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Objectively Measured Physical Activity Is Lower In Individuals With Normal Weight Obesity In The United States, Nadeeja N. Wijayatunga, Heontae Kim, Harry M. Hays, Minsoo Kang

Faculty and Student Publications

The role of physical activity in normal weight obesity (NWO), which is associated with increased cardiometabolic risk, is not clear. This study aimed to determine body composition phenotype-specific differences in objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in adults in the United States. A total of 2055 adults with a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 18.5 m2 were studied using 2003–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Physical activity and percent body fat (BF%) were measured using accelerometer and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, respectively. A BF% > 23.1% and >33.3% for men and women, respectively, was considered excess. A BMI of 18.5–24.9 …

Osteoporosis Knowledge And Health Beliefs Among Middle-Aged Men And Women In The Southern United States, Stacy Chelf, Robert E. Davis, Martha A. Bass, M. Allison Ford, Ali D. Firouzabadi, Jonathan T. Leo, Vinayak K. Nahar

Faculty and Student Publications

Context: The most common skeletal disease, osteoporosis, causes bone fragility due to decreased bone mass and bone microarchitecture destruction. The health belief model is often applied to asymptomatic, prevention-related diseases such as osteoporosis. Steps to mitigate the insidious nature of osteoporosis, including education, motivation, and monitoring of bone mineral density, must begin at an earlier age. Objectives: This study evaluates the knowledge and health beliefs surrounding osteoporosis in a population of males and females 35–50 years old to determine sex-based differences in osteoporosis knowledge and beliefs and to assess the correlation between perceptions and health motivation. Methods: Participants (81 males, …

Applied Statistics Course Offerings: Fall 2022, University Of Mississippi. Graduate School

GMAS Course List

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September 1, 2022, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Campus Educators Selected As Inaugural Wow! Faculty Fellows, Pam Starling

University of Mississippi News

New workshops and learning communities to create vibrant online courses offered this fall

Um Awards Achieving Equity Grants, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Simone Delerme and Katie McKee among award recipients Following a rigorous and competitive application process, seven University of Mississippi investigator teams have been awarded internal funding for proposals aimed at advancing institutional diversity and inclusion. The Achieving Equity Grants Program was introduced in 2019 and is jointly administered by the Office of the Provost, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, and Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. This seed grant program is intended to support innovative scholarly and creative efforts that advance knowledge on topics of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Ole Miss Awards Achieving Equity Grants, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

More than $56,000 awarded for seven proposals aimed at advancing diversity and inclusion

New Faculty, 2022-2023, University Of Mississippi. Provost

New Faculty

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August 22, 2022, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Newsletter Spring/Summer 2022, Annette Kluck, Margaret Savoie, Ethan Booker

Newsletters of the Graduate School

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No Association Between Perinatal Mood Disorders And Hypertensive Pregnancies, Sarah Araji, Ashley Griffin, Wondwosen Kassahun-Yimer, Laura Dixon, Shauna Kay Spencer, Sheila Belk, Gail Ohaegbulam, Kedra Wallace

Faculty and Student Publications

Mental health disorders such as anxiety and/or depression are the most common mental health disorders seen among reproductive aged women and can increase during pregnancy. Many sociodemographic risk factors have been associated with anxiety and/or depression in pregnancy, which can lead to adverse maternal and infant outcomes including the risk of a hypertensive pregnancy. The current study prospectively examined self-reported anxiety, depression and stress in pregnant women without a history of fetal loss or mood disorders beginning at 20–26 weeks. At each study visit, circulating immune factors associated with perinatal mood disorders were measured in blood samples that were collected. …

Pharmacy Professor Working To Bring Needed Care To Lgbtq+ Patients, Patrick Smith

University of Mississippi News

UMMC Center for Gender and Sexual Minority Health receives recognition for its lifesaving work

Juawice Mccormick Named Counseling Center Director, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Administrator seeks to improve, expand services to Ole Miss students

Law School Recognized For Student Wellness Program, Christina Steube

University of Mississippi News

Judges cite school multidimensional wellness efforts that span 'bodies, minds and souls'

Education, Society, And The K-12 Learner, University Of Mississippi. School Of Education. Department Of Teacher Education

Textbooks and Open Educational Resources

An exploration of selected components of the education profession: purpose of education. American education system, education and the legal system, child and adolescent development, and diversity.

• Part 1: Educational History and Policy
• Part 2: Educational Psychology

Sexual Attitudes And Characteristics Of Onlyfans Users, Stacey Diane Arañez Litam, Megan Speciale, Richard S. Balkin

Faculty and Student Publications

As new forms of sexually explicit material (SEM) platforms emerge, sex research and sexuality-based studies must also evolve. Although the subscription-based platform OnlyFans has become an increasingly popular way for content creators to share and access SEM, the demographic information and sexual attitudes of users across sex have not yet been reported. The present study contributes to the existing body of SEM literature by providing a demographic analysis of OnlyFans users and an assessment of sexual attitudes between users and nonusers across sex. In this study, participants from a US-based sample (n = 718, Mage = 29.46, male [n = …

Seeing Queer Joy In Mississippi: Pride Parades In Tupelo, Starkville, And Oxford, Ellie Campbell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In May of 2016, Oxford, Mississippi, held its first LGBTQ+ Pride parade in recent memory. That first Oxford Pride was part of a wave of LGBTQ+ celebrations that began in the state in 2015 and 2016 and continue to the present day. Though the pandemic forced many to cancel or go online, communities across Mississippi have continued to organize Pride parades and other celebrations of LGBTQ+ identities since 2015, a marked contrast from earlier periods. In a state often depicted as actively hostile to queer people, these Pride events make queer southern communities visible in new ways, while also revealing …

Social Distance, Stigma, And Help-Seeking: A Comparison Of Lay And Professional Conceptualizations Of Autism In The Southern Us, Christian Shannon Courson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Understanding stigma, help-seeking and barriers to treatment for persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is essential for informing interventions toward increased relevance and utility. An array of sociocultural and individual factors can influence lay beliefs and behavioral responses to ASD, including stigma and social distancing (i.e., preference for distance from autistic individuals). It is important to consider the Explanatory Models of ASD among helping professionals (e.g., health care, education) as they are likely touchstones along the help-seeking pathway for children with ASD. The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to explore factors in the southern United States associated with …

The Ongoing Collegiate Anxiety Pandemic: It’S A Dangerous Business Going Out Your Front Door, Daniel Pineau

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Anxiety is an emotion that consists of worrisome thoughts, physical tension, and physiological arousal regarding the perceived potential of danger. College students have increasingly endorsed anxiety as a primary difficulty during the collegiate years. Due to this increase in anxiety and an increase in utilization of therapy services, the overall study aim was to identify the factors that influence anxiety presentations and whether or not a brief, online, therapeutic intervention could be effective for symptom reduction. A group of participants (N = 96) volunteered to complete a longitudinal study providing a brief, online, psychological intervention through the University of Mississippi. …

Adding Fuel To The Flames? Foreign Aid Bypassing And Political Support In Recipients, Obaida Shammama

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Foreign aid scholars argue that donors outsource development assistance to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) because of poor governance and capacity constraints in aid recipients. But what shapes recipient citizens’ preference for aid delivery channels? How does foreign aid bypassing affect government support in recipients? Drawing on the logic of selective evaluation and micro-performance hypothesis, I contend that greater concern for quality of governance will positively influence support for foreign aid channeling through NGOs among aid recipients. Additionally, favorable attitude towards foreign aid bypassing will be negatively associated with government approval. Finally, an increase in foreign aid bypassing will be associated with …

Impact Of Institutional Support For Research And Development At An R1 University, Joy Tatum Shideler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study utilizes a correlational research design to identify the relationship, if any, between institutional and external support of research and development (R&D) at an R1 University Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education R1: Very High Research Activity Doctoral University in the southeastern United States of America. Initial analyses of institutional and external R&D expenditures as reported in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey from 2015 through 2020 did not identify any relationships between institutionally and externally funded R&D expenditures. Additionally, initial regressions were directionally split with positive correlations in 14 fields and …

Bridging The Oppurtunity Gap Through Exploring The Perceptions Of Disadvantaged African American Students, Anesha Lashal Carter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to explore student agency’s impact on the lives of successful African American adult students who once identified as being disadvantaged. The opportunity gap, formerly recognized as the achievement gap, continues to negatively affect low socioeconomic status African American students with limited social and cultural capital resources. There are unlimited studies which identify factors that fuel the opportunity gap (Ladson-Billings, 2006). However, many of these studies neglect to incorporate the voices of the stakeholders in which social and economic disparities impact the greatest (Anderson, 2018). This qualitative phenomenological study aims to address this research gap …

Perceptions Of Sexual Refusals: Not So Black And White, Lavina Ying Ho

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sexual assault is an issue affecting approximately 1 in 5 women. Compared to White women, Black women report higher rates of lifetime rape, are at risk of developing physical/mental health issues post-assault (e.g., depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse), and are less likely to engage in help-seeking after sexual victimization. Research reveals the manner in which a woman refuses a sexual advance can influence a man’s perceptions of the genuineness of her refusal. Sexual refusals that are explicit (e.g., not wanting to have sex due to religious beliefs) are identified more quickly as violating a woman’s boundaries than sexual …

Mississippi Modernism: The River Valley And Race In American Culture, 1892-1945, William C. Palmer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mississippi Modernism looks to the Mississippi River Valley of the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first few decades of the twentieth century to analyze the ways individuals expressed and determined their experience in the changing world. By engaging with theories of modernity from Marshall Berman and the Black modernism of Houston A. Baker, Jr. this work proposes the Mississippi watershed as a region where individuals indulge in the processes of modernism remaking the environments, both urban and rural, surrounding them. By thinking about the “dry” and “wet” valleys envisioned by European settlers as Christopher Morris terms it, …

The Role Of Values In Communicating Pharmacy Technician Role Expansion, Wesley Patrick Sparkmon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Background/Objectives The growth of pharmacy technician scope of practice research over the past 20 years has allowed opportunities for researchers to investigate the machinations of technician scope of practice expansion. To investigate what affects pharmacy technicians’ likelihood of taking on role expansion, this study had three objectives. First, researchers aimed to investigate what additional tasks pharmacists believe technicians should have greater involvement in completing. Secondly, researchers aimed to investigate what occupational values pharmacists believe are important to technicians and determine how those perceptions might impact pharmacist messaging regarding technician role expansion. The final objective was to determine how technician occupational …

Teaching In A Remediation Nation: Exploring Journalism And Mass Communication Faculty Perceptions Of Their Professional Practice, Andrew Mark Abernathy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Research shows many new college students may be remedial in English language arts or mathematics (Jaggers & Bickerstaff, 2018). For faculty in journalism and mass communication (JMC) fields, teaching struggling student writers can be especially challenging as these students may not have the fundamental knowledge to build applied writing skills upon. Thus, this lack of readiness for collegiate writing poses challenges to not only these students’ academic success, but also their transition into media professions. Embedded remediation—an alternative to traditional, prerequisite remediation—is one strategy that JMC faculty can use to support struggling student writers. This dissertation explores how JMC faculty …

The Self Compassionate Side Of Awe: The Relationship Between Awe And Self-Compassion Via Self-Diminishment And Connectedness, Rachael Marie Cavallaro

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Given that having a self-compassionate attitude is linked to positive psychological functioning, it is important to identify factors that promote self-compassion. Several self-transcendent experiences and emotions, which perceptually blur the lines between the self and others, predict self-compassion. Awe, a mixed-valance emotion defined by vastness and need for accommodation, seemed a likely candidate to promote self-compassion, as it is also a self- transcendent emotion with intra and interpersonal functions (e.g., increased humility, openness, and connection) that theory and empirical research has linked to self-compassion. Thus, we hypothesized that awe would promote self-compassion both directly and indirectly via boosted feelings of …

Emotion Regulation In Migraine, Tracy Protti

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Migraine is the third most common medical condition across the globe and a leading cause of years lived with disability due to its considerable burden. The burden is further compounded by the high prevalence of psychological comorbidities and the influence of other psychological factors on functioning. Examinations of migraine within the fear-avoidance model suggest that fear of pain (FOP) promotes maladaptive avoidance and escape behaviors, which contribute to headache-related disability. Limited research demonstrates that those with migraine engage in avoidant emotion-regulation (ER) strategies but has overlooked ER abilities beyond acceptance. The current study aimed to investigate ER in individuals with …

Do Individuals With Functional Gastrointestinal Symptoms Experience Emotions Differently? An Examination Of Emotional Responding During A Series Of Emotion Induction Tasks, Sara Witcraft

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) are disorders of the brain-gut axis characterized by physiological and emotional disturbances, including heightened comorbidity with psychiatric disorders. Individuals with FGIDs experience difficulties with emotional processing, including the awareness, identification, and regulation of emotions. Although emotional processing is implicated in the maintenance and exacerbation of FGID pathology, literature examining these associations is limited. The current study aimed to enhance understanding of the emotional processing of individuals with FGIDs. We recruited individuals with and without FGID symptoms and examined the: (1) association between gastrointestinal distress and psychopathology; (2) association between gastrointestinal distress and emotional and physiological responsivity; …

Performance Cultures And Black Atlantic Literature, 1750-1833, Chinaza Amaeze Okoli

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation approaches performance cultures as integral components of early black Atlantic writing, and considers how meaning is produced at the intersection of writing and vernacular performance. It asserts that black writers, in their portrayal of performance practices, encode avenues and strategies for accessing other black voices in their communities. Pairing writing by black authors and a selection of comparable vernacular practices, my dissertation examines how these forms signify upon each other, offering new contexts for interpreting the black experience in the long eighteenth century. In exploring this thesis, my work approaches Olaudah Equiano’s narrative as illustrative of the ways …