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 1994
Thesis: Childhood Sexual Abuse: Attribution of Responsibility, Dennis W. Goodwin
Dissertation: Visual Information Processing of Geometric Figures as a Function of Complexity and Field of Vision, Karen E. Inn
Dissertation: Neuropsychological Functioning Among Violent and Nonviolent Sex Offenders, Pamela Knox-Jones
Thesis: Judging Statistical Significance: The Effects of Standard Error Bar Formats and Visual Displays, Rebecca Wilson Miller
Thesis: African-American Women's Career Development: Predicting Nontraditional Educational and Career Choices Educational and Career Aspirations and Career Salience, Tonya Alicia Miller
Dissertation: The Teamwork Components Model: An Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling, Rebecca Rosenstein
Thesis: Vigilance: Instruction Effects and Personality Correlates of Performance Workload and Boredom, David A. Sawin
Thesis: Premature Infant Attractiveness and Temperament in the Prediction of Maternal Sensitivity, Cheryl L. Shiflett
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Thesis: Intersection Decisions and Reaction Time, Orhan Earle Beckman
Thesis: Choice Reaction Time and Conjunctions of Form Size Color and Orientation, Cristina Bubb-Lewis
Thesis: The Influence of Touch and Gender on Subjects' Perceived Social Support and Emotional State, Edmond R. Cochard
Thesis: Computer-Based Procedural Performance as a Function of Window Size and Format Type, Christina Ann DiPalo
Thesis: Dependency Autonomy Stress and Depression: A Test of an Interactive Model, Kathryn Kern Drury
Thesis: A Test of Bass's Model of Transformational Leadership Among Managers in the Dominican Republic, Nancy Urbaez Echavarria
Thesis: The Relationship Between Self-Efficacy, Outcome Expectancy, and Metabolic Control in People With Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, Edwina Rudisill Giddens
Thesis: Effects of Palatability of Food on the Conditioning of Hunger in Rats, Elizabeth Yates Hill
Thesis: Maternal Perceptions of the Social Development and Behavior of Asthmatic Children, Chelley A. Merrell
Dissertation: Improving Team Performance By Identifying and Targeting Back-Up Behaviors: A Training Strategy, Rosalynn M. Peron
Thesis: Responses to Dissatisfaction in Psychotheraphy: The Influence of Prior Satisfaction, Perceptions of Problem Severity and Attachment Style, Christopher C. Read
Thesis: The Effect of Prior Cooperation and Competition on Approaches to a Decomposed Social Dilemma, Keith M. Rettig
Thesis: Sexual Orientation, Attachment, and Adult Relationship Quality, Earl Calvin Riggins III
Thesis: Sexual Orientation, Attachment, and Adult Relationship Quality, Earl Calvin Riggins III
Thesis: Masculinity Ideology: Establishing Convergent and Discriminant Validity, Jeffrey S. Sinn
Thesis: The Impact of Leadership Style and Subordinate Charisma on Organizational Outcomes, Amy L. Vick
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Thesis: Social Support for Family Caretakers of the Chronically Mentally Ill, Gina L. Bankes
Dissertation: The Impact of an Employee Involvement Program on Service Quality in a Nursing Home Organization, Diane Catanzaro
Thesis: The Effects of Style of Timing Cue on Motor Skill Acquisition, Michael A. Freeman
Dissertation: A Comparison of Alphanumeric, Direct Manipulation Graphic, and Equivalent Interface Design for a Production Scheduling Task, Ann C. Fulop
Thesis: The Effects of Exposure to the Modeling of Normative Discontent Versus Rational Coping on Women's Body-Image Affect, Lyse Guttau
Thesis: Individual Differences in the Career Decision-Making Process, Laura S. Hamill
Thesis: Choice Reaction Time as a Function of Set Size and Signal Frequency, Barbara M. Herzing
Thesis: The Description and Prediction of Self-Percepts and Ideal-Percepts of Body Image for Multiple Physical Attributes, Lora L. Jacobi
Thesis: The Measurement of Mood Variation Over Time and Its Relation to Performance, William T. Pinkston
Dissertation: The Evaluation of Company-Sponsored Test-Preparation Courses: Training Different Aged Employees on General Test-Taking Skills and Basic Cognitive Skills, Kerrie D. Quinn
Thesis: About Faces: The Investigation of Electrodermal Activity (EDA) as it Relates to the Recognition and Naming of Faces, Donald J. Shearer
Thesis: The Relationship Between Gender and Empathy on a Telephone Hotline, George Shepeard
Dissertation: The Effects of Automation and Task Difficulty on Crew Coordination, Workload, and Performance, Ruth Coleen Thornton
Thesis: The Effects of Stroke on the Comprehension of Affective and Nonaffective Prosody, Mona Matheney Tiernan
Dissertation: Causal Analysis of a National Study of Sales Personnel Turnover Functionality, Eric J. Vanetti
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Dissertation: Operator Strategies Under Varying Conditions of Workload, Ruth Justine Arnegard
Thesis: The Relationship Among Absorption Anxiety and Frontal Electromyogram, Jeffrey E. Atkinson
Dissertation: Relocation Decision-Making in Dual-Career Couples, Lori Bartels
Thesis: The Effects of Confidentiality Gender and Subject Shyness on the Social Desirability Response Bias, Scott D. Bradshaw
Thesis: Transfer of Thermal Biofeedback Training from One Hand to the Opposite Hand, W. Thomas Bundick Jr.
Thesis: Religious Orientation and Sex-Role Attitudes: The Apportionment of Paid Employment Childcare and Household Tasks within the Context of Marriage, Gregory Ralph Caron
Thesis: Difference Between Maternal Characteristics and Home Environments of Day Care and Non-Day Care Families, Eva Granahan Clarke
Dissertation: The Effects of Job Characteristics and Task Decomposition on the Estimation of the Dollar-Value of Performance, Robert P. Delprino
Thesis: The Effect of Fear of Success and Perceived Task Difficulty on Cognitive Performance, David Eugene Elkins
Dissertation: The Effects of Training and Feedback Format on Reactions to in-basket feedback and on In-Basket Performance, Michael G. Fedorko
Thesis: Sexual Orientation Body Image and Sexual Functioning, Charlie Bryan Finch Jr.
Dissertation: Gender Effects on Recall, Clinical Judgement and Treatment Recommendations for a Combination of Major Depression and Alcohol Dependence Symptoms, Jodi L. French
Thesis: Multiple Cue Probability Learning: Effects of Individual Differences on MCPL Performance, Catherine Q. Greenwald
Dissertation: Communicating With Graphic User Interfaces: A Comparison of Menu Selection and Menu Bypass Techniques, Monty Lee Hammontree
Thesis: The Effects of Social Support on the Psychological Adjustment of Navy Wives Experiencing Deployment, Marci A. Harris
Dissertation: Body-Image Attitudes and Perceptions Among African-Americans and Whites as a Function of Socioeconomic Class, Christopher Eugene Huffine
Thesis: The Role of Priming in the Rating Process: An Investigation of Priming Effects in a Simulated Assessment Center, Rebecca Regan Keever
Dissertation: Computer Use in the Scientific Office, Douglas L. Miller
Dissertation: Determinants of Feedback-Seeking Behaviors, Melinda J. Montgomery
Dissertation: A Program Evaluation of the Welcome Baby Project: A Primary Prevention Program for Teenage Mothers and Their Infants, Susan A. Murdock
Thesis: Relationships Among Type of Classrooms, Gender, and Measures of Student Classroom Perceptions and Preferences, Phyllis M. Roberson
Thesis: Effects of Extraversion and Gender on Self-Disclosure of Emotion with a Same-Sex Friend, Patrick M. Ulmen
Thesis: The Effect of Menopause Stage and Exercise on Perceived Body Image and Depression, Barbara Anne Waters
Thesis: The Relation Between Maternal Behavior and Childrearing Goals and Child Outcomes in Low-Income Black Children, Dawn D. Wimbush
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Thesis: Interpreting the Personal Orientation Inventory Through the Five-Factor Model, Diane Donald Anderson
Dissertation: Comparison of the Efficacy of General and Specific Performance Dimensions in an Operational Assessment Center, Wanda J. Campbell
Dissertation: Validation of the Human Factors Satisfaction Questionnaire, James Carlopio
Thesis: A Comparison of Decision-Making Variables Used by Dual-Career Couples, Margaret K. Conrad
Thesis: The Effect of the Type of Goal Setting Procedure Task Difficulty and Feedback on Psychomotor Performance, Jennifer Anne Mikulka Fletcher
Thesis: Perceptions of Women and Substance Abuse, Marla Harrison
Dissertation: An Application of the Investment Model for Examining the Effects of Commitment, Self-Efficacy, and Goal Difficulty on Performance, Brian J. Kaufman
Thesis: The Relationship Between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Coping with Interpersonal Conflict in Adulthood, Jennifer Leigh Kerpelman
Dissertation: Hemispheric Effects of Verbal Information Processing on Single and Dual Task Performance, Gwendolyn Lorell Pearson
Thesis: Interaction Between Amphetamine and Ethanol on Amphetamine-Produced Conditioned Place Preference, Cheryl Pelphrey-Weigand
Dissertation: Parallel Process: An Empirical Investigation, Thomas E. Pollack
Thesis: Body Image and Perceptions of Body Size Among Black and White College Women, Clifford E. Rucker III
Thesis: The Effect of Initial Leader-Group Interaction and the Moderating Influence of Leadership Style on Group Decision-Making, Brian J. Ruggeberg
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Needs and Interpersonal Problems of Women in Four Interpersonal Categories, Valarie Elaine Sikes-Nova
Thesis: The Influence of Perceptions of Labor Turnover on Stayers' Organizational Commitment, Ellen Ruth Simmons
Thesis: Relationship of Dysphoria to the Recall of Positive Negative and Neutral Words, Sarah Ellen Ware
Thesis: Relationships Between Early Mother-Infant Interaction and Later Patterns of Attachment, Christine Oakes Work
Dissertation: Retirement and Re-Entry Decision-Making: A Faculty Perspective, Seth Zimmer
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Thesis: Auditory Feedback and Fitts' Law, Tamara L. Atkinson
Dissertation: The Effects of Training Strategies on Assessor Behavior and the Accuracy of Assessment Center Consensus Ratings, Todd A. Baker
Thesis: Person Perception as a Function of Sex and Age, Leslie Borland
Dissertation: Accuracy of Performance Measurement: An Investigation of Training Method and Amount of Practice, Salvatore J. Cesare
Thesis: A Social Exchange Approach to Explaining Satisfaction with Therapy, Brenda B. Counts
Thesis: The Use of Rhythm in the Acquisition of Motor Skills, Ann C. Fulop
Thesis: Gender Differences in the Relation Between Locus of Control and Physiological Responses, Monique C. Grelot
Thesis: Gender Differences in the Relation Between Locus of Control and Physiological Responses, Monique C. Grelot
Dissertation: Hemispheric Effects of Response Hand and Concurrent Auditory and Visual Information Processing on Task Performance, Paula J. Guerette
Thesis: A Comparison of Traditional and Non-Traditional Women's Preferences for Family Oriented Vs. Career Oriented Men, Lee M. Handeland
Thesis: Task-Hemispheric Integrity Effect: Level of Task Difficulty and Mental Workload in a Dual Task, Nancy E. Hite
Dissertation: Assessing Soccer Referee Performance Using Work Sample and Conventional Testing Methods, Robert L. Kuhnle
Thesis: Self-Concept and Its Relationship to Achievement in Minority Preschool Children, Larry Lennard Lindsey
Thesis: The Effects of Differential Task Instructions and Motivational States on Individual Creative Response Generation, James Clarke Llewellyn
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Selected Adolescent Fears, Martina Griffith Meyer
Thesis: Patient Satisfaction with Psychiatric Hospitalization: A Social Exchange Theory Approach, Jan H. Nelson
Dissertation: The Effects of Life Stress and Risk-Taking Style on Risk Perception and Driver Performance, Christine B. Philput
Thesis: Couples' Interpretations of Unwanted Sexual Advances at Three Stages of a Dating Relationship, Kerrie D. Quinn
Dissertation: Causal Analysis of Disengagement Among Paid and Volunteer City Employees, Margaret Carson Zimmerman