Browsing by Degree Name "Master of Social Sciences (MSocSc)"
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A matter of habit? Early life stress and cognitive flexibility in infants
(The University of Waikato, 2017)The long-term associations between chronic early life stress such as maltreatment, and cognitive functioning are well documented. However, less is known about the relation between early life stress exposure through experiences ... -
A Thematic Analysis of Mental Illness in New Zealand News Articles
(University of Waikato, 2014)Mental illness is one of the main reasons for disability in the western world with one in five individuals being classed as mentally ill during some time in their life. As a concept, mental illness has a strong presence ... -
A Transnational Analysis of Elderly European Wealth Distributions: Developing and Testing New Methodologies within the new Household Financial and Consumption Survey
(University of Waikato, 2017)Transnational wealth inequality is an expanding field of study. However, the field has many limitations especially relating to problems of data availability, methodologies used, and the very limited pool of existing ... -
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain: An Evaluation of the Self-Help Book, Living Beyond Your Pain
(The University of Waikato, 2008)The current research was a randomised two group (control and treatment) study that evaluated the effectiveness of an ACT-based self-help book for people with chronic pain. Over a 6-week period, 6 participants read the ... -
Acceptance and commitment therapy for public speaking anxiety: A self-help format
(The University of Waikato, 2008)A non-concurrent multiple baseline design across eight participants was used to determine whether working through Hayes and Smith's (2005) book would help those with public speaking anxiety. Hayes and Smith (2005) is based ... -
ACT and smoking cessation using a smartphone application (SmartQuit™)
(University of Waikato, 2016)Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a third wave behavioural therapy, which encourages individuals to stop fighting their internal experiences (e.g. thoughts, feelings, and memories) and teaches individuals techniques to ... -
Acute Assessment of Aggression: Using the Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression (DASA) with New Zealand Offenders
(University of Waikato, 2015)Institutional violence in prisons and other corrections settings is a hazard to the security and wellbeing of staff and other offenders. However, the ability to systematically assess for acute, day-to-day aggression in ... -
Adaptation to water scarcity in the context of climate change: A Case Study of the Nuku'alofa and Hihifo Districts, Tongatapu
(University of Waikato, 2017)For the most part, PICs and SIDS are constantly reminded of their vulnerability to climate change. Often, the increasing portrayal of island countries as vulnerable does not necessarily address what causes that vulnerability. ... -
Addiction Phenomenology In Substance Use And Non-Substance Use Disorders
(The University of Waikato, 2008)There is growing research evidence and public concern over the burgeoning of disorders which share common features with substance addictions. In order to investigate the presence and role of addiction features in disorders ... -
Adolescent Māori mothers experiences with social support during pregnancy, birth and motherhood and their participation in education
(The University of Waikato, 2007)The purpose of this research was to investigate the role of social support in helping adolescent Māori mothers cope with pregnancy, birth and motherhood, with a particular emphasis on its role in enabling them to continue ... -
Adolescents' Stigmatisation of Mental Illness
(University of Waikato, 2012)Stigmatisation of individuals with mental illness has a negative effect on their quality of life, help seeking behaviour, treatment outcomes, and on the individual‟s self-esteem and self-efficacy. The stigmatisation of ... -
Ageing, Motion Perception and the Compensation for Eye Movements
(University of Waikato, 2010)Smooth pursuit over a textured background introduces full-field motion to the retinal image in the direction opposing the eye movement. If this motion is not correctly attributed to the eye movement, it can be falsely ... -
An Investigation of the Communal and Individual Resilience of Immigrant Women in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2014)Some immigrant women face triple discrimination due to their, gender, ethnicity and immigrant status. The voices of immigrant women are absent from literature on immigration, furthermore the experience of immigrant women ... -
An Analysis of the Concept of 'Sustainability' in Mining Agreements in Papua New Guinea: The case of Hidden Valley/Hamata Mine
(The University of Waikato, 2009)This thesis examined the way in which notions of economic, social and environmental sustainability were addressed in mining agreements in Papua New Guinea (PNG), through a case study of the Hidden Valley/Hamata mine. The ... -
Anarchists, Punks and Vegans - oh my! Ethnography of an anti-capitalist Community of Dissent
(The University of Waikato, 2009)Although ethnographies dealing with anti-capitalist activism, veganism or the punk scene are far from uncommon, until recently the temptation has been to view these groups as separate and distinct, rather than diffuse ... -
Anticipating subnational depopulation: Policy responses and strategic interventions to regional decline
(University of Waikato, 2015)Population growth has already ended in a number of countries around the world. Significant demographic trends are transforming the global population, with record low fertility across the globe, increasing longevity and ... -
Anxiety and depression in pregnant mothers and partners in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2011)Anxiety and depression throughout the antenatal period are associated with a multitude of adverse consequences. To date, little research has been conducted with both mothers and partners during the antenatal period ... -
Appreciating Learning: Children using Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to helping them to understand their learning
(University of Waikato, 2013)Understanding one’s own learning (or meta-learning) is a topic of increasing interest in education in the 21st century. Children, who know how they learn, know themselves as learners. This is an important part of becoming ... -
Assessing the effectiveness of an exercise app: An examination from the health action process approach
(University of Waikato, 2016)Exercise is beneficial for both physical and psychological wellbeing. Mobile software applications are a promising mode for initiation and maintenance of exercise but are under-studied. This study examined the effectiveness ... -
Ārai Whakamōmori: An Exploration of Te Whakaruruhau’s Suicide Prevention Strategy
(The University of Waikato, 2017)Te Whakaruruhau, Waikato Women’s Refuge, have been able to achieve a suicide free environment for their clients for over 31 years. This research sought to understand how Te Whakaruruhau have been successful in preventing ...
