recover these depleted resources, ... -
Designing Selection Systems to Reduce Turnover
(2018-12)This study sought to explore and predict voluntary turnover as a critical dependent variable in selection systems. I describe how using competency modeling to build measures of person-organization (P-O) fit may serve as a ... -
Determinants of Safety Outcomes in Organizations: Exploring O*NET Data to Predict Occupational Accident Rates
(2020-05)Workplace safety is of utmost importance given the regular occurrence of both fatal and nonfatal occupational injuries all around the world. Although research in this area is hugely prevalent, it is focused mainly on ... -
Development and Evaluation of the HAVUC (Hostility, Ambiguity, Volatility, Uncertainty, & Complexity) Environment Fitness Scale (HEFS)
(2018-06)This study examines the psychometric properties of a newly developed scale to measure individuals’ attitudes toward hostile, ambiguous, volatile, uncertain, and complex (HAVUC) environments—the HAVUC Environment Fitness ... -
Different Paths, same destination? Comparison between two approaches to developing situational judgment tests on cross cultural competency
(2020-05)This dissertation focuses on developing SJTs to measure an individual’s cross-cultural competency, and comparing the two SJT development approaches in terms of development costs, reliability, validity, susceptibility to ... -
Discrimination Training to Produce Emergent Relations of Pre-Algebraic Math Skills
(2019-05)Individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often have deficits with respect to generalization of skills. Procedures designed to induce stimulus equivalence have been shown to promote generalization. This ... -
Distinguishing Adaptation and Adjustment: Effects on Communication and Safety Performance in Dynamic Work Environments
(2018-07)People are different in their capacities in adapting and adjusting to dynamic workplaces. Previous literature lacks the distinction between the two constructs, which results in a lack of understanding in how adaptation ... -
Does Training Multiple Alternative Responses Mitigate Resurgence?
(2018-07)Resurgence is a type of treatment relapse that occurs when an extinguished behavior reappears once a more recently reinforced behavior is placed on extinction. Resurgence of problem behavior often occurs when treatment-integrity ... -
The Effect of a Mediation-Blocking Task on the Acquisition of Instructive Feedback Targets
(2018-05)The inclusion of instructive feedback (IF) targets in discrete trial training (DTT) has been shown to increase the efficiency of DTT procedures. However, the behavioral mechanism underlying the effectiveness of this ... -
Effect of CPAP Compliance on a Cognitive Screening Test in a Memory Clinic Population with Sleep Apnea
(2017-12)Objectives: To determine whether the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) was a sensitive indicator of cognitive improvement following introduction of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in community memory clinic ... -
Effect of Goal-Setting and Visual Feedback on Rower Performance on a Rowing Machine
(2019-04)In the sport of rowing, the rowing machine is often used as training tool for exercise on land. This study seeks to assess how the commonly used rowing machine in the sport of rowing be used in the best way to mimic ... -
The Effect of Group Level Factors on Affective Convergence in Teams: an agent Based Mode
(2014-05)Previous research supports the idea that affective convergence occurs in teams. The phenomenon of group affect has been well documented, however the group level conditions through which affective convergence emerges has ... -
Effect of Multiple Operant Training Across Similar and Different Response Topographies
(2019-12)This study compared skill acquisition rates during multiple operants training across similar responses and different responses in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Secondary measures included functional ... -
Effect of political branding on electoral success
(2018-04)It is assumed that a valuable political brand directly translates into the ability of a party to gain or sustain electoral votes. However, very little empirical research has been done that investigates whether that is ... -
The Effect of Safety Coaching on the Accuracy of Safety Observations and Feedback
(2017-07)Behavior-based safety (BBS) is an effective approach to decreasing workplace incidents and injuries. BBS typically consists of a peer observation and data collection process, and a feedback process. Accurate observations ... -
The Effect of Social Comparison Feedback on Task Completion in a Human-Service Setting
(2019-12)There has been much debate over the most successful types of feedback, but little research has examined the use of social comparison feedback. The purpose of the present study was to assess the effects of social comparison ... -
The Effect of Varying Durations of Noncontingent Access to a Preferred Item on Compliance
(2019-07)The high-probability (high-p) sequence is frequently used to increase compliance. It involves presentation of a series of instructions with which a participant has historically complied immediately before the presentation ... -
Effective Parental Cooperation and Communication as Protective Factors for Adult Offspring of Divorce
(2017-12)Research and society have focused attention on how divorce affects family dynamics for decades. The clinical literature points to significant discrepancies in psychological variables between offspring from divorced versus ...