Graduate Student Research
A collection of Graduate Student Research by students in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Culture from chaos: The formation of social norms from the dynamic self-organization of individuals' attitudes and behavior, Jerry G. Cullum Open Access Thesis 2005 Award
Portrayal of women in magazine advertisements targeted toward three age groups of women : a content analysis, Stephanie Lynn Cummings Open Access Thesis
Body image, eating disturbance and estrogen levels across the menstrual cycle, Mei-Chuan Wang Open Access Thesis 2004 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Urban Traffic Externalities and Housing Value, Michael Owen Carpenter Open Access Thesis
The Student Worry Questionnaire-30: Further Examination of Gender Differences, Janet A. Carter Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
A Political Geography of Chinese and Other State Claims to Territorial Sovereignty of the Spratly Islands, William Jeffery Brown Open Access Thesis
Coping responses among aged home health care clients : a qualitative study, Bobbie Kay Grother Open Access Thesis
The new social discipline : a critical analysis of federal drug-free workplace legislation and employee drug testing, Matthew T. Lammers Open Access Thesis
The effects of individual factors on punitive attitudes toward juvenile offenders, Jennifer Keely Mac Connell Open Access Thesis 2003 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Assessing the classification accuracy of digitized National Aerial Photography Program imagery: Comparison with botanical data, Mark Arthur Alexander Open Access Thesis 2001 Award
Civilian Conservation Corps Rubble and Masonry Dams and Gully Morphology in Northeastern Iowa, Timothy Robert Beerman Open Access Thesis
Gender, Self-Efficacy, Anxiety, Experience, and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition, Short Form (WAIS-III), Laura Jean Blalock Open Access Thesis
Counting It All and Counting for Something: An Exploration of Women in the Contingent Service Industry, Cheryl L. Buchholz Open Access Thesis
Similarities in aggression, inattention/hyperactivity, depression, and anxiety between friends and nonfriends, Kristin A. Clark Open Access Thesis 2001 Award
Perceived Personal and Societal Control of Events and Millennial Irrationalism, Angela Nicole Dennis Open Access Thesis
The Effects of Influence Tactics on Performance and Supervisory Evaluations of Subordinates, Courtney L. Determan Open Access Thesis
Family structure and children's academic achievement : the role of income and parental control, Jean M. Hoth Open Access Thesis
The double edged sword of depersonalization: An examination of depersonalization's role in the police profession, Michael J. O'Connor Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Personality Characteristics Associated With People Who Frequently Experience Flow, Mark A. Ackerman Open Access Thesis
Differential Effects of Game Structure and Sociomoral Atmosphere on the Social Behaviors of First Grade Students, Taunjah Patrease Bell Open Access Thesis
The Relationship between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Aggression in Children: A Cross-Sectional Study, Eric Wayne Boelter Open Access Thesis
“I Only Want to Be”: Black Women Experiences as Depicted in Nikki Giovanni’s Poetry, Lawanda Brown Open Access Thesis
Juvenile Justice Professionals and the Goal of Rehabilitation, Heather Bruch Open Access Thesis
Leadership in Student Organizations: Do Women and Men Lead Stereotypically?, Jennifer Cullen Danielson Open Access Thesis
The College Student Worry Questionnaire: Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties, Gretchen M. Domek Open Access Thesis
Gender, religion, causal attributions, and correctional orientations among juvenile justice personnel, Amy Lynn Lyons Open Access Thesis
Adolescent depression : further examination of gender differences, Elizabeth Marie O'Neill Open Access Thesis
The Reasons for living inventory for adolescents (RFL-A) : validation in three adolescent populations, Joe S. Rich Open Access Thesis
The Commonweal in the heartland: Charles T. Kelly and Iowa's industrial army, Ryan James Sprau Open Access Thesis 2000 Award
Dramaturgical perspective in modern police work : an analysis of interviews and observations, Michael P. Wagner Open Access Thesis
In their own words : women's caregiving experiences, Loralie L. Wiebold Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Gender, Gender Role Socialization, and the Tripartite Model of Anxiety and Depression in Male and Female College Students, Sarina E. Abel Open Access Thesis
Awareness of Deficits in Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type and Normal Aging, Jay D. Anderson Open Access Thesis
Prospective Memory and Age-Related Impairment, Barry Robert Ardolf Open Access Thesis
Frontal Lobe Dysfunction in Non-clinical Compulsive Checkers, Christopher J. Boys Open Access Thesis
Parent Training Effects on Satisfaction with Parent-Child Relationships, Parenting Performance, and Conduct Symptoms, Conna Sue Bral Open Access Thesis
Employee Expectations and Job Stress: A Study of Attrition in the Employment of Telemarketers, Jeff Cooper Open Access Thesis
Gangs, drugs, and delinquency, Tina Renea Engstrom Open Access Thesis
The morality issue: How Darlan influenced the Allied unconditional surrender pledge in World War II, Brian Fiderlein Open Access Thesis 1999 Award
The social history of a moral vision : a qualitative study of the Ulster Project in Decorah, Iowa, Mark Murray McCrory Open Access Thesis
Estimating the potential available labor supply for mid-sized Iowa communities, Randal Robert Pilkington Open Access Thesis 2000 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Soil Catenas of Calcareous Tills, Whiskey Basin, Wyoming, Michael Todd Applegarth Open Access Thesis
A Neuropsychological Assessment of Music Stimulation on Individuals With Dementia, Peter Leo Cuff Open Access Thesis
Correctional management : the systemic impact and consequences of truth-in-sentencing legislation, Timothy S. Sexton Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Validation of the Reasons for Living Inventory-II (RFL-II) in a College Sample, Monty T. Baker Open Access Thesis
The Study of Optimism in a Freshman College Student Population: An Analysis of the Optimism about College Life Scale, Patrick John Barlow Open Access Thesis
Invisible walls: Milliken v. Bradley and America's urban apartheid, Sonia E. Ingles Open Access Thesis 1998 Award
Evaluating intensive home supervision : a community based juvenile corrections program, Laone K. Kishman Open Access Thesis
An exploratory look at university students' attitudes toward welfare recipients, Glen Leonard Lantz Open Access Thesis
Another look at social learning theory and dating violence, Samantha Smith O'Hara Open Access Thesis
The aftermath of teenage childbearing : the characteristics of successful adjustment, Sarjo Sanneh Patrick Open Access Thesis
Expressive individualism in a midwestern situated youth subculture group, Jeffrey Michael Webb Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The political geography of a Palestinian state: Main problems of implementation, Saed Jamal Abu-Hijleh Open Access Thesis 1996 Award
Development and Initial Psychometric Properties of the Adolescent Reasons for Living Inventory (ARFL), Tricia M. Besett Open Access Thesis
Assessment of Weight Control Strategies Between Athletes and Nonathletes, Linda K. Buehler Open Access Thesis
Is the error-reaction time correlation in category verification tasks evidence of fuzzy limits in categories?, Sergio Chaigneau Open Access Thesis 1996 Award
The influence of relative campus prestige between dating partners on dating behaviors, Jennifer Meehan Open Access Thesis
An analysis of racial bias in revocation rates among felony probationers in Black Hawk County, Iowa, Ross Thomas Todd Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Iowa's wolf in populist clothing: Norman Baker, 1925-1936, Eric Scott Juhnke Open Access Thesis 1995 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Acceptance of Persons with Mental Illnesses: Labeling Effects and Sex Differences, Laura J. Anderson Open Access Thesis
The Impact of Employee Pregnancy on Performance Appraisal Ratings and Salary Recommendations, Debra K. Kettner Damge Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
The Egypt-Palestine/Israel boundary: 1841-1992, Thabit Abu-Rass Open Access Thesis 1993 Award
The Standardization of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) for an Occupational Health Population, Laura Lynn Diemer Open Access Thesis
A review and modification of Wilson and Herrnstein's integrated theory of criminality as it pertains to serial murder and serial rape, Karen Bower Mead Open Access Thesis
A pretension of place: The industrialization of corn belt agriculture, 1940-1965, Philip Jeffrey Nelson Open Access Thesis 1993 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
The Relationship between Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavioral Intentions Regarding Mental Illness with a Focus on Schizophrenia, Kellie Kae Boeckmann Open Access Thesis
Sexually Abused and Nonsexually Abused Children’s Conceptions of Sexual Abuse, Michelle R. Brundage Open Access Thesis
Effects of Race and Socio-Economic Status on Children’s Food Preferences, Reginald M. Chandler Open Access Thesis
Sociological implications of technology: The historical treatment of technology in sociological theory and a proposal for empirical research, Martin E. Hansen Open Access Thesis 1992 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Sex and Age Differences in the Experience of Stress, Carmen M. Charles Open Access Thesis
The federal government and the Industrial Workers of the World, 1917-1918: An attempt to crush a labor union, Michael Torrance Prahl Open Access Thesis 1991 Award
Occupational outcomes of bachelor's degrees earned by nontraditional students, Mary Ellen Ellyson Wacker Open Access Thesis 1991 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Short-Term Group Treatment for Women With Anorgasmia: A Comparative Evaluation of the Use of Films Versus the Nonuse of Films, Kris Burling Open Access Thesis
Racial discrimination in the Big Ten Athletic Conference sports of football and basketball, Reginald John Green Open Access Thesis
Native trees in an urban area: A case study of the Waterloo metropolitan area Black Hawk County, Iowa, Alice Christine Robbins Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Potential differences in self-concept among adult children of problem drinkers, Thomine Sue Wilson Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Effects of Deprivation and Smoking on Smokers’ Performance and Mood During the Operation of a Complex Computer Simulation, Gregory Howarth Cutler Open Access Thesis
Cognitive Correlates and Predictors of Verbal Aggression and Anger in the College Population, Douglas Allen Davidson Open Access Thesis
The Effects of Prenatal Versus Postnatal Maternal Environment on Saline Intake by Crossbred Rats, Mary Elizabeth Deyo Open Access Thesis
The Sex Variable and Reactions to a Peer With an Orthopedic Disability by First- And Second Graders, Virginia Lynn Ruark Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
U.S. Military Small Arms of the World Wars: A Guide for the Small Museum, David C. Conzett Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Consequences of Conquest upon Roman Political, Social, Economic, Cultural and Architectural Development during and after the Punic Wars, 2nd Century B.C., Deborah Carol Blinka Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Dyarchy: An Unavoidable Transitional Stage in the Constitutional Development of India, N. Chiranjeevi Open Access Thesis
Henry A. Wallace and China, Linda Eichmeyer Clarkson Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
An Analysis of the Concept of Divine Right of Kings in the Political Works of James I, Kenneth Francis Cox Open Access Thesis
A Pattern of Eolian Deposition in Northeastern Iowa, Lyle L. Davis Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Analysis of the Occupational Status and Choice Patterns of Women, Terry L. Besser Open Access Thesis
NA Tse KE: A Re-Evaluation of Some Major Trends in United States Apache Policy, 1847-1887, D. C. Cole Open Access Thesis
Regional variations in the age structure of the United States: 1870-1970, Donald D. Peterson Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
The Radical Pietists: Celibate Communal Societies Established in the United States Before 1820, Delburn Carpenter Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
County Seats of Northeast Iowa: A Multivariate Classification, William E. Blake Open Access Thesis
