Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of Psychology, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
In late Fall 2025, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Thesis: Effects of Simultaneous Alarms on Resolution Heuristics, Amanda C. Allen
Dissertation: Intersectional Cultural Identities Among First-Generation College Students: From a Deficit to Asset Perspective, Kelsie K. Allison
Dissertation: Gender Measurement Invariance of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - Adolescent - Restructured Form (MMPI-A-RF) Internalizing and Externalizing Specific Problem Scales, Thomas Jay Augustin
Thesis: Maladaptive Social Media Use Motives, Emotional Well-Being, and Drinking Behaviors Among College Students, Rachel Ayala Guzman
Dissertation: Testing a Model of Ethnic/Racial Discrimination, Ethnic Identity, and Adult Attachment in College Students, Kenneth L. Ayers
Thesis: Associations Between Combat Exposure, Moral Injury, and Suicidality Among U.S. Military Members: The Moderating Impact of Positive Rumination, Jeffrey M. Gabelmann
Thesis: Young Driver Training and Socioeconomic Status: A Human-in-the-Loop Driving Simulator Evaluation, Jeffrey Edward Glassman
Thesis: The Effects of Covid-19 Stressors and Supervisor Support on Emotional Exhaustion and Work Engagement, Meiqiao Gu
Dissertation: Developmental Patterns and Social Determinants of Adolescent Polysubstance Use Among Connecticut Youth, Jennika K. Jenkins
Dissertation: Is Impostor Phenomenon an Impostrous Construct? A Meta-Analysis, William P. Jimenez
Thesis: First-Generation College Students and Sense of Belonging at School: The Moderating Effect of Remote Learning, Christina Su Ju
Thesis: The Incremental Validity of Feedback Orientation on Performance: Beyond C & G, Elissa Ann Liguori
Dissertation: The Impact of Emotional Impulsivity on Emotion Regulation and Internalizing Disorders: Competing Latent Path Models, Alicia L. Milam
Thesis: Visual Attention in Remote Vehicle Supervision: Examining the Effects of Mental Models and Information Bandwidth, Michael Stanley Politowicz
Dissertation: Comparing the Effects of Task Experience and Interruption Source on Resumption Performance, Sarah Anastazia Powers
Dissertation: Body Image Dissatisfaction, Positive Body Image, and Health Behaviors During Pregnancy: A Between-Trimester Comparison, Cassidy M. Sandoval
Dissertation: Tracing the Development of Trust in Automation/Autonomy in a Multitasking Environment, Tetsuya Sato
Thesis: Building Trust Through Allyship: Moderating Roles of Motivation and Perspective, John Michael Savage
Dissertation: A Mixed-Methods Study to Examine Protective Behavioral Strategies for Simultaneous Alcohol and Cannabis Use in College Students, Jennifer Lynn Shipley
Thesis: The Impact of Peer Observational Learning on Honesty Following a Transgression, Hannah M. Sliman
Dissertation: Autism at Work Across the Career Span: A Scoping Review, Kate Noel Warnock
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Dissertation: The Impact of Covid-19 Stressors, Racial Discrimination, and Racial Socialization on Family Functioning in Black Families, Regina L. Alexander
Dissertation: The Mediation Effects of Adaptive Blindness Strategies on the Relation Between Institutional Betrayal From Military Sexual Assault and Mental Health Symptoms, Rachel L. Davies
Dissertation: Assessing Sexual Minority Women’s Barriers and Facilitators to Seeking and Accessing Mental and Physical Healthcare: A Mixed Methods Study, Charlotte A. Dawson
Dissertation: A New Method to Determine the Posterior Distribution of Coefficient Alpha, John Mart V. DelosReyes
Dissertation: Dealing With the Effects of COVID-19 Job Demands on Public Sector Employees’ Work Engagement and Job Burnout: The Role of Public Service Motivation, Servant Leadership, and Mission Valence, Phillip Joseph Dillulio
Dissertation: The Effect of Minority Stress on Sexual Minority College Students' Mental Health: The Role of General Social Support and Sexuality-Specific Social Support, Lee A. Golembiewski
Thesis: Exploring Methods to Reduce Stress in College Students: Dog-Assisted Therapy, Ashley A. Green
Thesis: Predicting E-Cigarette Use Among Emerging Adults Using Perceived Social Norms and Outcome Expectancies, Stephen N. Hanson
Dissertation: Towards a Formal Theory of Humor in Organizations, Richard Joseph Hayes
Dissertation: Third-Party Reactions to Performance Feedback, Daroon Mohammed Jalil
Thesis: Examining the Experience and Impact of Teen-to-Teen Crisis Line Work for Youth Volunteers: A Pilot Study, Taylor Kalgren
Thesis: Factors Moderating the Association Between Social Network “Drinking Buddies” and Personal Drinking, Karolina Kazlauskaite
Dissertation: The Influence of Minority Stress, Coping, and a Pandemic on the Relationship Between Sexual Orientation and Mental Health: A Mixed Methods Study, James Michael Macchia
Dissertation: Framing Automation Trust: How Initial Information About Automated Driving Systems Influences Swift Trust in Automation and Trust Repair for Human Automation Collaboration, Scott Anthony Mishler
Thesis: Nightmares and Self-Injury Among High-Risk Adolescents: Examining the Role of Emotion Regulation, Kinjal K. Patel
Dissertation: Affect, Mind-Body Factors, and Disordered and Intuitive Eating Behaviors: Examining Naturalistic Associations Among Young Women with Elevated Eating Disorder Symptoms, Kelly A. Romano
Dissertation: Incremental Validity of the MMPI-A-RF And MACI in a Clinical Outpatient Setting, Madison Smart-McCarthy
Dissertation: The Effect of Viewing Different Modalities of Alcohol-Related Social Media Content Shared by Friends on Alcohol Outcomes: A Longitudinal Examination, Megan E. Strowger
Dissertation: Attention and Task Engagement During Automated Driving, James Richard Unverricht
Dissertation: Operational Hazard Anticipation: Examination of Overt Anticipatory Behaviors in Latent Hazard Scenarios Using a High-Fidelity Driving Simulator, Sarah Elizabeth Yahoodik
Dissertation: The Impact of Mandatory Substance Abuse Counselor Reporting Requirements on Child Maltreatment Reporting Outcomes, Bilgé Özgé Yilmaz
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Thesis: Validation and Measurement Invariance of a First-Generation College Student Identity Scale, Kelsie K. Allison
Dissertation: The Association of Objectification and Discrimination with Partner Gender and Disordered Eating Behaviors in Bisexual Women, Rachel A. Amerson
Thesis: The Effects of Body Posture on Vigilance Performance, Jeremiah Gabriel Ammons
Dissertation: Racial Differences in Tobacco Use and Risk Factors Among Young Adults: Roles of Expectancies and Emotion Regulation, Laurel Brockenberry
Dissertation: What is the Meaning in This? Teachers' Propensity to Search for Meaning in Life During COVID-19 and the Role of Meaningful Work, Seterra D. Burleson
Thesis: Investigating Psychological Capital as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Incivility and STEM Students' Major Embeddedness, Kristen Denae Eggler
Dissertation: Contextual Factors of Harsh Parenting: Investigating the Role of Impulsivity and Parent Attribution Bias Under Conditions of Household Chaos, Kelsey T. Ellis
Thesis: Psychosocial Factors and E-Cigarette Use: An Application of Problem Behavior Theory, Samantha A. Fitzer
Thesis: The Effects of Flood Warning Information on Driver Decisions in a Driving Simulator Scenario, Katherine Rose Garcia
Dissertation: An Electrophysiological Examination of Attentional Biases to Emotional Faces in Depression and Social Anxiety, Nathan M. Hager
Dissertation: Reevaluating the Factor Structure of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale for African American College Students, Quandrea Rachelle Harper
Dissertation: Testing a Contextual Framework of Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adults, Phoebe Tabb Hitson
Thesis: Effects of Income Disparity on Relationships, B. Lynn McElyea
Thesis: Can Obsessive Thoughts Predict Problematic Alcohol Use Through Thought Suppression?, Laura Pettigrew
Dissertation: The Impact of First-Person Perspective Text and Images on Drivers’ Comprehension, Learning Judgments, Attitudes, and Intentions Related to Safe Road-Sharing Behaviors, Alexandra Bryson Proaps
Dissertation: Patient-Targeted Googling: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Psychologists’ Perceptions and Practices, Emily L. Putnam
Dissertation: Implementing an Online, Integrative, Multi-Component, Group-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for the Reduction of Caregiver Burden in Primary Familial Caregivers of Persons with Dementia: A Preliminary Test of Feasibility, Daniel Robert Schaffer
Thesis: Simultaneous Alcohol and Cannabis Use in College Students: Examining Context, Route of Administration, Cognitive Factors, and Consequences via Daily Diary, Jennifer Lynn Shipley
Dissertation: What We Learn From Each Other: Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth Among Non-Helping Professionals Following Exposure to Peer Trauma Experiences, Tiphanie Gayle Sutton
Dissertation: Guilty as Not (Re)Charged: Calling, Work-Recovery Guilt, and Their Effects on Recovery Experiences, Jeffrey Drake Terry
Thesis: Negative Appraisals and Experiences of Thriving and Burnout at Work and School During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Effect of Embeddedness, Kate Noel Warnock
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Thesis: Burnout, Self-Efficacy, and Coping Strategies Among College Faculty, Jordan M. Ball
Thesis: An Experimental Investigation into the Impact of Acute Stress on Alcohol Craving through Implicit Coping Motives, Douglas J. Glenn
Thesis: The Effects of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress on College Students: Examining the Role of Mental Health Self-Efficacy on Willingness to Engage in Mental Health Services, Leeanna L. Golembiewski
Thesis: A Leader, a Follower, and Some Humor Walk into a Meta-Analysis: A Review of Positive and Negative Leader Humor, Richard Hayes
Dissertation: Investigating the Role of Denial in Interpersonal Formulations of Binge Eating Among Black and White College Women: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study, Lindsay Marie Howard
Thesis: Intention-Behavior Discrepancies for Alcohol Consumption Among College Students, Emily Kaye Junkin
Thesis: Emotion Regulation Variability and Relationship Functioning in Emerging Adulthood, Laura B. Kenneally
Dissertation: Predicting Inattentional Blindness with Pupillary Response in a Simulated Flight Task, Kellie D. Kennedy
Dissertation: Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Among College Women’s Social Networks: An Investigation of Perceived Changes Following a Dissonance-Based Body Image Intervention, Rachel I. MacIntyre
Thesis: Authentication Schemes' Impact on Working Memory, Janine D. Mator
Thesis: The Influence of Emotion Regulation and Neural Cognitive Control on Distress Tolerance, Alicia L. Milam
Thesis: Campus Gatekeeper Trainings: An Analysis of Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) and SafeTALK, Gabrielle M. Ramsey-Wilson
Dissertation: Sleeping with the Enemy: Examining the Relationship Between Sleep and Pain in Post-9/11 Veterans, John L. Schwartz Jr.
Thesis: How Leader and Follower Mindfulness Relate to Performance and OCB through Conversation Quality and Empathy: A Moderated Mediation Model, Arianna White-Levatich
Thesis: The Role of Athletic Identity in General Mental Health and Alcohol-Related Help-Seeking Intentions of College Students, Michael Grant Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dissertation: Morally Injurious Experiences, Trauma-Related Guilt, and Substance Use among Iraq and Afghanistan Combat Veterans, Allison T. Battles
Dissertation: The 23: Racial and Other Demographic Differences in the Assignment of Risk Factors for Individuals Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Virginia, Dominique Raquel Blanchette
Thesis: Understanding the Association Between Social Networks, College Student Alcohol Use, and Protective Behavioral Strategy Use and Beliefs, Melissa Roberts Colangelo
Thesis: The Effects of Military Sexual Trauma and Depressive Symptoms on Reintegration, Rachel L. Davies
Thesis: A Model of Individual, Relationship, and Societal Factors and Mental Health and Well-Being in Partnered Sexual Minority Women: The Central Role of Relationship Satisfaction, Charlotte A. Dawson
Dissertation: A Daily Diary Examination of Microaggressions and Alcohol Use Among Emerging Adult Bisexual Women: The Role of Alcohol Demand, Sarah J. Ehlke
Dissertation: Investigating a Multimodal Approach to Clinical Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease, Sean M. Flannery
Dissertation: The Effects of Interruption Relevance and Complexity on Primary Task Resumption and Mental Demand, Brandon Allan Fluegel
Dissertation: Mindfulness and Its Impact on Adaptive Coping and Psychological Well-Being: An Intervention for Undergraduate Students, Charles Bradley Freligh
Dissertation: Helping Employees Help the Environment: An Intervention to Increase Environmental Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB-E) Via a Subtle Stimulus, Rebecca C. Garden
Thesis: The Effects of Optimism, Transformational Leadership, and Work Engagement on Work Outcomes: A Moderated Mediation Model, Chad Kenneally
Thesis: Effects of Transparency and Haze on Trust and Performance During a Full Motion Video Analysis Task, Sarah C. Leibner
Thesis: Popular Television’s Health and Safety Message: What Has Changed in the Past Generation?, Heather Ann Leon
Thesis: Coping Self-Efficacy as a Potential Moderator of the Relationship Between Sexual Orientation and Negative Mental Health Outcomes, James M. Macchia
Dissertation: Predicting the Likelihood of Dating Violence Perpetration in a Sample of Women: Unidirectional Versus Bidirectional Violence, Elaine Mae Murphy
Thesis: The Effects of Security Framing, Time Pressure, and Brand Familiarity on Risky Mobile Application Downloads, Cody Parker
Dissertation: Alcohol Use and Drinking-Related Eating Restriction Behaviors Among College Students, Peter Preonas
Dissertation: Testing a Model of Sexual Minority Orientation in Individuals With And Without the Broad Autism Phenotype, Lydia Ruth Qualls
Thesis: Racial Socialization in Non-Hispanic White American Families: An Exploration of the Role of Parental Racial-Ethnic Socialization, Julia C. Rodil
Thesis: Personal Beliefs About the Effectiveness of a Primary Seat Belt Law in Virginia Versus North Carolina, Rochelle A. Rushlow
Thesis: Exploring the Effects of Task Priority on Attention Allocation and Trust Towards Imperfect Automation: A Flight Simulator Study, Tetsuya Sato
Dissertation: A Multi-Dimensional Model of Sexual Stigma and Relationship Satisfaction Among Female Same-Sex Couples: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Rejection Sensitivity, Alexander Thomas Shappie