Browsing Psychology (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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Personality and family relations of children who bully
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Attachment at the transition to adolescence : concordance with concurrent maternal attachment and child's own attachment in infancy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The study investigated three main sets of research questions derived from attachment theory developed by John Bowlby (1969/1982b, 1973, 1979, 1980, 1988) and Mary Ainsworth (1967, 1982; Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, ... -
The child witness : an investigation into children's understanding of the legal process and the perceived competence of children to act as witnesses in legal proceedings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)Given recent public and professional concern in relation to the levels of child victimisation and recent reforms of the evidentiary rules and legal procedures pertaining to children's evidence, there is an increasing ... -
Why it happened and how it could have been different : a comparison of causal and counterfactual thinking
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The aim of this thesis was to compare two pervasive forms of human thinking : causal thinking about why an outcome happened (e.g., "I failed because I didn’t try") and counterfactual thinking about how an outcome could ... -
Constructing a social psychological model of prejudice towards minorities : social identity, relative deprivation and widespread beliefs
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)A social psychological model of prejudice was developed based on Relative Deprivation and Social Identity Theory. This model emphasised social identification and comparison processes and was designed to predict prejudice ... -
Thinking about what might have been : cognitive processes in counterfactual and semifactual thinking about controllable events
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)In this thesis we present the results of ten experiments, involving approximately 2000 participants in total, designed to examine how people think about what might have been. We had two main aims. The first aim was to ... -
The cognitive processes of young offenders
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The aim of this thesis was to contnbute to the existing body of knowledge on young offenders by investigating some cognitive processes that to date, have been given little attention in the literature. This thesis comprised ... -
Stage fright and an intervention for performers : a study of the phenomenology of stage fright in actors, musicians and other performers, followed by the design and evaluation of intervention for actors in training
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)This dissertation on stage fright in performers (actors, musicians, dancers and presenters) describes three studies. The first study (n=175) is a semi-structured in-depth interview with performers in the Netherlands and ... -
Comparison of cardiac rehabilitation outcome measures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The aim of the present study was to investigate the responsiveness of psychosocial instruments to cardiac rehabilitation intervention. Responsiveness refers to the ability of an instrument to detect change over time and ... -
Single unit activity in the subiculum of freely-moving rats : spatial and non-spatial correlates
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2001)Compared with the research effort directed at the hippocampus the subiculum has received little experimental attention despite being one synapse downstream of area CAI and in a position to influence many cortical areas ... -
Therapeutic recreation camping programmes for children with chronic illnesses, and their siblings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2001)Within the healthcare system, camping programmes providing a form of therapeutic recreation service are emerging as a form of intervention for children with chronic illnesses, and their siblings. In numerous instances, ... -
Environmental philosophy, threat and well-being
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2002)This thesis represents a comprehensive attempt to address the dearth of research on relationships between environment and mental health. The aim is to present a novel theoretical and empirical investigation of the links ... -
The role of context in counterfactual thinking
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2002)The aim of this thesis is to examine the mental representations and cognitive processes involved in counterfactual thinking, that is, in imagining how past events might have happened differently. In chapter 1, we review ... -
Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying signal transduction in the Hippocampal formation : the role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2002)We investigated the possibility that BDNF might play a role in the modulation of synaptic function in the hippocampal formation. Our experiments have focused on the regulation of endogenous BDNF systems in spatial learning ... -
Models of neurodegeneration in the hippocampus : molecular and behavioural factors promoting neuroprotection and neuropathology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)We investigated the consequences of brain insult after ischemia and kainic acid using different behavioural tasks, because both ischemia or KA model induce a similar neurodegenerative process to that resulting from traumatic ... -
Comparative analysis of safety management systems and safety culture in aircraft maintenance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)The overall objective of the thesis was on developing a deeper understanding of the organisational processes of safety management systems and how they are embedded in the culture of aircraft maintenance organisations. The ... -
The role of persistent primitive reflexes in learning difficulties : an evaluation of a new causal theory of dyslexia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)In a recent study in Belfast by McPhillips, Hepper and Mulhern (2000) the persistence of an early motor reflex, the asymmetric tonic neck reflex (ATNR) was linked to dyslexia. A 100% prevalence of the ATNR was reported in ... -
The effects of crime on Irish victims : psychological and organisational perspectives
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)"The Effects of Crime on Irish Victims: Psychological and Organisational Perspectives" is, as its name suggests, an investigation of the impact of criminal victimisation in Ireland from both a psychological and a victim ... -
A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigation of Irish and Czech children's accounts of socially-constructed emotions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)The application of a discursive approach to the subject of this study can be seen as an attempt to create a link between psychology and linguistics, where grammatical structures and language itself constitute the basis for ... -
An exploration of how potential early school leavers and teachers in disadvantaged post primary schools perceive their relationships
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)This research unfolds in disadvantaged secondary school settings and it explores how students at risk for early school leaving and teachers experience their relationships. A model of investigation capable to reach a ...
