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Title: Exploring the Role of Binge Eating and Psychological Correlates in the Context of Excess Gestational Weight Gain
Author: Palmer, Brooke
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Women’s health behaviors during pregnancy have long-lasting effects for both mother and child. One common consequence of health-compromising behaviors is excess gestational weight gain (GWG), or gaining more weight than recommended by the Institut...

Title: FUZZIER CONSTRUCTS IN CONTENT ANALYSIS: RATINGS FROM THE CROWD VS. TRADITIONAL EXPERTS
Author: Moffit, Miles
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: The task of rating (or "coding") text data as a component of qualitative content analysis remains a time-consuming process. Advances in crowdsourcing platforms have presented novel opportunities to outsource this work away from the desks of academ...

Title: Factors Associated with Posttraumatic Growth Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Rumination and Self-Disclosure.
Author: Lindstrom, Cassie
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: The current study examined posttraumatic growth (PTG), the experience of positive change following a traumatic event, in a sample of traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors. The focus was on the role of rumination and self-disclosure about trauma i...

Title: Factors Related to Weight-Bias Among Counselors
Author: Christensen, Katie
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mental health, Psychology, Multicultural education
Description: More than two-thirds of adults and one-sixth of children and adolescents in the United States experience higher levels of body fat and/or obesity (Hales et al., 2020). Individuals with higher levels of body fat often experience weight-bias, prejud...

Title: Feasibility and acceptability of a Body Kindness guided self-help intervention for emerging adult women
Author: Rogers, Courtney
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Based on the extant literature, new and innovative strategies for preventing the development of disordered eating in emerging adulthood appear to be an important area of future focus. This study examined the effects of a GSH intervention for the p...

Title: Frameworks for Ascribing Meaning: An Examination of Adolescents' Lived Experiences of Illness
Author: Winford, Eboni
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The importance of religion and spirituality (R & S) in adults' experiences of illness is well established. Findings range from lower reported levels of distress following diagnoses of illnesses to adults' use of these existential frameworks to und...

Title: Full metal jacket: The effect of combat exposure on emotion processing within working memory.
Author: Alverio, Tabitha
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is experienced by approximately 10 to 20% of service members and veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. To mitigate the effects of trauma experience on service members and their families, it is impor...

Title: Gender Diversity, Conflict, and Psychological Safety in Teams: A Conceptual and Empirical Examination
Author: Redler, Emily
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Sociology, Management
Description: Teamwork is common in daily work life, and it is likely that, when working within teams, conflict may occur. Conflict negatively affects a team’s psychological safety – the feeling of safety and willingness to share one’s ideas and take risks whil...

Title: HOW PERCEPTIONS OF INCLUSION RELATE TO WORK GROUP ATTRACTION
Author: Scheaf, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Identification—the perceived oneness and/or belongingness—with a group has been found to be related to a host of individual and group outcomes. However, it remains unclear how group perceptions and outcomes are affected when an individual perceive...

Title: Health-Related Disparities in Pediatric Asthma: Morbidity, Attitudes Toward Illness, and Symptom Perception
Author: Hardy, Steven
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Psychology, Psychophysiology
Description: Asthma disproportionately affects racial/ethnic minorities and children from low socioeconomic backgrounds; however, an explanation for these disparities is unclear. Furthermore, little is known about psychological outcomes that might vary by race...

Title: How Does Early Dating Couples’ Communication via Text Messaging About Alcohol Influence Alcohol Use and Attitudes?: Exploring the Moderating Roles of Relationship Power and Satisfaction
Author: Harrison, Meredith
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Romantic relationships have an impact on both partners’ health and well-being; however, much remains unknown regarding how health behaviors are shaped in the early stages of dating. The developmental time of emerging adulthood targets an age group...

Title: How long can they stand it? Examining the effectiveness of reflexology and a passive relaxation intervention in improving health outcomes in workers who stand
Author: Kavanagh, Kathryn
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Many jobs require workers to stand for prolonged periods of time while performing their job duties. Prolonged standing at work has been linked to negative health outcomes, particularly musculoskeletal symptoms (MSS) and fatigue. Reflexology is one...

Title: IMPACT OF TWO-SESSION MODEL OF CHILD PARENT RELATIONSHIP TRAINING ON PARENTS OF CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD
Author: Moore, Sarah
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Counseling psychology, Psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of a Two-session Child Parent Relationship Training on parental perception of children's problem behaviors; parental acceptance of child; parental stress; and parental attitudes, knowledge and ski...

Title: IMPLICATIONS OF CULTURAL AND LANGUAGE ISSUES FOR INTERPERSONAL AND INFORMATIONAL JUSTICE
Author: Woznyj, Haley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: The population in the United States is increasingly becoming more diverse. The share of minorities in the United States has grown substantially in recent decades and is projected to continue to grow. These trends have translated into a more divers...

Title: INFLUENCE OF TEAM VERSUS INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE RECOGNITION ON PRODUCTIVITY, ENTITATIVITY, AND SATISFACTION
Author: Gur, Shahar
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: The goal of this experimental study is to examine the influence of performance recognitions that target either the team or the individual on subsequent productivity, entitativity, and team and task satisfaction. Participants worked on an informati...

Title: Improvement or Peril: The Paradox of Professionalizing Innovation-Driven Portfolio Firms
Author: Medaugh, Melissa
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Management, Psychology
Description: To understand why some innovation-driven portfolio firms benefit more from venture capital (VC) funding than others, I explore the salient phenomenon of founder CEO exit. Integrating institutional logics and psychological contracts theories, I pro...

Title: Improving Improv: Effects of Interpersonal Coordination on Music Improvisation
Author: Williams, Tevin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology
Description: Previous research has shown that rigidity in interpersonal coordination (too muchalignment) is negatively associated with creativity as measured by ratings of aesthetic appeal. In this study, we examine the signatures of music improvisation follow...

Title: Improving Outcomes for Families Involved in Child Protective Services Through an Enhanced Understanding of Residential Mobility's Impact on Caregiver-Child Relationships
Author: Johnson, Virginia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Reducing residential mobility among families involved in Child Protective Services (CPS) has the potential to alleviate some of the negative consequences associated with child maltreatment by reducing families’ stress and minimizing disruptions in...

Title: Indoor Air Quality, Sleep Quality and Next-Day Cognitive Performance
Author: Zendels, Philip
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Atmospheric science, Cognitive psychology
Description: Sleep is important for numerous regulatory processes of health and cognition and sleep impairments can lead to impairments in these outcomes. Sleep and breathing disorders such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) have been well documented in impairin...

Title: Internalized Sleep Culture: A novel construct, or an expansion of sleep attitudes? Construct conceptualization, scale development, and initial validation
Author: Ruggiero, Aria
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Sleep health is an important aspect of an individual’s overall health; however, it is often overlooked. Despite the promotion of healthy sleep practices, many individuals have competing demands that interfere with sleep (e.g., work, socializing, s...