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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: 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: Equipping parents to support their children’s education: The effects of Charlotte Bilingual Preschool’s Family Program
Author: Gadaire, Andrew
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Psychology
Description: Charlotte Bilingual Preschool’s Family Program aims to equip parents to support their children’s education at home and at school by increasing parents’ educational engagement, promoting parenting best practices, developing families’ social capital...

Title: Examining the factor structure of two subscales of the Independent Living Scales (ILS) in a clinical sample and a college sample.
Author: Johnson, Ashley
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: This study examined the factor structure of the Independent Living Scales in two subscales of the measure, Managing Money (MM) and Health and Safety (HS), that have been recommended as most valid for predicting competency adjudications (Quickel & ...

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: 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: 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: The Influence of Executive Function and Emotional Self-Regulation on Engagement in Health Behaviors
Author: Park, Sydney
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Increasing positive health behaviors as well as limiting negative health behaviors is critical for maintaining physical and mental health. Two self-regulatory facets, executive functions (EF) and emotion regulation/coping (emotional self-regulatio...

Title: The Link Between Youth Secrecy and Maternal Compassionate and Self-Image Goals
Author: Perry, Jasmine
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Youth secrecy toward their parents is related to negative outcomes including delinquency, conduct problems, depression, and anxiety. Secrecy literature tends to take one of two perspectives on the causes of youth secrecy: youth motivations for kee...