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Title: A meta-analysis of the roles and resources model of support giving's health effects
Author: LaPorte, Thomas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Giving social support is lauded in society and regarded as contributing to the development and maintenance of social relationships, but research has typically focused on the benefits of receiving such support and the costs of giving. An emerging l...

Title: Affect Control Theory and Gendered Occupations
Author: Barry, Leanne
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Social psychology
Description: Gender is widely considered to be a major contributing factor in workplace inequality. This is largely due to the gendering of occupations by labelling certain jobs as more appropriate for one gender than the other. In this paper, I examine gender...

Title: Ambient Discrimination and Observer Task Performance
Author: Harrington, Nicole
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Social psychology, Organizational sociology
Description: Research shows that being a target of workplace incivility is related to negative outcomes for both the individual and the organization. According to the theory of selective incivility, stigmatized groups such as women or people of color experienc...

Title: An exploration of the intra- and interpersonal pathways linking interpersonal goals to weight management goal pursuit
Author: Hilaire, Nicole
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Using Pietromonaco and colleagues’ (2013) model as a guiding framework, I designed an empirically testable model that integrates theory and constructs from relationship science, affective science, and health psychology to explore the impact of soc...

Title: Double Standards and Selection
Author: Clemons Doerer, Sharon
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Management, Sociology, Social psychology
Description: In this dissertation, I use an extension of status characteristics theory--the theory of double standards--to investigate whether and to what extent race activates the use of differential standards in the evaluation of objectively measured task-re...

Title: Fear and Loathing in the Heartland: Status Insufficiency, Resentment, and the Future of American Democracy
Author: Kitchens, Jordan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Social psychology
Description: The current technological and economic transformations spurred by globalization are having detrimental effects on White rural communities’ social status. The status-power theory of social relations predicts that status insufficiency results in neg...

Title: HOW ATTITUDES AFFECT GENDER AS A STATUS CHARACTERISTIC
Author: Randolph, Kyle
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Experimental
Description: Status Characteristics theory (SCT) argues that individuals’ gender attitudes are inconsequential in the status process. SCT states that, since the status process is subconscious, conscious beliefs and attitudes are irrelevant. Because of this arg...

Title: Leveling the Playing Field: Similarity's Effect on Satisfaction with Status
Author: Arnold, Samuel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology
Description: This study proposes a new construct in expectation states theory – status satisfaction (i.e., satisfaction with one’s status in a group). A scale was developed to measure this construct based on previous findings in expectation states literature. ...

Title: Rudeness and Recovery: The Effect of Micro-breaks in Reducing Negative Consequences of Workplace Incivility
Author: Harrington, Nicole
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Social psychology, Psychology, Industrial
Description: Workplace incivility leads to negative outcomes for employees and organizations (Schilpzand, De Pater, & Erez, 2016). It is difficult to completely eradicate due to the ambiguity and subtlety of many uncivil behaviors; however, it is important to ...

Title: TESTING THE STRICT DEPENDENCE ARGUMENT
Author: Burrill, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Social psychology
Description: Abstract Task cues are indications of how an individual in a task group thinks they will perform at the group’s task (Berger et al. 1986). Prior research (Conner 1977; Ridgeway et al. 1985) has shown that status characteristics influence the produ...

Title: The Effects of Stereotype Threat on Mixed-Gender Conversation
Author: Chauncey, Kevin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Description: The present study examined some effects of Stereotype Threat priming on participants in a two-person prompted discussion. Four pairs of participants (one man, one woman) each discussed three workplace scenarios and were prompted to give suggestion...

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: UNDERSTANDING THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIALIZATION SOURCES DURING THE ADAPTATION TO THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
Author: Dubose, Cornell
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Social psychology, Social sciences--Research
Description: CORNELL DUBOSE. Understanding the Influence of Socialization Sources During the Adaptation to the College Experience. (Under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Stearns)Every year in the United States, thousands of young adults start their college care...