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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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An attachment-based model of compulsive hoarding

Nozick, Kimberly 12 September 2016 (has links)
Compulsive hoarding refers to the excessive acquisition of possessions, difficulty in discarding items, and the accumulation of clutter (Frost & Hartl, 1996). Since hoarding involves strong emotional attachments to objects, hoarding may be conceptualized as an attachment-related disorder. According to attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969), insecure attachment to others can occur when close relationships do not provide a sense of safety and security. This study explores a mediational model, whereby insecure attachment influences hoarding through the joint effect of relationship satisfaction, attachment to objects, and saving cognitions. A large community sample of adults (N = 1341) completed online measures. Assessment of the mediational model used an ordinary least-squares analytic framework to estimate direct and indirect effects, and bootstrap methods to obtain confidence intervals. Results provide support for the proposed mediational model. Similarities and differences between insecure attachment styles are discussed, as well as clinical implications for the treatment of hoarding. / October 2016
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Can occupational therapy address the occupational implications of hoarding?

Clarke, Cathy 04 March 2019 (has links)
Yes / Hoarding is often described as a medical disorder, defined by a persistent difficulty in discarding possessions and associated high levels of emotional distress when forced to part with these. This article will discuss how having a different view of hoarding, seeing hoarding as a daily occupation which provides value, purpose, and meaning and with a relationship to self-identity and life purpose, could offer alternate interventions to support an individual who hoards. The article will consider the components of hoarding activity and how these relate to health and wellbeing and doing, being, belonging, and becoming as understood by occupational therapists. The article will consider what occupational therapy, a profession which considers a person’s daily occupations, the things that occupy their time and which give meaning to their existence, could offer as an alternative to current hoarding interventions. Proposals for occupational therapy interventions will be suggested which would support occupational choice, support engagement in activities which have more positive outcomes on a person’s health, and seek to address barriers which limit engagement and occupational performance in activities within the person’s home environment.
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Disorder : rethinking hoarding inside and outside the museum

Chen, Hsiao-Jane Anna 03 February 2012 (has links)
Hoarding tends to appear in museum studies scholarship primarily as a foil for “proper” museological collecting. Yet hoarding has attracted a constellation of assumptions and meanings. In popular discourse, hoarding is often perceived as a behavior learned from a life of deprivation, while clinical discourse about hoarding seeks to determine how it should be classified in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. These multiple perspectives inform the ways in which hoarding, and by extension collecting and museum practices, can be defined and understood. This report, then, examines how the idea of the museum is incorporated, reworked, or even rejected in three case studies of hoarding: art-historical approaches to Andy Warhol’s hoarding habits; "Clean House," a television show that cleans and redecorates families’ cluttered homes; and "Hoarders," a television show that pairs hoarders with psychiatrists and professional organizers. In each case study, the discourse surrounding the hoarder attempts to bring hoarding in line with “acceptable” collecting practices. At the same time, this particular discourse competes with other messages about the cultural role of collecting, generating a dialogue with important implications for collecting institutions about acquisition and appraisal, curatorial and archival bias, and institutional identity. / text
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The determinants of gold hoarding in Argentina, 1900-1914

Preston, David Frank January 1969 (has links)
The thesis sets out to determine the causes of the gold hoarding and dishoarding in Argentina between 1900 and 1914. It was found that gold (dis)hoarding was part of a mechanism whereby the money supply was altered to meet demand through the exchange of gold pesos for paper. Speculation was important only in late 1913 and 1914 when the possibility emerged that paper would become inconvertible, the price of gold would rise and capital gains would accrue to gold holders. Five assumptions were made: (1) that the money supply was a function of the gold stock, (2) that the demand for money was a function of the level of income, (3) that the Neoclassical explanation of the determination of income fitted Argentina during this period, (4) that price and money income levels were given on world markets, and, (5) that the level of exports determined the level of income. In Argentina during the period 1900 - 1914, gold served two functions: (1) it provided the money supply, and (2) it balanced the international accounts. The thesis argues that although Argentinians were constrained by fixed levels of prices and income and by the rules of the gold standard they were able to alter the real supply of domestic currency by (dis)hoarding gold from their private stocks. Hoarding was found to be correlated with the velocity of money. Consequently it is argued that gold was used to adjust the money supply toward the level of income regardless of what the level of income was. Gold was also found to be correlated with income, although less highly than with velocity. Consequently gold tended to be dishoarded in years after a good spring crop when paper was needed to buy land and real estate and to expand production. In this way gold acted as a precautionary asset which could be used to make advantageous purchases and which was secure in value, the two criterion suggested by Keynes. However, gold behaved in the opposite way to the precautionary balance described by Friedman who felt that the asset would be dishoarded when income was low. Other possible determinants of gold (dis)hoarding were tested and rejected. Two proxies for the interest rate, railroad receipts, and the note issue (the money supply) were correlated with gold (dis)hoarding but the coefficients were not significant. The thesis also suggested that the definition of balance of payments equilibrium should allow for a persistent gold import which would provide a domestic money supply. In equilibrium the rate of gold import equals the rate of growth of income if a constant velocity of money is desired. A second subconclusion was that the international import of gold responded to demands for reserves made by the countries doing the trading. Although these demands were satisfied in the long run, they were not satisfied in the short run, and gold (dis)hoarding took place / Arts, Faculty of / Vancouver School of Economics / Graduate
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The study of being an adult daughter of a hoarding mother: A qualitative description

James, Hope 16 July 2007 (has links)
Research into the phenomenon of compulsive hoarding has only been conducted during the last twenty years. To date, no studies have been done that examine the impacts of compulsive hoarding on young and grown children. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore what the positive and negative impacts on children or adult children are. Twelve women, each identifying themselves as an adult child of a compulsive hoarder completed a qualitative questionnaire via email. Participants were recruited through membership in the internet support group, “children of hoarders”. All participants identified their mother as the compulsive hoarder. Three distinct themes emerged over three distinct time periods. The first time period begins with early childhood and continues through adolescence. The second begins with the time they first moved away from home. The third starts with the end of the second and continues through to whatever age they are today. The first theme's focus was the participants' feelings as associated with their mother's hoarding. The second theme dealt with a need to understand what “normal” is. The third theme was the means they use/used to cope with the situation. Clinical implications include support for using systems theory, ambiguous loss and attachment frameworks. This study also provides valuable information relevant to participants need to normalize their experiences. / Master of Science
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Self-help for hoarding a follow-up study /

Maxner, Sarah Beth. January 2010 (has links)
Honors Project--Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-37).
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Moral Reasoning and Moral Emotions Linking Hoarding and Scrupulosity

Lit, Keith 01 January 2017 (has links)
Hoarding and scrupulous OCD are part of the Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, which are characterized by obsessional preoccupation and ritualistic behavior. Prior research has found a statistical relationship between hoarding and scrupulosity after controlling for these common factors, suggesting the existence of other features shared by these two disorders. Clinical accounts and empirical research of hoarding and scrupulosity suggest three such shared factors: a tendency to experience intense guilt and shame, rigid moralistic thinking, and general cognitive rigidity. However, results of the current study show that, although both hoarding and scrupulosity were related to cognitive rigidity and a tendency to experience guilt and shame, they are not associated with rigid moralistic thinking. Instead, beliefs about the importance of emotions as moral guides were related to both disorders. These results are interpreted in terms of dual-process theories of moral reasoning. Additionally, implications for the conceptualization and treatment of hoarding and scrupulosity are discussed.
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Geography

McArdle, Molly 01 January 2015 (has links)
GEOGRAPHY is a novel of the District of Columbia.
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Effect of Acceptance Versus Psychoeducation on Hoarding

Ong, Clarissa W. 01 December 2018 (has links)
Hoarding disorder (HD) is a mental health condition characterized by difficulty letting go of possessions, resulting in clutter that prevents use of active living spaces. Consequences associated with hoarding include strained family relationships, distress for children in the home, and increased burden on social services. Currently, the most empirically supported treatment for HD is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which includes such components as education about the nature of hoarding, challenging unhelpful thoughts, and exposure to distressing stimuli. Despite its demonstrated effectiveness, CBT does not result in clinically significant improvement for at least 50% of individuals, indicating the need for alternative interventions for those who do not respond to CBT. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), an acceptance- and mindfulness-based therapy, is one potential alternative. The overarching aim of ACT is to improve psychological flexibility, the ability to act consistently with meaningful life directions in the presence of difficult internal experiences. Given the high levels of avoidance (e.g., of decision making, of distress) consistently observed in hoarding, increasing one’s range of responses to previously avoided stimuli in the service of more fulfilling activities may be a particularly useful skill. Furthermore, ACT has been found to be effective for clinical presentations related to HD, including anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The current exploratory study compared the effects of acceptance-based training to psychoeducation on several measures of hoarding severity in a sample of college students with elevated hoarding. Participants (N = 47) completed a discarding behavioral task and self-report measures at postintervention as well as an online follow-up survey one week later. There were no differences in outcomes between conditions over time, suggesting that acceptance training was not more effective than psychoeducation alone. Hoarding severity and thoughts related to hoarding significantly decreased from baseline to one-week follow-up, indicating that both interventions improved hoarding symptoms in our sample. These findings also suggest that early intervention may be a useful approach to alleviating hoarding symptoms.
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Decision-making in youth with hoarding symptoms

Elgie, Melissa 09 1900 (has links)
Hoarding symptoms are characterized by (1) a persistent difficulty discarding personal items (2) clutter that interferes with living areas and (3) clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning. Hoarding symptoms are common, affecting 2-6% of the general population and 20% to 56.7% of individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Research suggests that individuals who hoard have impaired decision-making, particularly when it involve making decisions about personal possessions. This is thought to be a key deficit in hoarding resulting in an inability to discard unneeded possessions. Although the onset of hoarding symptoms is usually during childhood or adolescence (youth), little research has investigated hoarding symptoms in youth. The present study compared different aspects of decision-making processes between youth with OCD and youth with OCD and hoarding symptoms. Specifically, we assessed decision-making and the influence of ownership using the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) and an endowment trading task, respectively. Additionally, we assessed cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control and delay discounting using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST), the Stop Signal Task (SST) and Monetary Choice Questionnaire (MCQ), respectively. Participants included 52 youth (8-18 years old), all with a primary DSM-5 diagnosis of OCD. Parents completed the Child Saving Inventory to measure the presence of hoarding symptoms and to create hoarding severity groups. Youth with hoarding symptoms exhibited differences in ownership-based decision making; specifically, we found a larger endowment effect compared to the non-hoarding group. Compared to participants with OCD only, participants with hoarding exhibited significantly increased cognitive flexibility and lowered perseveration on the WCST. Performance of the hoarding and non-hoarding groups did not differ on other aspects of decision-making, including non-ownership decision-making, inhibitory control and delay discounting. Further regression analysis suggested that increased hoarding severity was associated with higher inattentive symptoms and improved performance on the WCST. These findings support the notion that hoarding is associated with specific differences in making decisions about personal items. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

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