Browsing Department of Psychology Graduate Theses by Title
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Preschool-aged children’s adherence to style conventions in a simple game.
(2008-09-17)Style conventions are specialized ways of performing a given activity (e.g., dressing, eating, etc.) that have minimal practical significance, but play a crucial role in signaling ones membership or status within a particular ... -
Preschoolers Restrict the Scope of Labels Within Their Own Linguistic Group
(2016-02-29)An understanding of the conventional nature of language entails a recognition that word meanings are shared widely within a group, but due to the arbitrary nature, vary across different groups and are limited to those ... -
A Prospective Study of Psychache and its Relationship to Suicidality
(2014-04-28)Suicide takes the lives of over 3,500 Canadians each year, making prevention an important public health concern. Identifying psychological predictors of suicide risk is essential because these variables may be amenable to ... -
A Prospective Study of Psychache and its Relationship to Suicidality
(2013-03-20)Identifying psychological factors that can predict suicide risk is essential for reducing suicide rates. Shneidman (1993) postulated that psychache (or psychological pain) is a unique predictor of suicide when controlling ... -
Provoked Vestibulodynia: A Neuropathic Pain Condition?
(2011-09-21)Provoked Vestibulodynia (PVD) is a common form of chronic genital pain, affecting approximately 12% of premenopausal women. Even though knowledge of vulvodynia has been present in the medical field for many years, it was ... -
Psychache and Self-Harming Behaviour Among Men Who Are Homeless: a Test of Shneidman's Model
(2010-08-06)Suicidal ideation among the homeless is 10 times greater than in the general population. Therefore, research helping mental health professionals better predict and potentially prevent suicide within the homeless population ... -
The psychology of partner sexual coercion
(2008-07-17)There have been few investigations of sexual coercion in relationships. I conducted several studies to develop a measure of partner sexual coercion and to identify its proximate causes and the relevant personal characteristics ... -
Psychosocial Aspects of Health Care Experiences in Women With Vulvovaginal Pain: Patients and Physician Perspectives
(2014-04-24)Vulvodynia, a common form of chronic vulvovaginal pain, is conceptualized as a multifactorial chronic pain condition. Research has examined the role of numerous physiological, psychological, and social factors in the ... -
Psychosocial Functioning in Women with Symptoms of Persistent Genital Arousal
(2016-10-01)Persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD) is characterized by physiological sexual arousal (vasocongestion, sensitivity of the genitals and nipples) that is described as distressing, and sometimes painful. Although awareness ... -
Psychosocial Mediators and Moderators of the Catastrophizing-Pain Relationship in Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS)
(2015-10-09)Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS) is a urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome without consensus on its etiology or treatment. Present biomedical outcomes for IC/BPS remain poor. There is growing recognition ... -
A Psychosocial Model of Disability in Interstitial Cystitis / Painful Bladder Syndrome
(2011-08-30)Interstitial Cystitis / Painful Bladder Syndrome (IC/PBS) is a persistent and refractory medical condition that is characterized by chronic pelvic pain along with abnormal urinary frequency and urgency. There is no widely ... -
A randomized comparison of individual cognitive-behavioural therapy and pelvic floor rehabilitation in the treatment of provoked vestibulodynia
(2013-11-20)Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is the most common condition leading to painful intercourse and is currently best understood within a biopsychosocial framework. Although the usefulness of non-medical treatment options for ... -
A randomized controlled trial of Bikram yoga and aerobic exercise in the treatment of depression: Efficacy and underlying physiological and psychological mechanisms
Empirical interest in alternative treatment options for major depression has been on the rise, in part because of the shortcomings of conventional approaches. Despite a growing body of evidence supporting the use of various ... -
Real or Artifact? Shedding light on how and when repeated expression can result in polarization
(2011-06-29)Researchers have long noted that repeated expression of a judgment can cause that judgment to become more extreme. Three perspectives were explored for why this effect occurs. The first perspective implied that repeated ... -
Redefining Attitude Importance: The Possible Existence of Associative and Subjective Types of Importance Under a Global Definition
(2016-09-20)Traditionally, importance has been measured using subjective measures. The present thesis explores the possibility of a second type of importance, designated as “associative importance”. A new measure, the IIAT, was designed ... -
Redefining Prosocial Behaviour: The Production of Helping, Sharing, and Comforting Acts in Human Infants and Toddlers
(2010-09-20)Prosocial behaviours are a diverse group of actions that are integral to human social life. In this dissertation I propose and test a three-factor model of prosocial behaviour. Specifically, in a series of four studies I ... -
Reducing Diagnostic Uncertainty in First-Episode Psychosis: A Neuropsychological Approach to Differentiating between Cannabis-Induced and Primary Psychotic Disorders
Background: Cannabis use is highly comorbid with psychotic disorders, especially among young people experiencing their first episode of psychosis. The high rate of cannabis use in this population has led to uncertainty ... -
Regulation of Emotion Systems: Assessing Acts of Down-Regulation of Negative Emotions
(2015-09-10)Research investigating emotion regulation (ER) has failed to accomplish three goals: (1) to develop a clear understanding of how ER relates to emotion theory; (2) to reach a consensus on which actions constitute ER; and ... -
Regulators of Sensory Cortical Plasticity by Neuromodulators and Sensory Experience
(2010-04-29)Recent evidence indicates that the mature neocortex retains a higher degree of plasticity than traditionally assumed. Up- and down-regulation of synaptic strength, long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression ... -
The relation between emotional acceptance and emotion regulation in adolescent girls
(2009-10-06)Adolescents experience heightened emotional arousal and difficulty regulating that arousal. Adolescent girls have emotion regulation difficulties particularly associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety. In adults, ...