Browsing Psychology (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Qualitative research with children : the perspectives of elite researchers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)This quantative study investigates the ways in which leading children’s researchers position themselves in their research relationships with children in qualitative research within psychology and the broader ‘childhood ... -
A qualitative study of dropout from an internet-delivered CBT intervention for adults with depression and anxiety
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)Despite the efficacy and widespread use of online-delivered psychological interventions, treatment dropout remains a problem that for the most part is poorly understood. This qualitative study investigated the subjective ... -
Reasoning about counterfactual conditionals : the role of content, tense and linguistic form
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)The primary aim of this thesis is to investigate reasoning from counterfactual conditionals (e.g., if Rosanna had been in Dublin then Anthony would have been in Roscommon) and to test predictions derived from the mental ... -
Reasoning with insight problems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)This thesis reports the results of seven experiments that explore insight problem-solving. Insight problems are characterised as ill-defined problems that present difficulty to most people even though they possess the ... -
Rehabilitation of Awareness of Deficits in Patients with Acquired Brain Injury: Applying a User-friendly Computerised Intervention Approach
This dissertation consists of three studies that examined the phenomenon of emergent awareness following acquired brain injury. Despite the putative influence that impaired emergent awareness can have on rehabilitation ... -
The Relationship Between Problematic Appearance Comparisons on Social Media, Self-Compassion and Body Dissatisfaction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2021)Body dissatisfaction is a prevalent and problematic issue among young adults and adolescents and can be heightened with social media use. However, little is known about precisely how social media influences the appearance ... -
Relationships between dementia risk and protective lifestyle factors with cognition and brain function in midlife
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)It is now acknowledged that Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology is present decades before the onset of clinical symptoms. Midlife is a critical period for the beginning of AD pathology and potentially a unique ... -
Risk perception as a function of age - a psychological investigation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2015)This thesis explored how older drivers' perception of risk differs from that of younger age groups. Its aim was to enhance knowledge that can inform the development of measures to maintain the driving safety of older drivers ... -
The Role of Light Variation in the Attending to and Memorisation of Stained-Glass Windows: An Eye Tracking and Behavioural Study.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)Stained-glass is a distinctive art form that both transmits and reflects light, making it a desirable medium for research on the effects of light on attention and memory. There have been few investigations exploring the ... -
The role of the Locus Coeruleus-Noradrenergic system integrity in the main Dementia modifiable risk factors: a comparative approach linking neuropsychological measures to biological and lifestyle indices
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)Dementia etiopathogenesis is characterised by a plethora of heterogeneous and diverse factors, which contribute to delay the definition of effective treatments and preventing strategies. Growing evidence identifies in the ... -
Second Level Education and Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Exploration of Peer, Parent and Teacher Experiences
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are extensively reported to find the experience of secondary school challenging. Few studies have informed on this in detail, particularly considering social and behavioural ... -
Sensory cue interactions in person perception : insights from ageing and developmental prosopagnosia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2015)A large body of behavioural and neuropsychological research, using static images of faces, has informed our understanding of the mechanisms underlying identity processing. Indeed, pioneering studies revealed dedicated ... -
Single unit activity in the subiculum of freely-moving rats : spatial and non-spatial correlates
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2001)Compared with the research effort directed at the hippocampus the subiculum has received little experimental attention despite being one synapse downstream of area CAI and in a position to influence many cortical areas ... -
Stage fright and an intervention for performers : a study of the phenomenology of stage fright in actors, musicians and other performers, followed by the design and evaluation of intervention for actors in training
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)This dissertation on stage fright in performers (actors, musicians, dancers and presenters) describes three studies. The first study (n=175) is a semi-structured in-depth interview with performers in the Netherlands and ... -
A Study of how to effectively leverage incident investigations to better inform system safety.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was to explore how to effectively leverage incident investigations to better inform system safety. Method: Four studies were conducted to achieve the purpose of this research. Study 1 ... -
A Study on the Functional Role of the Locus Coeruleus in Memory Formation and Alzheimer's Disease
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Over the past decade, the locus coeruleus (LC) has fast become a key instrument of study, resulting in a growing amount of evidence signifying its prominence and influence within the central nervous system. Moreover, the ... -
Substance Misuse, Emotional Discomfort, Mindfulness, and Materialism: A Tale of Escape and Wanting More
Substance misuse is responsible for approximately 11.8 million deaths each year, with alcohol misuse alone accounting for 5.3% of all deaths worldwide. One challenge in studying substance misuse is its co-morbidity with ... -
Supervisee transfer of learning in psychotherapy supervision.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2017)Aim: Clinical supervision is a well established means of facilitating supervisee learning and transfer of learning is explicitly linked to learning. Within the clinical supervision literature, there is an absence of research ... -
Supportive supervision for community health workers : a case study of Ethiopia's Health Extension Programme
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2017)Supervision of community health workers (CHWs) is an essential component of primary health care programmes. Yet supervision systems tend to focus on inspection and fault finding, which have been found to be demotivating ... -
Surface area and gyrification measures in the human brain : a magnetic resonance imaging study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)This thesis was motivated by a clinical interest in identifying measurable brain structure markers that can be used as indicators of malformations of cortical development (MCD) in epilepsy. MCDs may manifest as abnormalities ...