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- Title
- An Examination of Family and Health Risks and Services on Permanency Outcomes for Multisystem Youth
- Author
- Behrendt-Mihalski, Jaimelee
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Multisystem youth, or youth involved with the juvenile court and child welfare systems, are a high-need population about which research is still-emerging. These youth tend to experience considerable adversity and risk across domains (e.g., health ...
- Title
- Broadened Horizons: Nature Walks and Reflective Thinking in the Context of Scarcity
- Author
- Azra-Lewis, Paisley
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Walking in nature has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on cognitive and emotional wellbeing by restoring attention and increasing positive affect. Both of these factors are in turn linked to increases in flexible, reflective thinking ("...
- Title
- Changing the Conversation on Passive and Active Job Seekers: A Continuum-Based Approach
- Author
- Mansfield (Abberger), Claire
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
- Description
- As employers leverage recruitment activities to compete for active job seekers, they may also seize opportunities to recruit those who are not actively searching for jobs (i.e., passive job seekers). The literature currently focuses on active job ...
- 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
- Doula Care in California during COVID-19: The Impacts of Social Distancing on a High-Touch Helping Profession.
- Author
- Lisenbee, Jodie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Birth doula care was uniquely impacted by hospital visitor restriction policies enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Doulas were classified as "non-essential" personnel and thus generally excluded from providing in-hospital childbirth sup...
- 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
- Factors Related to Weight-Bias Among Counselors
- Author
- Christensen, Katie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health, Psychology, Multicultural education
- Description
- More than two-thirds of adults and one-sixth of children and adolescents in the United States experience higher levels of body fat and/or obesity (Hales et al., 2020). Individuals with higher levels of body fat often experience weight-bias, prejud...
- Title
- Feasibility and acceptability of a Body Kindness guided self-help intervention for emerging adult women
- Author
- Rogers, Courtney
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Based on the extant literature, new and innovative strategies for preventing the development of disordered eating in emerging adulthood appear to be an important area of future focus. This study examined the effects of a GSH intervention for the p...
- 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
- Improving Improv: Effects of Interpersonal Coordination on Music Improvisation
- Author
- Williams, Tevin
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Cognitive psychology
- Description
- Previous research has shown that rigidity in interpersonal coordination (too muchalignment) is negatively associated with creativity as measured by ratings of aesthetic appeal. In this study, we examine the signatures of music improvisation follow...
- 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
- Perceived Work Ability for Employees with Mental Illness: The Roles of Symptom Severity, Anticipated Discrimination, and Internalized Stigma
- Author
- Bardwell, Tarya
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Working adults with mental illness must navigate stigma and impairment in the workplace, and these factors may affect their perceived ability to continue working in their current job. Using appraisal theory and the why try model, the current study...
- Title
- Reappraisal and Health: An Investigation into Reappraisal Ability and Stressful Life Events as the Missing Links
- Author
- Roos, Lydia
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Inadequate emotion regulation may underlie the development of psychopathology as well as worsened physical health, particularly in the context of stress. Cognitive reappraisal is typically considered an adaptive strategy to manage negative emotion...
- Title
- Rethinking Empirical Evidence Of Discriminant Validity: The Role Of Confirmatory Factor Analysis In Construct Proliferatio
- Author
- Albritton, Betsy
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Our field acknowledged the importance of discriminant validity since Campbell and Fiske’s (1959) multitrait-multimethod matrices (MTMM), and yet, the presence of construct proliferation serves as evidence of the lack of clarity or insufficiency of...
- Title
- Targeting reward and regulatory pathways to increase physical activity: Development of a guided imagery intervention
- Author
- Mitchell, Alexis
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Social sciences, Clinical psychology
- Description
- Physical activity provides numerous health benefits. However, many individuals are chronically underactive and have difficulty maintaining regular physical activity. Physical activity interventions may benefit from integrative, experimental approa...
- Title
- The Interactive Effect of Psychological Capital and Gender on Employee Turnover and Promotion Within Entrepreneurial Ventures
- Author
- Tuders, John
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Psychology, Entrepreneurship
- Description
- Entrepreneurship is drives economic growth and innovation. While research largely focuses on the role of the individual entrepreneur, new venture success also depends on the ability for the entrepreneur to attract and retain employees. The purpose...
- Title
- The Nature and Dimensionality of Repetitive Thought
- Author
- Greene, Taryn
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Background: Current popular conceptualizations of the psychological process Repetitive Thought (RT) appear of limited accuracy due to construct confusion (i.e., equating RT with other similar constructs like rumination or worry), possible construc...
- 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
- “It Make Me Feel Like I’m Beneath Them”: Experiences of Stigma Among Individuals Living with Food Insecurity
- Author
- Uri, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Sociology, Environmental health
- Description
- Food insecurity represents one of the most prevalent and severe problems facing modern United States (U.S.) society, with the proportion of households affected surging to approximately 23% during the COVID-19 pandemic. While several food safety ne...