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Title: Attribution Theory and Apology Discourse in the Context of Medical Errors
Author: Hartsell, Haley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology, Health education
Description: Communication scholars have investigated medical error and apology discourse over the last 20 years. However, despite the previous research on this topic, little is known about what factors (i.e., controllability, emotional response, and error sev...

Title: Barriers and Facilitators to Alcohol Reduction in an Integrated Care Intervention Among Individuals with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus
Author: Cooper, Haley
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Health services administration, Social sciences--Research
Description: Approximately 2.71 million people in the United States are living with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV), which causes liver inflammation and can lead to liver damage, loss of liver function, liver cancer, and death (Centers for Disease Control and ...

Title: Behavioral Displays of Femininity: Does Apologizing Undercut Perceptions of Women at Work?
Author: Hahn, Karli
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to test whether behavioral displays of femininity negatively affect perceptions of women’s leadership skills, competence and promotability and, therefore, impede progress towards gender parity. This study aimed to add...

Title: Broadened Horizons: Nature Walks and Reflective Thinking in the Context of Scarcity
Author: Azra-Lewis, Paisley
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Walking in nature has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on cognitive and emotional wellbeing by restoring attention and increasing positive affect. Both of these factors are in turn linked to increases in flexible, reflective thinking ("...

Title: Building Healthy Communities: An Exploration of a Place-based Initiative, Participant Characteristics, and Preliminary Outcomes
Author: Tynan, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health, Psychology
Description: Decades of discriminatory housing policies have resulted in geographic segregation, forcing low-income minorities into areas of concentrated poverty (Massey & Kanaiaupuni, 1993; Stoloff, 2004). Areas of concentrated poverty are typically marked by...

Title: Can posttraumatic growth protect the mental and physical health of prostate cancer survivors?
Author: Addington, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Oncology
Description: Due to high incidence and survival rates of prostate cancer, mental and physical health outcomes of prostate cancer survivors are important public health issues. Some men with prostate cancer experience positive psychological changes known as post...

Title: Caregivers’ Role in Youth Functioning Among Bereaved Caregiver-Child Dyads
Author: Carter, Taylor
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Counseling psychology, Mental health
Description: This study explored indicators of caregiver functioning, the caregiver-child relationship, and child functioning among bereaved youth (aged 6 to 13 years) and their caregivers attending peer support programming at two grief centers (n = 56 caregiv...

Title: Change-oriented safety behavior in high reliability organizations: Meta-analyzing the social context
Author: Engemann, Krista
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
Description: Workplace safety is a concern for both scholars and practitioners because of the potential for substantial loss of organizational resources. The high reliability organization, and the theory that guides our understanding of this unique organizatio...

Title: Changing the Conversation on Passive and Active Job Seekers: A Continuum-Based Approach
Author: Mansfield (Abberger), Claire
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
Description: As employers leverage recruitment activities to compete for active job seekers, they may also seize opportunities to recruit those who are not actively searching for jobs (i.e., passive job seekers). The literature currently focuses on active job ...

Title: Cognitive, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Predictors of College Sleep and Health
Author: Peach, Hannah
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: College students are one of the top at-risk groups for chronic sleep loss and poor sleep quality, therefore research devoted to the identification of cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral predictors of sleep is essential. The present study examin...

Title: Cognitive, affective, and personality predictors of confirmatory political information seeking
Author: Brunswick, Michael
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology
Description: Confirmation bias is the phenomenon where an individual seeks, navigates, and processes information in ways to reinforce previously held beliefs or attitudes. Contentious political climates exacerbate effects of confirmatory information seeking, w...

Title: Correlates, Predictors, and Consequences of Family Weight Talk among School-Aged Children
Author: Gadaire, Cecily
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Parents play a key role in the establishment of health habits among children, and as many as 60% of parents report talking regularly with their child about health and weight (Lydecker et al., 2018). This health and weight related discourse, known ...

Title: Cyber Victimization and Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Emerging Adults
Author: McComas, Megan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Clinical psychology, Developmental psychology
Description: Experiences of cyber aggression victimization in emerging adulthood have been shown to be associated with host of negative psychological health concerns (i.e., depression, anxiety, loneliness, substance use, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts)...

Title: Determining Children’s ‘Best Interests’ in High-conflict Custody Cases: Examining Program Processes in Custody Advocacy
Author: Salim, Khalil
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: In recent years, family courts have made increasing use of advisors and/or advocates (e.g., forensic psychologists, social workers, best interest attorneys, guardian ad litems, etc.) in determining outcomes in child custody disputes. Evidence sugg...

Title: Development and Initial Validation of a Comprehensive Model of Scarcity
Author: De Sousa, Maysa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This dissertation aimed to develop a comprehensive model of scarcity. While socioeconomic factors partially explain these disparities, the traditional indicators used in most of the literature fail to fully capture the relationship between SES and...

Title: Development of a preventive mental health intervention tailored for first-generation college students
Author: Burgess, Charles
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: To close the achievement gap between first and continuing generation students, several interventions that specifically target first-generation students have been designed and delivered in a variety of settings. These interventions are typically in...

Title: Development of a theory based text message intervention to promote physical activity among college students
Author: Hayes, Marie
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: College undergraduate students traditionally reduce their engagement in physical activity during college, despite the negative health consequences sedentary behavior has been linked to. Mobile health (mhealth) interventions have become increasingl...

Title: Diagnostic and Psychosocial Predictors of Excessive Exercise Use among Adolescents with Symptoms of Anorexia or Bulimia
Author: Alexander, Darcy
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This study examined the ability of several diagnostic and psychological indicators to predict the use of excessive exercise as a weight loss or compensatory behavior for adolescent patients with symptoms of anorexia nervosa (AN) or bulimia nervosa...

Title: Differentiating the domains of dirty work in animal euthanasia
Author: Bickmeier, Robert
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Psychology, Industrial
Description: ABSTRACTROBERT MICHAEL BICKMEIER. Differentiating the domains of dirty work in animal euthanasia. (Under the direction of DR. STEVEN G. ROGELBERG)This study distinguished two domains of taint in dirty work empirically and theoretically in terms of...

Title: Do video games reduce or induce stress? The effect of challenge and threat appraisals on stress and aggression when playing violent and nonviolent video games
Author: Porter, Anne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Video game players report using video games for stress reduction, but previous studies have found mixed results when examining stress and video games, and fail to comprehensively measure all relevant psychological, emotional, and physiological str...