The goal of this research was (1) to identify the patterns or pattern pieces of development for heterosexual, dyadic, romantic relationships that emerge from mixed-sex, friendship groups and (2) to compare and contrast those patterns or pattern pieces to patterns in existing stage theories. To address these goals, data were collected from students at a mid-sized, northwestern, land-grant university. Grounded theory was selected to analyze the data to allow the potential emergence of new perspectives and patterns. Two conclusions about relationship development emerged from the collected data. First, some participants did not identify the friendship and the romance as two distinct relationships. On the other hand, a second set of participants indicated the friendship and romance were, in fact, two distinctly different relationships. Differences in conclusions drawn by these two groups generated six possible revisions to existing relationship development stage theories. / Graduation date: 2003

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-65). Also available via World Wide Web.

Thesis (BA(Hons) (Psychology)) - Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. / "October 2006". Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for post-graduate diploma of psychology, Swinburne University of Technology - 2006. Typescript.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--George Mason University, 2008. / Vita: p. 167. Thesis director: Steven Goodwin. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 8, 2008). Also issued in print.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--West Virginia University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 225 p. Includes abstract.

Thesis (M.A.), English, Creative Writing--University of Central Oklahoma, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf xvii).

This novel is a work of historical fiction that explores the aftermath of the execution of a local doctor who became infamous after preserving the corpse of his beloved. The two protagonists journey to Key West from Miami during the summer of 1952 to investigate the disappearance of the girl's missing bones, but soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that plumbs the most terrifying depths of love and its disquieting entanglements. The tale follows the protagonists, Lens Burnside and Iris Elliot, as they navigate the island's darkest corridors and expose a few of its most unusual secrets on a journey of love, mayhem and madness as they fall under the spell of the island and fall in love with each other. / by Courtney Watson. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 1991. / A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 34).