A skills training package designed to teach effective dating skills to mentally disabled patients was investigated. Nine male, mentally disabled outpatients were randomly assigned to either a dating skills treatment group or an attention placebojwaiting list control group. The training package consisted of presentation of information, prompting, modeling, behavioral rehearsal, Live and taped feedback, and homework assignments. Skills taught were ways of enhancing physical attractiveness, appropriate partner selection, and social skills. Dependent measures used to measure training efficacy were an anxiety measure, three measures of heterosexual interaction at a party, ratings of physical attractiveness, an appropriate partner choice measure, a behavioral measure of social skills, frequency of dating, an oral quiz of social skills, and a personal hygiene checklist. Results indicated that the oral quiz of social skills was the only measure in which the trained subjects performed superior to the control subjects. The other nine measures failed to yield I any significant difference between groups. Discussion focused on factors accounting for the negative findings.

Reality dating shows like "The Bachelor," "The Bachelorette," "Average Joe," "For Love or Money" and "Joe Millionaire" have recently attracted a growing number of viewers in the United States. As these reality dating shows pry into the most intimate corners of the lives of ordinary people, they have many people questioning their impact on society. However, there has not been extensive research on this subject. The purpose of the study was to examine the extent that exposure to reality television dating shows have on the cultivation of attitudes and perceptions of interpersonal relationships among college students in the United States. Exposure to reality television dating shows as measured by days viewed in an average week was found to be correlated with the acceptance of dysfunctional relationship beliefs. However, the effect of exposure was found to depend on the amount of perceived realism with the effect stronger for those who evaluated the shows as realistic. These results are more supportive of cognitive-functional theory, rather than cultivation theory. No effects of exposure were found on acceptance of unrealistic relational beliefs.

The problem this study addressed involves how college students since the year 2020 in the U.S. have been negotiating romance, dating, and sexual relationships in the unique historical period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, this study addressed the problem of needing to determine how the pandemic may have disrupted college students’ intimate sexual experiences—and impacted their mental health, physical health, and experiences of social support. The main purpose was to identify significant predictors of the study outcome variable of a higher rating of self-efficacy for engaging in safer sexual behaviors. An additional purpose of the study was to determine if there were significant differences in students’ mean ratings—when comparing mean scores for 5 time periods (i.e. 1-2018-2019/freshman year before the pandemic; 2-2019-2020/second semester of sophomore year during pandemic; 3-2020-2021/junior year during pandemic; 4-2021-2022/senior year during the pandemic; and, 5-currently, especially the past 3 months)—for physical health, mental health, social support, and level of involvement in romantic, intimate, serious dating, or sexual relationships. Overall, comparisons for time periods found deterioration during the pandemic years with some signs of improvement by the current time period of Spring 2023. Findings showed females had higher self-efficacy to perform safer sexual behaviors, but also that survey respondents who lived independently had higher self-efficacy to perform safer sexual behaviors, those who had a COVID-19 diagnosis in the past two years had higher self-efficacy to perform safer sexual behaviors, and survey respondents whose college did have a sexual assault media campaign had higher self-efficacy to perform safer sexual behaviors. The results of the backwards stepwise regression found that higher self-efficacy to perform safer sexual behaviors was significantly predicted by higher age, higher income, higher BMI, lower social support, higher current romantic involvement, higher exposure to sexual assault information on campus, lower alcohol/drug use during sex, and higher stage of change for engagement in safer sex—as a global mean score capturing four risk reduction behaviors; and, 56.4% of the variance was explained by the model. Implications and recommendations are discussed with a focus on the need for longitudinal studies with a nationally representative sample.

Dating relationships were examined for a sample of 156 female and 124 male college freshman. Comparison of self esteem, mastery, coping strategies, and negotiation styles were made between those who had experienced dating violence and those who had not. A theoretical framework based on the resource aspect of exchange theory is used to frame the study. Factor analysis was used to identify coping strategies and negotiation styles. Discriminate analysis was used to determine the discriminating power of the independent variables. Findings indicate that the negotiation style of Negative Affect and the coping strategies of Confrontation and Social Support discriminate between violent and nonviolent group membership. / Master of Science

<p>Abstract</p><p>The album phenomenon developed in France and Spain and lasted throughout the entire nineteenth century. Albums were books with blank pages in which the owner collected contributions in the form of poetry, drawings, and music scores. These works were created for album owners by friends, acquaintances, and sometimes even suitors, and were meant to pay tribute to them. It is possible to imagine the album as a space of intense social and economic rivalry, in which owners of the books competed with one another to obtain the most luxurious books, and to fill them with the greatest number of entries from renowned artists. Similarly, contributors implicitly competed with one another to create the highest quality entries and contribute to albums that advanced their status as artists. However, established writers did not need further publicity, and many complained about the hassle of the constant request for contributions. To highlight the scope of the album phenomenon, and the frustration it caused writers and artists, José Zorrilla denounced album entry requests, stating that he had been solicited for album contributions a total of 188,000 times in his life. Honoré de Balzac condemned the album fashion even more fervently, declaring: "To hell with all albums." </p><p>I study the album as a practice that provides important information regarding gender, economic, and artistic exchanges in the milieus in which it flourished. My approach is based on the study of different types of texts. First, I analyze three essays on social customs that present the album from a perspective that mixes journalism and satire: Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy's 1811 essays "Des Album" and "Recherches sur l'Album et sur le chiffonier sentimental," and Mariano José de Larra's 1835 essay "El album." I use these essays to formulate a contextual theory on the album. I also examine nineteenth-century albums that I consulted in archives in France and Spain. Studying both the material construction of the albums and the contributions included in them, I try to understand the social and economic determinants of this social custom. Through the album entries, I explore the artistic networks established through, and exploited by, the album phenomenon, which were essential for successfully collecting contributions. Finally, I analyze fictional texts in which the album serves as a pivotal plot element used to shape the development of the stories and the roles of the protagonists. In my analysis of literary texts that portray the album, I focus on the establishment of gender and economic exchanges in this practice. I explore the imposition of traditional gender roles in the album phenomenon, according to which women were exclusively album owners and men were contributors. In my analysis of fictional texts, I also examine the economic aspect of this practice, reflecting upon the social class of the fictional characters involved in it. The literary texts that I study are: Honoré de Balzac's La Muse du département (1837), Manuel Bretón de los Herreros' El poeta y la beneficiada. Comedia en dos actos (1838) and El cuarto de hora. Comedia en cinco actos (1848), Juan de Ariza's "Historia de un album" (1847), Henri de Meilhac's L'autographe. Comédie en un acte (1858), Antonio Flores' "Cuadro cincuenta y uno. Placeres de sobremesa" (1863), José María de Pereda's Pedro Sánchez (1883), Juan López Valdemoro's "El álbum" (1886), and Leopoldo Alas `Clarín''s "Album-abanico" (1898). </p><p>The nineteenth century saw the rise of consumer culture and the proliferation of objects, such as cardholders, parasols, fans, pocket watches, and other trinkets. The album is at once part of this plethora of nineteenth-century objects and yet it is also distinct, in that it was a special piece of material culture that promoted a particular type of personal communication and required the creation of textual production. The album was established as a unique cultural manifestation, the study of which allows for a reconstruction of different types of social dynamics in its milieu. </p><p>Due to the complexity and richness of this object-centered practice, and the ways in which it developed, the album offers multiple analytical possibilities, as a social, historical, and literary phenomenon. One of the most significant contributions of this project lies in its transnational perspective and in its comparative analysis of different types of texts: essays on social customs, literary texts, and personal collections that survive in archival albums. The study of the exchanges that were fostered, and capitalized upon, through the album fashion is essential for understanding notions of private and public and collection as a practice. My analysis of the album yields invaluable insights into gender and class dynamics, ideas of art, and visual and material culture in nineteenth-century France and Spain.</p> / Dissertation

This study traces the history of debutante presentations in Dallas, Texas, from 1884 to 1976. Manuscript materials, organizational collections, interviews, and published sources were used to document and establish past and present information. The problem is organized topically and treated in chronological order within each subject. The role of four bachelors' clubs, Idlewild, Terpsichorean, Calyx, and Dervish, is emphasized and the influence of a business known as Party Service is considered. The evidence gathered for this work suggests the following conclusions: that a complicated and lavish process has evolved, that the influence of heritage and family prominence has gradually eroded, that emphasis centers now on the recently financially successful families, and that despite these changes, the ritual of debutante presentations in Dallas remains strong.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 229-237).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 229-237).

Orientador: Jose Alves de Freitas Neto / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T21:52:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Abrahao_ElianeMorelli_M.pdf: 5923289 bytes, checksum: c4506e7ba6b0cb5c4038b049c5b4989b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Nessa dissertação de mestrado a análise dos dados coletados dos Inventários post mortem do Tribunal de Justiça de Campinas possibilitou-nos estudar a história de Campinas por meio da cultura material, dos valores culturais, sociais e econômicos compartilhados pela sociedade campineira da segunda metade do século XIX. Período no qual a cidade acentuou seu processo de modernização urbana e rural, graças inicialmente à economia açucareira e depois, cafeeira. A materialidade presente nas habitações, os artefatos e objetos do cotidiano ¿ mobiliário e utensílios domésticos ¿, permitiu-nos apreender o modo de vida privado, os códigos e símbolos presentes nesse ambiente familiar, levandonos a uma análise minuciosa das condutas e comportamentos de seus moradores. Identificamos as mudanças comportamentais dessa sociedade em seus modos de morar e na prática de uma sociabilidade intimamente relacionada a alimentação, transformando ambientes como as salas de visita e de jantar em palcos de representação social que serviram de delimitadores sociais / Abstract: In this dissertation the analysis of the data collected from the post mortem Inventories of the Tribunal of Justice the Campinas permitted us to study the history of Campinas through material culture, the cultural, social and economic values shared by its society in the second half of the nineteenth century. Period in which the city lived its urban and rural modernization process, initially in consequence of the sugar economy and later of the coffee economy. The materiality existent in the habitations, the daily life artifacts and objects ¿ furniture and household utensils -, permitted us to know the private way of life, the codes and symbols present in this family house environment, leading us to a thorough review of the conduct and behavior of its people. We identified behavioral changes in this society by its ways of living and its closely related to nutrition sociability, transforming dining and living rooms to stages of social representation which served as social delimiters / Mestrado / Historia Cultural / Mestre em História

Orientador: Maria Tereza Duarte Paes Luchiari / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociencias / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T01:37:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mesquita_Erika_M.pdf: 2190119 bytes, checksum: ebfac51682fbcb6b3626cee022e0a624 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Presenciamos a subordinação da cultura aos ditames do capital, a paisagem, como mais um produto à venda vem transformando os sentidos dos territórios e do patrimônio cultural. É um processo que vem alterando materialmente e simbolicamente o território e seus usos, por meio da refuncionalização turística que vem sofrendo o patrimônio cultural de Cunha. A apropriação de velhas paisagens e a reterritorialização de novas são responsáveis por uma nova reconfiguração espacial. Compreender a dimensão sócio-espacial dessas transformações em Cunha, com referencias culturais tão latentes, é o que nos propomos nessa análise / Abstract: We observe the subordination of the culture to the dictates of the capital, the scenery or landscapes like one more product for sale is transforming the senses of the territories and of the cultural inheritance. It is a process what it is altering materially and symbolically the territory and his uses, through the tourist refuncionalização that is suffering the cultural inheritance of Wedge. The appropriation of old sceneries and the reterritorialização of territory are responsible for a new space reconfiguration. It is what we intend this analysis understand the relation of dimension socio-space of these transformations and the dimension in Cunha, and with references cultural so latent in the region / Mestrado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Mestre em Geografia