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Full-Text Articles in Psychology
Collecting: A Process Of Learning, Growth, And Forming Identity, Nate Trachte
Collecting: A Process Of Learning, Growth, And Forming Identity, Nate Trachte
Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays
Why do people stuff their homes full of things that have no real utility and attach such great personal attachment to them? It is the relationships involved in any action that provide a lasting sense of satisfaction. Transformation in life as with education is about being able to sit with uncertainty, asking questions, and seeking to understand with the spirit of earnest curiosity. We should seek to hold each other gently in the uncertainty of learning and growth. What if instead of focusing on rushing to meet standards and goals, we slow down and embrace the process of learning missteps …
What To Make Of A Diminished Thing: Re-Envisioning Spirit And Relation In Environmental Education, Zoe Wadkins
What To Make Of A Diminished Thing: Re-Envisioning Spirit And Relation In Environmental Education, Zoe Wadkins
Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays
Traditional westernized systems of education reflect complex historical, social, and political forces that prioritize uniformity at expense of people’s multi-dimensionality. This paper details a returning to relation via education’s potential to entwine multiple perspectives in mutual understanding of lived experience. Education in this way becomes an interwoven tapestry and a means to speak across difference in mending, rather than in mutual deterioration. Enjoining personal storytelling with indigenous epistemology, the author pursues hope in reconfiguring the display of our educational tapestry.
Nourishing Solidarity: Critical Food Pedagogy And Storytelling For Community, N. Tanner Johnson
Nourishing Solidarity: Critical Food Pedagogy And Storytelling For Community, N. Tanner Johnson
Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays
This piece was delivered in four parts in tandem with a four-course meal, with the intention of providing the audience with time to engage in the sharing of their own perspectives around food and eating. Foodways, the particular cultural and social contexts within which food sits offer a unique entry point into deeper, more connective opportunities for environmental education. The food justice and food sovereignty movements provide a foil for traditional forms of environmental education which reinforce settler-colonial narratives about the more-than-human world. Food is something that everyone has some sort of interaction with every single day. At the same …
The Queer Agenda: A Fluid Education, Charlee Corra
The Queer Agenda: A Fluid Education, Charlee Corra
Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays
Throughout this paper, I weave together various aspects of my identity in order to investigate how fluidity and questioning form an undercurrent of my being and therefore of the way I teach. Through metaphors and narratives of my experiences within environmental education and experiential learning I seek clarity and expansiveness rather than definitive answers, leaning into the certainty that change is inevitable and there are rarely any static answers. Using queerness, Judaism, and my scientific background as the layers of my unique identity lens and positionality, I explore the ways in which the power of questioning, critical thinking, democratic education …
Pedagogy Of Tarot: Simultaneity Of Past, Present, And Future, Ashley S. Hill
Pedagogy Of Tarot: Simultaneity Of Past, Present, And Future, Ashley S. Hill
Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays
A three card tarot spread can represent the past, present, and future. As a reflective practice, tarot does not divine the future; rather it invites the practitioner to consider context and imagine multiple futures. Simultaneously experiencing the past, present, and future of education is valuable and is possible through a pedagogy of tarot. A pedagogy of tarot connects fxminist and democratic approaches to education through non-hierarchical relationships that honor lived experiences - calling teachers and learners to remain conscious and awake to one another. By acknowledging the possibility of multiple truths within current sociopoliticial and hxstorical contexts, we can make …
Asian American Happiness: A Preliminary Analysis, Kris Tran, Hannah Proctor
Asian American Happiness: A Preliminary Analysis, Kris Tran, Hannah Proctor
Scholars Week
Happiness has been a long celebrated and pursued goal throughout the history of man. As the field of cross-cultural psychology looks to expand research boundaries, Asian Americans experience a unique blend of multiple cultures, and as a result, also hold a unique perception of happiness and subjective well-being. To understand their experience, we assessed relevant studies of life satisfaction in Asian American groups to uncover their population’s true mean level of happiness. We also looked to systematize and collate the various theories impacting Asian American happiness, to gain a more comprehensive understanding of subjective well-being and happiness overall.
Consider The Ravens: An Exploration Of Anxiety, Mckenzie Oliver
Consider The Ravens: An Exploration Of Anxiety, Mckenzie Oliver
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This Honors Senior Capstone Project is a culmination of research and personal anecdotes on the various aspects of anxiety. Anxiety disorders are prevalent in society and personally relevant to the author’s life, so the topic is introduced in a semi-autobiographical manner. The biological aspects of anxiety are discussed at length, including details on the brain structures, signaling patterns, small molecules, and connections between these components involved in the anxiety response. Overall effects on health and genetic and environmental influences are also discussed. The psychological and behavioral aspects of anxiety are then explored, focusing on three main forms of anxiety-related disorders: …
Happiness Across Cultures: A Review Of Subjective Well-Being In Asian Americans, Hannah R. Proctor
Happiness Across Cultures: A Review Of Subjective Well-Being In Asian Americans, Hannah R. Proctor
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This review aims to uncover how consistent the finding is that Asian Americans experience lower levels of subjective well-being than European Americans, and why these differences exist. Happiness is desired by many and increases in happiness have positive effects on health and well-being. Perceptions of happiness vary across cultures due to differences in values and cultural structures. Asian American subjective well-being is a particularly interesting area of study due to the finding that Asian Americans have the highest level of education and income compared to other ethnic groups in America, yet they tend to have lower levels of well-being. After …
Connecting To Nature: Mindfulness And Desire To Engage In Pro-Environmental Behaviors, Mikayla L. Shea
Connecting To Nature: Mindfulness And Desire To Engage In Pro-Environmental Behaviors, Mikayla L. Shea
WWU Graduate School Collection
The present set of studies used a brief mindfulness induction with an active control group to examine how mindfulness affects connectedness to nature and desire to engage in pro-environmental behaviors. Additionally, phone use was included as another variable to test how technology may change the effect of mindfulness practice. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions in a 2(mindfulness vs. control) x 2(phone use vs no phone use) design. Results indicated that participants in the mindfulness condition experienced higher levels of mindfulness than those in the control condition. Correlational analyses showed an association between state mindfulness and being …
Does Text Messaged Social Support Attenuate Cardiovascular And Psychological Reactivity To A Laboratory Stressor?, Tabitha C. S. Caley
Does Text Messaged Social Support Attenuate Cardiovascular And Psychological Reactivity To A Laboratory Stressor?, Tabitha C. S. Caley
WWU Graduate School Collection
The current research examined the effects of text-messaged and in-person social support on cardiovascular and psychological stress responses. Of particular interest to this thesis was the question of whether text-messaged social support offered benefits similar to that of in-person social support. Female undergraduates (N = 49) and their female friends participated in an anticipated speech task. The participant’s friends provided either in-person (n = 14), text-messaged (n = 17) social support, or no social support (n =18). Cardiovascular and psychological outcomes were tested by incorporating a series of theoretically driven planned contrasts using HLM piecewise growth curve modeling. In-person social …
The Role Of Relational Mobility In Cultural Expression Of Social Anxiety In Context, Jerry T. Geffre-Barnett
The Role Of Relational Mobility In Cultural Expression Of Social Anxiety In Context, Jerry T. Geffre-Barnett
WWU Graduate School Collection
In the U.S. social anxiety is commonly recognized as idiocentric, meaning it focuses on the fear of causing embarrassment to one’s self. In Japan an allocentric type of social anxiety, Taijin Kyofusho, is commonly recognized. Taijin Kyofusho is the fear of offending others with one’s actions or presence. This study examined the role of relational mobility and self-construal in explaining cultural differences in social anxiety. In societies with lower relational mobility and independent self-construal, such as Japan, people tend to value maintaining harmony in friend groups. The current study measured idiocentric and allocentric social anxiety after participants in Japan ( …
Dropout In Individual Psychotherapy From Adult Male Clients’ Perspectives, Karen L. Springer
Dropout In Individual Psychotherapy From Adult Male Clients’ Perspectives, Karen L. Springer
WWU Graduate School Collection
The present study investigated what incidents adult males believed to have led them to drop out of individual, outpatient psychotherapy within the past four years, utilizing the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique with audio-recorded, Skype interviews and Qualtrics. Participants were 18 men from Bellingham, Seattle, Vancouver (Canada), Houston, Austin, Dallas, Indiana, and Tennessee. Critical Incidents and Wish List items were extracted via structured, open-ended questions. The incidents were organized into categories by two research team members and confirmed from feedback provided during follow-up interviews. The finalized categories of why the men dropped out were labeled the following in descending order of …