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The Difference In Fitness And Lower Body Power Based On Mobility Status In First Responders, Serena Paterno
The Difference In Fitness And Lower Body Power Based On Mobility Status In First Responders, Serena Paterno
Senior Honors Projects
First responders have physically demanding jobs with an increased risk of injury. Previous research has shown that asymmetry of mobility and stability in the lower extremity is associated with an increased risk of lower extremity injuries, while increased fitness and lower body power are associated with a reduced risk of injury. However, there is limited research examining the relationship between lower limb asymmetry, fitness, and lower body power output in first responders.
The Unhoused’S Ability To File Grievances For Mistreatment, Stephen Claybaker
The Unhoused’S Ability To File Grievances For Mistreatment, Stephen Claybaker
Senior Honors Projects
Being unhoused is a situation with various detrimental effects on the individual. These can range from the obvious, such as lacking a proper place to live, to ones often overlooked, such as losing representative ability and the chance to advocate for oneself. This study examines the unhoused’s ability to file grievances against social service providers for mistreatment. This project was completed during the summer of 2023 while interning at Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) via John Carroll’s Summer in the City program. The research was conducted qualitatively through select interviews of key community members, empirical observations while on …
U.S. Geography And Its Impact On Public Perception Of Climate Change: An Analysis Of The Role Of Geography, Partisanship, And Media On American Public Sentiment., Leaha Viscounte
Senior Honors Projects
Perception of climate change is often considered an issue of partisanship in America despite the scientific literature stating its factual reality. While the public sentiment reflects both people in favor of climate change policies and others in climate change denial, the geographical landscape of America contributes to the public perception surrounding climate change. Within America’s various regions, Southern and Midwestern areas face the greatest immediate climate- hardships while Northern and Western areas may begin to reap benefits initially. But regardless of region, vulnerable communities are the most at risk of climate-hardships. In order for America to approach climate change in …
“Social Justice Painted On The Wall”, Emily Fagan-Zirm
“Social Justice Painted On The Wall”, Emily Fagan-Zirm
Senior Honors Projects
No abstract provided.
The Acclimation Of Refugees To A Healthy And Prosperous Life In America, Ray Flannery
The Acclimation Of Refugees To A Healthy And Prosperous Life In America, Ray Flannery
Senior Honors Projects
Refugees comprise a very niche subset of the U.S. population who often require immense guidance and assistance throughout their transition from life in refugee camps abroad to life in the United States of America. Whether their needs are primarily physical, emotional, financial, educational, or some combination of these, Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Services in Cleveland, Ohio helps bridge existing gaps and aids newcomers in meeting these needs. The population served by this office includes refugees, asylees, Special Immigrant Visa holders, and immigrants of all ages, socioeconomic statuses, and medical needs in the greater Cleveland area. As the largest of …
The Impact Of The Coronavirus Pandemic On Adolescent Mental Health: A Literature Review, Grace Murnane
The Impact Of The Coronavirus Pandemic On Adolescent Mental Health: A Literature Review, Grace Murnane
Senior Honors Projects
The coronavirus pandemic, hereafter simply Covid-19, has pervaded and impacted in some way, shape or form the lives of everyone, globally. The disease itself can cause severe physical effects, but the indirect implications of quarantine and isolation have been shown to cause mental issues of concern among adolescents. Adolescents are at a unique point in their lives at which socialization is crucial for proper brain development. As such, this literature review will proceed with the goal of summarizing why adolescents need socialization, how Covid-19 has impeded that socialization, and the effects of a lack of socialization among that age group
Perceptions Of Coach’S Response To Stress On Football Player’S Quality Of Experience, Taylor Mcvay
Perceptions Of Coach’S Response To Stress On Football Player’S Quality Of Experience, Taylor Mcvay
Senior Honors Projects
This research further explores the Cognitive Resource Theory (CRT; Fielder & Garcia, 1987), which is an approach to leadership in which effective leadership depends on a leader’s intelligence and experience and how these factors affect a leader’s ability to cope with stress. Extending CRT as a theoretical framework, the present research seeks to determine if players perceptions of a coach’s ability to handle stress and make good decisions has an impact on the quality of their football experience and their feelings of stress during stressful situations. It is hypothesized that players’ stress levels during rivalry games (i.e., high stress situations) …
Immigration In Japan: History, Attitudes, And Effects, Jacqueline Witwicki
Immigration In Japan: History, Attitudes, And Effects, Jacqueline Witwicki
Senior Honors Projects
No abstract provided.
Life Experiences Of Refugees: Integration And Mental Health As Intersecting Realities, Grace Berry
Life Experiences Of Refugees: Integration And Mental Health As Intersecting Realities, Grace Berry
Senior Honors Projects
The purpose of this study was to look at the mental health of post resettled refugees and the integration process through past studies. Resettled refugees deal with a multitude of problems prior, during and after resettlement and this is a look at the mental health problems associated with this experience. I looked at past studies that focused on the process of successfully integrating refugees and then some studies on their personal experiences and mental health during the transition. Overall, English language skills and social interactions significantly aided to successful integration. In regards to reports of mental illness, PTSD rates were …
Ethics And Effectiveness Of Medical Brigades As A Primary Care Method In Rural And Remote Areas, Emilie Christie
Ethics And Effectiveness Of Medical Brigades As A Primary Care Method In Rural And Remote Areas, Emilie Christie
Senior Honors Projects
Medical brigades, also known as mobile health clinics, are temporary primary care stations set up by volunteer students and health professionals to bring basic healthcare to remote areas free of charge. The present review aims to explore the effectiveness and ethics of brigades, concluding in recommendations to improve these aspects of brigades. Literature regarding brigade effectiveness was examined and synthesized, while brigade ethics were analyzed through four main ethical principles of medicine: respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. Proposed improvements to brigades include rapid testing and connection to care for chronic diseases such as HIV/AIDS, access to mental health …
To Build A Wall Or Open The Borders: An Analysis Of Immigration Attitudes Among Undergraduate University Students, Kelsey Sprenger
To Build A Wall Or Open The Borders: An Analysis Of Immigration Attitudes Among Undergraduate University Students, Kelsey Sprenger
Senior Honors Projects
Recently, the American political spotlight has focused on the phenomena of legal and illegal immigration due to controversy over who should be allowed to enter the country. However, it is still hard to say with certainty what particular groups, such as university students, actually think about these issues, and whether or not it is possible to predict their attitudes based on certain demographic variables. This project seeks to uncover an answer to the latter question by analyzing the effects of political affiliation, religion, and social class on attitudes toward legal and illegal immigration using data from a survey administered to …
Examining Attitudes About Guns, Violence, & Gun Control Among Affected Family Members, Marina Giannirakis
Examining Attitudes About Guns, Violence, & Gun Control Among Affected Family Members, Marina Giannirakis
Senior Honors Projects
This study uses mixed methods to examine people’s attitudes about gun control, and factors that affect them. These factors include whether people feel safe in their neighborhoods, have experienced previous victimization, as well as respondents’ income, gender, and age. A secondary data analysis of General Social Survey (GSS) data from 2004 was conducted (n= 854). In addition, three semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted to add further context and perspective. The regression analysis showed that fear within neighborhoods and respondent’s gender were significant predictors for attitudes about gun control. Previous victimization, income, and age were not significant predictors of respondents’ attitudes …
Don’T Bring Me Down: People, Puzzles, And Social Loafing, David Haas
Don’T Bring Me Down: People, Puzzles, And Social Loafing, David Haas
Senior Honors Projects
Identifiability (others knowing an individual’s effort) and social cohesion (personal attachment to a group) are both established influencers of social loafing (decreased effort when in a group). Much of the evidence indicates that identifiability and social cohesion are negatively correlated with social loafing. One hundred and sixty undergraduate students at a private northeast Ohio university participated in this experiment to examine the effect of identifiability and face-to-face contact on social loafing. There were independent groups of two variables: identifiability (yes or no) and group presence (present or absent). Participants worked on a puzzle for 15 minutes after which completed pieces …
Content, Interaction And Media Portrayal Of Violence Against African Americans In Mainstream And Citizen Journalism, Katelyn Debaun
Content, Interaction And Media Portrayal Of Violence Against African Americans In Mainstream And Citizen Journalism, Katelyn Debaun
Senior Honors Projects
This content analysis centers on a comparison of reporting content between mainstream print media and citizen journalism, pertaining to high-publicity deaths of African American individuals caused by police officers. The deaths focused upon in this paper include Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York; Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio; and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland. For the purposes of this paper, the mainstream print outlets examined are The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Advanced Twitter searches using the Topsy search engine have been utilized to document citizen journalism reports. Through …
Economic Representation In Democracy, Tyler Nellis
Economic Representation In Democracy, Tyler Nellis
Senior Honors Projects
No abstract provided.
Endless News Most Beautiful: Exploring The Visual Landscape Of Journalism And Transforming The Carroll News’ Visual Identity, Thuy Le
Senior Honors Projects
This project aims to explore the practice, value and impact of newspaper design and how its principles can be applied to construct a coherent visual identity for a college newspaper. The first part will examine primary and secondary sources on visual journalism, including both theoretical and visual analysis of renowned newspaper designs around the world. The second part focuses on designing a complete visual overhaul for The Carroll News. This part will include insights from key current and former Carroll News staff members through interviews, and a survey of Communications majors, who are frequently exposed to news media, to gather …
An Examination Of Personal Humor Style And Humor Appreciation In Others, Steven Lacorte
An Examination Of Personal Humor Style And Humor Appreciation In Others, Steven Lacorte
Senior Honors Projects
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between individuals’ humor styles and their appreciation of various humor styles as presented by others. Eighty-five undergraduate John Carroll University students completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire and rated the funniness of six stand-up comedy routines, representing either aggressive, self-defeating, or affiliative humor styles with one male and one female comedian for each humor style. A mixed model Analysis of Variance revealed no relationship between humor style and humor appreciation. However, an examination of the effect of gender showed that men were more likely than women to endorse and appreciate aggressive …
Theories Of Victim Blame, Megan Crippen
Theories Of Victim Blame, Megan Crippen
Senior Honors Projects
Sexual assault is a serious, traumatic incident that is all too common on college campuses. Following the ordeal, those who are assaulted are often blamed. Victim blame occurs when the victim, rather than the perpetrator of a crime, is held at least partially responsible for the crime. This study seeks to determine the values that lead to victim-blaming behavior. After responding to the Ambivalent Sexism Scale, Belief in a Just World Measure, Sexual Script Scale, and Updated Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale, participants read a vignette depicting an encounter where an individual was not physically able to consent to a …
Decreasing Bystanders’ Negative Judgments Of Parents Of Children With Autism, Mary Lutter
Decreasing Bystanders’ Negative Judgments Of Parents Of Children With Autism, Mary Lutter
Senior Honors Projects
Although parents of children with autism often feel stigmatized or judged by bystanders in public situations, the present research attempted to translate these individual reports into empirical data. Ninety-nine students from the John Carroll University Psychology pool participated in this 2 x 2 between subjects design that manipulated whether an individual was informed or uninformed of a diagnosis of autism when observing a child with autism having a temper-tantrum. Then, all the participants rated the parent and child using The Parenting Scale: a measure of dysfunctional parenting in discipline situations and The Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory. Next, all the participants …
The Greenhouse Effect: What Is The Relationship Between Media Attention And Supreme Court Law Clerk Diversity?, Alexis Mittereder
The Greenhouse Effect: What Is The Relationship Between Media Attention And Supreme Court Law Clerk Diversity?, Alexis Mittereder
Senior Honors Projects
This study will explore the power of media attention in relation to diversity of the clerk cohort to understand the factors that impact Supreme Court law clerk diversity.
The Effect Of Message Framing And Gender On The Likelihood Of Donating Money To The John Carroll University 'Carroll Fund', John P. Fissinger
The Effect Of Message Framing And Gender On The Likelihood Of Donating Money To The John Carroll University 'Carroll Fund', John P. Fissinger
Senior Honors Projects
Message framing is a strategy many campaign marketers use to make their donating recruitment more effective, and there is a growing interest in research regarding their effectiveness (Buda & Zhang, 2000; Chang 2007; Chang & Lee, 2009, 2010; Das et al., 2008). Several different types of message framing have been investigated in prior research on charitable giving including positive versus negative message-framing and egotistic versus altruistic message-framing. Prior research on applying Kahneman and Tversky‘s Prospect Theory (1981) on positive and negative message framing to charitable donations has indicated negative message-framing is more effective than positive message-framing for securing donations (Chang …
Profiling Hope, Teresa Noewer
Profiling Hope, Teresa Noewer
Senior Honors Projects
Boys Hope Girls Hope (BHGH) is a nonprofit organization that strives to help students in middle school and high school build character and reach their full potential in the classroom. This organization accepts 18 students into their residential program who are bright, motivated, and who come from challenging household situations and provides them with an education and living accommodations throughout their high school career. BHGH created a new program in 2007 called Hope Prep that allowed more students to participate, and therefore created a need for a more efficient way to sort through the larger number of applicants. Since BHGH …
The Production Effect And Item-Order Encoding, Bethany Kregiel
The Production Effect And Item-Order Encoding, Bethany Kregiel
Senior Honors Projects
When reading a mixed list of words, participants show better memory for uncommon words compared to common words (McDaniel & Bugg, 2008). The research suggests differential memory effects in item-order encoding between mixed and pure lists. Uncommon words lead to item-specific encoding whereas common words lead to order encoding. Similarly, the production effect shows that, when reading a mixed list (some words aloud, others silently), participants show better memory for the words read aloud, but the effect does not obtain for pure lists. The purpose of this study is to examine if the production effect is due to differences in …
Effects Of Voting Behavior And Voter Turnout, Michael Paskert
Effects Of Voting Behavior And Voter Turnout, Michael Paskert
Senior Honors Projects
This study examines the effects of several individual-level variables on voter behavior, in order to make inferences regarding voter turnout. These variables include education level, socioeconomic status, household income, religious attendance, rural or urban residence, political activism, contact from a party or candidate, whether the respondent feels a party adequately represents his or her view, whether voting is compulsory, how the respondent feels regarding the democratic process in his or her country, and the country’s voting system (plurality, majority, or proportional). Focusing mainly on voting system, compulsory voting, and satisfaction with the democratic process, I argue that the greatest indicator …
The New Right Discourse On Health Care, Bryan Kroetsch
The New Right Discourse On Health Care, Bryan Kroetsch
Senior Honors Projects
This paper is an analysis of the “New Right” response to the Obama Administration’s Affordable Care Act. It discusses how language has been used by a New Right wing faction to dictate the discourse on health care in the United States while at the same time motivating the citizenry to be fearful of health care and large, bureaucratic government.
A Compassion That Can Stand In Awe: Exploring And Addressing Homelessness Through Sociological Analyses, Narratives, And Theological Responses, Keri Grove
Senior Honors Projects
No abstract provided.