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An Examination of the 16PF Global Factors as Predictors of the Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP)
(2017-03)The Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP), first developed by Miller (2000), was designed to measure one’s self-knowledge regarding their personality traits. The SAPP was derived from the Sixteen Personality ... -
An Examination of the 16PF Validity Scales as Predictors of the Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP)
(2016-12)The Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP) was derived from the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16-PF) as a measure of self-knowledge by comparing the degree of similarity of a participant’s predicted and ... -
An Examination of the Degree of Self-Knowledge Across Baby Boomers, Generation Xers, and Millennials
(2018-12)Generations and their differences, as well as the construct of self-knowledge, have been studied at length due to their potential predictive power over an individual’s behaviors. This research proposes to build upon these ... -
An Examination of the Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction’s (SAPP) Test-Retest Reliability Across a Four-Week Period
(2018-01)The questions surrounding how well one can truly know him/herself dates as far back as Ancient Greek times, and answering the question has been a difficult task given the complexity of human beings, and a somewhat ... -
Examining the Impact of Illicit Drug Use on Prescribed Psychotropic Medication Adherence
(2020-03)The ever-increasing rates of prescription drug utilization in the United States, coupled with the high rates of non-adherence to psychotropic medications by patients, makes this area of research an increasingly important ... -
Examining the Impact of Standardized Fine Motor Activity Selection on Various Fine Motor Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2019-12)Many children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) demonstrate deficits in fine motor skills, requiring therapies to help improve their performance of a variety of self-care, daily living, and academic skills. Research ... -
Examining the Potential Relationship between Religious Identity, Ethnic Identity, and Attitudes towards Sexualized Clothing of Women Living in the United States
(2017-04)The purpose of this research project was to examine whether ethnic and religious identity have a relationship with attitudes towards sexualized aspects of clothing. The sexualization of women in American culture, ... -
Examining the Relationship of Constructive Deviance with Individual Differences, Job Characteristics, and Organizational Climate
(2019-07)Recent research has demonstrated that deviant behaviors can have both positive intentions and outcomes (Galperin, 2002; Morrison, 2006; Warren, 2001). These behaviors are often referred to as constructive deviance, but ... -
Examining the relationships of socioeconomic status, perceived parental supervision, and neighborhood safety on adolescents' smoking behaviors and mental health using the 2009 California Health Interview Survey
(2016-11)This study sought out to explore the relationships between parental supervision, poverty levels, and neighborhood safety and the impacts these factors have upon adolescent mental health needs, intervention, and smoking ... -
Exploring the predictive validity of personality for job performance across occupations using a person-centered approach
(2019-07)The goal of this study is to shed light upon the complex and long-debated relationship between personality and job performance from a new angle. Using a person-centered approach to examine personality, this study is the ... -
Extraversion and Person-Environment Fit: Towards Consideration of Jungian Theory in Organizational Psychology
(2018-01)Historically, the field of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology has relied on the Big 5 taxonomy of personality. The purpose of this study was to examine the value of a Jungian conception of extraversion in the ... -
Feedback and Effort: A Translational Study
(2017-07)The purpose of the present study was to evaluate an arrangement to establish feedback as more preferred when delivered after higher effort responding rather than lower effort responding. The study took place in the ... -
Feedback Environment Intervention: Changing the performance management paradigm from systems to people
(2017-07)For years, empirical research has supported the claims that an organization’s feedback environment is related to numerous beneficial outcomes for employees and organizations. While we have a valid and reliable way to ... -
Female Student Veterans: A Survey of Current Transition Challenges and Issues from Active Duty to Collegiate Life
(2017-01)Research on the student veteran population is extremely limited. The literature does tell us, however, that mental health difficulties in veterans has been present for thousands of years, and that recent warfare has led ... -
Feminine Gender Identification and Mother-Daughter Connectedness as Predictors and Sociocultural Buffers Against Adult Sexual Victimization in Latinas and Caucasians
(2020-03)The growing body of literature on childhood sexual abuse (CSA) has highlighted increased risk for adult re-victimization and transgenerational sexual abuse such that children of adult women with CSA histories are at ... -
Finding Bias: Impact of Professional Attire and Occupation Status on Compliance with Medical Advice from Female Health Care Providers
(2020-02)This study was conducted to expand upon previous findings from research that suggested a provocative self-presentation harms women in high-, but not low-, status jobs. In previous research, the target was presented in ... -
Fool Me Once: Response to Trust Violation in Collaborative Dyads
(2019-12)Much of what is known about trust violation in collaborative contexts has emerged in the body of trust repair literature, broadly implicating that trust repair behaviors will be the immediate response to follow a ... -
A Further Analysis of Commission Errors during Discrete Trial Training
(2016-12)Treatment integrity has been manipulated in various ways to evaluate its impact on intervention effectiveness. Studies have compared different types of integrity failures and levels of treatment integrity in various ... -
Generalization across Modalities of Expressive and Receptive Language Acquisition through the Use of Multiple Exemplar Training and Errorless Teaching
(2016-06)Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to display deficits with language acquisition and generalization of language skills after acquisition. Discrete trial teaching (DTT) includes general procedures used to ... -
"Get on the Line": Improving Pass-Naming in Collegiate Women's Lacrosse Using Negative Reinforcement and Signaling
(2018-07)This study examined the separate and combined effects of negative reinforcement and signaling to improve the athletic performance of college athletes. Eleven female varsity lacrosse players who attended a private college ...