Recommendations for a Program for Conserving Eyesight (open access)

Recommendations for a Program for Conserving Eyesight

The modern school realizes that education is not a mere matter of gaining knowledge; it is a matter of life and growth, with this idea of education in mind, the health of the school child became of great importance. The primary purpose of this investigation is to make an analysis of the visual testing program in the common school districts of Denton County, list the results or outcomes, and make recommendations for future action. A secondary purpose is a review of literature to emphasize the responsibility of the school to discover visual deficiencies, to stress the part that good vision plays in the learning process, and to describe some satisfactory visual teaching devices.
Date: August 1949
Creator: James, Lena M.
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
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
Variations in Ego-strength as Related to Chronicity of Alcohol Addiction Among Males (open access)

Variations in Ego-strength as Related to Chronicity of Alcohol Addiction Among Males

The problem to be dealt with in this paper is the effect of social ridicule on the ego-strength of the individual. In being forced into the restricted social existence common with the alcohol addict, a significant decrease in ego-strength is to be expected.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Ryan, Charles Welbourne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ordinal Position, Family Size, and Diagnosis in a Psychiatric Hospital Population (open access)

Ordinal Position, Family Size, and Diagnosis in a Psychiatric Hospital Population

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between ordinal birth position, family size, and psychiatric diagnosis, in patients at a state-mental hospital.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Sensenig, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anxiety and Its Relation to Self-variables in College Students (open access)

Anxiety and Its Relation to Self-variables in College Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the theoretical concepts involving the relation of self-variables to anxiety.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Walvoord, John Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Constancy of Sociometric Position in Two Different Populations (open access)

A Study of Constancy of Sociometric Position in Two Different Populations

The purpose of this study will be to ascertain the extent social acceptance, or social status of an individual in one population, measured sociometrically, tends to remain constant for that individual in another population.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Yates, James Rodney
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Self-ideal Discrepancy Scores and Anxiety in a College and Clinical Population (open access)

A Study of Self-ideal Discrepancy Scores and Anxiety in a College and Clinical Population

This thesis in concerned with the relationship of self-ideal discrepancy scores and anxiety in a college and clinical population.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Thomas, Willet Tommy
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
Self-Rationalization and Two Aspects of the Self-Concept: The Social Self and the Private Self (open access)

Self-Rationalization and Two Aspects of the Self-Concept: The Social Self and the Private Self

The purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to investigate the relationship between self-rationalization and self-concept, and (2) to investigate the relationship between two different types of self-concept, the private self or what a person thinks about himself and the social self or what a person thinks other people in his psychological group think about him.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Flattery, James Warren
System: The UNT Digital Library
Valence of Stimulus Material as a Variable in Incidental Learning (open access)

Valence of Stimulus Material as a Variable in Incidental Learning

This thesis discusses the valence of stimulus material as a variable in incidental learning.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Luckey, Robert E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anxiety in Jailees as Indicated by the Rorschach Test (open access)

Anxiety in Jailees as Indicated by the Rorschach Test

This study concerns an evaluation of anxiety levels in jailees awaiting trial in a county jail. Detecting anxiety which had been overtly controlled, and apparently hidden called for the use of a projective technique. Such an instrument would have the additional advantage of minimizing the effect of the observer upon the observed.
Date: August 1960
Creator: Haddan, Eugene E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Differences in the Response of Identical Twins to Rorschach's Test (open access)

A Comparison of the Differences in the Response of Identical Twins to Rorschach's Test

The purpose of this study was to determine, by use of the Rorschach, any differences in the personality structures of two groups of identical twin subjects.
Date: August 1960
Creator: McCarty, Wilbur D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Use of a Level of Aspiration Technique with Academically Successful and Unsuccessful College Sophomores (open access)

Use of a Level of Aspiration Technique with Academically Successful and Unsuccessful College Sophomores

The problem of this thesis is the degree of aspiration (level of aspiration) exhibited by students with high or low levels of academic performance. With these levels established by the use of a standardized test designed for this purpose, this study is concerned more specifically with testing two hypotheses.
Date: August 1960
Creator: Sturch, Jack E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Diagnostic Potential of Subtest Score Variability in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (open access)

The Diagnostic Potential of Subtest Score Variability in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

This study was concerned with testing two hypotheses frequently made in the interpretation of performance on the Children's Scale. The first hypothesis is that maladjustment is directly related to the amount of scatter and the second stresses that the specificity of maladjustment may be determined by the pattern of successes and failures.
Date: August 1959
Creator: Kelly, Richard Clinton
System: The UNT Digital Library
In-Group and Out-Group Sociometric Choices for Two Groups of College Students Experiencing Different Educational Procedures (open access)

In-Group and Out-Group Sociometric Choices for Two Groups of College Students Experiencing Different Educational Procedures

The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the social and interpersonal aspect of the Austin College Plan of educational development by carrying out a plan of evaluation designed by the Hogg Foundation of the University of Texas and the Psychology Department of North Texas State College.
Date: August 1959
Creator: Tate, James Oliver, 1929-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Memory Alteration in Schizophrenic Patients Treated with Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy (open access)

The Effects of Memory Alteration in Schizophrenic Patients Treated with Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy

The problem of this investigation is twofold. First, to demonstrate the effects of the variation of convulsive-nonconvulsive electroshock treatment used in this study in relation to memory alteration in schizophrenia as measured by the Wechsler Memory Scale. Second, to determine those aspects of memory that are the most affected, and those that are the least affected by this form of treatment.
Date: August 1957
Creator: Redding, Kaye George
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personality Factors and Psycho-social Conditions Related to Troublemaking Behavior in Normal Institutionalized Children (open access)

Personality Factors and Psycho-social Conditions Related to Troublemaking Behavior in Normal Institutionalized Children

The problem of the present study was to discover the relationship of personality factors and certain psycho-social conditions related to the troublemaking behavior of normal institutionalized children.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Hollis, Coy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Post-decision Selectivity in Exposure to Information (open access)

Post-decision Selectivity in Exposure to Information

The purpose of the present study was to determine if persons who had made a recent decision would be selective in seeking information related to their decisions. Also under consideration were the explanation for any selectivity exhibited, and the explanation for any variance in the degree of selectivity manifested.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Hubbard, Prevost
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Level of Academic Achievement and Teachers' Ratings of Adverse Classroom Behavior Among Institutionalized Mental Retardates (open access)

The Relationship between Level of Academic Achievement and Teachers' Ratings of Adverse Classroom Behavior Among Institutionalized Mental Retardates

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the behavioral differences between over- and underachieving mental retardates and to provide an effective way of identifying over- and underachieving mental retardates.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Flournoy, Richard Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Rorschach Intellectual Indicators in Adolescents (open access)

A Study of Rorschach Intellectual Indicators in Adolescents

There seems to be a need for further exploration in this area for the purpose of clarifying which Rorschach indices are indicators of intelligence. R. W. W%, D%, F+%, A%, H, H%, M, and N have each been selected for statistical analysis on the basis of one or more of these three factors: (1) Rorschach, Klopfer and Kelly, and Beck have stated that the index is an indicator of intelligence, (2) extensive definition of the index implies some relation to intelligence, (3) past literature indicates that the index correlates positively with intelligence.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Giller, Melvyn Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library