Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 33-07, Section: A, page: 3772. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1972.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 26-12, page: 7473. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1964.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 27-08, Section: A, page: 2616. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1966.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 27-08, Section: A, page: 2611. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1966.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 19-08, page: 2173. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1958.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 23-06, page: 2233. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1962.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-06, Section: B, page: 2905. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Considerable evidence exists that pregnancy disrupts sexual activity and intimacy among married couples. In this study, the impact of a psychoeducational intervention on the sexual and marital satisfaction, and sexual behavior was evaluated. The intervention was offered to 19 women in their seventh and eighth month of pregnancy and their husbands. Eighteen couples served as controls for a total N of 74. Subjects were recruited from obstetrical and family practices in the southeastern and northwestern United States. A post-test only experimental design was employed; couples were randomly assigned to either the treatment or control groups. / Follow-up data were collected at three months postpartum, using the Demographics, Sexual Diversity, and Sexual Frequency Scales of Pregnancy and Sexuality Questionnaire developed for this study; and the Marital Satisfaction, Sexual Relationship, and Communication scales of ENRICH (Olson, Fournier, and Druckman, 1983). The psychoeducational intervention was not found to have a significant effect on either sexual diversity or sexual frequency at follow-up, when controlled for prepregnancy sexual behavior, age, geographic location, sex, marital satisfaction, income, and number of years married. / Consistent with the reports of others in the literature, significant correlations were found between communication and diversity and frequency of sexual activity at three months postpartum among men in the treatment group, but not among women in the treatment group or men and women in the control group. Men have been reported to observe less change in sexuality during pregnancy and childbirth than women. / Recommendations for future research were offered to address limitations of the present study and other issues. In particular, replication of this study using more intensive, repeated psychoeducational interventions in group formats and collecting data at three, six, and nine months follow-up was recommended. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-06, Section: B, page: 3206. / Major Professor: Mary W. Hicks. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.

This descriptive study surveyed the psychotropic drug therapy practices of 13 psychiatrists over a period of two months to record how they responded to refusers and to determine the degree to which their day-to-day practice conformed to the principle of informed consent. Ninty refusers were identified out of a population of 309 adult civil patients and 653 forensic patients for whom psychotropics were prescribed. Patients were interviewed and ward charts were analyzed to determine capacity to consent to drug treatment, level of dangerousness, pattern of refusal, diagnosis, reasons for refusal and other demographic data. Medical staff were interviewed and a hospital-wide Likert attitude survey on informed consent was administered to 218 medical staff. / Interviews with medical staff and the use of psychotropics with 89% of the study population both indicated that psychiatrists and nurses saw psychotropics as the major form of treatment. Eleven and a half per cent of the population refused psychotropics at some point and 40% of these refusers had episodes which lasted 7 days or less. Fifty-six per cent of the refusers were forcibly medicated, but the reasons for such coercive procedures were seldom adequately documented. The study showed that the large number of coerced patients was not meaningfully related to their capacity to consent to treatment or to the degree of danger they represented. A small group of 3 psychiatrists accounted for 51% of all of the patients who were coerced. Seventy per cent of the civil refusers were coerced compared to 47% of the forensic refusers. / The results are analyzed in terms of a legal doctrine and policies and procedures which are not widely accepted by medical staff. In general, many medical staff did not look favorably on the implicit transfer of power and decision-making to mental patients that is inherent in the principle of informed consent. In view of considerable risks posed by psychotropics (e.g., tartive dyskinesia), it is recommended that greater provisions be made in state law and hospital procedures for judicial or quasi-judicial review of cases where a patient has articulated a desire to not take these medications. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-05, Section: B, page: 1747. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.

The current study was designed to collect data on a number of topics of interest to eyewitness researchers: (1) the predicted curvilinear relationship between arousal and facial recognition, (2) the interaction between gender and arousal, (3) the influence of personality on facial recognition, (4) the relationship between accuracy of prior description and identification accuracy, (5) the confidence-accuracy relationship, and (6) the relationship between arousal and time estimation. / Subjects were exposed to a live target under low, moderate, or high arousal levels. Afterwards, memory was assessed on a number of cognitive tasks: reaction time, accuracy, and confidence on a photo lineup; facial recall; and estimation of height, weight, age and duration of exposure to the target. In addition, data were collected on a number of personality variables: trait anxiety, extraversion, neuroticism, locus of control, and self-monitoring. / The data revealed the first tentative empirical support for generalizing the Yerkes-Dodson Law to facial recognition. The data revealed a curvilinear effect of arousal on facial recognition performance for females. Accuracy was better in the moderate (70%) than in the low (55%) and high conditions (39%). The effect accounted for 6% of the variance in accuracy but was not statistically significant. / Several additional findings appeared: (1) There was some evidence that females tend to do worse than males in recognizing a male face, at least with a target-present lineup. (2) Reaction time on the photo lineup was negatively correlated with confidence and accuracy, but positively correlated with choosing a photo from the lineup. (3) Subjects significantly overestimated the time that they saw the target person by a factor of 2.8 to 1 regardless of level of arousal. (4) There was little support for any relationship between personality and facial recognition. (5) Confidence and accuracy were positively correlated (r = .22), whereas confidence and choosing a photo from the lineup were negatively correlated (r = -.26). (6) Facial recognition and recall were significantly correlated at high levels of arousal (r = .25). In addition, facial recognition and recall were significantly correlated for females (r = .28), but not males. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-07, Section: B, page: 2496. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.