Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
- Discipline
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Sociology
Escalating Risk And The Moderating Effect Of Resistance To Peer Influence On The P200 And Feedback-Related Negativity, John Kiat, Elizabeth Straley, Jacob Cheadle
Escalating Risk And The Moderating Effect Of Resistance To Peer Influence On The P200 And Feedback-Related Negativity, John Kiat, Elizabeth Straley, Jacob Cheadle
Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Young people frequently socialize together in contexts that encourage risky decision making, pointing to a need for research into how susceptibility to peer influence is related to individual differences in the neural processing of decisions during sequentially escalating risk. We applied a novel analytic approach to analyze EEG activity from college-going students while they completed the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), a well-established risk-taking propensity assessment. By modeling outcome-processing-related changes in the P200 and feedback-related negativity (FRN) sequentially within each BART trial as a function of pump order as an index of increasing risk, our results suggest that analyzing the …
Parenting Young Children In Contemporary Chinese Society: A Mixed Methods Study, Lixin Ren
Parenting Young Children In Contemporary Chinese Society: A Mixed Methods Study, Lixin Ren
Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine contemporary Chinese parents’ childrearing expectations, goals, and practices for their preschool-aged children. Participants included 154 parents with preschool-aged children (children’s mean age was 52.48 months with a standard deviation of 6.84) and 27 teachers recruited from seven preschools located in three small cities in northeastern China. In the quantitative phase, parents completed questionnaires measuring parental expectations (social-emotional and academic expectations), parenting styles, child social competence, and child pre-academic performance. The head teacher of each target child reported the child’s social competence and pre-academic performance. It was hypothesized that parental expectations …