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Title: What information matters? Using policy capturing to understand legal and psychological decisions about civil competency
Author: Quickel, Emalee
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Law
Description: Civil competency, or one's ability to manage one's own affairs, is an under-researched legal construct that impacts individuals, families and communities. The legal decisions surrounding civil competency seek to balance one's autonomy and safety, ...

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: MOVEMENT AS A COPING STRATEGY FOR STRESS
Author: Ridenhour, Morgan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: This study explores the use of non-strenuous movement, such as stretching and fidgeting, as a coping mechanism for stress. Prominent sources such as American Psychological Association (APA) recommend the use of movement to manage stress (APA, 2017...

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: 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: 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: Evaluation of an Online Educational Intervention to Increase Knowledge and Self-Efficacy in Disaster Responders and Critical Care Transporters Caring for Individuals with Developmental Disability
Author: Edinger, Zachariah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Public health, Educational evaluation
Description: Individuals with developmental disabilities experience more negative outcomes due to natural and manmade disasters and emergencies than do people without disabilities. Considering the large number of individuals in the United States with a disabil...

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....