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 2023 or Spring 2024, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Dissertation: The Impact of Covid-19 Stressors, Racial Discrimination, and Racial Socialization on Family Functioning in Black Families, Regina L. Alexander

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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

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Dissertation: Assessing Sexual Minority Women’s Barriers and Facilitators to Seeking and Accessing Mental and Physical Healthcare: A Mixed Methods Study, Charlotte A. Dawson

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Dissertation: A New Method to Determine the Posterior Distribution of Coefficient Alpha, John Mart V. DelosReyes

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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

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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

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Thesis: Exploring Methods to Reduce Stress in College Students: Dog-Assisted Therapy, Ashley A. Green

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Thesis: Predicting E-Cigarette Use Among Emerging Adults Using Perceived Social Norms and Outcome Expectancies, Stephen N. Hanson

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Dissertation: Towards a Formal Theory of Humor in Organizations, Richard Joseph Hayes

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Dissertation: Third-Party Reactions to Performance Feedback, Daroon Mohammed Jalil

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Thesis: Examining the Experience and Impact of Teen-to-Teen Crisis Line Work for Youth Volunteers: A Pilot Study, Taylor Kalgren

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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

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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

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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

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Dissertation: Incremental Validity of the MMPI-A-RF And MACI in a Clinical Outpatient Setting, Madison Smart-McCarthy

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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

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Dissertation: Attention and Task Engagement During Automated Driving, James Richard Unverricht

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Dissertation: Operational Hazard Anticipation: Examination of Overt Anticipatory Behaviors in Latent Hazard Scenarios Using a High-Fidelity Driving Simulator, Sarah Elizabeth Yahoodik

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Dissertation: The Impact of Mandatory Substance Abuse Counselor Reporting Requirements on Child Maltreatment Reporting Outcomes, Bilgé Özgé Yilmaz

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Thesis: Validation and Measurement Invariance of a First-Generation College Student Identity Scale, Kelsie K. Allison

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Dissertation: The Association of Objectification and Discrimination with Partner Gender and Disordered Eating Behaviors in Bisexual Women, Rachel A. Amerson

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Thesis: The Effects of Body Posture on Vigilance Performance, Jeremiah Gabriel Ammons

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Dissertation: Racial Differences in Tobacco Use and Risk Factors Among Young Adults: Roles of Expectancies and Emotion Regulation, Laurel Brockenberry

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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

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Thesis: Investigating Psychological Capital as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Incivility and STEM Students' Major Embeddedness, Kristen Denae Eggler

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Dissertation: Contextual Factors of Harsh Parenting: Investigating the Role of Impulsivity and Parent Attribution Bias Under Conditions of Household Chaos, Kelsey T. Ellis

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Thesis: Psychosocial Factors and E-Cigarette Use: An Application of Problem Behavior Theory, Samantha A. Fitzer

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Thesis: The Effects of Flood Warning Information on Driver Decisions in a Driving Simulator Scenario, Katherine Rose Garcia

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Dissertation: An Electrophysiological Examination of Attentional Biases to Emotional Faces in Depression and Social Anxiety, Nathan M. Hager

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Dissertation: Reevaluating the Factor Structure of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale for African American College Students, Quandrea Rachelle Harper

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Dissertation: Testing a Contextual Framework of Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adults, Phoebe Tabb Hitson

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Thesis: Effects of Income Disparity on Relationships, B. Lynn McElyea

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Thesis: Can Obsessive Thoughts Predict Problematic Alcohol Use Through Thought Suppression?, Laura Pettigrew

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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

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Dissertation: Patient-Targeted Googling: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Psychologists’ Perceptions and Practices, Emily L. Putnam

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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

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Thesis: Simultaneous Alcohol and Cannabis Use in College Students: Examining Context, Route of Administration, Cognitive Factors, and Consequences via Daily Diary, Jennifer Lynn Shipley

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Dissertation: What We Learn From Each Other: Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth Among Non-Helping Professionals Following Exposure to Peer Trauma Experiences, Tiphanie Gayle Sutton

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Dissertation: Guilty as Not (Re)Charged: Calling, Work-Recovery Guilt, and Their Effects on Recovery Experiences, Jeffrey Drake Terry

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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

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Thesis: Burnout, Self-Efficacy, and Coping Strategies Among College Faculty, Jordan M. Ball

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Thesis: An Experimental Investigation into the Impact of Acute Stress on Alcohol Craving through Implicit Coping Motives, Douglas J. Glenn

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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

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Thesis: A Leader, a Follower, and Some Humor Walk into a Meta-Analysis: A Review of Positive and Negative Leader Humor, Richard Hayes

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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

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Thesis: Intention-Behavior Discrepancies for Alcohol Consumption Among College Students, Emily Kaye Junkin

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Thesis: Emotion Regulation Variability and Relationship Functioning in Emerging Adulthood, Laura B. Kenneally

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Dissertation: Predicting Inattentional Blindness with Pupillary Response in a Simulated Flight Task, Kellie D. Kennedy

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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

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Thesis: Authentication Schemes' Impact on Working Memory, Janine D. Mator

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Thesis: The Influence of Emotion Regulation and Neural Cognitive Control on Distress Tolerance, Alicia L. Milam

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Thesis: Campus Gatekeeper Trainings: An Analysis of Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) and SafeTALK, Gabrielle M. Ramsey-Wilson

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Dissertation: Sleeping with the Enemy: Examining the Relationship Between Sleep and Pain in Post-9/11 Veterans, John L. Schwartz Jr.

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Thesis: How Leader and Follower Mindfulness Relate to Performance and OCB through Conversation Quality and Empathy: A Moderated Mediation Model, Arianna White-Levatich

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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

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Dissertation: Morally Injurious Experiences, Trauma-Related Guilt, and Substance Use among Iraq and Afghanistan Combat Veterans, Allison T. Battles

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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

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Thesis: Understanding the Association Between Social Networks, College Student Alcohol Use, and Protective Behavioral Strategy Use and Beliefs, Melissa Roberts Colangelo

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Thesis: The Effects of Military Sexual Trauma and Depressive Symptoms on Reintegration, Rachel L. Davies

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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

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Dissertation: A Daily Diary Examination of Microaggressions and Alcohol Use Among Emerging Adult Bisexual Women: The Role of Alcohol Demand, Sarah J. Ehlke

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Dissertation: Investigating a Multimodal Approach to Clinical Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease, Sean M. Flannery

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Dissertation: The Effects of Interruption Relevance and Complexity on Primary Task Resumption and Mental Demand, Brandon Allan Fluegel

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Dissertation: Mindfulness and Its Impact on Adaptive Coping and Psychological Well-Being: An Intervention for Undergraduate Students, Charles Bradley Freligh

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Dissertation: Helping Employees Help the Environment: An Intervention to Increase Environmental Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB-E) Via a Subtle Stimulus, Rebecca C. Garden

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Thesis: The Effects of Optimism, Transformational Leadership, and Work Engagement on Work Outcomes: A Moderated Mediation Model, Chad Kenneally

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Thesis: Effects of Transparency and Haze on Trust and Performance During a Full Motion Video Analysis Task, Sarah C. Leibner

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Thesis: Popular Television’s Health and Safety Message: What Has Changed in the Past Generation?, Heather Ann Leon

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Thesis: Coping Self-Efficacy as a Potential Moderator of the Relationship Between Sexual Orientation and Negative Mental Health Outcomes, James M. Macchia

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Dissertation: Predicting the Likelihood of Dating Violence Perpetration in a Sample of Women: Unidirectional Versus Bidirectional Violence, Elaine Mae Murphy

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Thesis: The Effects of Security Framing, Time Pressure, and Brand Familiarity on Risky Mobile Application Downloads, Cody Parker

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Dissertation: Alcohol Use and Drinking-Related Eating Restriction Behaviors Among College Students, Peter Preonas

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Dissertation: Testing a Model of Sexual Minority Orientation in Individuals With And Without the Broad Autism Phenotype, Lydia Ruth Qualls

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Thesis: Racial Socialization in Non-Hispanic White American Families: An Exploration of the Role of Parental Racial-Ethnic Socialization, Julia C. Rodil

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Thesis: Personal Beliefs About the Effectiveness of a Primary Seat Belt Law in Virginia Versus North Carolina, Rochelle A. Rushlow

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Thesis: Exploring the Effects of Task Priority on Attention Allocation and Trust Towards Imperfect Automation: A Flight Simulator Study, Tetsuya Sato

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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

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Thesis: Account Recovery Methods for Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): An Exploratory Study, Lauren Nicole Tiller

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Thesis: Attentional Control in Young Drivers: Does Training Help or Hinder Bottom-Up Processing in a Dynamic Driving Environment?, Sarah Elizabeth Yahoodik

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Thesis: Anticipated vs Experienced Work-Family Conflict: Newcomer Expectations and Early Socialization Outcomes, Seterra D. Burleson

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Dissertation: Identifying the Strengths and Weaknesses of Over-the-Shoulder Attack Resistant Prototypical Graphical Authentication Schemes, Ashley Allison Cain

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Thesis: Comparing the Effects of Mental Workload Between Visual and Auditory Secondary Tasks During Laparoscopy, James P. Corcoran

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Thesis: Estimation of Correlation Confidence Intervals via the Bootstrap: Non-Normal Distributions, John Mart V. DelosReyes

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Thesis: The Influence of Neural Reward Processing on Memory in Depression, Nathan M. Hager

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Thesis: Who Receives More Family Related Support in the Workplace? A Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Family Related Support, Daroon M. Jalil

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Dissertation: Improving the Sensitivity of the VRIN-r Scale on the MMPI-A-RF, Stefan E. LaTulip

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Thesis: The Effects of Automation Transparency and Reliability on Task Shedding and Operator Trust, William Everett Lehman

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Dissertation: The Effect of Differing Degrees of Automation and Reliability on Simulated Luggage Screening Performance, Molly M. Liechty

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Thesis: Effects of Control Device and Task Complexity on Performance and Task Shedding During a Robotic Arm Task, Shelby K. Long

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Thesis: The Effects of Vehicle Automation Level and Warning Type on Responses to Vehicle Hacking, Wyatt D. McManus

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Thesis: Whose Drive Is It Anyway? Using Multiple Sequential Drives to Establish Patterns of Learned Trust, Error Cost, and Non-Active Trust Repair While Considering Daytime and Nighttime Differences as a Proxy for Difficulty, Scott Mishler

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Dissertation: The Impact of Diet And Psychosocial Factors Post Bariatric Surgery, Eva Rani Panigrahi

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Dissertation: Harsh Parenting in Military Versus Civilian Families: Does Military Culture Moderate the Influence of Socioeconomic Status and Race?, Tiren Antinette Parker

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Thesis: The Effect of Task Interruptions and Reliable Cues on Detection Changes Within Dynamic Scenes, Kimberly N. Perry

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Thesis: Examining the Effect of Interruptions at Different Breakpoints and Frequencies Within a Task, Sarah Anastazia Powers

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Thesis: Examining Trait Mindfulness as a Moderator of the Mediating Relationship Between Social Anxiety, Coping Motives, and Substance-Related Consequences, Cody A. Raeder

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Thesis: Examining Validity of Aha! Ratings as a Construct of Insight, Ekaterina Y. Shurkova

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Dissertation: The Bidirectionality of Impulsivity and Alcohol Use: An Ecological Momentary Examination Among Emerging Adults, Amy L. Stamates

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Dissertation: Conceptualization of Faculty Work Motivation: Overcoming the Impasse, Julie Nikolaeva Thompson

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Thesis: Associations Between Drinking, Condom Use Resistance, and Condom Use Among College Students, Caitlin B. Turner