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Title: "Showing up every day": A grounded theory of military veterans' resolution of trauma
Author: Riffle, Olivia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Medical sciences, Clinical psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to conduct an explication of the construct of resolution in the context of posttraumatic growth, or positive psychological and life changes resulting from the struggle with a highly stressful or traumatic experience. ...

Title: A Lifestyle Intervention for Women with Comorbid Type 2 Diabetes and Disordered Eating
Author: Vela, Alyssa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Rates of type 2 (T2) diabetes continue to rise in the United States and around the world, with growth to epidemic proportions largely attributed to health behaviors such as poor diet, overeating, and lack of physical activity. T2 diabetes manageme...

Title: A META-ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENERAL COGNITIVE ABILITY AND FERTILITY
Author: Heeney, Michael
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Empirical studies of the relationship between general cognitive ability and fertility span nearly a century. Reported effects generated through previous studies vary widely, and are believed to reflect differences in: 1) sample characteristics (e....

Title: A chosen challenge: Growth following short-term cross-cultural travel
Author: Gilbert, Valerie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Using the Posttraumatic Growth model (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996) as a framework, the current investigation aims to determine whether growth following short-term cross-cultural travel is achieved through the same cognitive pathway as trauma; that is...

Title: A meta-analysis of the roles and resources model of support giving's health effects
Author: LaPorte, Thomas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Giving social support is lauded in society and regarded as contributing to the development and maintenance of social relationships, but research has typically focused on the benefits of receiving such support and the costs of giving. An emerging l...

Title: ASSESSING THE RELATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING AND EMOTION REGULATION STRATEGY CHOICE
Author: Park, Sydney
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Emotion regulation (ER) is an essential aspect of daily life. Critically, an individual’s ability to implement different ER strategies requires varying levels of cognitive control known as executive functions (EFs). Specifically, EFs such as inter...

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: Age-Related Differences in Cognitive Control: An ERP Study of Internally Directed Attention
Author: Nelson, Monica
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Attention and working memory are two cognitive abilities that have been the target of research to determine whether they are independent (Baddeley, 2003) or related constructs (Kiyonaga & Egner, 2013). Modifying traditional attention tasks to inco...

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: An exploration of the intra- and interpersonal pathways linking interpersonal goals to weight management goal pursuit
Author: Hilaire, Nicole
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Using Pietromonaco and colleagues’ (2013) model as a guiding framework, I designed an empirically testable model that integrates theory and constructs from relationship science, affective science, and health psychology to explore the impact of soc...

Title: Assessing the Predictive Sensitivity of Early Childhood Screening Variables to Improve Pre-K Eligibility Decisions
Author: Gadaire, Andrew
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Developmental psychology
Description: High-quality early childhood education, such as pre-kindergarten (pre-k) can help children develop the academic and social-emotional skills they need to succeed in school. Pre-k can be especially important for students at risk of starting elementa...

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: 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: 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: Community Matters: Exploring the Associations Between Community Belongingness, Community Service Orientation, and Campus Bystander Behavior in Situations of Interpersonal Violence
Author: Jules, Bridget
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Colleges across the U.S. report alarming rates of student interpersonal violence, with estimates varying widely by measurement and sampling strategy, for sexual harassment (9-80%), sexual violence (4.7-58%), dating or domestic violence (18.5-30.3%...

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 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: Do Family and Religious Support Moderate the Relationship between Discrimination and Health outcomes among Middle Eastern and North African Americans
Author: Rastegar, Pedram
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Discrimination is a salient and chronic stressor for many minoritized racial and ethnic groups and has numerous consequences for both mental and physical health. However, less research has focused on how discrimination affects Middle Eastern and N...