Graduate Student Research
A collection of Graduate Student Research by students in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Human trafficking and the media: Comparing newspapers' portrayal of victims and offenders, Brittany Leigh Virkus Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Role of Self and Parental Criticism in Non-suicidal Self-Injury, Brooke Aleece Ammerman Open Access Thesis
Predicting commitment for those in military relationships, Darrina Sofia Bledsoe Open Access Thesis 2014 Award
The unveiling of W.E.B. DuBois : A qualitative content analysis of diverse interpretations of the works and life of W.E.B. DuBois, Sonja Lee Bock Open Access Thesis
From sidebets to sideshow: The influence of gambling on the development of professional wrestling in America, 1870-1911, Lee Casebolt Open Access Thesis
Mean girls and troublemaking boys : a qualitative study about interpretive reproduction and peer culture in a preschool classroom, Heidi Marie Gansen Open Access Thesis
Language as a social reality: The effects of the infantilization of women, Chelsae R. Huot Open Access Thesis
Automated sinkhole extraction and morphological analysis in northeast Iowa using high-resolution LiDAR data, Jonathon Launspach Open Access Thesis
The Duluth Model in practice: Evaluating police and practitioner response to domestic violence, Jessica L. Lorenz Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Social and cultural influences on alcohol drinking habits among native American college and university students across the United States, Wayva Waterman Lyons Thesis (UNI Access Only) 2015 Award
A Midwestern culture of civility: Student activism at the University of Northern Iowa during the Maucker years (1967-1970), Christopher J. Shackelford Open Access Thesis
From saeter to sod: Single women homesteaders of Norwegian descent farming their land in Dakota territory, 1862-1929, Sara Marie Skindelien Open Access Thesis
Playing by new rules: board games and America's cold war culture, 1945-1965, Matthew John Sprengeler Open Access Thesis
"The most deadly spot on the face of the earth": The United States and antimodern images of "Darkest Africa" 1880-1910, Melinda Stump Open Access Thesis
Is higher education the key to unlock the door of fortune? A study of students' occupational aspirations, Daiyue Sun Open Access Thesis
Effects of anger and impulsive traits on non-suicidal self-injury, Ashley S. Zellhoefer Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
“Where the Blazed Trail Crosses the Boulevard”: Gear, Fashion, and Outfitting in Early Recreational Wilderness Camping, 1880-1920, Brian Beauvais Open Access Thesis
The Effects of Interpersonal Violent Imagery Upon Short Term Memory Recall, Stacilyn Chananie-Hill Open Access Thesis
The Sexual Socialization of Sexual Offenders: How They Learn About Sexuality and How It Influences Their Future Behaviors, Erin Nicole Ditscheit Open Access Thesis
Baseball in the heartland: Semi-pro baseball survives in Iowa, Todd Michael Hospodarsky Open Access Thesis 2004 Award
Self-defeating behaviors in sexual offenders: Exploring factors of social support and motivation to change, Cassie Rose Nieman Open Access Thesis 2013 Award
Circulating and organizational testosterone and the perception of dominance, Jon C. Pedersen Open Access Thesis 2014 Award
Role strain in probation and parole work and strategies used to reduce strain, Samantha A. Shoger Open Access Thesis
Women's status and fertility rates : results from national level data, Jason Thomas Surratt Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Work-Family Balance as a Mediator of Relationships between Family-Supportive Organizational Perceptions and Employee and Organization Outcomes, Jaimie Bell Open Access Thesis
A Survey of Lidar Use by Iowa Professionals, William G. Burkett Open Access Thesis
Shockingly Absurd!: How EC Comics and Mad Magazine Contributed to the Counterculture, 1952-1960, Matthew D. Cossolotto Open Access Thesis
Not Giving Back: The Social Exchange Concern Hypothesis of Physical Disability Stigma, Thomas P. Dirth Open Access Thesis
PCE groundwater quality assessment of the University of Northern Iowa campus area, Brian Gedlinske Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Advanced information processing technologies and police discretion, Kevin Wayne Howard Open Access Thesis
The social origin of violent behavior, Todd Arthur Mensink Open Access Thesis
Transforming lives: Exploring the impact of transitioning on female-to-male transpersons and partners of female-to-male transpersons, Megan Marie Tesene Open Access Thesis 2012 Award
From a weak tribual to a branch of government: The Supreme Court of the United States from 1789 to Marshall, Dale Edward Paul Yurs Open Access Thesis 2012 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Cultural Tolerance of Americans in Canada, Benjamin Campbell Barclay Open Access Thesis
Language exclusionary behavior and attitudes toward immigrants, Christine L. Bennett Open Access Thesis
The Effect of Race on Eyewitness Identification Lineup Processing Strategies: An Analysis of Eye Movements, Ryan Betts Open Access Thesis
Race, Colonialism, Gender and the Rwandan Genocide, Jessica Patrice Braccio Open Access Thesis
Consequences of Work-Family Balance and Comparisons With Work-Family and Family-Work Conflict, Sasha Marie Burnett Open Access Thesis
Regional Differences in Jurors’ Attitudes and Knowledge, Heather M. Caspers Open Access Thesis
Obscenity and pornography: A historical look at the American Library Association, the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, and the Supreme Court, Gretchen Brooke Gould Open Access Thesis
Testing the selective chivalry theory in Iowa : gender sentencing of rural property offenders, Maria Dorothy Herring Koeppel Open Access Thesis
The effects of OWI victim impact courses on offender recidivism, Sarah Emily Johnson Open Access Thesis
A late-Quaternary record of environmental variability from lake sediment cores, Wind River Range, Wyoming, Tyler Johnson Open Access Thesis
Status is fine for the in-group but out-group members watch out: Examining an optimal model of face processing using eye-tracking, J. Daniel McCarthy Open Access Thesis 2011 Award
The new childbirth : an analysis of planned cesarean sections, Loren Wilbers Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Effects of Different Types of Background Music on Preschoolers’ Aggressive Classroom Behavior, Marissa Anne Arnett Open Access Thesis
Bullying Prevention in Secondary Schools, John William Augustine Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Employee Personal Wellness Programs: Benefits and Barriers to Participation, Amanda Bakeris Open Access Thesis
Detecting Coached Underreporting on the MMPI-2 and MMPI-2-RF, Elizabeth M. Bolinger Open Access Thesis
Development of a Spatial Decision Support Tool for Watershed Critical Area Identification of Soil Loss and Best Management Practices (BMPs) Evaluation, Luhua Cai Open Access Thesis
Racial Prejudice and Political Orientation: A Test of Dovidio and Gaertner’s Integrated Model of Racism, Abbie Anne Chalupnik Open Access Thesis
Further Delineation of the Role of the Amygdala in Face Processing and Racial Categorization, Osman Afzal Chowdhry Open Access Thesis
Resumes and Cover Letters: The Accuracy of Extraversion Judgments Made From Resume and Cover Letter Biodata, Matthew Sean Christensen Open Access Thesis
Gender Violence Prevention: The Effects of a Forum Theater Program on Bystander Efficacy and Behavior, Jennifer Nicole Crawford Open Access Thesis
Applying the Job Strain Model: Control, Conflict, and Facilitation, Kama D. Dodge Open Access Thesis
Voluntary Simplicity and its effects on personal identity, family life, and relationships, Julie Ann Fox Open Access Thesis
An analysis of state-by-state variations in African American incarceration rates, Kristen Laura Johnson Open Access Thesis
Evaluating the sentencing of non-violent drug offenders, Christopher Joseph Koch Open Access Thesis
Institutional racism and public policy : a critical discourse analysis of the war on drugs, Kyle L. Mahannah Open Access Thesis
The effects of Indian-accented English and need for cognition on message evaluation: A field study, Duoc V. Nguyen Open Access Thesis 2011 Award
When networks matter : Mexican migrants' access to the welfare state through social ties, Margaret Louise Ralston Open Access Thesis
Those magnificent men or their flying machines?: Tradition and modernity in the 1928 National Air Races, Joshua James Waddle Open Access Thesis
A test of TMT: Mortality salience and avoidance of worldview threats, Taylor Wayne Wadian Open Access Thesis 2010 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Pain stages of change: Variations in pain acceptance, catastrophizing, and emotional distress across a model of readiness for behavior change, Melinda J. Collingwood Open Access Thesis
Surface temperature mapping of the University of Northern Iowa campus using high resolution thermal infrared aerial imagery, Alexander Savelyev Open Access Thesis 2010 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Employee Engagement as a Mediator of the Relationship between Management Support and Job Performance and Turnover, Liliya Akbulatova Open Access Thesis
Life Threatening Communication: Assessing Suicide Threat and Its Relation to Psychological Factors in Adolescent Inpatient Sample, Jennifer Bailey Open Access Thesis
Neo Romance: Gender Renegotiation in Harlequin Romance Novels, Amanda L. Breeden Open Access Thesis
A Cross-Cultural Community: An Evaluative Study of the Global Health Corps Training Program at the University of Northern Iowa, Kalani Kee Brown Open Access Thesis
The effects of facial attractiveness, weight, and immediacy on social influence: A test of dynamic social impact, Melinda Bullock Open Access Thesis 2009 Award
Gender inequalities in toddler confrontation teachers' responses, Jessica Hermeyer Open Access Thesis
Cedar Falls Civil War, Cynthia Rae Huffman Sweet Open Access Thesis
Tree species identification in an urban environment using a data fusion approach, Matthew A. Voss Open Access Thesis 2008 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Self-Esteem, Locus of Control, Conformity, and the Psychology behind Body Modification, Brianne Renae Arends Open Access Thesis
The Authority of Traditional Islamic Leaders: A Sociological Study of Kyai's Authority in Pesantren, Achmad Zainal Arifin Open Access Thesis
The Relationship between Sexual Behavior and Relational Aggression in College Students, Hiliary Baethke Open Access Thesis
Gender Socialization through Children’s Literature: Body and Beauty Image, Meera Basnet Open Access Thesis
“Votes for Women”: Gender, ‘Race,’ Class, and the Suffrage Cartoons of Life and Harper’s Weekly, 1890-1916, Mellisa Annesha Campbell Open Access Thesis
Links Between Late Adolescents’ Tendency for Mild to Moderate Violence and School Shooters, Elizabeth Ruth Strey Christenson Open Access Thesis
Coping Strategies and Personality in Schizophrenia: Can These Two Factors Influence Relapse Rates and Quality of Life?, Amanda Collins Open Access Thesis
Athletic Training Education: A Review of Literature, Abigail S. McCorkel Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Gender and policing : an analysis of police departments as gendered organizations, Kimberly L. Seavey Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
GIS-Based Site Suitability Analysis for Planning Confined Animal Feeding Operations in Iowa, Brian Lance Bakker Open Access Thesis
An Evaluation of Crash Cluster Identification Methodologies: A Case Study of Iowa, Leonard Sitji Bombom Open Access Thesis
Russian Immigration to the USA, 1990-2003, Alexandra Mikhailovna Bozheva Open Access Thesis
Food Preferences Between Diverse Ethnic Groups in a College Population, Enrique Gallegos Covarrubias Open Access Thesis
Parental Marital Status Relationship With Adult Children’s Marital Status, Susan Barbara Frommelt Czerniak Open Access Thesis
Perceptions of Luck and Gambling Patterns, Dustin Daugherty Open Access Thesis
Monitoring spatial and temporal water quality changes in Iowa lakes using airborne hyperspectral imagery, Nathan Robert Green Open Access Thesis 2007 Award
Sticks, stones, & stigmas: A social-cognitive account of stereotype threat mechanisms, Michael C. Philipp Open Access Thesis 2006 Award
Emotional intelligence as a protective factor for risk behavior in adolescence, Nicole Renee Skaar Open Access Thesis
We're not "free-loading jocks" : the presentation of the self in the everyday lives of the collegiate level student athlete, Katie Leanne Sorrell Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Protecting us from pictures : gender and support for legal restrictions on pornography, Elizabeth Lynne Chivers Open Access Thesis
Drug use and pool performance : an exploratory study, Robert P. Hansen Open Access Thesis
Mapping wetlands and potential wetland restoration areas in Black Hawk County, Iowa using object-oriented classification and a GIS-based model, James Harken Open Access Thesis 2005 Award
Impact of the child-parent relationship on affectual solidarity between grandchildren and grandparents : the perspective of young adults, Maria A. Monserud Open Access Thesis
The John Deere Ceres program: The decision to locate assembly of a German tractor in Waterloo, Iowa, Chris T. Simenson Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
The effects of social identity salience on the cohesion of demographically diverse groups, Michael Anderson Open Access Thesis 2004 Award
The Effects of Gender, Gender-Role, and Type of Relationship on Self-Reported Intimacy, Keith Karl Buhr Open Access Thesis
Depression and Cognitive Changes in Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type and Normal Aging, Emily A. Carr Open Access Thesis
