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Online And In-Store Compulsive Buying Among Metrosexuals, And Other Male Consumers, Michael L. Thomas, Lindsay Levine, Luther Denton, Kathleen Gruben

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

This paper presents an exploratory study of compulsive buying behavior among male, and specifically metrosexual consumers who represent significant purchasing power, but have yet to be studied in both online and in-store environments. This research has significant importance for public policy, consumer behavior and marketing. The literature has largely ignored specifically male compulsive shopping behavior, and particularly how this behavior manifests itself in different shopping environments and among different subsets of male consumers. Research was gathered via an online survey of 193 males with special attention paid to acquiring equal representation of both urban (potential metrosexuals) and rural consumers. The …

The Role Of Cultural Traditions On Branding And Word-Of-Mouth: Keeping Mother’S Recipes Alive!, Sindy Chapa

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact a cultural tradition has on a perceived-brand-relationship (PBR) and word-of-mouth (WOM) behavior in person and on social media. Based on the cognitive-motivational-related theory of emotions and the social identity theory, a model is proposed to explain the impact that a family tradition, such as cooking with selective products, has on Hispanic mothers. Using a research mixed-method approach, a construct was developed to measure attitudes toward cultural traditions. Further, an online survey was administered for hypotheses and model testing using SEM and Logistic Regression tests. The findings supported the proposed model …

Race Ethnicity And In-Store Mobile-Assisted Shopping In The Us, Kristine Johnson, Manuel C. Pontes

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

Today, it is arguably important for retailers to incorporate digital technology as part of the in-store shopping experience. As such, this research examines specific elements of this process—the relationship between race, ethnicity, and consumer use of mobile coupons and digital barcodes to facilitate purchase decisions. Data were collected by telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of US adults. Results indicate minority (Non-White) adults are more likely than White adults to use their mobile phone in-store to purchase products with mobile coupons and to scan barcodes for product information. Individuals who use both social media and who own tablets or …

Reasons Why Small, Private Schools Should Start Football Programs, Ania Izabela Rynarzewska, Steven Mcclung

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

College football programs are booming in popularity. College football benefits both fans and schools. Those benefits differ between small and large schools. This paper looked at reasons why small, private schools should start football program, Findings suggest a positive effect of fan identity, expectation of enjoyment and perceived importance of football to the school on intention to attend games and consume football related goods. Relationship between intentions to donate and enjoyment and importance were partially mediated by intentions to consume. Fan identity had no direct effect on intentions to donate. This study suggests that small-scale football programs can benefit students …

Supermarket Pricing Model Impact On Private Label Brands Versus National Brands Among Millennial Consumers, Jeff Hendrix

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

Are national brands (NB) manufacturers at risk of losing sales to private label brands (PLB) in low quality variance categories, as the Millennial generation continues to outpace previous generational cohorts in absolute size and spending power? A quantitative examination of archival home scan panel data from over 100,000 U.S. households, investigated actual purchase data over a three-year period. Consumer metrics for Rice and Pasta category; trip conversion, buyer conversion, and loyalty served as dependent variables interacting with a multivariable grouping of independent variables; branding (NB vs. PLB), age cohort (Millennial vs. Generation X), and grocery pricing model format (Hi-Lo vs. …

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Armstrong State & Georgia Southern Consolidation: SACSCOC Prospectus (Archived)

Armstrong State/ Georgia Southern Consolidation SACSCOC Substantive Change Prospectus Section 5

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Armstrong State & Georgia Southern Consolidation: SACSCOC Prospectus (Archived)

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• Doctoral Internship in Professional Health Service Psychology granted full accreditation by APA
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The Increase In Domestic Violence In Brazil From 2009-2014, Nadia Christina Rodrigues, Gisele O'Dwyer, Monica Kramer Andrade, Matthew B. Flynn, Denise Leite Maia Monteiro, Valeria Teresa Saraiva Lino

Political Science & International Studies: Faculty Publications

In recent decades, the rise violent phenomena in Brazil has reached epidemic proportions. However, the prevalence of domestic violence (DV) across different states in the country is not well established. The objective of this study was to describe the distribution of DV across Brazilian states from 2009 to 2014. An ecological study based on spatial analysis techniques was performed using Brazilian states as geographical units of analysis. A multilevel Poisson model was used to explain the risk of DV in Brazil according to age, sex, period (fixed effects), the Human Developing Index, and the victim’s residence state (random effects). The …

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College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• i2STEMe joins the College of Education

August 28, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Minutes (Archived)

August 28, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Minutes

Message From The President, Jaimie Hebert

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College Of Education News, College Of Education, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• i2STEMe partners with STEM Academy of USA for international teacher development
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Approval Of New Core Curriculum, Michelle Cawthorn

Faculty Senate: Index

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College Of Behavioral And Social Sciences News, Georgia Southern University

College of Behavioral & Social Sciences: News & Publications (2012-2022)

• CLASS Faculty Receive Annual Awards

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Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

• CLASS Faculty Receive Annual Awards

Educating Students In Poverty: Building Equity And Capacity With A Holistic Framework And Community School Model, Dan W. Rea, Cordelia D. Zinskie

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Journal

Educators are often blamed for the achievement gap between low-income and higher income students. We propose to replace the divisive “blame game” with a holistic framework for collaborative action between schools, families, and communities. This 5H Holistic Framework (5HHF) is composed of the 5H protective factors (Health, Hands, Heart, Head, Home). These protective factors holistically address the educational needs and capacities of all students—especially students in poverty—for physical/mental health (Health), safety/security (Hands), social-emotional care (Heart), cognitive development (Head), and family/community support (Home). The 5HHF is used to identify and organize best educational practices and to recommend the community school model …

Interview With Eric Jensen: Enriching Mindsets For Teachers Of Students In Poverty, Dan W. Rea

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Journal

In this interview, Eric Jensen, an internationally recognized speaker and writer on student poverty and brain-based learning, discusses how the educational mindsets and practical strategies from his latest two books, Poor Students, Rich Teaching: Mindsets for Change (2016) and Poor Students, Richer Teaching: Mindsets for Change (2017), can enrich the learning of students in poverty. Some of the new mindsets include how to enrich classroom relationships, student achievement, student engagement, and school climate for student success.

Building A Culture Of Hope: Exploring Implicit Biases Against Poverty, Emily L. Gibson, Robert D. Barr

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Journal

A Culture of Hope provides a blueprint for schools wanting to meet the social/emotional needs of youth at risk. In working with staff to develop cultures of hope, the influence of implicit biases and prejudices about people who are living in poverty must be addressed. This essay introduces information and research about implicit biases, illustrates the impact of implicit biases on teaching and learning, and shares strategies for raising awareness about implicit biases against poverty in order to build staff consensus around core beliefs and values.

Grit And Agency: A Framework For Helping Students In Poverty To Achieve Academic Greatness, Anindya Kundu

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Journal

Recent research in psychology introduces “grit” as a characteristic observable in successful students (Duckworth, 2016). Popular applications of the grit framework can further the notion of "rugged individualism," placing the onus of achievement upon the individual. This perspective can lead failures to be considered the result of deficiencies, overlooking effects of structural factors associated with learning. Sociologically, certain applications of grit can be limited in explaining mobility: they may not address the social contexts of the people they assess; or, they may lack a dynamic understanding of students’ cultures. This article applies a qualitative, sociological framework offering “agency” as a …

Supporting Students Living Below The Poverty Line, H. Richard Milner Iv, Heather B. Cunningham, Ira E. Murray, Adam Alvarez

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Journal

In this article, we focus on interrelated mechanisms and practices that support students living below the poverty line. Addressing the needs of students living below the poverty line requires that educators consider both the inside- and outside-of-school realities of students and their families. Before discussing the recommendations, we define poverty and describe the complex ways it may shape student realities. We then discuss why we believe recommendations to support students must account for student realities outside of school. Finally, we outline recommendations for educators interested in becoming “poverty-responsive,” meaning that they discontinue practices that do not support students in poverty …

Layers Of Estrangement: Social-Emotional And Educational Implications Of Homelessness On K–12 Students, Rajni Shankar-Brown

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Journal

This qualitative case study examines and illuminates the social-emotional and educational experiences of children ages 5 to 18 residing in an urban, family emergency housing shelter located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Data were collected and triangulated through participant observations, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. Findings revealed deep educational estrangement and adverse impacts on the social-emotional development of children and youth experiencing homelessness. The study suggests an urgent need to provide high-quality educational preparation to public school administrators and teachers working with children living in poverty and experiencing homelessness in the U.S. With persistent and rising child …

Guided Imagery: A Technique To Benefit Youth At Risk, Lisa M. Skeens

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Journal

Guided imagery is a valuable intervention strategy that can benefit children who are at risk for social, academic, and mental health problems. Guided imagery is a technique that employs imagination, emotions, and a spectrum of bodily senses (Naparstek, 1994). This particular technique can be applied in community and academic settings to help enhance self-efficacy and mental health functioning for youth at risk. The need to implement creative interventions for youth can be overlooked by the chaos of poverty and social problems in vulnerable communities. Many schools and community agencies carry the burden of managing daily crises with few resources. This …

Book Review: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, Gregory D. Johnston, Amy L. Onofre

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Journal

This review of The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates explores the role choices and accountability play in youth development. This book illustrates how two young men with the same name from the same city and raised with similar life experiences would make different life choices that resulted in drastically different outcomes. One Wes Moore is a graduate of Johns Hopkins, Rhodes scholar, White House Fellow and successful business person. The other Wes Moore is serving a life sentence in prison for his involvement in a robbery and murder of an off-duty police officer. Recommendations for youth practitioners are …

Creating A Taxonomy Of Local Boards Of Health Based On Local Health Departments’ Perspectives, Gulzar H. Shah, Sergey Sotnikov, Carolyn J. Leep, Jiali Ye, Timothy W. Van-Wave

Health Policy & Community Health: Faculty Presentations (1993-2023)

Objectives: To develop an LBoH classification scheme and empirical definitions to provide a coherent framework for describing variation in the LBoHs.

Data and Methods: This study is based on data from the 2015 Local Board of Health Survey, conducted among a nationally representative sample of LHD administrators, with 394 responses. The classification development consisted of the following steps: (a) theoretically guided initial domain development, (b) mapping of the survey variables to the proposed domains, (c) data reduction using principal component analysis and group consensus, and (d) scale development and testing for internal consistency.

Results: The final classification scheme included 60 …

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Do Eye Movements During Shape Discrimination Reveal An Underlying Geometric Structure?, Bradley R. Sturz, Ty W. Boyer, John F. Magnotti, Kent D. Bodily

Psychology: Faculty Publications

Using a psychophysical approach coupled with eye-tracking measures, we varied length and width of shape stimuli to determine the objective parameters that corresponded to subjective determination of square/rectangle judgments. Participants viewed a two-dimensional shape stimulus and made a two-alternative forced-choice whether it was a square or rectangle. Participants’ gaze was tracked throughout the task to explore directed visual attention to the vertical and horizontal axes of space. Behavioral results provide threshold values for two-dimensional square/rectangle perception, and eye-tracking data indicated that participants directed attention to the major and minor principal axes. Results are consistent with the use of the major …