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- Title
- A BROKEN HEART: THE IMPACT OF PEDIATRIC OPEN HEART SURGERY ON PARENTS' WELLBEING AND PARENTING
- Author
- McWhorter, Linda
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- According to the pediatric medical traumatic stress model, pediatric medicalexperiences can create posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in pediatric patients and intheir parents and siblings. While the impact of traumatic medical experiences has b...
- Title
- A CULTURALLY ADAPTED INTERVENTION TO TREAT BINGE EATING IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WITH BINGE EATING
- Author
- Scott, Tamara
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Binge eating (BE), a specific type of overeating, is characterized by a pattern of consuming unusually large amounts of food in a discrete period of time combined with a sense of loss of control. Although research suggests similar rates of binge e...
- Title
- A Grounded Theory Study of Posttraumatic Growth and Wisdom in a Sample of Oncology Nurses
- Author
- Vishnevsky, Tanya
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Medical sciences, Oncology
- Description
- This study utilized a grounded theory approach to examine the degree to which oncology nurses report posttraumatic growth (PTG) and wisdom as a result of caring for patients. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 30 oncology nurses; interviews...
- Title
- A comparative analysis of pro-anorexia versus pro-recovery Instagram images through the lenses of objectified body consciousness and positive body image conceptual frameworks
- Author
- Jafari, Nadia
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Mental health, Clinical psychology
- Description
- Instagram (IG) is a social media application that allows users to upload personal images in a public forum by including a searchable link (e.g. hashtag) along with a posted image. An IG community devoted to a pro-recovery (i.e., #anarecovery) pers...
- Title
- ANOTHER BATTLE, ANOTHER HURDLE: HOW PARENTS CREATE MEANING FROM RAISING A CHILD WITH AUTISM
- Author
- Basalik, Debra
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Psychology
- Description
- The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is increasing (CDC, 2016). Research studies have focused on either medical treatments and therapeutic interventions for this disorder, or the trauma of the diagnostic process. Scholarship, however,...
- Title
- An Examination of Family and Health Risks and Services on Permanency Outcomes for Multisystem Youth
- Author
- Behrendt-Mihalski, Jaimelee
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Multisystem youth, or youth involved with the juvenile court and child welfare systems, are a high-need population about which research is still-emerging. These youth tend to experience considerable adversity and risk across domains (e.g., health ...
- Title
- An evaluation of an intervention for HPV risk reduction among college-aged women
- Author
- Sweeney, Jocelyn
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Health education
- Description
- The goal of the study was to examine the effectiveness of a group intervention in reducing risk in relation to human papillomavirus (HPV) among sexually active, college-aged women. Using a randomized design, the current study examined the effectiv...
- Title
- Assessing The Impact of Programming to Strengthen Social Emotional Skills in Young School Children: Associations with Academic and Behavioral Outcomes
- Author
- Simmons, Caitlin
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational psychology
- Description
- Considerable research documents the importance of social emotional development for children’s short- and long-term outcomes, including academic outcomes and long-term health and wellbeing. Studies have demonstrated that the development of social e...
- Title
- Assessing the Feasibility, Acceptability, Preliminary Efficacy, and Anticipated Clinical Practice Implementation of a Mindful Eating Smartphone Application: A Mixed Methods Analysis Among Undergraduate Women with Binge Eating and Clinical Experts.
- Author
- Jafari, Nadia
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Psychology
- Description
- Mental health applications (mHealth apps) are developed to bolster the utility and convenience of smartphones to stimulate behavior change, although many mHealth apps lack strong empirical support. Undergraduate women are daily app users and a hig...
- Title
- Assimilation & Accommodation: Cognitive Processes Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth and Depreciation After Infidelity
- Author
- O'Connor, Victoria
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- This study aimed to integrate elements of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) into the developmental pathway theorized to underlie posttraumatic growth (PTG). PTG theory posits that positive psychological changes can result from the struggle to res...
- Title
- Associations between food choice values of parental guardians, socioeconomic status, home food availability, and child dietary intake
- Author
- Lyerly, Jordan
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Previous research has found that food choice values (FCVs), socioeconomic status (SES), and home food availability (HFA) are associated with child dietary intake. However, the relationships between these variables have been poorly studied. Therefo...
- Title
- Bicultural Context and Metabolic Health
- Author
- Rodriguez Diaz, Michelle
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Clinical psychology
- Description
- Cardiovascular disease and diabetes are among the leading causes of death in the United States (NCHS, 2016), making the metabolic syndrome (MetS) an important target for research and intervention. In addition, there seems to be a disproportionate ...
- 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
- Cognitive Control of Attention, Emotion, and Memory: An ERP Study
- Author
- Eyer, Joshua
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Cognitive psychology, Clinical psychology
- Description
- Unwanted retrieval of negative memories can be problematic for many clinical populations. The Think/No-Think (T/NT) task (Anderson & Green, 2001) is a new paradigm for studying cognitive control during cued recall. In this task participants view a...
- 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
- Development and Initial Validation of a Comprehensive Model of Forgiveness Following Interpersonal Conflict
- Author
- D'Angelo, Amanda
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Clinical psychology
- Description
- Psychological research on forgiveness has become increasingly prevalent over the past several years. However, there remain significant gaps in the theory guiding this research. This dissertation developed and tested a comprehensive model of the st...
- 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 and Initial Validation of a Measure of Internalized Diet Culture
- Author
- Morris, Victoria
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Social sciences--Research
- Description
- Scholars argue that a unique diet culture exists in Westernized nations which conflates health outcomes and moral character, by attaching morality to food choices, eating and exercising behaviors, and physical appearance. Several seemingly separat...