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Title: A New Approach to Promote Employee Engagement: One-on-one Meetings Between Managers and Direct Reports
Author: Flinchum, Jonathan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Management
Description: Organizations often struggle to engage their workforces despite various known benefits and predictors of employee engagement. The current study examined a new approach to promote employee engagement—1:1 meetings between managers and direct reports...

Title: Assimilation & Accommodation: Cognitive Processes Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth and Depreciation After Infidelity
Author: O'Connor, Victoria
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This study aimed to integrate elements of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) into the developmental pathway theorized to underlie posttraumatic growth (PTG). PTG theory posits that positive psychological changes can result from the struggle to res...

Title: Barriers and Facilitators to Alcohol Reduction in an Integrated Care Intervention Among Individuals with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus
Author: Cooper, Haley
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Health services administration, Social sciences--Research
Description: Approximately 2.71 million people in the United States are living with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV), which causes liver inflammation and can lead to liver damage, loss of liver function, liver cancer, and death (Centers for Disease Control and ...

Title: Caregivers’ Role in Youth Functioning Among Bereaved Caregiver-Child Dyads
Author: Carter, Taylor
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Counseling psychology, Mental health
Description: This study explored indicators of caregiver functioning, the caregiver-child relationship, and child functioning among bereaved youth (aged 6 to 13 years) and their caregivers attending peer support programming at two grief centers (n = 56 caregiv...

Title: Correlates, Predictors, and Consequences of Family Weight Talk among School-Aged Children
Author: Gadaire, Cecily
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Parents play a key role in the establishment of health habits among children, and as many as 60% of parents report talking regularly with their child about health and weight (Lydecker et al., 2018). This health and weight related discourse, known ...

Title: Effects of Growth Mindset and Belongingness Messaging in an Online Classroom
Author: Hall, Ryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Education
Description: This paper examines how growth mindset and belongingness messaging can be applied to instruction in an online classroom to improve student outcomes. Research has shown that growth mindset and belongingness messaging can be used to improve student ...

Title: Examination of Sleep Quality and ADHD Symptomatology on College Students' Academic Performance
Author: Chen, Michelle
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Medical sciences, Education, Higher, Psychology
Description: College students frequently struggle to obtain a sufficient amount and quality of sleep. National Sleep Foundation (NSF) guidelines recommend that young adults aged 18 to 25 obtain 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night – a goal that less than 50% of stu...

Title: Improvement or Peril: The Paradox of Professionalizing Innovation-Driven Portfolio Firms
Author: Medaugh, Melissa
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Management, Psychology
Description: To understand why some innovation-driven portfolio firms benefit more from venture capital (VC) funding than others, I explore the salient phenomenon of founder CEO exit. Integrating institutional logics and psychological contracts theories, I pro...

Title: Indoor Air Quality, Sleep Quality and Next-Day Cognitive Performance
Author: Zendels, Philip
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Atmospheric science, Cognitive psychology
Description: Sleep is important for numerous regulatory processes of health and cognition and sleep impairments can lead to impairments in these outcomes. Sleep and breathing disorders such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) have been well documented in impairin...

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: Perceived Racial Discrimination’s Association With Procedural Justice as Moderated by Organizational Efforts to Support Diversity: A Replication and Extension of Triana & García (2009)
Author: Oshana, Adoril
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Racial-ethnic minorities (i.e., those who do not identify as White alone, not Hispanic or Latinx) compose about 40% of the U.S. population. Social justice initiatives resulted in the government providing protections for such minorities in the work...

Title: Physician Implementation of Gender-Affirmative Care Recommendations: Improving Patient Safety and Healthcare for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
Author: McComas, Megan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences, Medicine
Description: Compared to their cisgender counterparts, transgender, and gender diverse youth (TGDY) disproportionately experience an increased risk for poor patient safety and healthcare disparities. TGDY report poorer mental and physical health and lower rate...

Title: Predictors of Perceived Scarcity: The Impact of Demographic Factors, Objective Socioeconomic Status, and Subjective Social Status
Author: Dillon-Owens, Cody
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Perceived scarcity is a relatively new construct conceptualized to be a subjective indicator of perceived resource availability that captures factors previously unaccounted for by traditional, objective indicators of socioeconomic status (SES). Li...

Title: Procedural Justice, Face Validity, and Departure from Expectations in Selection Procedures as Antecedents of Anticipated Organizational Support
Author: Roatch, Jackson
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Although perceived organizational support (POS) is a widely studied construct with well-established antecedents and consequences, less is known about how perceptions are formed in the early stages of the individual-organization relationship. Build...

Title: Social skills at first acquaintance: Moderators of the relationship between self-and other-ratings of social skills
Author: Voss, Emily
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Social skills are an important aspect of interpersonal interaction in the workplace. While much of the current research focuses on self-reports of social skills, how others view social skills is also important. I explored the relationship between ...

Title: The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship Meets the Dark Triad: Entrepreneurial Passion, Work Addiction, and Personality Traits
Author: Gerdts, James
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Social sciences, Psychology
Description: Passion can drive entrepreneurs to new heights of success and fulfilment, but the dark side can also lead to conflict with relationships and other valued activities. Work addiction goes a step further as it demands the entrepreneur’s time and ener...

Title: The Effects Of Resistance Training On Emotion Regulation And Hemodynamic Parameters In Response To A Stressful Task
Author: Sterner, Danielle
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Kinesiology, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: The Effects Of Resistance Training On Emotion Regulation And Hemodynamic Parameters In Response To A Stressful TaskPhysical exercise is associated with improvements in mental health, potentially through enhanced emotion regulation (ER). However, t...

Title: The Influence of Executive Function and Emotional Self-Regulation on Engagement in Health Behaviors
Author: Park, Sydney
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Increasing positive health behaviors as well as limiting negative health behaviors is critical for maintaining physical and mental health. Two self-regulatory facets, executive functions (EF) and emotion regulation/coping (emotional self-regulatio...

Title: The Link Between Youth Secrecy and Maternal Compassionate and Self-Image Goals
Author: Perry, Jasmine
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Youth secrecy toward their parents is related to negative outcomes including delinquency, conduct problems, depression, and anxiety. Secrecy literature tends to take one of two perspectives on the causes of youth secrecy: youth motivations for kee...

Title: The Multidimensional Self at Work: An Intersectional Examination of Identity Conflict and Authenticity Among Black and White Men and Women
Author: Summerville, Karoline
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Management, Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: Diversity initiatives are often ineffective because they characterize differences at the group-level, and therefore, do not adequately address individuals’ specific identity-related challenges. I apply intersectionality theory to understand how mu...