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Testing The Effect Of Stress On Externalizing Behaviors: Is Growth Mindset A Moderator?, Kelsey Ann Walker
Testing The Effect Of Stress On Externalizing Behaviors: Is Growth Mindset A Moderator?, Kelsey Ann Walker
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This study aimed to examine the potential buffering role of growth mindset of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in reducing adolescents' externalizing behaviors in the context of normative stress (i.e., family, peer, academic, overall) during adolescence. Moderation analyses conducted in the PROCESS macro for SPSS revealed that family stress was significantly associated with externalizing behaviors in adolescents, and this relation was moderated by growth mindset of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The conditional effect analyses revealed that the magnitude of the association between family stress and externalizing behaviors weakened as the levels of growth mindset increased. Academic stress, peer stress, and overall …
Exploring The Moderating Role Of Ethnic Identity In The Relation Between Adolescent Stress And Life Satisfaction, Allyson Topps
Exploring The Moderating Role Of Ethnic Identity In The Relation Between Adolescent Stress And Life Satisfaction, Allyson Topps
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Research in the field of positive psychology has expanded knowledge about factors that contribute to well-being. Less attention has focused on the role of ethnic identity in youths reactions to environmental factors and perceived life experiences. This study examined the potential protective effect of ethnic identity in the relation between adolescents normative social stressors (family and peer) and a minority stressor (perceived discrimination) and life satisfaction. Data was collected via self-report measures from 417 adolescents (age range 14 to 18, 63.0% girls) at a public high school in the mid-south region of the United States. Moderation analyses were conducted in …
Social Information- Processing Variables Predict Hemoglobin A1c Trajectories In Youth With Type 1 Diabetes, Mary Elizabeth Keenan
Social Information- Processing Variables Predict Hemoglobin A1c Trajectories In Youth With Type 1 Diabetes, Mary Elizabeth Keenan
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Predicting long-term trajectories in HbA1c can inform interventions to improve health outcomes for those with type 1 diabetes (T1D) throughout the lifespan. Higher negative attributions of friends’ reactions (NAFR) while participating in health behaviors is related to higher anticipated adherence difficulties (AAD), higher diabetes-related stress (DS), and higher HbA1c, cross-sectionally. The purpose of the present study was to determine if these social information- processing variables can predict membership into empirically derived subgroups of longitudinal HbA1c trajectories in youth with T1D. One hundred ninety-five adolescents with T1D completed the Diabetes Stress Questionnaire and the Attributions of Peer Reactions scale. HbA1cs were …
Mama Bear Conversations: A Template Analysis Of Mothers Message Board Discussions Of Hpv Vaccination And Weight Management For Their Pre-Adolescent And Adolescent Children, Kristin Whitten Johnson
Mama Bear Conversations: A Template Analysis Of Mothers Message Board Discussions Of Hpv Vaccination And Weight Management For Their Pre-Adolescent And Adolescent Children, Kristin Whitten Johnson
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The growth of the Internet has allowed users to gather in online spaces to share thought processes and information about any number of topics, and mothers in particular have found value in these communities as they seek to navigate the rough waters of motherhood. The aim of this research is to examine three message board forum threads at Cafemom.com where mothers gather to discuss two specific health care concerns for their pre-adolescent and adolescent children: human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and weight management. In an attempt to understand how mothers gather in these spaces to discuss these important pre-adolescent and adolescent …
The Effects Of Endocannabinoid Agonist Win 55, 22-212 And Antagonist Am251 On Binge-Pattern Drinking In Adolescent C57bl/6j And Dba/2j Mice, Timothy Glenn Freels
The Effects Of Endocannabinoid Agonist Win 55, 22-212 And Antagonist Am251 On Binge-Pattern Drinking In Adolescent C57bl/6j And Dba/2j Mice, Timothy Glenn Freels
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We hypothesized that the endocannabinoid antagonist AM251 would significantly reduce ethanol self-administration in a paradigm that facilitates binge-pattern drinking behaviors using C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice. We used an EOD (every other day) design in which mice have 24 hour access to an ethanol solution every other day for two weeks. Our results show that B6 mice receiving injections of AM251 drank significantly less ethanol than control B6 mice, but not less than those in the vehicle only and WIN groups. This suggests that AM251 may reduce ethanol consumption in B6 mice. The results also show that ethanol consumption can vary …
Anxiety-Like Behavior In C57bl/6j And Dba/2j Mice: Pharmacological Characterization Of The Elevated Zero Maze And The Influence Of Age-Related Differences On Behavior, Timothy James Flanigan
Anxiety-Like Behavior In C57bl/6j And Dba/2j Mice: Pharmacological Characterization Of The Elevated Zero Maze And The Influence Of Age-Related Differences On Behavior, Timothy James Flanigan
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Anxiety disorders affect a significant proportion of the population and can be debilitating in some circumstances. The exact etiology of these disorders remains to be determined and animal models are an important part of that effort. The elevated zero maze, a behavioral measure of anxiety, was introduced as an alternative to the popular elevated plus maze. While the elevated zero maze has been pharmacologically validated in rats, the available data in mice is more limited. Similarly, the data available on anxiety-like behavior in adolescent mice lacks breadth despite considerable evidence suggesting that developmental processes during this period play a role …
"The Young Blood Hungers": Mapping Young Black Manhood In Marita Bonner's Frye Street Fiction, Rachel Leigh Smith
"The Young Blood Hungers": Mapping Young Black Manhood In Marita Bonner's Frye Street Fiction, Rachel Leigh Smith
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Marita O. Bonner, early twentieth century African American public intellectual and creative writer, wrote particularly about the experiences of blacks in Chicago. Though most Bonner scholarship focuses primarily on her working class female characters, this study provides close readings of the young male figures in the short stories, "One Boy's Story," "The Makin's," "The Whipping," "There Were Three," "Tin Can," and "Nothing New." I analyze how these texts confront notions of family, personal identity, and violence, and how Bonner configures young life as a volatile liminal space of human development. As seen in Bonner's short stories and in her essay …