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Title: Predictors of Mobile Dating Application Use Among College Students
Author: Griffin, Meredith
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Emerging adulthood is the transitional developmental stage from the late teens through the early twenties when individuals explore possibilities, particularly in the domains of love, work, and identity (Arnett, 2000). This study focuses on emergin...

Title: Navigating the Insider-Outsider Divide: Understanding the Socialization Experiences of Contract Workers
Author: Beveridge, Chelsea
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: Contractors have unique employment arrangements, but previous research has often grouped them into samples with other contingent workers. As such, research specific to contract workers is relatively sparse and focused on This dissertation focused ...

Title: REDUCING DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE
Author: Salge, Martina
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Despite protection form federal legislation, employees with disabilities continue to be discriminated against in the workplace. This study examined the effects of an education and contact intervention on participants’ knowledge about disabilities,...

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: Differentiating the domains of dirty work in animal euthanasia
Author: Bickmeier, Robert
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Psychology, Industrial
Description: ABSTRACTROBERT MICHAEL BICKMEIER. Differentiating the domains of dirty work in animal euthanasia. (Under the direction of DR. STEVEN G. ROGELBERG)This study distinguished two domains of taint in dirty work empirically and theoretically in terms of...

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: 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: 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 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: Lived experiences of nurses on a burn unit related to secondary traumatic stress.
Author: Shearer, Lindsay
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Psychology
Description: Nursing is a large and growing profession. Nurses provide a critical service to patients and families, often in highly stressful work environments (McGibbon, Peter, & Gallop, 2010; Theme Filha, Costa, & Guilam, 2013). The stressful nature of nursi...

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: The Role of Perceived Stress Reactivity in the Relationship among Race, Discrimination, and Heart Rate Variability
Author: Price, Brittany
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Despite having a greater risk for developing chronic health conditions like cardiovascular disease, overall African Americans have been found to have higher, healthier heart rate variability (HRV) compared to European Americans. This study sought ...

Title: The Role of Social Support During Post-Deployment Reintegration in the Army National Guard
Author: Day, Magin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Military art and science
Description: The main purpose of the study was to investigate the role military and civilian social support may play in moderating the relationship between stress and mental and physical health during post-deployment reintegration among Army National Guard (AR...

Title: Treating type 2 diabetes using shared medical appointments: Patient satisfaction and perspectives
Author: Milling, Sandra
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: In the U.S., more than 30 million people are living with diabetes. Given the scope of the problem, it is necessary to identify effective, lower cost alternatives to individual medical appointments for diabetes care. Shared medical appointments (SM...

Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUBSTANCE USE PROBLEMS, FAMILY COMMUNICATION, FORGIVENESS, AND MALE CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE
Author: Branscome, Roderick
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Families--Study and teaching, Sex
Description: Boys who were sexually abused in childhood are three times as likely to report substance use problems that are associated with poor mental and physical health as well as academic, vocational, and interpersonal difficulties. A review of literature ...

Title: The influence of emotion regulation on psychological distress and physiological functioning following a romantic breakup
Author: Roos, Lydia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology, Psychophysiology
Description: Being in a romantic relationship confers better psychological wellbeing and physical health than being single; however, relationship dissolution can be psychologically stressful, and separation and divorce have been linked to an array of poor heal...