The Effects of Verbal Praise and Reproof on the Level of Aspiration of Institutionalized Mental Defectives (open access)

The Effects of Verbal Praise and Reproof on the Level of Aspiration of Institutionalized Mental Defectives

The study to be reported was designed to investigate the effects of verbal praise and reproof, from persons in authority, on the LOA and subsequent performance of institutionalized defectives.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Kelley, George L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Involvement in Admission to Two Homes for the Aged (open access)

Involvement in Admission to Two Homes for the Aged

The study reported in the thesis attempted to examine the decision-making process for the institutionalization of older people in homes for the aged. More specifically, it sought to determine who was responsible for the decisions, to discover if this responsibility was related to selected social factors, and to ascertain if it affected the adjustment of older people to the institutional setting.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Howze, Glenn Ray
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship of Anxiety to Social and Personal Adjustment (open access)

A Study of the Relationship of Anxiety to Social and Personal Adjustment

To what extent will college students differing in anxiety level, as determined by their scores on the IPAT Anxiety Scale, differ in personal and social adjustment and certain factors of personal and social adjustment, as measured by the California Test of Personality.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Hudson, Shelby Jay
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Pressure and Sex Differences in a Level of Aspiration Experiment with Retardates (open access)

Social Pressure and Sex Differences in a Level of Aspiration Experiment with Retardates

The present study was designed to investigate whether or not retardates' level of aspiration and subsequent performance are significantly affected by the presence and observation of a peer group.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Landrum, Jerry Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Readiness and Achievement of First Grade Students in a Culturally Disadvantaged Area (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Readiness and Achievement of First Grade Students in a Culturally Disadvantaged Area

It is the purpose of this study to compare the readiness and achievement of older and younger first grade students. Other purposes of the study involved a comparison of girls and boys in the first grade as to their readiness and achievement.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Lang, Harold Wendell
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personality Traits of Management Students and Business Personnel (open access)

Personality Traits of Management Students and Business Personnel

The purpose of the present study was to determine if there are "cores" of similar personality traits among successful business and industrial managers and senior management students in the School of Business Administration at North Texas State University.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Marth, Donald Rudell
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Home Experience Phase of the Vocational Homemaking Program in Saint Jo High School (open access)

A Study of the Home Experience Phase of the Vocational Homemaking Program in Saint Jo High School

There seemed to be an urgent need for the improvement of attitudes toward home experiences from the viewpoints of both homemaking teachers and homemaking pupils. Also, there appeared to be a need for the improvement of procedures used in planning, reporting, and evaluating home experiences. Because of these needs this study was made during the 1961-1962 school year in the Saint Jo High School, Saint Jo, Texas.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Phillips, Gloria Jones
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Interrelationships between Self-acceptance, Acceptance of Others, Predicted Acceptability to Others, and Actual Acceptance by Others (open access)

Some Interrelationships between Self-acceptance, Acceptance of Others, Predicted Acceptability to Others, and Actual Acceptance by Others

The purpose of the present study is fourfold: (1) to investigate the predicted relationships between self-acceptance and acceptance of others, (2) to investigate self-acceptance, acceptance of others, and their interrelationship with acceptance by others, (3) to investigate the patterns of interrelationship between self-acceptance, acceptance of others, actual acceptability to others, and predicted acceptability to others, and (4) to investigate an hypothesized curvilinear relationship between self-acceptance and acceptance of others.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Pleune, John Russell
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government and the Housing of the Indigent Aged of Dallas--Possibilities and Actualities (open access)

Government and the Housing of the Indigent Aged of Dallas--Possibilities and Actualities

National aid, transmitted and modified by the state and supplemented by the community, is only beginning to be specifically applied to the housing needs of the indigent aged. It is to the question of government's role in the housing of this element of the population that this study is addressed.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Smith, Stephen Neil
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Calculated Creatinine Coefficients of Young College Women (open access)

A Comparison of the Calculated Creatinine Coefficients of Young College Women

The purpose of the present study is to compare the calculated creatinine coefficients of young college women based on lean body mass weight with those based on actual body weight.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Straughn, Dorothy M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Predictive Value of an English Achievement Test for Grades in Modern Foreign Languages (open access)

The Predictive Value of an English Achievement Test for Grades in Modern Foreign Languages

This study has as its objectives: (1) the determination of the degree of relationship between achievement in the study of English as measured by a standardized English achievement test and achievement in the study of foreign languages as measured by teacher's grades; (2) the determination of the amount of contribution to such a relationship of the achievement in various functional areas in the study of English as measured by the subtests of the English achievement test.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Barnard, William Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study on the Stability of Self-concept (open access)

A Study on the Stability of Self-concept

There are two major purposes of this study. First, it will attempt to ascertain whether self-concept, as measured by a self-concept scale, will fluctuate significantly due to a recent ego inflating or deflating experience, and if so, how lasting and in what areas are the effects. Secondly, it will note whether or not the low self-concept individual is more susceptible to changes in self-concept due to these environmental changes than the high self-concept individual.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Collman, Robert Bernard
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Some "Discipline Dangers" in the Industrial Arts Laboratories of Fort Worth, Texas, Public Schools (open access)

A Study of Some "Discipline Dangers" in the Industrial Arts Laboratories of Fort Worth, Texas, Public Schools

This is a study of the opinions of industrial arts teachers(presently teaching in the Fort Worth Public Schools, Fort Worth, Texas) concerning factors affecting discipline in industrial arts laboratories.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Synder, James Corwin
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Teaching Supply Procurement Practices in Twenty Three Representative School Districts in Texas (open access)

A Study of Teaching Supply Procurement Practices in Twenty Three Representative School Districts in Texas

The problem of this study is to survey the purchasing practices of a group of representative school districts and to determine the extent to which these practices follow the recommendations presented by authorities on school supplies procurement.
Date: January 1963
Creator: Daniel, James H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Anxiety to Perceived Parental Attitudes (open access)

The Relationship of Anxiety to Perceived Parental Attitudes

The purpose of this study shall be to determine whether or not any relationship exists between child-rearing attitudes of parents and anxiety in their children. Not only will the attitudes of the mothers be concerned, but also those of the fathers.
Date: January 1963
Creator: Jolly, Jim Ted
System: The UNT Digital Library
Residential Mobility and Living Arrangements of a Group of Aged Persons Prior to Institutionalization (open access)

Residential Mobility and Living Arrangements of a Group of Aged Persons Prior to Institutionalization

The purpose of this investigation, conceived in its broadest sense, was to study the living arrangements of older persons over a specific period of time in an attempt to arrive at some generalizations about the nature and changes of these arrangements as they relate to certain sociological variables.
Date: January 1963
Creator: Martin, Cora Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Anxiety on Achievement Test Scores of Children in the Sixth Grade (open access)

Effect of Anxiety on Achievement Test Scores of Children in the Sixth Grade

The purpose of the present study will be to test the relation between Test Anxiety Scores and Stanford-Achievement Test scores and to determine whether there sill be differences of significant values within the sub-tests on the achievement tests.
Date: June 1963
Creator: Booth, Dorothy J. (Dorothy Johnson)
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Group Membership upon Birth Order Differences in Anxiety and Affiliation (open access)

The Effects of Group Membership upon Birth Order Differences in Anxiety and Affiliation

The present study has a twofold purpose. First, it will attempt to ascertain whether ordinal position remains an effective discriminator of affiliative need and level of anxiety within the selective confines of a strong social organization, a college sorority; or whether the selective criterion of membership in the strong social organization tends to suppress the differences in affiliative need and level of anxiety between the ordinal positions. Secondly, it will attempt to further explore the relationship between affiliation and dependency.
Date: June 1963
Creator: Kennelly, Kevin Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Scores Made on the MMPI and CTMM by Two Groups of Juvenile Delinquents Apprehended for Auto Theft and a Group of Non-Delinquents (open access)

A Comparison of Scores Made on the MMPI and CTMM by Two Groups of Juvenile Delinquents Apprehended for Auto Theft and a Group of Non-Delinquents

The problem of this study was to determine if juvenile delinquents who commit auto theft without an accomplice differ significantly in certain characteristics from those who commit such thefts with one of more confederates. The characteristics investigated were: (1) scores made on individual scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and (2) intellectual ability as measured by the California Short-Form Test of Mental Maturity. Furthermore, the same characteristics were examined to determine if a significant difference existed between each of the groups of juvenile delinquents and a group of juveniles who did not have a record of delinquency and attended Sunday School classes regularly.
Date: May 1963
Creator: Sypert, Walter Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-Ratings on Traits Associated with Creativity as Related to Performance on Two Tests of Creative Ability (open access)

Self-Ratings on Traits Associated with Creativity as Related to Performance on Two Tests of Creative Ability

The first objective of this thesis was to determine the relationship between scores on the AC Test of Creative Ability and scores on the Cree Questionnaire. This task was undertaken as a response to the scarcity of comparative data among the few objective measures of creative ability which are currently available. The second objective was to construct a self-rating scale of personality traits shown by past research to be associated with creativity. The third objective was to investigate the relationship between scores on each of the two standardized measures of creative ability and scores on the self-rating scale of traits related to creativity.
Date: June 1963
Creator: Tarte, Robert D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differences in Personality Characteristics among Two Groups of Art Majors Varying in Creativity and a Control Group (open access)

Differences in Personality Characteristics among Two Groups of Art Majors Varying in Creativity and a Control Group

The present study is somewhat exploratory in nature in that it is interested in determining some of the factors which correlate with creativity. The study will limit itself to investigating the factors measured by Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire as they relate to creativity among high and low Creative art majors and non-art majors. To this end, it is hypothesized that a difference will be found among the mean scores of the three groups for at least thirteen of the sixteen factors.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Allred, Raymond Coye, 1930-
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Concurrent Validity of the AC Test of Creative Ability in a College Situation (open access)

A Study of the Concurrent Validity of the AC Test of Creative Ability in a College Situation

The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is to obtain further evidence of the concurrent validity of the AC Test of Creative Ability. Further, and more specifically, it is concerned with the generalization of previously indicated validity of the AC Test to a college situation.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Baxter, Patricia James
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Relationships between Masculinity-Femininity and Anxiety (open access)

Selected Relationships between Masculinity-Femininity and Anxiety

The purpose of the present thesis will be to test the general hypothesis that femininity in men is positively related with anxiety and to investigate the relationship of femininity and anxiety in women.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Boykin, Melvin F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kiln-Fired Glass in the Junior College Arts and Crafts Program (open access)

Kiln-Fired Glass in the Junior College Arts and Crafts Program

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is the discovery of suitable uses for the enameling kiln in the arts and crafts program at the junior college level in the production of kiln-formed glass and the testing of methods and materials that will permit work of aesthetic merit at a nominal cost to the students and the school.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Buchanan, Robert Gordon
System: The UNT Digital Library