The Effects of Anxiety, Hostility, and Depression on Responses to the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (open access)

The Effects of Anxiety, Hostility, and Depression on Responses to the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank

The present study is an attempt to determine the effect of anxiety, hostility, and depression on responses to the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank when it is scored according to the manual instructions. Whether the score fluctuates or not will have implications on how psychologists should use this test as a diagnostic tool.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Boutte, Margaret Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
Professional Public Relations and Political Power in Texas (open access)

Professional Public Relations and Political Power in Texas

"The problem with which this investigation is concerned is the determination of the role played by public relations professionals in Texas politics. This exploration of modern campaign technology relies on a survey of related literature, published and unpublished, and on personal interviews conducted in 1968-69 with candidates for public office, party workers, public relations experts, campaign managers and consultants, and media specialists involved in the Texas Democratic Gubernatorial primary campaigns of 1968...the findings show that the public relations professionals are playing an ever increasing role in Texas politics and that their expertise and skills play a particularly important role in political campaigning. The Texas Democratic Gubernatorial primary campaign of 1968 illustrates the widespread use of professional consultants by Texas politicians and indicates that their use has had recognizable consequences for the distribution of power and influence."-- leaf [1].
Date: December 1970
Creator: Mansfield, Michael W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multivariate Prediction of Executive Success (open access)

Multivariate Prediction of Executive Success

The principal purpose of this study was the assessment of the relationships of five personality traits, achievement motive, decisiveness, need for power, initiative, and selfassurance, to a criterion of executive success in business. A second purpose of the present study was the construction of a regression equation for the prediction of executive success.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Titsworth, William Layton
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Redemptive Woman in the Early Poetry of T. S. Eliot (open access)

The Redemptive Woman in the Early Poetry of T. S. Eliot

This thesis attempts to describe a consistent development in the attitudes adopted toward women in the poetry of T. S. Eliot published between 1917 and 1930 and to identify certain philosophical changes which influenced this development. It suggests that a tendency toward the affirmation of an ideal woman underlies the apparently incongruous attitudes toward women in Eliot's poetry of this period. Three stages in the poet's progression toward an affirmation of an ideal woman are suggested and described.
Date: December 1970
Creator: McGrath, Paul D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budgetary Decision-Making in the Texas Legislature (open access)

Budgetary Decision-Making in the Texas Legislature

The government of any state has the responsibility of providing for the health, safety, welfare, education, and protection of its citizens. To accomplish these goals, states have created elaborate and complex administrative organizations staffed by thousands of bureaucrats. The increased demands of the citizens of each state upon their state governments for better education, highways, and increased protection are reflected both in the expansion of the agencies created to provide these services and, in turn, in requests for funds in ever increasing amounts to expand the scope of the services. The ability of a state to fund each agency's request is definitely limited; no state is sufficiently wealthy to grant every request. Rather, a state must make some judgment in the distribution of its limited resources (money) among competing and demanding sources. This requires planning and is called budgeting, which one writer has defined as "one of the major processes by which the use of public resources is planned and controlled."
Date: June 1970
Creator: Butler, Daron K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relation between the Self-concept and Values of Parents with Their Children (open access)

The Relation between the Self-concept and Values of Parents with Their Children

In accordance with theories of Carmichael (19), Lecky (41), and Rogers (55), which suggest that adolescence is a time of redefining conceptions about one's self in relation to values, groups, and institutions in one's environment, the following hypotheses were proposed to be investigated in this study: 1. The difference between mothers' and fathers' self-concept scores is nonsignificant. 2. Parents have higher self-concepts than their children. 3. Parents of children with high self-concepts will differ significantly from parents of children with low self-concepts with respect to their values.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Mackenzie, Donna Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Results of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and Certain Other Tests Used in Evaluating Children with Learning Disabilities (open access)

A Comparison of Results of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and Certain Other Tests Used in Evaluating Children with Learning Disabilities

The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, including its subtests and total test scores, can be used reliably as predictors of achievement on other tests used in the diagnosis of language disorders in children.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Garvin, Susanne B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Bibliography of Medieval Art: from its Origins to the Renaissance (open access)

A Bibliography of Medieval Art: from its Origins to the Renaissance

The purpose of this study has been to create a simplified yet reliable list of literary works pertinent to medieval art; one that will serve the greatest usefulness to the largest number of students.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Rutledge, Lloyd A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Significance of William Blake's Poetry in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth (open access)

The Significance of William Blake's Poetry in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth

William Blake's poetry in Cary's novel plays an integral role, and it is the purpose of this thesis to discuss the significance of Blake's poetry in The Horse's Mouth.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Gaston, Karen Carmean
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of the Attitudes and Opinions of Industrial Arts Teachers Concerning the Modular-flexible Schedule in Selected Public Secondary Schools (open access)

A Survey of the Attitudes and Opinions of Industrial Arts Teachers Concerning the Modular-flexible Schedule in Selected Public Secondary Schools

This thesis is concerned with an examination of modular-flexible scheduling and the attitudes and opinions of industrial arts teachers employing this type of scheduling.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Watts, Kenneth Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library
Test Anxiety, Low Self-esteem, and Conformity (open access)

Test Anxiety, Low Self-esteem, and Conformity

The present study has a threefold purpose. First, it will attempt to investigate whether the presentation of the bogus group norm is effective to exert influence on an individual subject to modify his original response in the direction of the norm. Secondly, it will investigate relationships between the subject's level of test anxiety and his conformity behavior in the simple judgmental situation. Thirdly, it will further explore whether test anxiety, as measured by a questionnaire, and low self-esteem, as measured by feelings of personal inadequacy, are comparable constructs.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Lee, See Woo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Poems, with a Comparison of Religious Sonnets of Donne and Hopkins (open access)

Selected Poems, with a Comparison of Religious Sonnets of Donne and Hopkins

This thesis presents original poems by the author, as well as a comparison of the religious sonnets by John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Date: May 1970
Creator: Rogers, Mary Teresa
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pupil Classroom Sociability and Teacher Mode of Interpersonal Interaction (open access)

Pupil Classroom Sociability and Teacher Mode of Interpersonal Interaction

The present study was designed to provide data bearing directly on the question of the influence of the preschool experience, and specifically, teacher behavior, on pupil social behavior.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Walters, Robert H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Current Developments in the Exploitation of the Sea as a Source of Food (open access)

Current Developments in the Exploitation of the Sea as a Source of Food

The chronic problem of protein deficiency that prevails in many parts of the world today poses a great challenge to modern technology. Current production of protein food of animal origin is insufficient to meet the needs of an increasing world population. From this fact arises the possibility of a world in which the majority of people will never have enough to eat,
Date: June 1970
Creator: Goodman, Lonnie E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
English Renaissance Epithalamia (open access)

English Renaissance Epithalamia

The classical genre of marriage poems called epithalamia appeared in England in the late sixteenth century. The English epithalamia of the Renaissance form a closely related body of literature. This work will be a close analysis of this small body of English Renaissance poetry.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Corse, Larry B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
"The Passionate Struggle into Conscious Being": the Pollyanalytic Content of D. H. Lawrence's Novels (open access)

"The Passionate Struggle into Conscious Being": the Pollyanalytic Content of D. H. Lawrence's Novels

D. H. Lawrence left one of the most diverse collections of literary works ever contributed to the literature of the English language; the Lawrence canon contains a body of material which includes novels, short fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism, travel essays, and philosophical writings. Since Lawrence is generally considered a novelist, the problem arises concerning the relationship between his novels and his other writings. In this case the concentration will be upon Lawrence's philosophical writings or what Lawrence called his pseudo-philosophy--his "pollyanalytics."
Date: December 1970
Creator: Cox, James T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Functional Theory for Applied Music Students (open access)

Functional Theory for Applied Music Students

The purpose of this study was to prepare music theory textbook-workbooks for students of elementary school grades four through eight who are taking private music lessons in voice, piano, or other instruments. The study was prompted by the action taken first by Texas Music Teachers Association and later by Music Teachers National Association which made the passing of comprehensive music theory examinations a prerequisite for entering all student performance and contest events sponsored by these associations.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Flinn, Lois Clark
System: The UNT Digital Library