This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Psychology. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Enhancing Motivation to Change in Clients with Alcohol Use Disorders: Video Feedback as a Brief Intervention, Wendy M. Rothman
Coping With the Death of a Family Member: An Exploration of American Indian People's Experience, William Henry Shunkamolah
HEALTH ISSUES AND AGING IN AMERICAN INDIAN OLDER ADULTS: RESILIENCE THROUGH ADVERSITY, Ennis F. Vaile
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY AMONG NATIVE AMERICAN OLDER ADULTS, Rita Haidle Billow
Cyber Bullying and Victimization: Psychosocial Characteristics of Bullies, Victims, and Bully/Victims, Delia Carroll Campfield
Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta splendens) show self-control for access to a mirror, Christopher Matthew Collins
Attachment, Personality, and Conflict Behaviors in Romantic Couples: Examining Vulnerability to Depression, Elizabeth Anne Harwood
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIVORCED FAMILIES AND FAMILIES UTILIZING SUPERVISED VISITATION SERVICES: CHILD BEHAVIOR, INTERPARENTAL CONFLICT, PARENTING ATTITUDES AND PARENTAL STRESS, Diana Eleonora Maria Marchetti
Maternal Depression and Child Maladjustment: The Role of Parental Style, Mallory Casey McBride
Adolescent Mothers: The Space Between What They Know and What They Do, Nicole Catherine McCray
Development of the Secondary Conditions Among Adolescents with Disabilities (SCAAD) Instrument: An Exploratory Study, Marie Middleton
Change and Recovery from Substance Misuse: Native American Perspectives, Stacy Miller
An Outcomes Assessment of Two Therapeutic Group Homes Serving Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder in a Rural Community, Brooke Rose Spangler
Mindfulness as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptomatology in an Experiential Avoidance Model, Brian Lantz Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Resiliency and Risk in Native American Communities: A Culturally Informed Investigation, Annjeanette Elise Belcourt-Dittloff
Self-report Measures of Psychopathic and Schizotypal Personality Characteristics: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Characteristics of Antisocial Behavior and Hypothetical Psychosis-Proneness in a College Sample, Amber Nicole Bonogofsky
Self-Control Choices Using Running Reinforcement, Jennifer Lynn Brinegar
Memory for Complex Pictures: Development and Validation of Digit Test of Effort, John W. DenBoer
Expression and Regulation of Emotions in Romantic Relationships, Makon Fardis
The Relationship Between Level of Empathy and Stress Contagion, Heather Lynn Kirby
The Experience of Rural Battered Women: Overcoming Challenges, Joanna Legerski
Neuropsychological Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder, Christopher S. Miller
Changing Attitudes: Congressional Rhetoric, Race, and Education Inequalities, Jennifer Kathleen Richert
DISTANCE FROM FAMILY, YEARS OF LIFE ON RESERVATION/VILLAGE, LEVEL OF ACCULTURATION, GENDER, AND ACCULTURATION STRESS OF AMERICAN INDIAN/ALASKA NATIVE STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, Michael Brian Trahan
Examining the variability in the long term adjustment of child sexual abuse victims, Heather Marie Ulrich
Finding Meaning in the Aftermath of Trauma: Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, Melissa Dawn Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
"Such sweet sorrow": The therapeutic relationship upon termination, Alison M. Cobb
Detecting simulated cognitive impairment with MMPI-2 neurocorrection scales, Paul D. Dukarm
Risk-sensitive decision-making in humans budgeting time correlated with real-world financial situation, Stephanie Carsten Kucera
Risk-Sensitive Foraging in Humans Budgeting Time: Correlated with Real-World Financial Situation, Stephanie Carsten Kucera
Parental Responsiveness and Sensory Stimulation in Social Toy Play with Infants, Nicole McCray
Coming to the table : peacemaking and truancy rates in schools with a high enrollment of American Indian students, D. Abigail Rivenbark
The family environment alexithymia and adolescent substance abuse, Donna J. Ryngala
Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience, Annesa Flentje Santa
Social Competence, Social Support, and Attachment During Middle Childhood, Brooke Rose Spangler
External correlates of the MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical Scales in an American Indian outpatient sample, Jera L. Stewart
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Why change now? Motivational interviewing as a brief intervention for type -2 diabetes among the eastern Shoshone and northern Arapaho, Darren Calhoun
Perceived experience of abuse and shelter stay : battered women and their children, Delia C. Campfield
The effects of delay in the aggressive display of male Siamese fighting fish: Betta splendens Missoula Montana USA, Baine B. Craft
Intuitive parenting repertoire utilization by Caucasian-American and Mandarin Chinese mothers with two- and four-month-old infants, Candace M. Crosby
Anna Thompson's starving children: Emotion regulation and verbal memory in borderline personality disorder, Ellen M. Crouse
Emotion regulation and the quality of romantic relationship, Makon Fardis
Attachment and depressive symptoms in romantic relationships: The mediating role of excessive reassurance seeking and dysfunctional attitudes, Elizabeth A. Harwood
The experience of malingering: Test performance coaching personal knowledge strategies and face validity, Melody L. Huskey
Witnessing interparental violence as a child and adulthood attitudes toward aggression and violence, Diana E. Marchetti
Rational-emotive instruction as support for individual growth towards multicultural competence, Stacy Miller
Non-directive female-pejorative language (NDFPL): The effects of indirect pejorative language on females' perception and thought, J. Leah Morris
Female survivors of intimate partner violence : Interactions with the legal system, Kristen M. O'Shea
Positive growth following a traumatic life event: An analysis of cognitive responses coping and social support, Jayde Pryzgoda
Everyday Mindfulness and Mindfulness Meditation: Overlapping Constructs or Not?, Brian L. Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Risk-sensitivity in male Siamese fighting fish Betta splendens, Baine B. Craft
Aspects of cognitive vulnerability as predictive of general and specific themes of delusional ideation in individuals at risk for psychosis, Jennifer D. Gottlieb
Development of externalizing and internalizing behavior problems during middle childhood: Risk and protective factors, Katarina Guttmannova
Effects of hearing status on maternal sensitivity and infant response during the first two years of life, Marie Middleton
Self-efficacy as a predictor of skills use and as a treatment outcome measure for Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training modules, Christopher S. Miller
How individuals perceive problem drinkers and personalities of problem drinkers| Contributions to sustained patterns of usage, Wendy Michele Rothman
A novel multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of chronic pain, Erica L. Shertzer
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Native American depression : a cognitive vulnerability analysis, Annie Belcourt-Dittloff
"And I never looked back": Adolescent girls and women who end a dating relationship after a single violent assault, Alison M. Cobb
Risk -sensitivity and predictors of choice preference: Parenting addiction and dispositional variables, Heide K. Deditius-Island
Sustained attention and processing speed in children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Jody Lynn Hagen
Effects of inmate chemical dependency programs on recidivism rates, Shannon Elizabeth Mahoney
The impact of written treatment plans on the effectiveness of psychotherapy in a university-based community clinic, Andrea C. Neal
The role of hopelessness depression in women's decision to leave a violent relationship, Heather N. Paluso
Social confidence and social anxiety: Differences in cognitive processing, Nicholas C. Rinehart
Role of attachment: The relationship between domestic violence and children's behavior problems, Donna J. Ryngala
Reliability generalizations of three alcohol screening measures: The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test the CAGE Questionnaire and the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test, Alan Laramie Shields
American Indian college students' ratings for therapist-client racial homogeneity and therapy technique, Jera L. Stewart
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Prolonged disaster and the effects of uncertainty: The Montana wildfires of 2000, Ellen Mahoney Crouse
Are humans risk-sensitive foragers? An experimental model, Heide K. Deditius-Island
Comparisons of maternal eye -gaze deprivation: Responses of 3 -month -old infants to three episodes of maternal unavailability, Linda EagleHeart-Thomas
Functioning in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder: Quality of life symptom presentation language production and neurocognitive abilities, Bridget M. Hegeman
Inattentive and impulsive profiles of the CPT -II and their relationship with DSM -IV ADHD subtypes, Kristin A. Kirlin
Obsessive-compulsive symptoms and the cognitive effects of being weighed in a restrained eating population, Suzanne M. Kodya
Children exposed to domestic violence: Resiliency and the mother -child relationship, Katherine L. Lynch
Self-reported physical activity and intention to exercise as predictors of health outcome in Native American populations across Montana, David William MacVicar
Empathic understanding and attachment processes in adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse and their partners, Molly Caroline Millwood
Focus of attention need to evaluate and self-monitoring in Social Anxiety Disorder, Stephanie M. Paidas
The effects of parental divorce on marital optimism and attachment style in young adulthood: A path analytic model, Susan S. Roberts
Effects of cumulative environmental risks and maternal risk and protective factors on infant and young children's developmental trajectories, Brenda K. Roche
The use of a prospective longitudinal study to predict adaptive outcome in a middle school population, Jennifer A. Simon-Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Predicting cervical screening in college women: A test of the theory of reasoned action, Lori L. Armstrong
Predicting sexual revictimization : An examination of dissociation alexithymia alcohol use and loneliness, Linda M. Frey
Uncertain responses by five-year-olds in a memory monitoring task, Katarina Guttmannova
The effects of magnified effort demands on the response to resource variability, Ari P. Kirshenbaum
The relationship of the Conners Continuous Performance Test and neuropsychological tests of attention in an adult population, Jeannine B. Mielke
Delusional ideation perceived family environment and hypothetical psychosis-proneness in an undergraduate sample, Jennifer D. Sauber
Predictors of depressive symptomatology: Cognitive theories of vulnerability and the relationship of interactional and cognitive styles, Erica L. Shertzer
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
The relationship of health beliefs knowledge of disease and social support to health-related quality of life in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, Michael T. Bach
Characteristics associated with a range of self -harm behaviors in university undergraduates, Kristin L. Croyle
Psychological aspects of native children in a Blackfeet language and culture program: The immersion paradigm, Billie Jo Kipp
Attention deficits as measured by Conners' CPT and children's performance on neuropsychological measures of learning and exectutive function, Kristin A. Kirlin