Texas Christian University

About: Texas Christian University is a education organization based out in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3245 authors who have published 8258 publications receiving 282216 citations. The organization is also known as: TCU & Texas Christian University, TCU.

A brief statement of schema theory

Abstract: Schema theory has recently been extended, coupled with suitable stimulus generating, procedures, and shown to have some predictive utility. A concise summary of extended schema theory is here presented, with provisional definitions of key terms and a statement of the basic suppositions. A distinction is made between the single schema condition and the mixed schema conditions; suppositions about schema learning are offered for both cases.

Second-Career Entrepreneurs: A Multiple Case Study Analysis of Entrepreneurial Processes and Antecedent Variables

Abstract: We use open-ended interviews and focus groups to construct a composite model of activities constituting the entrepreneurial process for seven retirees from a Fortune 100 corporation who started sec...

Dispersion-Composition Models in Multilevel Research: A Data-Analytic Framework

Abstract: Multilevel researchers have predominantly applied either direct consensus or referent-shift consensus composition models when aggregating individual-level data to a higher level of analysis. This p...

An Assessment of Prison-Based Drug Treatment: Texas' In-Prison Therapeutic Community Program

Abstract: In response to increasing problems associated with drug-abusing offenders, the 1991 Texas Legislature provided a statutory foundation for the development of a comprehensive drug treatment program within the state's criminal justice system. In an effort to assess the impact of the prison-based treatment component of this legislative mandate, the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse funded the Institute of Behavioral Research at Texas Christian University to conduct a comprehensive prison-based treatment assessment (PTA) including studies of the In-prison Therapeutic Community (ITC) treatment process and posttreatment outcomes. This article provides an overview of the research project and findings from the 6-month follow-up study. Preprison and during-treatment information was collected from 293 ITC program participants. Six-month follow-up interviews were completed with 222 ITC program graduates and compared with a comparison sample of 75 parolees who were eligible but not sent to ITC treatm...

Communication Processes That Mediate Family Communication Patterns and Mental Well‐Being: A Mean and Covariance Structures Analysis of Young Adults From Divorced and Nondivorced Families

Abstract: In this study, demand/withdraw patterns and feeling caught were tested as mediators of family communication patterns and young adults' mental well-being. Participants included 567 young adults from divorced and nondivorced families. For young adults in nondivorced families, family conversation orientations had both a positive, direct effect on mental well-being and an indirect effect on well-being through witnessing marital demand/withdraw patterns and feeling caught. For young adults in divorced families, however, conversation orientations had only a direct, positive effect on well-being, whereas conformity orientations had a negative, indirect effect through witnessing demand/withdraw patterns. Interestingly, respondents from divorced families reported more feelings of being caught between their parents, yet such feelings predicted diminished well-being only for respondents from nondivorced families.