06-22-94 Student Wins APS Award

OHIO STATE SENIOR WINS NATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH AWARD
     COLUMBUS -- A senior at Ohio State University's Newark
campus has won the 1994 Undergraduate Student Research Award from
the American Psychological Society.
     Christie Partlo, 26, of New Albany, received the award for
her study "Battered Women: Depression Intensity and Duration,
Threat, Wishes, and Expectations for Change."
     Partlo will receive a $250 award and present her research in
Washington, D.C., on July 2 at the annual meeting of the APS.
     Sara Staats, a professor of psychology at the Newark campus,
was Partlo's advisor on the project.  Staats said Partlo did the
project as part of her senior honor's thesis.
     "This was truly Christie's research from beginning to end,"
Staats said.  "This was unique among the honor's projects I have
worked on in that the student directed everything."
     Partlo said she got the idea for the research after
volunteering at a shelter for battered women in Newark.  She
compared scores of 22 battered women and 51 non-battered women on
several psychological tests.  Her study found, as expected, that
battered women suffer from more depression than non-battered
women.  But she found that the depression scores did not drop for
battered women even after two months.  Battered women, while they
wished for change in themselves and their partners, did not
expect change to occur, the study showed.
     Partlo said she expects to go to graduate school in
psychology and become a professor.

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Contact:  Sara Staats, 292-4094 or Christie Partlo, 855-7077.


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