Research in the area of personality and memory interactions has focused mainly on memorization of word lists and has been conducted mainly in the laboratory. A growing interest in how memory for everyday events effects personality and how one chooses to respond to present and future situations is occurring. / This study investigated the effect that one's cognitive (field dependence/independence) has on one's autobiographical memory of events in a person's life. Two hundred and one undergraduate psychology students at Florida State University were administered the Group Embedded Figures Test (Witkin, Oltman, Raskin, & Karp, 1971). Subjects were then shown one two videotapes of a two-minute counseling interaction. The videotapes were similar in dialogue. However, one was of an emotionally-neutral interaction and the other was emotionally-charged. / After viewing the videotape, subjects completed recall and recognition items about their memory of the event. They also were asked to generate hypotheses about what the client and counselor may be feeling and thinking. After scoring the instruments the data were analyzed using the BMDP-4V Univariate and Multivariate ANOVA Program. A 2 (cognitive style) x 2 (treatment) factorial design with nine dependent variables (a recall and a recognition score for the areas of dialogue, background, actors, and action, and a hypothesis generation score) was utilized. / It was found that no significant difference exists between field dependent and field independent subjects in their ability to recall and recognize information in the areas of dialogue, background, actors, and action. It was also found that subjects in the emotionally-charged treatment were able to recall more information for the variables of actors and action, and to recognize more information in the background variable than subjects in the emotionally-neutral treatment condition. Results show that there is no significant difference between field dependent and field independent subjects in their ability to recall and recognize information in either treatment condition. It was also found that field independent subjects in the emotionally-charged condition generated fewer hypotheses in the emotionally-charged treatment condition. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-03, Section: B, page: 0936. / Major Professor: F. Donald Kelly. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title from title page (viewed Apr. 23, 2007) Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-52).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on December 19, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

The purpose of this study was to determine if Holland vocational personality type similarity and/or traditional/ egalitarian family ideology affected marital satisfaction among dual-career spouses. The population for this study was Oregon State University graduate students and faculty, married to spouses who had career aspirations outside the home. Holland personality type (HPT) of respondents was determined by choice of graduate school major. The degree of similarity between the HPTs of the spouses was determined using the Holland hexagon model. Family ideology was assessed using the Traditional Family Ideology scale. Marital satisfaction was assessed using the Locke Marital Adjustment Test. A 2x3 ANOVA was performed with marital satisfaction as the dependent variable. All tests were performed with α= . 05 and a statistical power level of .80. Tukey's multiple comparisons test was used to determine which cell means were different. No statistical interaction was found. Chi-square was used to determine if mate selection was affected by HPT similarity. This study found no difference in marital satisfaction (MS} between spouses married to mates of identical HPT as themselves, compared to spouses married to mates having dissimilar HPTs. However, those spouses married to mates having an intermediate level of HPT similarity as themselves reported lower levels of marital satisfaction than either the identical HPT or dissimilar HPT group. The finding of low marital satisfaction among these couples was not consistent with expectations based upon the Holland theory. This finding may have been in part a function of the Artistic/Investigative type combination which predominated in this group, or a function for respondent's level of self-esteem. Family ideology did not affect MS in this study. While the number of marriages among spouses sharing identical HPTs did not exceed chance expectation, this finding may have been biased due to the predominantly Investigative environment of the University. / Graduation date: 1985

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-74). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-74). Also available on the Internet.

Akademisk avhandling-Lund. / Extra t.p., with thesis note, inserted. Bibliography: p. [389]-394.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University. / Bibliography: leaves 23-24.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-185). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (B. Psy. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.