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f2f and cyberbullying among children in Northern Ireland : data from the Kids Life and Times Surveys
(Association for the Advancement of Psychology and Education (AAPE), 2010)Comparatively little is known about the nature, incidence and correlates of bully/victim problems in the Northern Ireland school system. The present study examined the prevalence of self-reported experiences of bully/victim ... -
Facebook : the effect on happiness and its attraction to users
(Dublin Business School, 2012)The aim of this paper has been to explore what effects using Facebook has on the user’s happiness (SHS), and also to add to previous research on what attracts users to the site with specific focus on social desirability ... -
Facebook and Irish adolescents: the relationship between social media use, personality, and well-being
(Dublin Business School, 2013)This study looks at Irish adolescents’ use of Facebook. It aims to investigate what personality traits are related to Facebook use, and if Facebook use is related to selfesteem and psychological well-being. A self-report ... -
Facebook profiles and their effect on real/ideal self-discrepancy : an investigatory study
(Dublin Business School, 2012)Social networking sites enable a form of strategic self-presentation that is rooted in an ethos of self-promotion. The purpose of the present study was to investigate if viewing one’s own Facebook profile reduces discrepancy ... -
Facebook use and its relationship with personality traits, self-esteem, and internet self-efficacy among college students
(Dublin Business School, 2014)Social networking sites like Facebook are used by thousands of people every day. This study explores Facebook intensity and its relationship with personality traits, self-esteem, and internet self-efficacy. Data was used ... -
Facebook use and its relationship with self-esteem, personalities and addictive tendencies
(Dublin Business School, 2012)This Final Year Project will discuss the relationship between Facebook usage and the three variables of personality, self-esteem and addictive tendencies. The aim of this study is to see if certain personalities and levels ... -
Facing aggression head on : evidence of self-stranger agreement on aggressive tendencies at zero-acquaintance
(Dublin Business School, 2005)The relationship between physiognomy and aggression at zero acquaintance were investigated. Prior studies indicate correlations between self and stranger ratings on dimensions of personality from facial photographs. Levels ... -
Factors Influencing Sexist Attitudes
(Dublin Business School, 2015)The study aim was to investigate whether greater exposure to pornographic materials would be associated with more traditional attitudes about women in relation to mixed-sex versus single-sex school type attendence, ... -
Fakebook
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Fashion and psychoanalysis
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Fashion in two wheels
(Dublin Business School, 2013)Random people cycling in Dublin in their daily clothes. -
Feedback and goal-setting interventions to reduce electricity use in the real world
(University of Illinois at Chicago Library, 2014)A field experiment explored the effect of feedback and goal-setting interventions on residential electricity use in households in Northern Ireland. Alternating orders of presentation of feedback and no feedback conditions ... -
Feedback and self-evaluative judgements
(Dublin Business School, 2001)An experiment investigating self-evaluative judgements and the theories and models which seek to explain their use by the individual in the decision making process. The following experiment was constructed to examine how ... -
Female psychotherapists’ experience of working with traditional male clients
(Dublin Business School, 2016)This research set out to explore the experience of female psychotherapists’ working with traditional male clients. It sought to discover the therapists’ preconceptions about this client group. This research also endevoured ... -
The female role in the horror genre
(Dublin Business School, 2013)The female role in the horror genre is something that can be explored throughout the years. With the emergence of a new kind of female heroine since the 1970s and even 1980s, the role of the feminine within the horror genre ... -
The feminisation of ageing - a myth of dependency in the literature of British civil society : an exploration of how an image may be the site for myth production
(Dublin Business School, 2001)This Final Year Project will look at how images of older people can produce a myth about the ageing process. The myth being produced is that older people can be said to occupy the same symbolic space as women which means ... -
The Fideism of the Wittgensteinians
(Metalogicon, 2001)Among the various English philosophical currents that have dealt with religion, “Wittgensteinian fideists” have, more than anyone else, stressed the relativity of beliefs and their relation to the forms of life in which ... -
Fields of knowledge
(Institute of Public Administration (IPA), 2006)Organic food is becoming increasingly popular in Ireland, as it is elsewhere. In September 2004, the Minister for Horticulture and Food, Noel Treacy, launched a Guide to Organic Food and Farming at the farmers’ market in ... -
The film 'One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest' from a psychoanalytic perspective
(Dublin Business School, 1997)For a student of psychoanalysis, it was the latent content bubbling beneath the struggle between Nurse Ratched and Randal Patrick McMurphy that sparked this new look at an old favourite. Fresh from my struggles with the ... -
The films of John Huston and Humphrey Bogart and their impact on American Cinema
(Dublin Business School, 2016)This dissertation will cover John Huston’s early work as a writer and his life before becoming a filmmaker. It will also cover Humphrey Bogart’s early stage career and his move into Hollywood cinema and his evolution ...