[PDF] Top 20 Coping with and adjusting to mastectomy and widowhood : a comparative study : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University

... A comparison of two cross-sectional surveys of thirty women who had undereone mastectomy with thirty widows established that both losses were met with a sir.iilar initial grief reaction [r] ... See full document

... Lindemann 1944 outlined the psychological and physiological symptoms of acute grief, Averill 1968 included widowhood in his outline of the biological significance of the grief reaction, [r] ... See full document

... Later sections review the research relating to the notion that suicide bereavement is different to bereavement from other types of traumatic death ; coping through adaptation and meaning[r] ... See full document

... survival when given x or y treatment and relationships between variables for example: self esteem, learned resourcefulness and social support Pedro, 200 I; the measurement of psychologic[r] ... See full document

... Potter and Wetherell 1987 propose that discourse analysis is able to avoid the pitfalls associated with traditional attitudinal research by approaching the study of "attitudes" using a d[r] ... See full document

... resulting conflict between ideology and practice presumably accounted for a proportion of the 60 per cent attrition rate but a relevant data analysis was not conducted Robinson, 19721, I[r] ... See full document

... My t h a n k s a l so go to the Tech n i cal Sta ff o f the Department o f P h ysio logy and Anatomy, particu l arly that of Debbie Anthony for h el p i n preparation of figu r es, J . C . Pedl ey for making the recor d ... See full document

... lution presented 'a far grand e r notion o f Creat i v e Des ign , than the idea of specia l interpositions required to remed y the irregu l ar working o f a machine irregu l ar l y constructed in the first ... See full document

... The results obtained suggest that distraction is not effective for either acute pain or chronic pain when its effectiveness was measured by reductions in reported pain tolerances and sub[r] ... See full document

... Distraction is useful for increasing pain thresholds and tolerances and reducing ratings of acute pain and is often incorporated in pain management programmes for chronic pain.. However,[r] ... See full document

... The deviant discourse associated homosexuals with behaviours that are morally and legally proscribed, and the discourse of conditional acceptance was used by officers to positively prese[r] ... See full document

... Hypotheses investigated were that: anxiety, depression and hostility were all elevated in arthritics compared with patients with other chronic painful disorders and pain-free controls; t[r] ... See full document

... Hypotheses investigated were that: anxiety, depression and hostility were all elevated in arthritics compared with patients with other chronic painful disorders and pain-free controls; t[r] ... See full document

... To briefly recap, the discourses are: the scientific discourse cohering around a metaphor of pragmatism, the production discourse cohering around a metaphor of performance, the identity [r] ... See full document

... 1 9 6 5 ) . Whi le some s h r i nkage of nerve f i bres ha s been observed at the u l t r a s tructural leve l , a s a resul t of f i x a t i on and subsequent proce s s ing of nerve , i t ha s been conc luded that no ... See full document

... ASSESSMENT AND REMEDIATION OF READING DIFFICULTIES An Evaluation of the SPELD Approach.. A thesis presented in partial fulfilment of · the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS i[r] ... See full document

... Pilot Situation Awareness of Commercial Aircraft Flight Management Systems.. Thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Aviation at Massey Uni[r] ... See full document

... This thesis examined the bacterial biotransformation of glucosinolates by two lactic acid bacteria and Escherichia coli Nissle 1917, all three considered beneficial ... See full document

... A THESIS PRESENTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN VIROLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY AT MASSEY UNIVERSITY.. OF THE PHILIPPINES.[r] ... See full document

... A thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor .of Philosophy at Massey University... by the dominant class , the..[r] ... See full document