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Browsing Higher Diploma Final Year Projects by Title
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Land use classification map remote sensing and supervised classification
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Listen to the music: the emotive strength of music on musicians and non-musicians
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The aim of this study is to consider the role of music theory and performance proficiency in eliciting emotions by listening to music. A related aim is to consider how age, personality, musical preference and mood predicts ... -
Literacy matters! An hour that brings the power to reading related skills
(Dublin Business School, 2014)Objective; The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the ‘Power Hour’ literacy intervention on children’s’ literacy and social-cognitive skills, in comparison with the natural progression of those who receive ... -
Lone working, self-efficacy and burnout : the potential moderating effects of reflecting team working in counselling settings
(Dublin Business School, 2014)Aims: To explore and understand the relationship between counselling self-efficacy, burnout, team climate, and the potential moderating effects of reflecting team working. The rise of lone working in the counselling ... -
Loss and psychotherapy – an explorative study
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The aim of this study is to explore how loss is understood from a psychotherapeutic perspective. It firstly offers some definitions for grief and bereavement. The study describes and compares some of the most taught ... -
Love is a metaphor
(Dublin Business School, 2006)What does love have to do with Lacan's idea of the transference and how is Plato's Symposium relevant to this topic? The statement implicit in the title and this question are found in Lacan' s Seminar VIII on Transference ... -
The Madness of Robert Schunlann
(Dublin Business School, 2003)The composer Robert Schummm (1810 - 1856) died in an asylum at Endenich, near Bonn, having previously tried to kill himself by throwing himself into the Rhine. Posthumous diagnoses include syphilis, meningitis, dementia ... -
Maladaptive perfectionism, self-efficacy and social comparison: predictors for body dissatisfaction and subsequent disordered eating in females
(Dublin Business School, 2014)This study aimed to investigate the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism, self-efficacy and social comparison and the extent to which these variables predict body dissatisfaction among females. A sample of females ... -
Masc for masc – how does gender role conflict (GRC) and masculinity affect the therapeutic process for the male therapist and the male client?
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Male psychotherapists undergo the same socialisation in society as males who are non-psychotherapists, and this can have implications for the therapeutic process. This study examines the role of male GRC, masculinity and ... -
Measuring the efficacy of art therapy on general health
(Dublin Business School, 2019)This study examines the impact Art Therapy can have on the general health of adults. Art therapy is defined as a creative method of expression used as a therapeutic technique, which could include attending an art therapist ... -
Meditation gone mobile : the effects of short term mobile based meditation on wisdom and self-transcendence
(Dublin Business School, 2016)The primary aim of the study was to assess the effects of a short meditation on Wisdom and Self Transcendence. The mindfulness course consisted of undertaking ten minutes of mindfulness training for ten days and was delivered ... -
Mental health and well-being of women who work and women who do not work in Ireland
(Dublin Business School, 2018)Aim: Research indicates along with financial reward, employment provides latent benefits, with loss of these benefits contributing to reduced mental health and well-being. In Ireland, statistics show a labour force gap up ... -
Mental health in primary school teachers: Depression, anxiety, stress and burnout in staff
(Dublin Business School, 2020)The aim of this study was to investigate mental health in Irish primary school teachers: depression, anxiety, stress and burnout in staff. One hundred and eighty-seven primary school teachers across the Republic of Ireland ... -
Mental health, resilience and emotional regulation in sales representatives in the Irish tech industry
(Dublin Business School, 2020)This study was conducted to investigate mental health, resilience and emotional regulation in sales representatives of the tech industry in Ireland. Participants consisted of 71 (n=71) females (n=30) and males (n=41). A ... -
Mindfulness therapies & recent biological science : What matters amidst the hype, for ineffable me, irreducible you?
(Dublin Business School, 2018)Mindfulness Therapy has become part of the stable of psychotherapy since the 1980s when Jon Kabat-Zinn established Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as an effective therapeutic intervention. That programme ... -
Moderating effect of personality on the relationship between affective organisational commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour
(Dublin Business School, 2014)Existing research has frequently linked affective organisational commitment with organisational citizenship behaviour. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the moderating role of each of the big five personality ... -
More money problems? The relationship between materialistic goals and well-being.
(Dublin Business School, 2013)This cross-sectional study examined the relationship between materialism and well-being among students (n=125) and non-students (n=87). Students were recruited via Dublin Business School and non-students via informal ... -
Motherhood and loss – an explorative study
(Dublin Business School, 2020)This paper will seek to explore how a psychoanalytic understanding of motherhood and loss can inform our response to women experiencing infertility. The first objective is to examine the understanding of motherhood in the ... -
Music preferences, and their effect on personality, coping styles and perceived scholastic competence in students
(Dublin Business School, 2013)Research has recently turned its focus on the relationships between music and personality. This study aims to replicate and further this by investigating the effect of music preference on three psychological variables; ... -
Narcissus in the field : Jacques Lacan' s Le stade du miroir
(Dublin Business School, 2004)The 'drama' of Jacques Lacan's mirror stage/Le stade du miroir is a drama of identifications. Spurred in part by the 'knotty problem' of primary and secondary narcissism arising from Sigmund Freud's 1914 paper, the mirror ...