Degree Discipline

Month

A Comparative Study of Anxiety between Science and Art Majors (open access)

A Comparative Study of Anxiety between Science and Art Majors

The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of anxiety in college freshmen and seniors from the Departments of Science and Art at North Texas State College by using the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale. It is hoped that the findings uncovered by this study will be of help to others interested in investigating and exploring this area.
Date: May 1960
Creator: Benningfield, Milo Francis
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Anxiety, Reported Ability to Swim, and a Perceptual-Motor Skill (open access)

The Relationship of Anxiety, Reported Ability to Swim, and a Perceptual-Motor Skill

The problems relevant to this study are concerned with the effect of specific performance criteria on the MAS. The purpose of this study is to determine if MAS scores are related to the following: (1) a subject's inability to swim, (2) a subject's performance on a pursuit rotor task, (3) the effects of an interaction of these criteria.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Sick, Robert H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Behavioral Outcomes of Client-Centered Play Therapy (open access)

Behavioral Outcomes of Client-Centered Play Therapy

This study was concerned with determining the effectiveness of play therapy as measured by behavioral changes in interpersonal relationships, mature behavior patterns, and more adequate use of intellectual capacities. Client-centered play therapy appears to have grown out of the concept that it is the relationship between the therapist and the child that brings about change and growth. Rather than diagnostic or as preliminary to therapy, the relationship itself is seen as therapy. Problems are seen not in terms of their historical past, but rather as they exist in the immediate present and in terms of the child's own means of expression. The relationship offers to the child the opportunity to experience growth under the most favorable conditions. Like its adult counterpart, client-centered counseling, client-centered play therapy is based upon the hypotheses that the individual has within himself the capacity for growth and self-direction, and that these growth impulses are released within the therapeutic relationship established between the therapist and the child. This study was conducted to investigate changes in behavior which occur as a result of play therapy and to determine that such changes do not occur in the absence of play therapy. It was a direct outgrowth of an …
Date: May 1969
Creator: Herd, Ruby H. (Ruby Helm)
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of a Self-Instructional Approach to Teaching a College French Diction Course for Vocal Music Students (open access)

The Effectiveness of a Self-Instructional Approach to Teaching a College French Diction Course for Vocal Music Students

The primary purpose of the study was to test a self-instructional approach to teaching a college French diction course to determine if it would equal or surpass in effectiveness a course taught by a traditional approach. The study sought to provide a partial solution to the problems of the increasing student-teacher ration in colleges, and of the individualization of teaching students who have various learning rates and backgrounds.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Capps, Verl L. (Verl Lindel)
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Health Knowledges to Health Practices of College Freshmen at North Texas State University (open access)

The Relationship of Health Knowledges to Health Practices of College Freshmen at North Texas State University

The problem of this study was the relationship of health knowledges to health practices of college freshmen at North Texas State University.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Fisher, Millard Jay
System: The UNT Digital Library