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Evaluating Model Fit For Longitudinal Measurement Invariance With Ordered Categorical Indicators, Jonathan Caleb Clark

Theses and Dissertations

Current recommended cutoffs for determining measurement invariance have typically derived from simulation studies that have focused on multigroup confirmatory factor analysis, often using continuous data. These cutoffs may be inappropriate for ordered categorical data in a longitudinal setting. This study conducts two Monte Carlo studies that evaluate the performance of four popular model fit indices used to determine measurement invariance. The comparative fit index (CFI), Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI), and root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) were all found to be inconsistent across various simulation conditions as well as invariance tests, and thus were not recommended for use in longitudinal …

Adolescent Depression And Anxiety: Is Parental Psychological Control A Factor?, Liz Erickson

Family Perspectives

Adolescence is a critical period in an individual's development, and many parents struggle to find the best way to parent maturing teens. Research has found that when parents regularly use psychological control as a parenting technique, their adolescents may experience negative mental health impacts.

A Father's Workplace Conditions And Engagement With His Family, Kalib Taylor

Family Perspectives

During this pandemic, an increased number of fathers have brought their work into their homes, finding greater fulfillment as they spend more time with family. These findings call upon both fathers and employers to consider creating a more balanced home and work environment moving forward.

Stonewalling And Taking A Break Are Not The Same Thing, Emma Todd Carpenter

Family Perspectives

Marriage research has identified stonewalling, or leaving a conversation without any intention of resolving the issue, as unhealthy and damaging. However, experts also identify taking a break, or alleviating pent-up anger by pausing a conversation to be resolved after calming down as beneficial and effective.

Facing The Dragon Together: Creating Secure Adult Relationships, Hailey Shoemaker

Family Perspectives

Life can be daunting, and sometimes knowing you have someone beside you makes all the difference. Recent research provides individuals with key tools they can use to improve their marriage and become the person their spouse needs beside them for the battles ahead.

The Power Of Self-Efficacy: Helping Your Child Believe In Themselves, Daniella Gandola

Family Perspectives

While challenges are inevitable, parents can assist their children in overcoming obstacles now and in the future by promoting self-efficacy. Effective techniques include helping children set realistic goals, encouraging hard, work, modeling behavior you wish to see in your child, and teaching strategies for emotional self-regulation.

Empathy V. Sympathy: Are My Attempts Really Helping Others?, Matthew Saxey

Family Perspectives

While sympathy and empathy appear synonymous, understanding their separate natures is critical in being a better neighbor and friend. Sympathy is seeing another's pain; however, empathy is sitting with another in their pain, which research has shown to be far more effective.

Marital Satisfaction After Children. Is It Possible?, Alyssa Sabey

Family Perspectives

While popular media often floods our feed with stories and statistics of unhappy couples after having children, expecting parents can rest assured knowing that as long as they maintain two important protective factors, their marriage can not only survive by thrive.

Me Became We, Brandi Jager

Family Perspectives

While the transition from independent single life to interdependent married life can feel unnatural at first, spouses that are willing to put their partnership in the forefront can open doors in their marriage relationship and invite more meaning and unity into their lives.

The Adaptations Of Immigrant Chinese American Mothers' Parenting With Their Reticent Young Children, Allie Sharp

Family Perspectives

Maternal warmth, or the expression of affection to a child by their mother both physically and emotionally, can play a critical role in encouraging healthy social development among reticent children, meaning children who are less likely to be social with their peers. However, recent research is beginning to recognize that this maternal warmth, which was typically defined as an open expression of affection, may look differently in other cultures. For example, Chinese parenting is generally rooted in Confucian values, which emphasizes group orientation and collectivism, compared to European American societies that typically promote self-expression and individualism. While cultural contexts may …

The Parent Behind The Eating Disorder: How Parenting Styles Affect Eating Disorders In Adolescents, Jessica Robertson

Family Perspectives

The family environment, specifically parent-child interaction and parenting practices, can influence the likelihood of adolescents—especially teenage girls—developing an eating disorder. Because of the high levels of control and warmth, authoritative parenting appears to be the most promising setting for adolescents to avoid disordered eating behaviors and to develop strong mental and physical health. Parenting styles such as authoritarian and neglectful parenting include practices that generally may not be supportive and can contribute to the likelihood of eating disorders. Once a teenaged girl develops an eating disorder, authoritative parenting has also shown the most potential to intervene appropriately to assist the …

The Function Of Gratitude In Marriage: Building Ties That Bind, Jill Iroz Webb

Family Perspectives

Recent literature on the function of gratitude extends the known benefits of this practice beyond facilitating exchanges in social life and explains how it plays a significant role in close relationships, such as marriage. This article examines how the emotion of gratitude helps individuals develop, maintain, and increase bonds with a high-quality partner in a close relationship in a variety of ways. For instance, gratitude is key in promoting relationship maintenance behaviors, such as responsiveness and commitment, and signaling feelings of appreciation between partners that can provide a sense of security and help partners to recognize the value of a …

Facilitating Listening Comprehension Via Rich Media, Zane Harker

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

This project explores using authentic L2 media and question prompts to facilitate an independent online listening comprehension practice and reflective self-evaluation with an emphasis on developing metacognitive awareness. Metacognitive tips and scaffolding are based on the factors identified in the Metacognitive Awareness for Listening Questionnaire (Vandergrift, Goh, Mareschal, & Tafaghodtari, 2006). The lesson structure is based on a practical guide to classroom receptive skills development by language pedagogy scholar Chantal Thompson (n.d.). Scalability is a focus, with some prompts being reusable across multiple media items. The client for the project is the Missionary Training Center of the Church of Jesus …

Repetition Of Computer Security Warnings Results In Differential Repetition Suppression Effects As Revealed With Functional Mri, C. Brock Kirwan, Daniel K. Bjornn, Bonnie Brinton Anderson, Anthony Vance, David Eargle, Jeffrey L. Jenkins

Faculty Publications

Computer users are often the last line of defense in computer security. However, with repeated exposures to system messages and computer security warnings, neural and behavioral responses show evidence of habituation. Habituation has been demonstrated at a neural level as repetition suppression where responses are attenuated with subsequent repetitions. In the brain, repetition suppression to visual stimuli has been demonstrated in multiple cortical areas, including the occipital lobe and medial temporal lobe. Prior research into the repetition suppression effect has generally focused on a single repetition and has not examined the pattern of signal suppression with repeated exposures. We used …

Prevention Of Eating Disorders In Children: A Guide For Nurse Practitioners, Michelle Yeates, Jane Lassetter Phd, Rn

Student Works

Eating disorders are prevalent in Western society and are highly influenced by body dissatisfaction and disordered eating patterns. Disordered eating refers to unhealthy behaviors used to control and influence weight with the potential to become eating disorders. Eating disorders can lead to or further accelerate both physical and emotional damage. As such, it is important to determine possible contributing factors to decrease negative outcomes. Because parents are typically the primary caretakers of children, it is necessary for nurse practitioners (NPs) to know how to best educate parents in the prevention of eating disorders in their children. This clinical paper provides …

My Name Is..., Mikayla Stevens

Final Projects

Stories of how people got their first and middle names.

Brunettes, Redheads, And Blondes Meet Careers, Construction, And Cars: An Analysis Of 17 Blonde Jokes, Natalya Nielsen

Final Projects

This project focuses on blonde jokes and the analysis of recently collected ones.

Business Ethics Training And The Covid-19 Pandemic, Spencer Fumio Yamada

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

A report on the development of a online webinar on business ethics, leadership, and moral behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Designing A Job Aid To Prepare An On-Location Immersive Virtual Expedition (On-Live), Sandra Powell

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

Brigham Young University (BYU) Division of Continuing Education (DCE) completed the proof-of-concept phase of an innovation proposal to create On-Location Immersive Virtual Expeditions (on-LIVE) for an online geology course. On-LIVE uses 360-degree video to give students a front-row experience at locations of educational interest. Using Articulate Storyline, this 360-degree view allows viewers to look in all directions and interact with specific parts of the location.

The product is a set of documents including a decision tree to determine if an on-LIVE is valuable for a course, step-by-step instructions for designing the interaction, planning and preparing for the 360-degree video shoot, …

The Impact Of Experiential Virtual Dinosaur Excavation Assignments On Exam Preparation And Performance Inâ An Introductory, University-Level Geology Course, Nicole Elizabeth Ortiz

Theses and Dissertations

Advocates assert that experiential/applicational learning facilitates deep understanding but there is a dearth of empirical research testing the effectiveness of experiential learning in university geology courses. Domack (1999) and Moecher (2004) document applicational assignments within geology courses. These evaluations, however, are based solely on instructor opinion and informal student comments. To evaluate the effectiveness of experiential assignments this study utilizes empirical data from control and test groups in each of two semesters of Geology 100, a general education course on dinosaurs. Control groups completed traditional research papers which were replaced by experiential assignments in the test groups. The first semester …

Front Matter

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

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Identifying, Increasing Awareness, And Supporting Military-Connected Adolescents In Public Schools, Amanda Bushman

Theses and Dissertations

Of the nearly 1,000,000 children of active duty members of the military, around 80% attend civilian schools not affiliated with the Department of Defense Education Activity ([DoDEA] DoDEA, 2018; Department of Defense [DoD], 2018). This creates a need for schools to be aware of the challenges that military-connected (MC) students face and understand how best to support them. Recent research indicates that the prevalence of mental health problems in MC youth populations has been rising since the war on terrorism began (De Pedro et al., 2011). MC youth experience an array of internalizing and externalizing problems, including stress disorders (Gorman …

The Layered Frames Of Performed Tabletop: Actual-Play Podcasts And The Laminations Of Media, Brendan Decicio

Theses and Dissertations

Despite their sudden growth in popularity, the role-playing actual-play podcasts have either been ignored or grouped with the genre of audio drama in prior scholarly works. Examination using frame analysis shows, however, that these podcasts are distinct in their engagement of the audience on multiple, simultaneous levels; levels which correspond with well-known media genres such as Documentary, Fiction, and Game Play. Each frame has its own layer of identities, conduct, and avenue for appealing to audiences just as these genres have their own distinct appeals. Through the combinations of these frames, familiar tropes and techniques such as Short-Form Improv and …

This Is My Vision’: How Students Depict Critiques Along With Themselves During Critiques, Jason K. Mcdonald, Esther Michela

Faculty Publications

In this article we consider critiques within the design studio as how students press forward into possible forms of the self that are opened up through studio participation. We contrast this with a view of critiques as primarily being a pedagogical or socialising technique under the control of instructors and other critics. We carried out our inquiry using interviews with six studio students, studying how they depict critiques and how they depict themselves when being critiqued. Students’ depictions of critiques included their being: a) signal in the noise; b) windows into their critics’ character; c) a type of text to …

Non-Parental Family Members As Brokers Of Family Social Capital: Compensatory Time Use In India, Melissa Alcaraz, Ashley Larsen Gibby, Nancy Luke

Faculty Publications

Non-parental family members are understudied but important brokers of family social capital, especially in contexts without a nuclear-family norm. We used rich time diary data from a sample of 1568 South Indian adolescents to examine the relationships between any time spent with parents, parents’ residency status, and the time spent with non-parental family members. We found that adolescents with at least one non-resident parent spent significantly more time with siblings, on average, when compared to adolescents with resident parents. We further found that adolescents spent more time with siblings in educational activities, such as studying, when they had at least …

Movements And Space-Use Of Female Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus Urophasianus) During Nesting And Breeding Seasons, Drew W. Retherford

Theses and Dissertations

Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) are a species of conservation concern throughout their range including the state of Idaho. Little is known about the size of areas used by female sage-grouse during the breeding and nesting seasons, fidelity of females to those areas, or fidelity of female sage-grouse to specific leks or nest sites. The recent miniaturization of global positioning system (GPS) transmitting devices allows for a more thorough analysis of this behavior. We placed GPS transmitters on 234 female sage-grouse in Idaho, USA, from 2015 to 2019. We monitored 145 nest attempts, 15 of which occurred in consecutive years, from …

Columbine And The Myth Of The Juvenile Superpredator, Christopher M. Mosqueda

Theses and Dissertations

Mass media has great influence over its audience. When a sensational story hits the news waves, the general public's attention is instantly riveted to the television screen. News stories that involve the deaths of innocent people often create a culture of fear, fuel false narratives, and scatter misinformation. In fact, this culture of fear, coupled with misleading information, created the myth of the juvenile superpredator, a phrase coined by DiIulio in the early 1990s. The stereotyped superpredator was a homicidal, uncontrollable youth hiding within areas where crime and violence are rare. In particular, this myth was propagated following the massacre …

Formulating A Crowd State Prediction Problem For Application To Crowd Control, Brooks A. Butler

Theses and Dissertations

This project considers a new application of crowd control, namely, keeping the public safe during large scale demonstrations. This problem is difficult for a variety of reasons, including limited access to informative sensing and effective actuation mechanisms, as well as limited understanding of crowd psychology and dynamics. This project takes a first step towards solving this problem by formulating a crowd state prediction problem in consideration of recent work involving crowd behavior identification, crowd movement modeling, and crowd psychology modeling. We build a non-linear crowd behavior model incorporating components of personality modeling, human emotion modeling, group opinion dynamics, and group …

Social-Emotional Learning In High School: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation Of The Strong Teens Program, Oscar Olaya

Theses and Dissertations

Strong Teens is a curriculum designed to help students develop the social-emotional skills needed to manage challenges and become successful socially and academically (Carrizales- Engelmann et al., 2016). Strong Teens has shown promise among adolescents, but this was the first study to evaluate the newly updated version of the intervention in a high school setting. The curriculum was implemented by a special education teacher with students at-risk for emotional and behavioral disorders. A mixed method design was used to evaluate outcomes with 16 ninth grade students. Overall findings suggest that Strong Teens was effective at improving students' social emotional knowledge …

Social Contact, Time Alone, And Parental Subjective Well-Being: A Focus On Stay-At-Home Fathers Using The American Time Use Survey, Erin K. Holmes, Jocelyn Wikle, Clare R. Thomas, Mckell A. Jorgensen, Braquel R. Egginton

Faculty Publications

Stay-at-home fathers (SAHFs) face negative stereotypes and social stigma, which may be linked to negative feelings during social contact. In this study, we compare SAHFs' social contact and time alone to that of stay-at-home mothers and parents of other work/caregiving statuses. In addition, we analyze SAHFs' subjective well-being when with their children, spouse, noon spouse adults, and when alone to more accurately capture the positive and negative valences of their experiences. Using individual-level time-use diaries form the American Time Use Survey (N = 35, 959), a nationally representative sample, we find that compared to fathers working full time, SAHFs …