"The following study is an attempt to compare the relative amount of personal space to demographic variables of sex and socio-economic status."--9.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-115).

The problem with which this study was concerned was that of evaluating and comparing of locus of control scores and interpersonal distance among the institutionalized and non-institutionalized mildly retarded populations. The hypothetical assumptions specifically stated that the institutionalized retardates will be more externally oriented, will show a greater interpersonal distance towards stimuli with no specific expectancies. In view of the findings of the study, the following recommendations are offered: 1. Determination and evaluation of locus of control in retardates may be a useful technique in assessing their personality and understanding their psychological needs. Several investigators have been attempted with neurotics and subjects with character disorders, but none is reported with retarded populations. Such information may contribute to planning and programming for this particular group. 2. Determination of the retardates' interpersonal space may be an important approach in assessing their personality structure. Such studies have been conducted with the emotionally disturbed children, schizophrenics and normal subjects; however, none has been conducted with retardates. 3. The instruments used for this study have been designed for and standardized on samples of normal populations. To achieve more accurate results, these instruments should be designed for and standardized on a sample consisting of retarded subjects. 4. The only validity and reliability studies available have been conducted with normal subjects. To determine applicability of these instruments with retarded populations, further validity and reliability studies are needed. 5. Samples of more comparable average ages may be more suitable for the replication of this study. Previous research by Bailer has clearly indicated that there is a positive correlation between chronological ages of the subjects and the degree of internal locus of control. Therefore, in future studies this factor must seriously be considered.

The study was conducted to investigate the result of three differential seating arrangements in college classrooms on anxiety level, acquaintance volume, and perceived social distance among students.

published_or_final_version / Social Work and Social Administration / Master / Master of Philosophy

Thesis (M.Arch.) - Carleton University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-104). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Detroit Mercy, 2007 / "30 April 2007". Includes bibliographical references (p. 18-20).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references.

Diss. Universiẗat Witten/Herdecke, 2008. / Originaltitel im Buch nicht angegeben; Titel der Diss.: To elucidate the subjective feeling, or absence, of distress during certain nursing procedures in patients who have visual privacy and those who do not; Deutsch: Analyse des subjektiven Empfindens bei (oder Fehlens von) Leid von Patienten mit visueller Privatsphäre und solchen ohne während bestimmter pflegerischer Behandlungsmethoden. Literaturverz. S. 107-110. Literaturverz.

abstract: Traditional healthcare narratives have set the stage for the care of the population with Severe Mental Illness (P-SMI). Thus far, two prevailing health strategies anchor services for mental illnesses, acute psychiatric care, and mental health, psychosocial rehabilitation. Between these, care transitions mediate PSMI’s needs and their movements from the hospital to the community and home. However, as individuals with Severe Mental Illness (i-SMI’s) leave the hospital, time is short with little opportunity to make known authentic narratives born out of self-evidence. After transitional care, maintenance treatment re-centers these individuals back into a playbook with operatives of pathology and disability and inconsistencies with the narratives on recovery and rehabilitation. This project sought to hear i-SMI’s stories and propose how their experience can be used to create a new “counter” story of transition that empowers these individuals through a better understanding of their “space”: conceptualized here, as all that surrounds them and is dynamic and responsive to their interactions and needs. Underpinning this inquiry is a post-modernist conversation that converges on the critical perspectives in the theory of architecture, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and the aesthetic practice of psychiatric nursing in the context of transitional care. A qualitative paradigm of narrative repair guides an ethical appraisal, “deprivation of opportunity,” and “infiltrated consciousness,” regarding relational power dynamics that are at work in healthcare master narratives. Narrative findings of this study reveal that identity and agency come together in a personal space of safety born out of a core sense of self, belonging, and control. Space emerges within the self-narrative as physical sensibilities in the constructs of agency and safety, and as with emotional responses, metaphor and meaning can repair personal transitions. The counterstory derived from the narrative findings reveals: Equitable relational dynamics attune social space, the physical environment, and meaning, as a response to the dismissiveness and overcontrolling health professional power. Thus, the journey toward narrative repair from the perspective of i-SMI’s uncovers a deeper counternarrative, Ecosystem of Space: the manifestation of a personal architecture for healing, making a systematic organic-space-experience for the core sense of self to transition and flourish. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Nursing and Healthcare Innovation 2020