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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Congruence of coping styles and environmental settings : a closer look at adolescent males with conduct disorder /

Gibbons, Elizabeth Ann, January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-236). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.
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Skill change as a mediator of treatment efficacy for depressed and conduct-disordered youth /

Kaufman, Noah Krsna, January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-103). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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A computational investigation into maladaptive aggression a dissertation /

Coppersmith, Glen Anthony. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Northeastern University, 2008. / Title from title page (viewed April 2, 2009). Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-114).
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Neuropsychological deficits in adolescents with psychopathic characteristics callous and unemotional symptoms /

Greene, Tara. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duquesne University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-167) and index.
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Mixture modeling with behavioral data

Clark, Shaunna Lynn, January 2010 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2010. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Differential diagnosis of oppositional defiant and conduct disorder utilizing the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory

Davis, Kathleen Marg January 2007 (has links)
Studying disruptive behavior disorders in adolescents is critical; however, there is a paucity of literature on methods for differentially diagnosing the two main disruptive behavior disorders: Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder. Conduct Disorder is defined as a persistent pattern of behavior where the basic rights of others or other major social norms are violated whereas Oppositional Defiant Disorder is usually diagnosed in childhood or adolescence, and is defined by a pattern of disobedient, hostile, or defiant behavior towards authority figures. Despite some similarities in presentation, the majority of research supports the notion that these two disorders are distinct. Finding accurate ways to differentiate these two disorders is important for discovering and implementing empirically validated treatments. The primary purpose of this study was to determine how the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory, a commonly used self-report scale, distinguished between adolescents presenting with either Oppositional Defiant or Conduct Disorder who had been admitted to a residential treatment facility. A secondary component of the current study examined gender differences in the two disorders.Multivariate Analysis of Variance was used to determine if the two diagnostic or gender groups were significantly different. If so, discriminant function analysis was employed to determine where the difference occurred. Although some scales approached significance, there were no statistical differences among adolescents with Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder across any of the dependent variables. There were, however, gender and age differences found across several scales. Unfortunately, because there were no interactions with diagnosis on any scales, differences occurred equally among adolescents from either diagnostic group. This result raises questions as to whether the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory is a useful diagnostic instrument for disruptive behavior disorders. This instrument may be more useful to determine individual characteristics that would impact treatment than as an instrument for researchers studying empirically validated interventions for Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. / Department of Educational Psychology
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Psychophysiological measures of aggression and victimization in early adolescence

Unknown Date (has links)
Many cardiovascular psychophysiological studies have found evidence of lower arousal states in aggressive individuals and hyper-arousal states in individuals exposed to chronic stress. However, most of these studies have relied on clinical diagnoses or self-reports to identify aggressive and victimized individuals. The present study used peer nominations to identify aggressive, victimized, and non-aggressive or victimized adolescents (mean age = 12.09 yrs.) to examine if any psychophysiological differences exist during resting and startle conditions. ANOVAs revealed that high aggressive/low victimized adolescents had a lower resting heart period/rate compared to high victimized/low aggressive adolescents. Further analyses revealed a statistical trend of lower resting heart period variability in high victimized/low aggressive individuals compared to non-aggressive non-victimized controls. Due to evidence suggesting that individuals with high self-reported empathy display less aggression, empathy as a moderator for aggression was investigated. Although gender differences w3ere found across measures, empathy ws not found to moderate aggression. / by Christopher Aults. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.
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Parental responsibility for the illicit acts of their children

White, Nancy A January 2007 (has links)
The aim of this thesis was to explore the psychological, political, legal, and parental notions of parental responsibility in Australia. The initial study involved an analysis of Australian print media over a four-year period ( 2001 - 2005 ) and highlighted how the representation of this topic has been weaved into public awareness. Political justifications of such legislation involved positioning parents whose children offend as either ' bad ' parents or parents with poor skills. Once such parents were positioned as problematic then the benefits of the legislation to society, children and the parents was touted. Over the period of the study such representations increased in the Australian print media, with no articles published in 2001 on this topic, and 46 articles relating to parental responsibility by 2005. The first empirical study involved an examination of the effect of the age and gender of the young offender, the type of offence ( property or personal ) and the severity of the offence ( low or high ) on attributions of responsibility to parents and children. Findings suggested that participants ( 93 parents ) view children as mainly responsible when they offend regardless of age ( 10, or 13 years of age ). However, results also indicated that as children mature, their responsibility increases. Parents were attributed significantly less responsibility for their children's offending behaviour, with their responsibility decreasing as their children's age increases. The responsibility of children and their parents also significantly increased as the severity of the offence increased. These findings were replicated in Study 2 ( N = 177 parents ) despite the inclusion of a 16-year-old offender. The older adolescent child was attributed more responsibility than the 10 and 13 year old offender, and the parent was attributed less responsibility for their child's offending. Data from Study 1 and 2 were qualitatively analysed and an analysis of the qualitative components of both studies indicated that parents attributed responsibility to children who were seen to understand issues of right and wrong, or when it was evident that children had planned the behaviour. Parents were attributed responsibility on the basis of their level of surveillance of their children, using supervision and communication to monitor their children appropriately. Inadequate parenting resulted in failure to control and supervise one's children. Parents also employed various justifications to mitigate parents and their children's responsibility, with children's age being used to argue immaturity and therefore diminished culpability. Sixteen-year-old adolescent children were positioned as distinctly different from the two other age groups. / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 2007.
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Multiple pathways from ADHD to substance use disorders in adolescents /

Abrantes, Ana Maria. January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-104).
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Moderators and mediators of therapeutic change in multisystemic treatment of serious juvenile offenders /

Schaeffer, Cindy M. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-103). Also available on the Internet.

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