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- 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
- Leveling the Playing Field: Similarity's Effect on Satisfaction with Status
- Author
- Arnold, Samuel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Social psychology
- Description
- This study proposes a new construct in expectation states theory – status satisfaction (i.e., satisfaction with one’s status in a group). A scale was developed to measure this construct based on previous findings in expectation states literature. ...
- 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
- An examination of the moderating role of gendered racial identity centrality in the relationship between gendered racism and depression
- Author
- Behrendt-Mihalski, Jaime
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Black women experience both racism and sexism, and these experiences have been found to be related to psychological distress and impairment. While research has pointed to the independent negative effects of racism and sexism on mental health, ther...
- 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
- 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 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
- The Influence of Religious Centrality on One's Experience of Traumatic Life Events
- Author
- Brightman, Alexis
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Religion, Spirituality
- Description
- Posttraumatic growth is the positive psychological change that may occur as the result of coping with disruption of one’s core beliefs, following the experience of a traumatic event. Some trauma survivors report a change in how they relate to othe...
- 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
- LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX: YOUNG ADULT DATING RELATIONSHIPS AND DEPRESSION AS RELATED TO PARENTAL RELATIONAL FACTORS
- Author
- Camp, Courtney
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Recent research has shown that adolescents who engage in sexual intercourse exhibit more depressive symptoms, including suicidal ideation and intent, than do adolescents who do not engage in sexual intercourse. Research has also shown that individ...
- 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
- Sexual Violence and Title IX: An Examination of the Nature and Outcomes of Title IX Sexual Violence Complainants
- Author
- Coates Quezada, Constance
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Medical sciences
- Description
- Sexual violence on college campuses is a salient threat to the health and well-being of students in higher education. Title IX legislation was developed to address and help reduce sex-based discrimination, including incidences of sexual violence, ...
- Title
- Working Memory and Emotion Processing Contributions to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Author
- Cook, Mary
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a "persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development," according to the DSM-5, and i...
- 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
- The Role of Social Support During Post-Deployment Reintegration in the Army National Guard
- Author
- Day, Magin
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Social psychology, Psychology, Military art and science
- Description
- The main purpose of the study was to investigate the role military and civilian social support may play in moderating the relationship between stress and mental and physical health during post-deployment reintegration among Army National Guard (AR...
- Title
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Risk-Taking Behaviors in College Students: Early Maladaptive Schemas, and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation as Possible Mediators.
- Author
- Dickie, Daniel
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Clinical psychology
- Description
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are pervasive problems in the United States today. As many as 85% of adults report experiencing at least one adverse childhood experience (Crandall et al., 2020), and experiencing just one ACE significantly inc...
- 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
- Who’s there? Boundaries, entitativity, and copresence in an online discussion forum
- Author
- Ernst, Brittany
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- In this study, social presence theory is proposed as an explanation for the relationship between permeability of boundaries and entitativity in online groups. This claim is tested in an experiment in which group boundaries are manipulated in a fic...
- Title
- “I want to be like her”: The role of bonding social capital among unmarried mothers enrolled in a place-based initiative program
- Author
- Ersoff, Mia
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Social capital, or resources derived from positive social ties, is well-documented as a means of lifting individuals from low-income and economically marginalized (LIEM) backgrounds out of poverty (e.g., Crul et al., 2017; Dominguez & Watkins, 200...
- Title
- Take a step back: Examining regulatory strategies in the face of future threats
- Author
- Etzel, Lena
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a maladaptive coping mechanism associated with numerous clinical disorders, and may represent an attempt to avoid unpleasant internal experiences (e.g., anxiety). Worry, a type of RNT associated with uncertain...