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Title: Looking at the Positive: The Stress-Buffering Role of Cognitive Reappraisal Ability on Risk Factors for Disease
Author: Sagui, Sara
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Stress contributes to poor health outcomes; importantly, a stress reaction begins with the negative appraisal of a situation. The ability to use cognitive reappraisal, an emotion regulation strategy that involves reinterpreting an initial appraisa...

Title: MOVEMENT AS A COPING STRATEGY FOR STRESS
Author: Ridenhour, Morgan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: This study explores the use of non-strenuous movement, such as stretching and fidgeting, as a coping mechanism for stress. Prominent sources such as American Psychological Association (APA) recommend the use of movement to manage stress (APA, 2017...

Title: Maternal Well-Being During Gestation: Examining the Role of Pregnant Embodiment
Author: Mooney, Jan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The transitional state of gestation is marked by rapid physiological shifts, at the intersection of sense of self and dominant societal discourses about pregnancy and motherhood. As a result, the experience of the body during pregnancy (i.e., preg...

Title: Meal Patterns, Binge Eating, and BMI Among Latinas
Author: Thomas, Colleen
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology, Area studies
Description: The underrepresentation of ethnically diverse women in the binge eating literature contributes to the false assumption that eating disorders are less prevalent among these women. This thesis represents the first known study examining a sample of e...

Title: ONLINE MINDFULNESS INTERVENTION FOR INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE PATIENTS: ADHERENCE AND EFFICACY
Author: Forbes, Leila
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Social sciences
Description: The impact of stress and other psychological variables on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) prognosis, treatment response, and functional level is well established. However, typical IBD treatment focuses on the physiological pathology of the diseas...

Title: PARENT READINESS TO CHANGE CHILD WEIGHT BEHAVIOR: THE ROLE OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE MODELS AND PERCEPTION OF RISK
Author: Basquin, Cecily
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Background: Parents play a key role in shaping their child’s healthy weight behavior, yet even child weight interventions that incorporate parents can have limited success due to low participation, low completion rates, and poor program compliance...

Title: PATHWAYS TO COPING WITH EXTREME EVENTS: A STUDY OF THE RELATION BETWEEN COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY AND FOUR TYPES OF RUMINATION
Author: Greene, Taryn
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This study investigated the degree to which cognitive flexibility (CF) is related to rumination as part of the overall coping process. We sought to test four hypotheses concerning the relationship between global CF and four specific types of rumin...

Title: POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH AND BIOMARKERS OF CHRONIC STRESS AMONG COMBAT VETERANS OF OPERATIONS ENDURING AND IRAQI FREEDOM
Author: Blevins, Cara
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are a significant public health problem, representing the leading cause of death in U.S. military combat Veterans. Following deployment, combat Veterans are at an increased risk for CVD due to chronic in-theater expos...

Title: Parent and Adolescent Contributions to Family Hardiness in the Wake of a Natural Disaster
Author: McMillan, Iris
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Researchers have typically focused on individuals’ abilities to respond to natural disasters, while family processes post-disaster have received far less attention. Yet a family may be more than a sum of its parts and little is known about how the...

Title: Perceived Racial Discrimination’s Association With Procedural Justice as Moderated by Organizational Efforts to Support Diversity: A Replication and Extension of Triana & García (2009)
Author: Oshana, Adoril
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Racial-ethnic minorities (i.e., those who do not identify as White alone, not Hispanic or Latinx) compose about 40% of the U.S. population. Social justice initiatives resulted in the government providing protections for such minorities in the work...

Title: Posttraumatic Growth and Suicide in Veterans: The Impact of Mental Health Stigma and Interpersonal Needs
Author: Blevins, Cara
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: Over the past 20 years, suicide rates within the US military have increased at unprecedented rates. According to Joiner’s (2005) Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide (IPTS), perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness are direct r...

Title: Posttraumatic growth and career calling in undergraduates
Author: Riffle, Olivia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: As emerging adults, college students are beginning to craft a life narrative that provides purpose and direction, part of which is the identification and pursuit of a meaningful career. It may even include a calling, a sense of being summoned to a...

Title: Predictors of Mobile Dating Application Use Among College Students
Author: Griffin, Meredith
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Emerging adulthood is the transitional developmental stage from the late teens through the early twenties when individuals explore possibilities, particularly in the domains of love, work, and identity (Arnett, 2000). This study focuses on emergin...

Title: Predictors of Perceived Scarcity: The Impact of Demographic Factors, Objective Socioeconomic Status, and Subjective Social Status
Author: Dillon-Owens, Cody
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Perceived scarcity is a relatively new construct conceptualized to be a subjective indicator of perceived resource availability that captures factors previously unaccounted for by traditional, objective indicators of socioeconomic status (SES). Li...

Title: Professionalization through socialization: Student conceptualizations of internships
Author: Beveridge, Chelsea
Date Created: 2007
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: Research suggests that internships lead beneficial outcomes for students, universities, and organizations (e.g., Eyler, 1992; Knouse & Fontenot, 2008), yet a large body of internship research is devoid of a theoretical basis. Previous research tha...

Title: Promoting Health Equity Through Integrated Care: Implementing Universal Depression Screenings in Coastal Federally Qualified Health Centers
Author: Richie, Fallon
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Depression rates in the U.S. continue to rise and create a significant economic burden. Integrating behavioral and mental health into primary care settings is one way to increase depression service delivery including screening, intervention, and f...

Title: QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF A COLLEGE STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH GROUP
Author: Larson, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: College students experience mental health problems (MHPs) at high rates, presenting challenges to students, families, and campus officials. As one response, student mental health groups – often student-led campus chapters of national organizations...

Title: REAL WOMEN AND REAL BEAUTY: ASSESSING THE INTERNAL COMPARISON PROCESSES AND TARGET IMAGES IN BODY-IMAGE SELF-DISCREPANCIES
Author: Taylor, Jessica
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The main purpose of the study was to assess if levels of state body shame and state appearance anxiety differ across two body-comparison conditions when controlling for baseline differences in weighted trait appearance self-discrepancy and BMI. Pa...

Title: REDUCING DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE
Author: Salge, Martina
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Despite protection form federal legislation, employees with disabilities continue to be discriminated against in the workplace. This study examined the effects of an education and contact intervention on participants’ knowledge about disabilities,...

Title: Self-distancing: A Key to Leadership Success?
Author: Williams, Eleanor
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: This study adds to the limited body of research on self-leadership—at the heart of which is self-talk—and it’s impact on leaders’ performance. The research that has been done on leaders’ self-talk has not yet looked at the promising effects of sel...