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Title: A chosen challenge: Growth following short-term cross-cultural travel
Author: Gilbert, Valerie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Using the Posttraumatic Growth model (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996) as a framework, the current investigation aims to determine whether growth following short-term cross-cultural travel is achieved through the same cognitive pathway as trauma; that is...

Title: Associations between food choice values of parental guardians, socioeconomic status, home food availability, and child dietary intake
Author: Lyerly, Jordan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Previous research has found that food choice values (FCVs), socioeconomic status (SES), and home food availability (HFA) are associated with child dietary intake. However, the relationships between these variables have been poorly studied. Therefo...

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 and Initial Validation of a Comprehensive Model of Scarcity
Author: De Sousa, Maysa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This dissertation aimed to develop a comprehensive model of scarcity. While socioeconomic factors partially explain these disparities, the traditional indicators used in most of the literature fail to fully capture the relationship between SES and...

Title: Does the Configurable Approach to Personality Testing Impact Measurement Characteristics? A Measurement Equivalence/Invariance Analysis
Author: Shumaker, Anne-Marie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Psychology--Statistical methods
Description: Computerized personality testing has allowed organizations using scores from personality tests within hiring systems to configure their tests to deliver only items that are directly related to the job. Although configurable personality testing may...

Title: EFFECTS OF FEMININITY IDEOLOGIES AND SEXUAL SELF-CONCEPT ON HPV VACCINATION INTENTIONS: AN EXPLORATORY EXTENSION OF EXISTING HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE MODELS
Author: Roof, Katherine
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Public health, Psychology
Description: Human Papillomaviruses (HPVs) are a group of over 100 different types of related viruses currently infecting 79 million Americans, making it the most pervasive sexually transmitted infection in the United States (American Cancer Society [ACS], 201...

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: Exploring Folk and Traditional Medicine Practices and Self-Care Among Mexican-Americans with Diabetes
Author: Villanueva, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The burden of diabetes mellitus (DM) is high among minority populations. In the United States, approximately 1 in 10 Hispanic individuals face this burden. A subgroup of these Hispanic individuals, Mexican-Americans, is disproportionately affected...

Title: Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Biopsychosocial Intervention
Author: Ray, Jenna
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences, Psychobiology
Description: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has made a striking impact on western health systems (Andrews et al., 2005). It is a costly illness psychologically, socially, physiologically, and economically. A common complementary treatment for IBS is the practi...

Title: Looking at the Positive: The Stress-Buffering Role of Cognitive Reappraisal Ability on Risk Factors for Disease
Author: Sagui, Sara
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Stress contributes to poor health outcomes; importantly, a stress reaction begins with the negative appraisal of a situation. The ability to use cognitive reappraisal, an emotion regulation strategy that involves reinterpreting an initial appraisa...

Title: Psychosocial Adjustment and Intentions to Persist for Transfer Students in the Psychology Major at a Four-Year Urban Research Institution
Author: OReilly, Elaine
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Psychology
Description: This study examined factors related to the psychosocial adjustment and intentions to persist of transfer students in the psychology major at a large urban research institution in the southeastern United States. Psychosocial adjustment was operatio...

Title: The Effects of an Expressive Writing Intervention on Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth
Author: Groleau, Jessica
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Traumatic experiences are highly prevalent, and their consequences potentially severe. As such, there is a pressing need for the development of novel interventions which may ameliorate the negative consequences of trauma and promote positive outco...

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: The Relationship Between Emotion Regulation Choice and Posttraumatic Growth
Author: Orejuela Davila, Ana
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is the experience of positive psychological change that may occur in the aftermath of a traumatic event. Previous research has extensively examined the cognitive underpinnings of PTG, yet the role of emotion regulation (...

Title: They said what? How to communicate effectively with advocates
Author: Strompolis, Melissa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Political science, Psychology
Description: With effective communication, nonprofit organizations engaged in policy and advocacy work can have a positive impact on the constituents served by the organization, on the advocates working with the organization, and on social issues in general. E...

Title: Understanding peer exchange relationships: A social relations analysis of reciprocity perceptions
Author: Thomas, Jane
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: Although the majority of social exchange research within the organizational sciences relies on reciprocity as the underlying theoretical mechanism in exchange relationships, reciprocity is rarely studied in its own right. The current research soug...

Title: Weight and social norms: Predicting palatable food intake in first-year college women
Author: Hardin, Abigail
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Weight gain in first year university students may be of particular concern in the development of lifelong overweight or obesity. Both Social Facilitation Theory and the Norms Matching Approach have been invoked to explain the augmentation of calor...

Title: YOUTH VOICE AND PERCEIVED CONTROL IN TREATMENT FOR YOUTH IN A SYSTEM OF CARE
Author: Huggins, Sasha
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: Empowering clients in the mental health system is a principle for providing care that has developed in response to the once standard approach in which individuals had little to no voice and choice in their treatment plans and were served in very r...