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DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Recent Dissertations
The students with asterisks after their names have prepared summaries of their studies that can be accessed by clicking on the title of the dissertation.
- Kelly Sheperd (2011)* Cognitive and Behavioral Functioning Among Children Prenatally Exposed to Substances: An Examination of Models of Risk
- Lisa Carter Beall (2011)* Implementation Intentions as a Means of Promoting Voluntary Reading Behavior
- Catherine K. Lee (2011)* The Association of Inattention and Children's Math Development: A Longitudinal Study
- Stacy Buckingham-Howes (2011)* Prenatally Drug Exposed Adolescents' Engagement in Externalizing and Problem Behaviors: A Longitudinal Perspective
- Anna Quigg (2010) Food Insecurity and Children's Developmental Risk: Do Anemia and Caregiver Depression Play a Role?
- Colleen J. Sullivan (2010) Academic Self-regulation, Academic Performance, and Adjustment in College: What is the first-year experience for college students?
- Patricia Tenowich (2009) Examination of achievement goals and social goals of college students at different levels of expertise
- Angela Katenkamp (2008) The relation between parents’ involvement beliefs and behaviors and teachers’ perceptions of parents’ beliefs and behaviors.
- Selena Emond (2008) The effect of parent training on perceived school readiness
- Adia J. Garrett (2008) The role of picture perception in children’s performance on a picture vocabulary test
- Joy Kolb (2007) An online program for training parents of children with autism
- Melissa O’Connell (2007) Maternal Sensitivity in a High-Risk, African American Preterm Sample: An Ecological Approach to Predictors and Effects of Intervention
- Wendy Miller (2006) Adult Attachment, Father Involvement, and Relationship Satisfaction and Maintenance among Low-Income African-American Mothers of Premature Infants
- Adrianna Amari (2005) Ketogenic Diet Palatability: Caregiver Predictions and Actual Preferences among Children with Epilepsy
- Margo Candelaria (2005) The Impact of Psychosocial Risk on Infant Attachment
- Brenda Haynes (2005) African American Boys and School Achievement: The Role of Academic Self-Concept, Racial/Ethnic Identify Attitudes and School Satisfaction
- Hemalatha Ganapathy Coleman (2004) Cultural Conceptions of the Child: A Study of Indian American, African American and European American Ethnotheories
- Linda Gorham (2004) Relationships Between Children’s Participation in The Black Church and Their Academic Development: An Investigation of the Ecocultural, Opportunity to Learn, and Program Quality Dimensions of Church-Based Academic Support Programs
- Keng-Yen Huang (2004) The Role of Mother-Infant Conflict in Toddler’s Development of Attachment and Problem Behaviors
- Care L. Udell (2003) Early Literacy Tutoring After School: An Exploration of the Impact of a Cross-age Tutoring Program
- Yolanda C. Vauss-Berry (2003) Parents’ Educational Expectations and Practices: Hearing Parents with Hearing Impaired or Hearing Children
- Amie Ashley Hane (2002) A Dyadic Approach to the Interactional Context of Language Acquisition: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Early Mother-Infant Vocal Coordination in Predicting Language Outcomes at 24 Months
- Christine Reiner Hess (2002) Parenting competence among mothers of high-risk infants: Relations of parental self-efficacy and parent knowledge of child development
- Hibist Astatke (2001) HIV-Hazardous Behaviors among Adolescents in Nazareth, Ethiopia
- Susan M. Hill (2001) Epistemological Development of Urban Elementary School Students
- Betty Rigney (2001) The Relationship between Religiousness, Social Support, Readiness for Behavior Change and Continued Substance Abuse in Mothers who have used Illegal Drugs during Pregnancy
- Kathleen J. Rogers-Senuta (2000) Constructing Formal Education’s Meaning and Value by a Group of Low SES, Urban, African-American Women: An Iterative and Integrative Process
- Diane C. Schmidt (2000) Fear of School Violence in Middle School Students
- Laureen Teti (2000) Boundary Disturbances in Low-Income, African American Mother-Daughter Relationships