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Can the communication style of GP's reduce compliance and turn patients to complementary medicine?
(Dublin Business School, 2006)Considering the implications for compliance this study examined the communication styles preferred by GP's, complementary alternative medical (CAM) practitioners and the patients of both. 60 medical students, 31 CAM ... -
Celebrity worship: its relationship to religiosity and obsessive-compulsive disorder
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The aim of this study is to examine the relationships that religiosity and obsessive-compulsiveness have to celebrity worship. A random sample of one hundred students from the Dublin Business School (DBS) were administered ... -
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome : an investigation into the inter-relationships between self-esteem, preferred coping strategies and illness representations
(Dublin Business School, 2002)Recent studies have shown a significant correlation between illness representations and coping strategy preferences in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) (Moss-Morns et al., 1996). Relationships between self-esteem and preferred ... -
Cystic Fibrosis : an investigation into the relationship between acceptance of illness, coping strategies and gender
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The present study employed a correlational design to test the relationship between the measured variables of; acceptance of illness, coping strategies and gender, among a clinical sample of People with Cystic Fibrosis ... -
Death anxiety : its relationship with age, gender, bereavement and personality
(Dublin Business School, 2006)This study compared death anxiety scores in relation to age, gender, recent bereavement and personality scores. The study was a between subjects design using a convenience sample. Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and Keirsey's ... -
Distinguishing depression levels amongst ex-offenders, whilst investigating romantic influences on each gender
(Dublin Business School, 2006)There are two hypotheses of the study in question. One related to the difference in depression levels amongst gender, that is females would have higher levels of depression compared to males. Additionally, the second ... -
Examining the levels of alexithymia in classical musicians, improvisational musicians and office workers
(Dublin Business School, 2005)Sifneos (1973) coined the term 'alexithymia' to describe a lack of words for emotions. The aim of this study was to investigate the levels of alexithymia found in 3 groups of participants, regarding how they experience and ... -
Gender differences in bereavement : coping mechanisms and outcomes
(Dublin Business School, 2007)Bereavement touches everyone at some stage in their lives but people deal with it in different ways, with varying consequences. Many factors influence this including time since bereavement and relationship to the deceased. ... -
Heroin addiction and criminal behaviour - an examination of correlations
(Dublin Business School, 2005)This study's principal focus was on the correlation that existed - if any – between heroin addiction and criminal behaviour. Previous research have reported addiction to this opiate to precede and provide the causation of ... -
An investigation into the effect of education in sexual offending on attitudes towards sexual offenders
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The main aim of the study was to determine whether education in sexual offending would improve attitudes towards sexual offenders. In a quasi-experimental mixed design, 90 participants (47 male and 43 female, all over 20 ... -
An investigation of the effect of age, gender, marital status, relationship status and level of education on attitudes to rape
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The current study investigates the effects of age, gender, marital status, relationship status and level of education (IVs) on attitudes towards rape (DVs). The experiment was of between-subjects design involving 89 ... -
An investigation of the relationship between recreational drug use and antisocial attitudes in a non-clinical setting
(Dublin Business School, 2004)An experiment was undertaken to examine the relationship between antisocial attitudes and recreational drug use. The relationship between antisocial personality disorder and substance abuse has been demonstrated by numerous ... -
The prevalence of risky sexual behaviours among young adults in relation to alcohol consumption
(Dublin Business School, 2005)The aim of this study was to examine unprotected sexual intercourse (non-condom usage) among young adult that consumed alcohol and did not consume alcohol. There were 160 participants in total, with an equal number of ... -
Religiosity, gender role beliefs and attitudes towards homosexuals in an Irish and non-national sample
(Dublin Business School, 2005)Many previous studies that set out to investigate attitudes towards homosexuals were carried out in the U.S. on middle-class Caucasian students with the views of ethnic minority groups going unrepresented. The aim of this ... -
Testing the validity of the Padua Inventory in an Irish non-clinical sample by comparing the results to an Irish clinical sample : a pilot study
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The Padua Inventory measures obsessive-compulsive behaviours in both clinical and non-clinical subjects. lt provides general information about the severity of the subjects OCD and organizes scores into five clusters of ...