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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 of a preventive mental health intervention tailored for first-generation college students
Author: Burgess, Charles
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: To close the achievement gap between first and continuing generation students, several interventions that specifically target first-generation students have been designed and delivered in a variety of settings. These interventions are typically in...

Title: Diagnostic and Psychosocial Predictors of Excessive Exercise Use among Adolescents with Symptoms of Anorexia or Bulimia
Author: Alexander, Darcy
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This study examined the ability of several diagnostic and psychological indicators to predict the use of excessive exercise as a weight loss or compensatory behavior for adolescent patients with symptoms of anorexia nervosa (AN) or bulimia nervosa...

Title: Do video games reduce or induce stress? The effect of challenge and threat appraisals on stress and aggression when playing violent and nonviolent video games
Author: Porter, Anne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Video game players report using video games for stress reduction, but previous studies have found mixed results when examining stress and video games, and fail to comprehensively measure all relevant psychological, emotional, and physiological str...

Title: Examining the Role of Stress Reactivity and Emotion Regulation Ability in Behavioral and Physical Health
Author: Sagui-Henson, Sara
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Social sciences
Description: Obesity is a serious and costly societal issue that, combined with other biobehavioral risk factors, contributes to chronic cardiometabolic illnesses. Stress reactivity is posited as a causal mechanism in the development of obesity and cardiometab...

Title: Frameworks for Ascribing Meaning: An Examination of Adolescents' Lived Experiences of Illness
Author: Winford, Eboni
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The importance of religion and spirituality (R & S) in adults' experiences of illness is well established. Findings range from lower reported levels of distress following diagnoses of illnesses to adults' use of these existential frameworks to und...

Title: Identifying Health and Mental Health Needs and Facilitating Access to Care among Youth in Foster Care
Author: Hogan, Katherine
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Mental health, Social service
Description: Youth placed in foster care typically confront a host of health and mental health conditions and related concerns. To address these potential health challenges early, federal legislation stipulates the need to develop case plans and coordinate the...

Title: Internalized Sleep Culture: A novel construct, or an expansion of sleep attitudes? Construct conceptualization, scale development, and initial validation
Author: Ruggiero, Aria
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Sleep health is an important aspect of an individual’s overall health; however, it is often overlooked. Despite the promotion of healthy sleep practices, many individuals have competing demands that interfere with sleep (e.g., work, socializing, s...

Title: THE EFFECT OF ANGER RUMINATION ON CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSES DURING SELF-ANGER AND OTHER-ANGER
Author: Myers, Charlsie
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The high morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular (CV) disease have led to a profusion of research into its etiology. With only 50% of the variance in risk associated with traditional risk factors, research has begun to focus more on...

Title: THE INFLUENCE OF WEIGHT CYCLING AND CHRONIC OBESITY EXPOSURE ON SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS
Author: Hardin, Abigail
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Psychophysiology
Description: Pediatric obesity is a growing public health concern while cardiovascular disease remains the number one cause of death among women. As a result, research is seeking to illuminate the links among obesity and chronic diseases in later life, and whe...

Title: Understanding and identifying risk factors for individuals experiencing negative psychological outcomes following social media use: A statistical analysis among women without a history of an eating disorder.
Author: Hayes, Marie
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: As the use of social media for accessing health information becomes increasingly more nuanced and commonplace, as does our understanding of the impacts on users. Using social media to access health information has increased in popularity, and rese...

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, ...