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Spring 2014
Adolescents’ safety on the Internet is a prime concern in society. Sexual predators use the online environment regularly to solicit adolescents for sexual purposes; however, we know very little about the experiences of adolescents who become victimized in this way. This research used a thematic...
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An Alternate Theory of Sexuality: Exploring the Relationship between Sexual Experience, Sexual Awareness and Sexual Attitudes
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Sexual behavior is a dynamic aspect of human life that is influenced by experience, awareness, ideas, beliefs, culture and society. Many different explanations are used to explain the desire to engage in sexual behaviors that are considered to be non-conventional or non-normative. This study...
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Fall 2014
Post-traumatic growth (PTG) is a phenomenon that describes how people grow in positive ways after trauma, surpassing their original level of functioning (Joseph, 2009). It is different from resiliency and coping, which can be characterized as “bouncing back” while PTG can be described as...
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Spring 2014
Automated essay scoring (AES) is a technology that efficiently and economically score written responses by emulating intelligence of human scorer. Present study had employed open-source Natural Language Processing technologies for developing AES framework, to score multilingual medical licensing...
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Spring 2014
Clients with cybersex addiction (CSA) are a growing challenge for mental health practitioners. Therapists must be more skilled and adept at identifying when the core issue is cybersex addiction in spite of client denial and potentially confounding symptoms. The main purpose of this exploratory...
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Comparing Performance Across Test Administration Modes in a Large-Scale Testing Environment
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The purpose of this study was to complete a secondary analysis of the data collected for a Mathematics 30-2 field test to examine the comparability of the psychometric properties and the students’ scores for a computer-based and paper-and-pencil form of the same test. A computer familiarity...
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Spring 2014
South Asians in Canada are increasingly using the Family Class immigration category to sponsor spouses from their home countries. This qualitative study examined the steps family-sponsored spouses and their sponsors or family members have taken to facilitate their linguistic, economic, social,...
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Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the 18-month "Ages and Stages Questionnaires" using a Canadian Sample: Making Inferences about Decision Consistency from Item and Subscale-Level Data
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Developmental screening tools, such as "Ages and Stages Questionnaires" (ASQ) are an important addition to the pediatric care to identify developmental delays at critical age periods. ASQ questionnaires have demonstrated good psychometric properties in the US context; however sample-dependent...
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Examining Resilience among University Students with Reading Difficulties Using Internal and External Protective Factors
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This dissertation consists of three papers investigating the impact of intrapersonal and interpersonal factors on life satisfaction and academic achievement of adults with reading difficulty (RD). Participants were university students or recent graduates. The first paper examines the impact of...
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Examining the Nature of the Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN)-Orthographic Processing Relationship in University Students
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According to Bowers and Wolf (1993), rapid automatized naming (RAN) is related to reading because of its contribution to orthographic processing. However, the nature of the RAN-orthographic processing relationship remains unclear. Thus, the purpose of this study was two-fold: (a) to examine the...