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The Effects Of Caregiving Robots On Mortality Salience With The Elderly, Mira E. Gruber
The Effects Of Caregiving Robots On Mortality Salience With The Elderly, Mira E. Gruber
Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current
As the world’s population of elderly persons rises (He, Goodkind, & Kowal, 2016), there is an increasing demand for people to care for the elderly. Caregiving robots are a potential solution to this problem. Research (i.e. MacDorman, 2005) suggests that uncanny, humanlike robots may elicit death anxiety, but it remains unclear whether non-humanlike caregiving robots also elicit death anxiety. This study expands on MacDorman’s study and investigates the effects of caregiving robots on death thought accessibility (DTA) and death anxiety in the institutionalized elderly. This research focuses on how caregiving robots affect the close relationship buffer against death anxiety, as …
Student Beliefs About What Factors Influence Their Gpa, Emma R. Denelsbeck
Student Beliefs About What Factors Influence Their Gpa, Emma R. Denelsbeck
Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current
There are many different factors that contribute to grade point averages (GPAs) in college. Students may attribute their academic performance and GPAs to any number of different variables such as stress levels, sleep quality and alcohol use. The current study investigated what students believed had an effect on their GPA, and if these differed based on concussion history. This study examined if students thought that concussions affected their GPA. Participants were University students who completed an online survey consisting of the Texas Evaluation of Concussion History (TECH), and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). The results of a Mann-Whitney …