Recent Dissertations

August 2009

Erin K. Engle
The Body-Image Behaviors Inventory-3: Development and Validation of the Body-Image Compulsive Actions and Body-Image Avoidance Scales
Chair: Thomas Cash, Ph.D., ODU

Kathryn N. Shaw
Interparental Violence and Child Abuse among Alcoholic Households: Relationships to Adult Self-Esteem and Dating Violence
Chair: Michelle Kelley, Ph.D., ODU

Elise Simonds Bisbee
Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-2 (MAYSI-2) Long-Term Outcomes and Scale Stability
Chair: Robert P. Archer, Ph.D., EVMS

Luis C. Richter
The Antecedents to Infant Quality of Attachment
Chair: Kathrin Hartmann, Ph.D., EVMS

Courtney Hanley Podesta
Differences between Traditional and Non-traditional African-American Students Attending an Historically Black or a Predominantly White University
Chair: Desideria Hacker, Ph.D., NSU

Farrahyda Tassy
Relationship Predictors of Unwanted Pursuit
Chair: Barbara Winstead, Ph.D., ODU

Nicole A. Dock
Relationships between Black Female College Students' Relationships with Their Fathers and Adult Romantic Attachment
Chair: Michelle Kelley, Ph.D., ODU

May 2009

Melanie Santos
A Multidimensional Body Image Comparison of Aesthetic Surgery Candidates and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Patients
Chair: Thomas Cash, Ph.D., ODU

Nicole Susan Searfoss
Development of an MMPI-A Callousness-Unemotionality Scale
Chair: Robert P. Archer, Ph.D., EVMS

December 2008

April Michelle Muldrow
Achievement Motivation in African-American College Students
Chair: Desideria Hacker, Ph.D., NSU

August 2008