The present study investigates the link between trait anger and non-compliant behavior in prison. A sample of inmates from three prisons in the Connecticut Department of Correction were studied to determine if the level of their trait anger would...
Water quality monitoring stations -- Connecticut; Environmental monitoring -- Connecticut
Estuaries are rich in nutrients, such as nitrogen which may limit plant growth in coastal water bodies. Organic enrichment caused by allochthonous inputs of nitrogen has been shown to have adverse affects on water quality in estuaries. When...
Liberation theology; Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980-; Catholic Church -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century; Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1948-1980
This thesis represents an analysis of the evolution of liberation theology beginning with its basic philosophical tenets continuing into its role as a social and political movement in Latin America. Since the early 1960's liberation theology has...
Supported Living Arrangements (SLAs) are residential programs designed to facilitate the integration of developmentally disabled individuals into the community. Clients of these programs live in independent apartments and receive approximately...
The techniques of art may have developed by accident, however the growth of the profession has been quite deliberate. Many individuals who enter counseling, struggle with the placement of feelings into words. Therefore, the use of art therapy...
Internet users -- Psychology; Television -- Dependency (Psychology); Personality
The present study examined whether relationships between media dependency and personality traits exist. Concerns expressed in the past literature on addiction were found in the areas of personality predispositions, social relationship difficulties,...
The present study examined whether relationships between
personality characteristics and emotional reactions to mass
media exist. Specifically, the purpose of this study was
to find out if anxiety sensitivity, neuroticism and
depression, may make...
Massage therapy; Touch -- Psychological aspects; Puerto Ricans -- Mental health services -- Connecticut -- Hartford
Research suggests that therapeutic touch can be a facilitator of positive health outcomes among high-risk and vulnerable populations. Minority groups appear to be especially vulnerable. One such population would include Hispanics, many of whom ...
Coping with everyday life stressors is a salient topic in our fast-paced society. The field of Health Psychology has an active interest in the study of personality in the stress and coping process, and its relationship to well-being. The present...
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Criticism and interpretation; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Characters -- Women
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the representation of the feminine in the first and second parts of Cervantes's novel The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, published respectively in 1605 and 1615. The novel incorporates the...
Phylogeography using nested clade analysis (NCA) is able to apply biological inferences to the history of populations of organisms independent of the population's structure. In the Western United States, phrynosomatine lizards have a complex...
African Americans -- Race identity; African Americans -- Health and hygiene; African Americans -- Religion
The origins of psychology looked at studying the "psyche" or soul of an individual, as well as the interactions between the biological organism and its physical and social environment. Throughout the evolution of psychology, scientific study and...
Social capital (Sociology); Health attitudes; Health behavior -- Social aspects
The present research examined the relationship of social capital to reported health status using data from the Social Capital Benchmark Survey (SCBS). Two hypotheses were examined: (1) higher scores on the 11 dimensions of social capital assessed...
The purpose of this research is to determine how a student's need for relatedness affects his or her motivation and academic achievement in mathematics. In addition, student motivation is examined independently of relatedness to determine its...
The estimated population in Connecticut is 3,510,297 and ranks 4th in life expectancy at an average age of 78.7 years. As the population ages, the incidence of Alzheimer's disease is expected to rise proportionately. In Connecticut, there are over...
AIDS (Disease) -- United States; HIV (Viruses) -- United States; Prisons -- Health aspects -- United States
Infectious disease rates are ten times more prevalent in state prison systems than in the United State's general population. Rates of HIV infection are eight to twenty times higher in the incarcerated population than the general population. Twenty...
To some individuals, gambling is a harmless pastime and a form of entertainment, but for others, pathological gambling (PG) can develop with devastating consequences. The purpose of this study was to assess the correlation between criminal thinking...
Art therapy provides a nonverbal therapuetic modality in which individuals are able to create images of sentiments, cognitions, and happenings in their world. Developmentally, children struggle with tasks of representing these abstract items...
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 -- Assassination attempt, 1950; Presidents -- Assassination attempts -- United States
In the annals of United States history the attempted assassination of President Harry S. Truman by two Puerto Rican Nationalists is by most measures a relatively small event, but at the time this incident took place it was indeed a major news...
American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity -- In literature
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the complexities surrounding the acceptance of personal and cultural identity for protagonists in Chicano/a literature. By way of close reading analysis and methodological comparison, I delve into three...
