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Mississippi State University

2020

Health

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We Are All Going Through Recovery: College Students And Their Family Members Navigate The Recovery Process, Leah Bethany Poole Pylate May 2020

We Are All Going Through Recovery: College Students And Their Family Members Navigate The Recovery Process, Leah Bethany Poole Pylate

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A strong social support network can be important to an individual’s recovery from addiction of alcohol, drugs, or another addictive behavior. A Collegiate Recovery Program (CRP) can provide college students an opportunity to attend college with a network that supports the choice to remain free from addictive substances and other addictive behaviors. While research has established a CRP can serve a purpose on the college campus, less is known about the connection of a CRP and the role of family in recovery. The following study reviews the role of family from the perspective of Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Model of Human Development …


Explaining Individual And Contextual-Level Determinants Of Social Tolerance And The Emotional Burden Of Social Intolerance, Ismail Hakki Yigit May 2020

Explaining Individual And Contextual-Level Determinants Of Social Tolerance And The Emotional Burden Of Social Intolerance, Ismail Hakki Yigit

Theses and Dissertations

Diversity is an inevitable condition of modern societies, in which individuals come into contact with one another with various backgrounds; such as, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, religion, and ideology. My dissertation answers three questions: what are the individual characteristics that influence social tolerance of people?’ What are the important things (education level, economic condition, gender, religiosity, etc.) that hold people in a society together as well as influence them positively or negatively to report social tolerance toward religiously different, racially different, sexually different (homosexuals), and nationally (immigrants) different people? From there, I am also trying to answer, if any, …