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The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of three indirect models of service delivery in treating children with externalizing and internalizing behavior problems: the highly individualized behavioral consultation model (CBC); minimal consultation with videotape therapy (GVT); and self-administered videotape therapy only (VT). This study also sought to ascertain whether parent and teacher consultation increases parental involvement in their children's education. Specifically, the relationship between perceived self-efficacy and mothers' involvement in their children's education was examined. Thirty-five preschool and elementary school children, their mothers, and teachers were assigned to one of the three treatment conditions. An A-B repeated measures group research design was used to analyze the effectiveness of consultation. Outcome variables included mothers' and teachers' direct observation of target behavior, their ratings of social skills, internalizing, externalizing, and general problem behaviors, and an observational measure of child deviance behaviors and parenting skills. Results indicated that children's target behaviors improved from baseline to treatment in all three treatment conditions. Overall, children's social skills increased and behavior problems decreased over the course of treatment. Pretreatment and posttreatment self-efficacy was assessed via rating scales. Although results suggest that parent and teacher self-efficacy did not change as a result of treatment, self-efficacy ratings were associated with more hours of mother involvement in educational activities per week. These results are discussed in light of their practical and theoretical implications.

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Since no previous unifying theoretical framework existed for viewing the different instances of chimpanzee predatory aggression (i.e., predatory behavior, cannibalism, infanticide, and warfare), the author developed a model for predatory aggression which differentiated the proximate and ultimate causes of predatory aggression, showed how these proximate and ultimate causes are correlated, showed how the ultimate function of any instance of predatory aggression is the solution of an ecological problem (thus contributing to the gene copying success of an individual and his kin), and showed how predatory aggression is likely to appear when any of a variety of combinations of proximal environmental factors causes the benefits of predatory aggression to exceed its costs.The model also helped suggest how developing inter-community and intra-community selection pressures initially made it advantageous for predatory aggression to be used on conspecifics, and how multiple selection pressures brought about the merging of intra-specific and inter-specific aggressive components in chimpanzee killing behavior.Essential to the creation of this model was a theoretical discussion of killing behavior, a survey of chimpanzee behavior and social structure, a survey of the incidence of chimpanzee killing behavior, and a summary of the various hypotheses for the cause and functions of predatory aggression.The author sees this model as an advance over previous explanations of chimpanzees predatory aggression because the model explains the ultimate as well as proximate causes of predatory aggression, it shows how the ultimate function of predatory aggression is to solve ecological problems and contribute to the gene-copying success of an individual and his kin, and it indicates how predatory aggression can link with other types of aggressive behavior patterns depending upon the immediate conditions of the environment.The importance of the preceding study lies in its ability to provide a model for the evolution of conspecific killing in protohominids.

In line with the call for more PhD dissertations based on replication work (Reid, 1981), this thesis takes an established empirical generalisation and builds on it through replication and extension. The generalisation concerns the stability of individual's perceptual responses over time. While the accepted belief is that peoples' attitudes and brand beliefs are enduring and stable, in fact, on average, only about half of the people who give a response at one interview do so again at a second interview. This instability is in spite of the fact that, at an aggregate level, the results are steady across interviews (Castleberry, 1994; Dall'Olmo Riley, 1995). The empirical generalisation examined in this thesis states that the stability of a perceptual response (known as the repeat rate RR) is predictable, based on the initial proportion of respondents giving the response at the first interview (known as the response level RI). This has been noted in the Journal of Marketing Science as an important empirical generalisation with much scope for replication work (Ehrenberg, 1995).

Thesis (M.A.)--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 January 3, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Breslau.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, May 2010. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 22, 2010). "Program in Criminal Justice." Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-126).