Fifty depressed and fifty nondepressed undergraduate students assigned to categories on the basis of their scores on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) viewed two short therapy vignettes on video tape depicting the interaction of a "therapist" employing a cognitive-behavioral intervention (Beck) and a "therapist" employing a Self analytic intervention with a depressed "patient". Subjects indicated their initial mood prior to viewing the videos on an adjective checklist, and again after each video. Subjects filled out questionnaires after each video regarding the interaction of the "therapist" with "parient", and also gave verbal appraisals of the "therapists". The results indicated that the Beck "therapist" was viewed as more coercive and demanding than the Self "therapist" by both groups. The depressive found the Self "therapist" more appealing on most ratings of positive attributes and gave the Beck "therapist" higher ratings on most negative attributes. Both groups believed that the Self "therapist" would help the "patient" acquire greater self-efficacy with successful intervention compared to the Beck "therapist". The results are discussed in relation to interpersonal theory and implications for therapeutic intervention. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-03, Section: B, page: 0911. / Major Professor: Jack E. Hokanson. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.

The study investigated the impact of the Need for Affect personality construct on the processing of advertisements. The purpose of the present study was to gain a better understanding of if, and how need for cognition, sensation seeking, and affect intensity may influence select consumer responses to public service announcements. The study also attempted to provide a better understanding of how prior product use may influence select consumer responses. / Specifically, the study attempted to improve the understanding of factors that should be considered in efforts to successfully demarket alcohol abuse among college students. A control group and an experimental group answered questions at the beginning of the study pertaining to need for cognition, sensation seeking, affect intensity, and prior product use. Two weeks later, the experimental group was exposed to three videotaped programs embedded with commercial messages including a public service announcement pertaining to the responsible use of alcohol. Three days after viewing the last videotape, the experimental group answered a questionnaire pertaining to memory of the advertising messages, attitude toward the advertising messages, and intention to behave. After another two weeks, subjects in both the control group and the experimental group answered a questionnaire pertaining to their use of alcohol during the prior two-week period. / The variables of need for cognition, sensation seeking, affect intensity, prior product use, memory of the advertising message, attitude toward the ad, intention to behave, and behavior were linked to create a multidimensional model. Results of the study indicated that high levels of sensation seeking and prior product use were the best predictors of behavior. Need for cognition and affect intensity were not good predictors of behavior. Sensation seeking was an important indicator of prior product use and intention to buy and consume alcoholic beverages. Although affect intensity did not have a significant influence on behavior, it did have a significant influence on attitude toward the ad. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-08, Section: A, page: 3222. / Major Professor: Richard Mizerski. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.

This thesis began largely as an exploration into right-wing political ideology and its relationship to The Authoritarian Personality proposed by Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswick, Levinson and Sanford (1950). It had initially been envisaged that contemporary examples would manifest themselves within many neo-Fascist or ‘White Pride’ style organisations and as an adage to their supposed historical underpinnings, would therefore be representative of modern day authoritarianism. As previously discovered by Eysenck and Coulter (1974) in their examination of British Fascists and Communists, the authoritarian syndrome is somewhat more complex to explain by way of reference to a number of radical semi-political organisations. Subsequently, the thesis was to take on a deeper and more philosophical direction as various parts of the literature were analysed and critiqued. And indeed to some extent the original proposal was abandoned in favour of a richer and more conceptual approach to our understanding of authoritarianism. This was discovered to be distinctly missing from the majority of the current literature in the field.

Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Psychology-Industrial/Organizational, 2009. / "May, 2009." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 11/27/2009) Advisor, Andrea Snell; Committee members, Robert Lord, Aaron Schmidt, James Diefendorff, Matthew Lee; Department Chair, Paul Levy; Dean of the College, Chand Midha; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-81).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Couseling and Educational Psychology, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Feb. 10, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: . Adviser: Rex Stockton.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cleveland State University, 2009. / Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Dec. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-127). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center and also available in print.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lehigh University, 2009. / Adviser: Arnold Spokane.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lehigh University, 2009. / Adviser: Michael J. Gill.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: B, page: 3822. Adviser: James Rounds. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-98) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.