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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
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: 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
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: 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
Thesis: Account Recovery Methods for Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): An Exploratory Study, Lauren Nicole Tiller
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
Thesis: Anticipated vs Experienced Work-Family Conflict: Newcomer Expectations and Early Socialization Outcomes, Seterra D. Burleson
Dissertation: Identifying the Strengths and Weaknesses of Over-the-Shoulder Attack Resistant Prototypical Graphical Authentication Schemes, Ashley Allison Cain
Thesis: Comparing the Effects of Mental Workload Between Visual and Auditory Secondary Tasks During Laparoscopy, James P. Corcoran
Thesis: Estimation of Correlation Confidence Intervals via the Bootstrap: Non-Normal Distributions, John Mart V. DelosReyes
Thesis: The Influence of Neural Reward Processing on Memory in Depression, Nathan M. Hager
Thesis: Who Receives More Family Related Support in the Workplace? A Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Family Related Support, Daroon M. Jalil
Dissertation: Improving the Sensitivity of the VRIN-r Scale on the MMPI-A-RF, Stefan E. LaTulip
Thesis: The Effects of Automation Transparency and Reliability on Task Shedding and Operator Trust, William Everett Lehman
Dissertation: The Effect of Differing Degrees of Automation and Reliability on Simulated Luggage Screening Performance, Molly M. Liechty
Thesis: Effects of Control Device and Task Complexity on Performance and Task Shedding During a Robotic Arm Task, Shelby K. Long
Thesis: The Effects of Vehicle Automation Level and Warning Type on Responses to Vehicle Hacking, Wyatt D. McManus
Dissertation: The Impact of Diet And Psychosocial Factors Post Bariatric Surgery, Eva Rani Panigrahi
Dissertation: Harsh Parenting in Military Versus Civilian Families: Does Military Culture Moderate the Influence of Socioeconomic Status and Race?, Tiren Antinette Parker
Thesis: The Effect of Task Interruptions and Reliable Cues on Detection Changes Within Dynamic Scenes, Kimberly N. Perry
Thesis: Examining the Effect of Interruptions at Different Breakpoints and Frequencies Within a Task, Sarah Anastazia Powers
Thesis: Examining Trait Mindfulness as a Moderator of the Mediating Relationship Between Social Anxiety, Coping Motives, and Substance-Related Consequences, Cody A. Raeder
Thesis: Examining Validity of Aha! Ratings as a Construct of Insight, Ekaterina Y. Shurkova
Dissertation: The Bidirectionality of Impulsivity and Alcohol Use: An Ecological Momentary Examination Among Emerging Adults, Amy L. Stamates
Dissertation: Conceptualization of Faculty Work Motivation: Overcoming the Impasse, Julie Nikolaeva Thompson
Thesis: Associations Between Drinking, Condom Use Resistance, and Condom Use Among College Students, Caitlin B. Turner
Thesis: Effects of Focal on Driver Calibration of Attention Maintenance Performance Using Normalized Difference and Brier Scores, James Richard Unverricht
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Dissertation: Word Counts in Response to Cognitively Demanding Essay Prompts as Reflections of General Cognitive Ability and Broad Cognitive Abilities, Michael Beaumont Armstrong
Thesis: Detecting Deceptive Impression Management Behaviors in Interviews Using Natural Language Processing, Elena Margaret Lawrence Auer
Dissertation: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder with Comorbid Anxiety/Depression in Adults: Impacts on Neuropsychological Functioning, Cristina Valdivieso Bain
Dissertation: Risk of Unintended Pregnancy in Latina Young Adults: The Effect of Gender Role Beliefs, Acculturation, and Depression, Jessica Block
Thesis: The Association Between Emotional Competencies and E-Cigarette Susceptibility, Laurel Brockenberry
Dissertation: Race, Rejection Sensitivity, and Identity Centrality Among Young Sexual Minority Women, Denise M. Calhoun
Dissertation: The Effects of Selection System Characteristics and Privacy Needs on Procedural Justice Perceptions: An Investigation of Social Networking Data in Employee Selection, Rachel C. Callan
Dissertation: Predicting Score Change: An Empirical Investigation of Cheating on Unproctored Employment Tests, Katelyn J. Cavanaugh
Thesis: The Effects of Rating Source, Rating Target, and Job Position on Ratings of Perceived Training Needs, Phillip Joseph Dillulio
Thesis: Examining the Role of Behavioral Inhibition in Harsh Parenting Preferences: An Analog Study, Kelsey T. Ellis
Thesis: The Effects of Automation Transparency and Ethical Outcomes on User Trust and Blame Towards Fully Autonomous Vehicles, Nathan Andrew Hatfield
Dissertation: A Single Campus Study of the Green Dot Bystander Intervention Program, Brittany F. Hollis
Thesis: Grateful Beneficiaries and Proud Benefactors: A Moderated Mediation Model Relating Supervisors' Gratitude Expression to Employees' Organizational Citizenship Behavior, William Peter Jimenez
Dissertation: Latent Class Analysis of Malingering Classifications Using Performance and Symptom Validity Measures in a Civil Forensic Setting, Willie Floyd McBride III
Dissertation: Testing a Model of Servant Leadership's Influence on Follower Outcomes: Exploring Mediation Effects of Follower Trust and Prosocial Identity, Dante P. Myers
Dissertation: Examining the Measurement Invariance of the MMPI-A-RF Externalizing Scales Across Korean and American Adolescent Normative Samples, Kristoffer Yong Park