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The Political Pandemic: Investigating The Relationship Between Political Ideology And Covid-19 Compliance, Allison Moore
The Political Pandemic: Investigating The Relationship Between Political Ideology And Covid-19 Compliance, Allison Moore
Undergraduate Theses
One key to curtailing the health costs of COVID-19 is adherence to social distancing measures. Despite their importance, distancing measures seem to have proved divisive. The present research sought to identify ideological differences in behavioral compliance to distancing measures and to account for the psychological underpinnings of behavioral differences. A first study (April, 2020; N=571) using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk revealed conservatives to be significantly less likely to obey social distancing recommendations than liberals. Differences among conservatives and liberals in adherence to self-reported social distancing practices were significantly mediated by perceived COVID-19 health risk and perceived media accuracy in covering the …
Understanding Undergraduate Shared Decision Making And Health Decisions, Katherine Vogel
Understanding Undergraduate Shared Decision Making And Health Decisions, Katherine Vogel
Undergraduate Theses
Undergraduate students possess a unique set of health concerns such as high rates of COVID-19, STI infections, and mental health issues that are unseen in other age groups of the population. One important aspect of health decision making is how involved the person is in making their health decisions, referred to shared decision making. This research, completed as an Honors Thesis, focused on understanding undergraduate health-related decisions. Specifically, (a) it examined how health locus of control, personality, and gender impacted preferences toward shared decision making, (b) undergraduate students' preferred healthcare providers for six illness states, and (c) the likelihood of …
Navigating The Murky Middle: Understanding How Career Aspirations And Experiences Influence The Career Progression Of Women Identifying, Student Affairs, Middle Managers, Lindsey Gilmore
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Capstones
Even though women have made tremendous strides in many facets of education, ascending the administrative and leadership ranks within universities at a proportionate ratio to the number of women who peak as middle managers is not one of them. In the past 40 years, the number of women serving as presidents of universities across the nation has increased less than 10% from 21.1% in 1975 to 30.1% in 2016 (ACE, 2018). If a woman does find herself serving at the helm of an institution, it is more than likely at a “private, liberal arts schools rather than at doctoral granting, …