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Ofc And Its Connectivity With Amygdala As Predictors For Future Social Anxiety In Adolescents, Yu Mao, Xi-Nian Zuo, Cody Ding, Jiang Qiu

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Social anxiety is a common problem that usually emerges at puberty, during which great developmental changes occur both in the brain and mental state. However, little is known about the influence of social anxiety on adolescents’ brain and behavior. The present study investigated the neural basis of social anxiety using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and functional connectivity analysis. Then we investigated whether social anxiety is associated with attention bias. Furthermore, we investigated the neural basis of this association. Finally, longitudinal data was used to test if these biomarkers could predict social anxiety. The results indicated that social anxiety is positively associated …

Associations Between Psychological Profiles And Performance Success Among Professional Taekwondo Athletes In China: A Multidimensional Scaling Profile Analysis, Bing Li, Cody Ding, Fenghui Fan, Huiying Shi, Liya Guo, Feng Yang

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Sport psychology research has long sought to uncover the determinants of the optimal psychological state for peak performance. Persistent inquiries in this work include whether there is a set of ideal psychological and emotional factors that are required to achieve optimal performance and, if there are, what are they and how are they related to optimal performance. To answer these questions, the current study aimed to identify potential profiles of personality and emotional traits based on a sample of professional Taekwondo athletes from China. In addition, the study also aimed to examine the utility of the profiles in predicting successful …

Legal Contexts Of Education, Vanessa Garry

Open Educational Resources Collection

This is a collection of readings relevant to local Saint Louis, Missouri state and United States federal, laws and cases as they relate to education policies. The readings are organized by topic, as show below.

The First Amendment

• Tinker v. Des Moines School Dist.
• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
• Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser
• What Does Free Speech Mean?

The Fourth Amendment

• New Jersey v. T. L. O.
• What Does the Fourth Amendment Mean?

The Eighth Amendment

• Ingraham v. Wright

The Fourteenth Amendment

• Goss v. Lopez
• Honig v. Doe

Missouri Laws

• Stewart v. Board of Ed. of Ritenour …

Expanding Our Views Of Science Education To Address Sustainable Development, Empowerment, And Social Transformation, William Kyle

Educator Preparation & Leadership Faculty Works

On 25 September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution, which took effect 1 January 2016, totransform the world to better meet human needs and the requirements of economic transformation, whileprotecting the environment, ensuring peace and realizing human rights. Since 1987, there have been several globalinitiatives oriented toward sustainable development, yet science educators have often remained silent with respectto ensuring the goals of science education are linked intrinsically to the central tenets of sustainable development.Why such silence? Where are the voices of science educators?In this position statement, I offer a rationale for expanding our views of science education to …

Opening Up To Hard History: Activating Anti-Racism In An Immersive Ed.D. Cohort Experience At Heritage Sites In Montgomery, Alabama, Theresa Coble, Corinne Wohlford Mason, Lisa Overholser, William Gwaltney

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

The Ed.D. program in Heritage Leadership for Sustainability, Social Justice, and Participatory Culture at the University of Missouri—St. Louis helps students cultivate the mindsets and skill sets required to sustain, pluralize, and enliven heritage in the public sphere. Although the program primarily meets synchronously online, the January 2020 “Wintercession” field trip to heritage sites in Montgomery, Alabama, provided an opportunity for face-to-face interactions, deep conversation, and reflection. Curricular, conversational, and collaborative inquiry deepened awareness and activated activism toward issues of racial justice. The use of high-impact practices (Kuh, 2008) allowed the cohort and faculty mentors to delve further into heritage …

The Role Of Attention In The Relationship Between Early Life Stress And Depression, Yu Mao, Hong D Xiao, Cody Ding, Jiang Qiu

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Early life stress (ELS) can be very harmful to an individual’s wellbeing and brain development. It is well established that childhood maltreatment is a significant risk factor for depression. ELS is positively correlated with depressive symptoms both in major depression disorder patients and healthy individuals, but the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying this association are still unclear. In the present study, we calculate the within/between-network connectivity in 528 college students, and Pearson correlation was performed to investigate the relationship between network measures and ELS. Additionally, the same method was applied to verify these results in another sample. Finally, mediation analysis …

Assessing Postsecondary Barriers For Rural Appalachian High School Students, Melinda Gibbons, Anna Taylor, Emily Brown, Stephanie Daniels, Erin Hardin, Sam Manring

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Social cognitive career theory indicates that perceived barriers negatively affect career and educational self-efficacy beliefs and may also impact interests, goals, and actions. However, measurement of barriers has produced mixed results, and few quantitative studies explore the perceived barriers of rural Appalachian students. In this series of studies, we explored the perceived educational and career barriers of rural Appalachian high school students. Our goal was to identify perceived barriers, but as initial results were analyzed, we then shifted to how best to measure barriers and how culture impacted the reporting of barriers by rural Appalachian students. The results of our …