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Depressive And Anxiety Symptoms And Their Association With Sleep Consistency In Female College Students, Lora Djambov
Depressive And Anxiety Symptoms And Their Association With Sleep Consistency In Female College Students, Lora Djambov
Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium
Sleep is a critical part of daily functioning. Recent work has highlighted the consistency of a person’s sleep schedule as an important factor in health (Phillips, 2017). College students often have inconsistent sleep patterns, including irregular increased napping (Adriansen et al., 2017), and increased wake time variability (Roane et al., 2015). These patterns adversely impact cognitive functioning, physical health, and mental health (Bei et al., 2016; Phillips et al., 2017; Murray et al., 2017), including higher levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms. Studies, however, have not examined sleep regularity and its association with these symptoms in college students (Fang et …
Trans Contact Relates To More Positive Trans Attitudes, Kamryn Hinkle
Trans Contact Relates To More Positive Trans Attitudes, Kamryn Hinkle
Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium
Some feel that transgender people threaten the gender binary. Motivation to defend the status quo may prompt negative trans attitudes when exposed to system threat. Personal contact may lessen the effect of threat on trans attitudes. Participants were randomly exposed to a system threat or control, then reported attitudes towards and previous level of contact with transgender people. Results show more personal contact with a trans person relates to more positive attitudes. We found no effect of threat regardless of contact level. These findings indicate the importance of personal contact on positive transgender attitudes, encouraging future initiatives to increase it.
Relation Between Bilingual Child Gesture Use And Language Development, Carla Jauregui, Perla B. Gámez Phd
Relation Between Bilingual Child Gesture Use And Language Development, Carla Jauregui, Perla B. Gámez Phd
Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium
Gesture serves as a bridge for communication for children who cannot yet fully communicate verbally. Child gesture is closely related to future vocabulary scores (Rowe & Goldin-Meadow, 2009). Many studies with similar results have an English monolingual sample but not many studies have a bilingual sample. In this study, 45 bilingual participant’s gestures and their vocabulary growth were measured to see if a relation between the two existed. We found a negative relation between gesture use at 18-months and vocabulary growth from 18 to 30 months. This is an unexpected result as it does not agree with previous literature.
The Lived Experiences Of Nursing Students In Nursing Education With Implicit Racial Bias, Seth Hawkins Huisenga
The Lived Experiences Of Nursing Students In Nursing Education With Implicit Racial Bias, Seth Hawkins Huisenga
Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium
Implicit racial bias negatively affects health care provided to patients of color and often leads to poor physical and psychological problems. Nurses that provide unbiased care create a more healing environment for their patients. This research will investigate the implicit racial biases of nurses throughout their education and how nursing students have experienced encounters with implicit bias. The objective of this study is to allow nursing students to become more aware of implicit biases, specifically implicit racial bias. There is limited research about teaching nursing students about implicit bias, but there are some accounts of medical students. The lack of …
Compulsive Exercise In College Students, Kaela Harber, Elizabeth Rea, Laura Nicholson, Amy Heard, Amy M. Bohnert
Compulsive Exercise In College Students, Kaela Harber, Elizabeth Rea, Laura Nicholson, Amy Heard, Amy M. Bohnert
Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium
Compulsive exercise (CE) involves a pathological drive to exercise or control weight (Dittmer, Jacobi, & Voderholzer, 2018). College women who endorsed aspects of CE have been found to exhibit disordered eating, depression, and mood sensitivity (Ackard et al., 2002). This study aims to: 1) characterize CE and physical activity (PA) in a college sample, 2) determine mental health outcomes of CE and PA, and 3) examine the relation between behavioral activation, inhibition, and CE or PA. Results suggest that increased levels of drive and negative affect are associated with CE. However, fewer depressive symptoms are associated with increased PA duration.
Perceptions Of People Who Misgender Trans Individuals, Lina Flores Wolf
Perceptions Of People Who Misgender Trans Individuals, Lina Flores Wolf
Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium
This study explored how people perceive misgendering of transgender people. We looked at participants' perceptions of an interviewer who misgenders an applicant during a job interview, and whether these perceptions vary by personal contact with trans people. We hypothesized that cisgender people who have had contact with a trans person will have less positive impressions of an interviewer who misgenders a trans person. Results show that people who know a trans person will see the interviewer as less warm, and that misgendering is generally perceived as unprofessional, regardless of contact with a trans person.
The Influence Of Media Violence Exposure On Explicit And Implicit Emotional Face Processing, Zoa Glab, Laura Stockdale, Sylena Wilson, Marley Hornewer, Sydney Samoska, Joseph Vukov, Rebecca Silton, Robert Morrison
The Influence Of Media Violence Exposure On Explicit And Implicit Emotional Face Processing, Zoa Glab, Laura Stockdale, Sylena Wilson, Marley Hornewer, Sydney Samoska, Joseph Vukov, Rebecca Silton, Robert Morrison
Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium
Past studies from our lab have shown that short-term and chronic exposure to media violence can modulate the implicit processing of emotional faces (Stockdale et al., 2015, 2017). However, other research has shown that media violence can increase the speed and accuracy of identifying angry faces when participants are explicitly asked to attend to emotion. To investigate how media violence interacts with attention to emotional stimuli, we asked participants to complete a stop-signal task (SST) with happy and angry face stimuli, while they either categorized the gender (Implicit SST; n = 47) or the facial expression (Explicit SST; n = …