<p> Conflict management style preference and use of mediation within the Black population in the United States (US) is not well understood. The purpose of this study is to find out if there is a significant difference in conflict management style preference and use of mediation by African Americans and Afro-Caribbean (Jamaicans) living in the United States. Based on Hofstede's theory of individualism-collectivism cultural orientation, the US culture emphasizes individualism while Jamaica&rsquo;s culture emphasizes collectivism. Responses were collected from 108 African American and Jamaican respondents anonymously, of which 96 were deemed usable. The Rahim (1983) Organizational Conflict Management Style Inventory was used to collect data on the five styles and was analyzed with the appropriate statistic test. A thematic analysis was used to analyze the text-based data gathered from the two open-ended questions at the end of the survey. The thematic analysis revealed two major themes: personal and workplace relationship conflict situations. It is recommended that future study includes three groups of Blacks instead of two groups. The preferred conflict management style from the combined group result is the compromising style. A significant difference was found in the obliging and compromising conflict management styles between African Americans and Jamaicans. No significant difference was found between the groups&rsquo; conflict management style and willingness to use mediation. The open-ended questions and individual textual description of conflict experience and willingness to use mediation were used to clarify the quantitative results and provide a better understanding of the similarities and differences among people of African descent from different cultural orientations.</p><p>

This dissertation reopens the literature of the thirties by using a concept known in psychoanalytic discourse as "splitting" to analyze four representative works--Call It Sleep, For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Unpossessed. In object relations theory, splitting refers to the mental processes of projection and introjection that enable separation of comforting and discomforting thoughts. When subjected to analysis using this concept, new issues appear in each text. The dialectical role of splitting--the integrative and moral function of emotional exorcism--emerges as a central concern for Roth and Hemingway. The relationship of splitting to economic exploitation can be seen in Steinbeck's writing. The aesthetic implications of splitting becomes the topic of discussion when analyzing Slesinger's novel. I base my discussion on the assumption that the brutal ethnic, class, and national divisions of this decade suggest that these texts were conducting a correspondence about the mental position of the nation.

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Florida State University, Department of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 24, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-180). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

<p> The epitome of psychoanalysis is the process of psyche integration&mdash;making the unconscious conscious. As such, the unconscious material holds that which is feared most, the unknown. Buried within the unconscious, the shadow is born; an eerie abyss of repressed emotions, unwanted memories, and forgotten fantasies. Accessing this material can be wearisome, even distressing, without skillful clinical support. This dissertation postulates using literature as conduit in a therapeutic setting to facilitate psyche integration and healthy psychological development. The foundation of depth psychology lends a perfect lens through which to view a literary work because of the emphasis for considering the presence of the unconscious. A hermeneutic research methodology and imaginal approach are used to discuss unconscious material derived from the textual themes and characters in selected works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe&rsquo;s works provide an appropriate framework to hold shadow material as he utilized and personified psychological affects directly correlated to the shadow, and they still possess the ability to connect to their reader a century and a half after conception. The selected works for this dissertation analysis include: &ldquo;Ligeia&rdquo; (1838), &ldquo;The Fall of the House of Usher&rdquo; (1839), and &ldquo;William Wilson&rdquo; (1840). </p><p> <i>Keywords:</i> Edgar Allan Poe, shadow, literature, textual hermeneutic wheel, imaginal, depth psychology.</p>

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: Elaine B. Safer, Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 204-217).

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2008. / Document formatted into pages; contains v, 93 p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289).

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, March, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.