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Vocal Writing For Solo Soprano Voices In Oratorios By Antonio Salieri, Marlayna Maynard
Vocal Writing For Solo Soprano Voices In Oratorios By Antonio Salieri, Marlayna Maynard
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Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) was a well-respected composer who served the Hapsburg court in Vienna as Hofkapellmeister for thirty-six years, from 1788-1824; his students included such luminaries as Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837), and Maria Theresia Paradis (1759-1824). Today, he is remembered mostly for his operas, and for his rivalry and friendship with Mozart. Salieris oratorios have received less attention from scholars than his other works. This study is an analysis of three roles for soprano voice in Salieris oratorios: Maddalena in La Passione di Ges Cristo (1776), and Eva and La Fede in Ges …
Effect Of Simulated Patients Versus Peer Role-Play On Physical Therapist Student Clinical Reasoning And Confidence, Jacque Lynn Bradford
Effect Of Simulated Patients Versus Peer Role-Play On Physical Therapist Student Clinical Reasoning And Confidence, Jacque Lynn Bradford
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The use of simulated patients is a developing instructional strategy in physical therapy education (PTE) programs. However, it is unknown if using simulated patients during instruction yields better outcomes than the traditional use of peer role-play. This two-arm randomized, experimental design investigated the effect of type of simulation-based instruction, simulated patients compared to peer role-play, on clinical reasoning and confidence of students enrolled in an entry-level PTE program learning patient transfer skills. Upon the conclusion of two instructional sessions, clinical reasoning was measured by the Think Aloud Standardized Patient Examination (TASPE) during a simulation experience. Student confidence in performing future …
Are We Lovin' It?: The Edtpa And The Mcdonaldization Of Music Teacher Training, Ellen Koziel
Are We Lovin' It?: The Edtpa And The Mcdonaldization Of Music Teacher Training, Ellen Koziel
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This qualitative study addresses the growing body of research about the implementation and impact of edTPA on the training and assessment of music teacher candidates at the college/university level from the viewpoint of 12 music education teacher trainers in the state of Tennessee. Ritzers four dimensions of McDonaldization (efficiency, calculability, predictability and control) provided the sociological framework used to explore the lived experiences of the music teacher trainers. Constructivist grounded theory was used to analyze the 12 semi-structured qualitative interviews with the goal of determining themes and patterns. Out of 12 respondents, two were in support of continuing the use …
African American Women Principals' Perceptions Of Challenges Faced In Obtaining And Maintaining Principal Leadership, Jennifer Denise Jackson-Dunn
African American Women Principals' Perceptions Of Challenges Faced In Obtaining And Maintaining Principal Leadership, Jennifer Denise Jackson-Dunn
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In the 21st century, an urban teenager sent to see the principal might find an African American womanthe chances are small. If these students are lucky enough to find a black woman in the chair, she fought to get there and fights to stay. This study examined the perceptions of a few of these women vis-a-vis the obstacles they faced while pursuing or working as principals or assistant principals in middle- or high schools. The study illuminated the intersectionality of race and gender according to Crenshaw (1989) pointing out how African-American female principals identify, understand, conceptualize, interpret, and overcome those …
Learning From Errors In The Adaptive Mathematics Tutoring System, Jun Xie
Learning From Errors In The Adaptive Mathematics Tutoring System, Jun Xie
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Errors are considered to play a crucial role in facilitating self-reflection and knowledge acquisition. Nevertheless, nowadays how students benefit from errors in learning is still open to debate. That is, help is superior to practice for learning from errors or not. The goal of this dissertation is to systematically explore how students use help and practice to learn from errors in ALEKS (i.e. Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces), an adaptive math learning system. Based on the theoretical framework, the learning phase theory, this dissertation defined strategies to learn from errors in three types: help strategy (requesting worked examples in …
Human Exposure To Air Toxics In Urban Environments: Health Risks, Sociodemographic Disparities, And Mixture Profiles, Zhuqing Xue
Human Exposure To Air Toxics In Urban Environments: Health Risks, Sociodemographic Disparities, And Mixture Profiles, Zhuqing Xue
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Exposure to air toxics in urban environments may be of significant health concern because populations and emission sources are concentrated in the same geographic area. The overall objective of this study is to characterize the sources, variations, and mixture profiles of ambient air toxics in urban environments, and examine the sociodemographic disparities in exposures to air toxics in a typical U.S. metropolitan area.A model-to-monitor comparison was performed to evaluate the validity of modeling air toxics data using national datasets. Modeled concentrations in the 2011 National-scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) moderately agreed with monitoring measurements, and a sizable portion showed underestimation. …
Measurement Of Organizational Commitment In Adjunct Instructors Teaching Within A Mid-South Community College System Based On Hiring Orientation Characteristics, Jennifer Lee Knott
Measurement Of Organizational Commitment In Adjunct Instructors Teaching Within A Mid-South Community College System Based On Hiring Orientation Characteristics, Jennifer Lee Knott
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The United States community college student population is a broad demographic that continues to grow. The result is a higher demand for classes and an increasing reliance of college administrators on temporary, part-time adjunct instructors. Temporary employees are found to exhibit a low organizational commitment (OC) to their employers. The social exchange theory and the concept of reciprocity served as the framework for studying OC of adjunct instructors in a mid-south community college system. A regression analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between three hiring orientation characteristics and OC, while controlling for years of teaching experience. Each variable was …
Arachidonoyl Serotonin (Aa-5-Ht) Modulates Exploratory Anxiety-Related Behavior And Tunes Mesolimbic Dopamine Transmission, Timothy Glenn Freels
Arachidonoyl Serotonin (Aa-5-Ht) Modulates Exploratory Anxiety-Related Behavior And Tunes Mesolimbic Dopamine Transmission, Timothy Glenn Freels
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Cannabinergic and vanilloidergic signaling are mechanisms of interest for the treatment of anxiety symptoms due to the anxiolytic properties of cannabinoid type 1 receptor (CB1R) activation and transient potential vanilloid type 1 channel (TRPV1) inhibition. Arachidonoyl serotonin (AA-5-HT), a dual fatty acid amide hydrolase and TRPV1 inhibitor provides an efficient means of modulating these systems. We therefore examined the effects of AA-5-HT on anxiety- and fear-like behaviors in male low (C57BL/6J; [B6]) and high (BALB/cJ; [BCJ]) anxiety mice in light/dark box (LDB), open-field (OF), and fear extinction (FE) paradigms. AA-5-HT (1 mg/kg) administration did not affect anxiety-related behaviors in the …
Multi-Period Transportation Network Investment Decision-Making Using Link Ranking And An Econometric Framework, Khademul Haque
Multi-Period Transportation Network Investment Decision-Making Using Link Ranking And An Econometric Framework, Khademul Haque
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Prospective transportation infrastructure projects take numerous years of planning before they are scheduled for construction. Moreover, limited funds are forcing national, regional and local governments to carefully prioritize their investments. Therefore, reliable quantitative tools are needed to help decision-makers choose their investments so that the allocation of available resources is optimized. Prioritization of projects over a multi-period planning horizon is a difficult task given a limited budget and an exhaustive set of possible combinations of when each project will be scheduled for construction. Although multi-period network investment is studied in the literature, its application by public agencies is limited because …
An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Teachers' Perceptions Of School Disciplinary Climate And Five Organizational Productivity Measures, Jason Bolden
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The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between five school productivity measures at 248 Tennessee high schools and educators perceptions of these institutions climate for student discipline. Grounded in archived accountability information stored on the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) website, these five productivity measures were the student attendance, graduation, suspension, event dropout, and cohort dropout rates computed for the 2012-2013 academic year. For these same institutions, the perceived disciplinary climate was calculated from responses to a seven-item section on managing student conduct appearing on the 2013 state-wide administration of the Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning survey in …
Predictors Of Body Dissatisfaction In Trans Men And Women, Emily Lynne Brown
Predictors Of Body Dissatisfaction In Trans Men And Women, Emily Lynne Brown
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Body dissatisfaction has been found to affect individuals regardless of gender or sexual identity. However, research on body dissatisfaction among transgender men and women is lacking despite findings that these individuals experience body dissatisfaction to a greater extent than cisgender men and women. This study used hierarchical regression to explore whether factors associated with Objectification Theory, ones experience of gender related violence, whether one has undergone medical transition, and the extent to one identifies with stereotypical feminine or masculine norms predicted body dissatisfaction in a sample of 140 transgender men and 94 transgender women women. Results suggest that factors related …
Polishing Gems: A Supplemental Curriculum For Developing The Musical Literacy And Musical Expression Skills Of Junior High Flute Students, Jennifer Lynn Amox
Polishing Gems: A Supplemental Curriculum For Developing The Musical Literacy And Musical Expression Skills Of Junior High Flute Students, Jennifer Lynn Amox
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This study determines the content for a supplemental curriculum designed to improve musical literacy and musical expression skills using the Arkansas School Band and Orchestra (ASBOA) all-state junior high flute etudes. It addresses the first two steps (analysis of practical problems and development of possible solutions) of a Design-Based Research (DBR) project. The author intends to address the third and fourth steps (iterative cycles of testing and refinement and reflection and enhancement) in future research studies. A pilot study identified technical and interpretive deficiencies exhibited in nine (N = 9) student audition recordings using excerpts from the ASBOA etudes. A …
Influence Of Quality Matters™ Professional Development On Faculty Members' Perceptions Of Design Standards And Their Course Development Abilities, Rhonda Gregory
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Distance education quality assurance is a concern throughout the literature. Standards such as the Quality Matters (QM) Higher Education Rubric, 5th edition, are meant to support course design quality assurance. Professional development is associated with quality assurance initiatives, including the goal to transform facultys instructional practices. Some community college faculty members who create online and hybrid courses participate in the Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) training to learn how to apply the QM rubric. While the literature provides many in-house training program evaluations, there is a research gap about community college faculty experiences in APPQMR and what influence it …
Effect Of Virtual Reality On Motivation And Achievement Of Middle-School Students, Michelle Bowen
Effect Of Virtual Reality On Motivation And Achievement Of Middle-School Students, Michelle Bowen
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The introduction of low-cost hand-held devices has provided K-12 educators with the opportunity to teach using virtual reality (VR). However, the efficacy of VR in K-12 classrooms for teaching and learning has not been established. Therefore, the purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to examine the influence of virtual reality field trips on middle-school students social studies academic achievement and motivation. The district chosen for the study is in a rural, economically depressed county, where generational poverty persists. However, the district has a history of being an early adopter of technology. Participants included 76 seventh-grade students at two middle schools, …
Neurocognitive Functioning In Parkinson's Disease Patients: Assessing The Unique Contributions Of Depression And Fatigue While Controlling For Disease Severity, Benjamin L. Brett
Neurocognitive Functioning In Parkinson's Disease Patients: Assessing The Unique Contributions Of Depression And Fatigue While Controlling For Disease Severity, Benjamin L. Brett
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Background: While individuals diagnosed with Parkinsons disease (PD) often experience cognitive deficits, depression, and fatigue, the relationships among these non-motor sequelae throughout the progression of the disease are unclear. Objective: To examine the relationships among disease severity, depression, and fatigue and investigate the independent contributions of depression and fatigue to a composite measure of cognitive functioning, when controlling for disease severity in PD patients. Methods: A mixed retrospective and prospective sample of PD patients completed a comprehensive neuropsychological battery, as well as self-report measures of depression and fatigue. Cognitive functioning was represented by a summary statistic, or cognitive impairment index …
Relations Between Reading Motivation And Reading Skills In Students With A Reading Disability, Jennifer Maria Johnson
Relations Between Reading Motivation And Reading Skills In Students With A Reading Disability, Jennifer Maria Johnson
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The purpose of the present study was to examine the short-term longitudinal relations between two constructs of reading motivation (reading self-concept and value of reading) and two aspects of reading (reading fluency and reading comprehension) in a clinical sample of elementary school students diagnosed with a SLD in reading. Skills in reading fluency and comprehension were assessed by the Gray Oral Reading Tests, Fifth Edition (GORT-5; Wiederholt & Bryant, 2012) and reading motivation was assessed by the Motivation to Read Profile- Revised (MRP-R; Malloy, Marinak, Gambrell, & Mazzoni, 2013). A cross-lag panel analysis was used to examine autoregressive paths (the …
Training Adult Volunteers To Judge In Competitive, Non-Traditional Educational Environments Using Online Learning, Tod Traughber
Training Adult Volunteers To Judge In Competitive, Non-Traditional Educational Environments Using Online Learning, Tod Traughber
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The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to examine the comparative change in reported self-efficacy between an experimental group using an interactive, online instructional module and a control group using a traditional handbook. Three research questions were addressed in the study:1. To what extent does completion of an interactive, online training module, as compared to completion of a training manual, affect the self-efficacy of potential volunteer first-time academic competition judges to fulfill their role as a judge after controlling for initial self-efficacy?2. To what extent does completion of an interactive, online training module, as compared to completion of a training …
Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence In Youth Living With Hiv: Exploring The Role Of Risk Behaviors, Health Promotion Behaviors And Depressive Symptoms, Megan Loew
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Youth living with HIV are often inconsistent with their HIV medication adherence. HIV medication adherence is critical for the treatment of HIV and prevention for future transmission. Understanding associated behaviors that may impact adherence for individuals living with HIV is necessary for their continued care. The current study aimed to more fully identify the influences engaging in risk behaviors, health promoting behaviors and experiencing depressive symptoms have on HIV medication adherence in adolescents and young adults with HIV. Participants were 92 adolescents and young adults with HIV living in the mid-south region of the United States. Individuals completed surveys about …
Female Saudi Dependent Students And Language Learning Investment And Resistance: A Case Study Of Four Female Muslim Saudi Students In The Us, Nada Abdulaziz Alshabibi
Female Saudi Dependent Students And Language Learning Investment And Resistance: A Case Study Of Four Female Muslim Saudi Students In The Us, Nada Abdulaziz Alshabibi
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Driven by Nortons (2012) concept of investment and the role of agency and identity in second language acquisition, this study investigated the relationship between religion, cultural identity, and language learning investment among four female Saudi dependent students in an intensive English institute (IEI) in the US. The study examined how students invested their agency as mothers and wives to learn English and how such factors as their Islamic garb, co-educational classes, family, friends, teachers, and class activities increased or decreased their learning opportunities.Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with each participant. Two had dropped out of the IEI, and two …
Identifying Pathways To Smoking And Alcohol Consumption After A Natural Disaster: Findings From Hurricane Katrina, Adam Alexander
Identifying Pathways To Smoking And Alcohol Consumption After A Natural Disaster: Findings From Hurricane Katrina, Adam Alexander
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Survivors of disasters often experience severe psychological symptoms and disorders, including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and report using psychoactive substances, such as alcohol, marijuana, and cigarettes. This dissertation examined whether depression severity and PTSD were pathways to postdisaster smoking and alcohol consumption using a representative cohort of adult cigarette smokers from Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana nine and eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina (N=2004). Results from path analyses showed that disaster exposure increased depression and posttraumatic stress nine months after Hurricane Katrina, and the effect persisted across time for depression. Disaster exposure also increased the risk for …
Gratitude Interventions With Physical Therapy Patients, Adam Frose
Gratitude Interventions With Physical Therapy Patients, Adam Frose
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Physical injuries and ailments affect many people each year, causing pain, loss of mobility, and decreased functionality in their daily lives. Given that psychological factors affect physical recovery, interventions that can be added to physical therapy to bolster psychological resilience could substantially enhance positive health outcomes for patients. Gratitude interventions have been shown to increase a variety of positive health outcomes. The study explored whether providing gratitude interventions to physical therapy patients would increase positive physical functioning addressed in physical therapy as well as overall life satisfaction and gratitude in comparison to a control group of patients receiving physical therapy …
Chamber Music For The Pre-Collegiate Student: Violin Quartets And Trios, Hannah Monk
Chamber Music For The Pre-Collegiate Student: Violin Quartets And Trios, Hannah Monk
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In both private string studios and school orchestra programs, pre-collegiate students need more opportunities to study chamber music. One of the barriers string teachers face when establishing a chamber music program for children is instrumentation as there are often more students who play the violin than the viola and cello. While the string quartet dominates the strings chamber music genre, there is a large body of underperformed repertoire written for violin quartets and trios that provide a variety of pedagogical benefits to students and teachers alike. This project establishes the pedagogical value of some of these pieces and places each …
Y'All Talkin' To Me? Essays On The Epistemology Of Group Testimony, Christopher Lucibella
Y'All Talkin' To Me? Essays On The Epistemology Of Group Testimony, Christopher Lucibella
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This dissertation brings together two issues in contemporary social epistemology: the epistemology of testimony and collective epistemology. Following the intuition that many of our beliefs have their source in the say-so of others, there is a great deal of philosophical interest in understanding how beliefs formed on the basis of testimony may be justified and how knowledge is transmitted via testimony. Collective epistemology is a rapidly developing subfield of social epistemology that deals with questions surrounding the nature of group belief, group testimony, and group knowledge. Chapter One considers what the conditions are for a hearer to be justified in …
Perceived Cultural Competence And Self-Awareness In Doctoral Psychology Students: Does International Experience Matter?, Sarah K. Hatcher
Perceived Cultural Competence And Self-Awareness In Doctoral Psychology Students: Does International Experience Matter?, Sarah K. Hatcher
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The importance of cultural competence for psychologists and psychology students are discussed at length in theoretical psychology literature. Some authors have suggested that international experiences such as study and work abroad may promote cultural competence. However, few empirical studies explore whether such experiences actually promote intercultural and multicultural competence. The current study investigated whether international experience, defined as time spent outside the United States for the purposes of education, professional training or work, is associated with higher levels of perceived intercultural competence (IC), multicultural competence (MC), and self-awareness among doctoral students in psychology. Two hundred seventy-seven psychology doctorate students from …
Human-Centric Tools For Navigating Code, Austin Zachary Henley
Human-Centric Tools For Navigating Code, Austin Zachary Henley
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All software failures are fundamentally the fault of humansthe software's design was flawed. The high cost of such failures ultimately results in developers having to design, implement, and test fixes, which all take considerable time and effort, and may result in more failures. As developers work on software maintenance tasks, they must navigate enormous codebases that may comprise millions of lines of code organized across thousands of modules. However, navigating code carries with it a plethora of problems for developers. In the hopes of addressing these navigation barriers, modern code editor and development environments provide a variety of features to …
A Performative Autoethnography On The Irruption Of A Healing Assemblage, Katherine Cameron Brown
A Performative Autoethnography On The Irruption Of A Healing Assemblage, Katherine Cameron Brown
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In this ecofeminist poststructural performative autoethnography, I explored my own personal journey through prolonged grief, conceptualized as a grief assemblage, while critically examining the functionality of preexisting thought and practices on loss and self-care. The research questions that guided this dissertation were: (1) Who and what constitutes a grief assemblage? (2) How does a grief assemblagea fluid entity of nonhumans and humans that somehow functions togetherproduce me as a woman, a graduate student, and a counselor? (3) How can a reconceptualization of grief as assemblage expand thinking and practices on loss, grief, and self-care? (4) How can an applicable, customizable …
Monstrous Mouths, Im/Mature Lips: Orality And The Queering Of Age And Gender In Contemporary Horror, Kyle Christensen
Monstrous Mouths, Im/Mature Lips: Orality And The Queering Of Age And Gender In Contemporary Horror, Kyle Christensen
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This dissertation analyzes representations of the mouth in the horror genre. I focus on contemporary iterations of well-known figures of horror defined by monstrous uses of the mouth, including the female rape avenger and the act of spitting in I Spit on Your Grave (2010), the blood-drinking vampire in Let Me In (2010), the voice of the slasher horror Final Girl in the television series Scream Queens, and the bite of the Zombie Mouth Fleshlight. I propose the term horr/orality to describe how the mouth provides a vantage point for exploring how identitiesin particular, age and genderare enacted through the …
Evaluation And Evolution Of A Groundwater Contaminant Plume At The Former Shelby County Landfill, Memphis, Tennessee, Scott Robert Schoefernacker
Evaluation And Evolution Of A Groundwater Contaminant Plume At The Former Shelby County Landfill, Memphis, Tennessee, Scott Robert Schoefernacker
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The unlined former Shelby County Landfill in Memphis, Tennessee, lies in the flood plain of the Wolf River and is known to be the source of low-level contamination in the underlying alluvial (shallow) and Memphis aquifers. Prior to closure, discovery of a hydrogeologic window in the upper Claiborne confining unit overlying the Memphis aquifer 0.2 km north of the landfill led to several groundwater investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey to evaluate the threat posed to the Memphis aquifer, the regional source for municipal water supplies. As the landfill nears its 30th year of post-closure monitoring, this study examines the …
Place, Identity, And Language Learning: The Transformative Role Of Place-Based English Language Instruction, Daniel Scott Harper
Place, Identity, And Language Learning: The Transformative Role Of Place-Based English Language Instruction, Daniel Scott Harper
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This study examines the intersections of place and second language learning. Learner identity has been found to be an important construct in second language learning. In recent years, place and space have become central topics in the study of sociolinguistics and identity. One area of place and language that has not been studied in depth, however, is whether place plays a role in second language learning. This study begins to fill this gap by examining the second language learning experiences of thirteen Japanese study abroad students who were enrolled in an eight-week, content-based language course. The content of the course …
Racial Differences In Social Support And The Quality Of Life Among Individuals With Chronic Illnesses, Shaila Strayhorn
Racial Differences In Social Support And The Quality Of Life Among Individuals With Chronic Illnesses, Shaila Strayhorn
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Previous studies have indicated that the association between social support and quality of life (QOL) among individuals with chronic illnesses differs by race, yet the specifics of these association are uncertain. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine racial differences in associations between factors of social support (i.e. sources of informal social support and positive/negative social support) and four QOL domains (i.e., physical well-being, psychological well-being, social well-being, and spiritual well-being) among individuals previously diagnosed with a chronic illness. The study was guided by three aims: 1) to examine common intrapersonal-level (e.g., stress, coping, and self-esteem) and interpersonal-level constructs …