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Preservice Teachers’ Motivation, Sense Of Teaching Efficacy, And Expectation Of Reality Shock, Hyunjin Kim, Yoonjung Cho

Human Development and Family Science Faculty Publications

The present study investigated how pre-service teachers’ motivation and their sense of teaching efficacy influence their expectation about reality shock during the first year of professional teaching. A total of 533 pre-service teachers at a state university in the US Midwest participated in this study. The results showed that the pre-service teachers’ expectation of reality shock was negatively related to teacher efficacy and intrinsic motivation while it was positively related to introjected and external motivation. The results of a hierarchical regression analysis revealed that pre-service teachers’ sense of efficacy and introjected motivation were strong predictors of their expectation of reality …

Factors Associated With Financial Independence Of Young Adults, Jing Jian Xiao, Swarn Chatterjee, Jinhee Kim

Human Development and Family Science Faculty Publications

Young adults are in an important transition period from financially depending on their parents to becoming financially independent. The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with perceived financial independence among American young adults aged 18–23. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, we hypothesized that major contributing factors of young adults’ financial independence would include economic, psychological and family factors. Data were from two linked data sets, the 2009 Transition into Adulthood data set and its parental companion data set, the 2009 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a nationally representative US sample. Results indicated that economic factors, such as young …

Mountain Roots: Artistic Inquiry Into The Science And Spirit Of Mountains, Celeste Bickford

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

The future of mountain landscapes will be shaped by the landscape-related decisions we make today. These decisions are influenced by two major factors: what we know and how we feel. The interplay between emotional and analytical information is what motivates the decisions we make related to mountain environments and landscapes. Taking this into consideration, a partnership between art and science and a conversation between emotion and analysis can be instrumental in forming a holistic view of how humans relate to particular landforms such as mountains. This interplay between emotional and analytical information manifests in the decisions people make in relation …

Disentangling The Effects Of Student Attitudes And Behaviors On Academic Performance, Susan Janssen, Maureen O'Brien

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

The interplay among motivation, ability, attitudes, behaviors, homework, and learning is unclear from previous research. We analyze data collected from 687 students enrolled in seven economics courses. A model explaining homework and exam scores is estimated, and separate analyses of ability and motivation groups are conducted. We find that motivation and ability explain variation in both homework and exam scores. Attitudes and behaviors, such as procrastination and working with others directly, affect homework score, but not exam score. These effects are not the same within all motivation and ability groups. Given that homework is the strongest predictor of exam score, …

The Relationship Of Sorority Membership With Body Objectification And Social Pressure In Sorority Women At A Midwestern University, Hannah Elizabeth Tower

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Body objectification and social pressure are risk factors for developing eating disorders. Currently there is limited research on specific populations like sorority women who are at an increased risk for developing these disorders. This study used Dr. Nita McKinley's Objectified Body Consciousness Scale and the Social Pressure subscale from the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4 to better understand the relationship of sorority membership with body objectification and social pressure. It was found that the longer women were members of a sorority the less body shame they experienced and the longer they lived in a sorority house the less body surveillance, …

Teaching The Health At Every Size® Curriculum To Dietetics Students : A Look At Anti-Fat Attitudes, Amber Marie Rosalez

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if teaching about the Health At Every Size (HAES) paradigm, using the recently developed HAES curriculum, to dietetics students could decrease anti-fat attitudes, increase knowledge of HAES, improve attitudes and beliefs about HAES and increase self-efficacy for using HAES. Justification for this study includes ample scientific evidence that anti-fat attitudes are pervasive among health care professionals, including Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs). The aim of this research was to contribute to the literature on possible interventions for preparing dietetics students to work with people of all shapes and sizes without bias.||A pretest/posttest study …

Should I Stay Or Should I Go : The Effects Of Leave Context On Interpersonal Meta-Accuracy, Camille Jacqueline Heneghan

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

As employees navigate work and home life demands, they look to organizational policies and procedures to help in this regard. However, past research on reactions to employees taking advantage of such policies as well as expected evaluations from others, is decidedly mixed. In two studies, I examined the social cognitive mechanisms and subsequent boundary conditions that determine whether coworkers have negative reactions to leaving an interpersonal task and whether the target person expects negative reactions for doing so. The results from Study 1 showed that participants anticipate they will be evaluated more positively when the reason for leaving a shared …

Developing The Foundation For A Manual Of Pastoral Counselor Formation In Indonesia, Totok Soemartho Wiryasaputra

ATS Dissertations

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Rooted And Grounded In Love : Cultivating The Christian Heart Through Dispositional Spiritual Formation-In-Common, John Chester Harp Jr.

ATS Dissertations

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Arthur Delbert Rice, Jr. : Pursuit Of Shalom: Encompassing Care Of Creation In Mission In The Philippines, Eun Joo Lee

ATS Dissertations

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Accuracy Of Physical Self-Description Among Chronic Exercisers And Non-Exercisers, Joseph M. Berning, Mark Debeliso, Trish G. Sevene, Kent J. Adams, Paul Salmon, Bryant A. Stamford

Kinesiology Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study addressed the role of chronic exercise to enhance physical self-description as measured by self-estimated percent body fat. Accuracy of physical self-description was determined in normal-weight, regularly exercising and non-exercising males with similar body mass index (BMI)’s and females with similar BMI’s (n=42 males and 45 females of which 23 males and 23 females met criteria to be considered chronic exercisers). Statistical analyses were conducted to determine the degree of agreement between self-estimated percent body fat and actual laboratory measurements (hydrostatic weighing). Three statistical techniques were employed: Pearson correlation coefficients, Bland and Altman plots, and regression analysis. Agreement between …

Evaluation Of A Conceptual Model Of Student Retention At A Public Urban Commuter University, Hoa Khuong

Dissertations

A new conceptual model of student retention was developed and evaluated for first-year retention and for second-year retention of students at an urban, mid-western commuter university. The model captured the joint effects of academic engagement and environmental factors on academic performance and persistence of commuter students in their first two years of college attendance. The academic engagement and environmental factors incorporated into the model included: pre-college academic achievement, Deep Learning, Study Time per Week, College Math Readiness, Major Selection, Hours of Employment, receiving (or not receiving) a Pell Grant Award and Financial Concerns. Structural equation modeling techniques were utilized to …

Letters To Make-Believe: An Afterschool Survival Kit, Jessica Maginity 14

Honor Scholar Theses

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Reconciling Family Roles With Political Ambition: The New Normal For Women In Twenty-First Century U.S. Politics, Richard L. Fox

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

Based on data from the 2011 Citizen Political Ambition Study - a national survey of nearly 4,000 "potential candidates" for all levels of office - we provide the first thorough analysis of the manner in which traditional family arrangements affect the initial decision to run for office. Our findings reveal that traditional family dynamics do not account for the gender gap in political ambition. Neither marital and parental status, nor the division of labor pertaining to household tasks and child care, predicts potential candidates' political ambition. This is not to downplay the fact that the gender gap in political ambition …

Hooking Up In The College Context: The Event-Level Effects Of Alcohol Use And Partner Familiarity On Hookup Behaviors And Contentment, Joseph W. Labrie, Justin F. Hummer, Tehniat M. Ghaidarov, Andrew Lac, Shannon R. Kenney

Heads Up!

The current study examined hooking up experiences through event-level analyses, including the connections involving alcohol use, the extent of physical contact, and postevaluations of the hookup event. Participants were 828 college students (67.0% female). Of students who reported hooking up sometime within the past year (54.8%), chi-square analyses revealed that they were more likely to have been drinking when they met their partners the night of the hookup. Females who were drinking beforehand and females who met their partners that night were more likely to feel discontent with their hookup decisions. Among participants who consumed alcohol prior to their last …

Impulsivity And Alcohol-Related Risk Among College Students: Examining Urgency, Sensation Seeking And The Moderating Influence Of Beliefs About Alcohol's Role In The College Experience, Joseph W. Labrie, Shannon R. Kenney, Lucy E. Napper, Kevin Miller

Heads Up!

The personality trait of impulsivity is predictive of heavy drinking and consequences among college students. The current study examined how impulsivity—measured via positive urgency, negative urgency, and sensation seeking—and a person's beliefs about the role alcohol plays in the college experience relate to drinking and consequences in a sample of 470 college students (mean age = 19 years, 61.3% female, 59.8% white). In support of hypotheses, sensation seeking independently predicted greater drinking, and both positive and negative urgency predicted greater experience of alcohol-related negative consequences after controlling for consumption level. Moreover, alcohol beliefs moderated the relationship between impulsivity types and …

Normative Feedback For Parents Of College Students: Piloting A Parent Based Intervention To Correct Misperceptions Of Students’ Alcohol Use And Other Parents’ Approval Of Drinking, Joseph W. Labrie, Lucy E. Napper, Justin F. Hummer

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Objective

Multi-component parent-based interventions (PBIs) provide a promising avenue for targeting alcohol use and related consequences in college students. Parents of college-aged children can have a significant influence on their children’s alcohol use decisions. However, parents tend to underestimate their own child’s alcohol use and overestimate other similar parents’ approval of student drinking. These misperceptions could have important implications for parents’ own attitudes and alcohol-related communication with their student. Targeting these misperceptions through normative feedback could help promote greater and more in-depth alcohol-related communication. The present study examines the potential efficacy of web-based alcohol-related normative feedback for parents of college …

Relational Aggression, Positive Urgency And Negative Urgency: Predicting Alcohol Use And Consequences Among College Students, Joseph W. Labrie, Elizabeth Grimaldi, Lucy Napper

Psychological Science Faculty Works

Research on relational aggression (indirect and social means of inflicting harm) has previously focused on adolescent populations. The current study extends this research by exploring both the frequency of perpetrating and being the target of relational aggression as it relates to alcohol use outcomes in a college population. Further, this study examines whether positive urgency (e.g., acting impulsively in response to positive emotions) and negative urgency (e.g., acting impulsively in response to negative emotions) moderate the relationship between relational aggression and alcohol outcomes. In this study, 245 college students (65.7% female) completed an online survey. Results indicated greater frequency of …

Predicting Intellectual Ability And Scholastic Outcomes With A Single Item: From Early Childhood To Adulthood, Curtis S. Dunkel, Nora Murphy

Psychological Science Faculty Works

Previous research shows that perceived intelligence judgments significantly correlate with measured intelligence scores. The present study investigated the developmental trajectory of the association between perceived intelligence and measured intelligence. Using the Block and Block longitudinal dataset, we examined the relationship between a single rating of “high intellectual ability” made in early childhood by targets’ preschool teachers with future intellectual ability and scholastic outcome measures, including IQ scores, grade-point average, SAT scores, and educational attainment. Even when controlling for variables including attractiveness, parental education levels, the General Factor of Personality, and socioeconomic status, correlations between early childhood intelligence perceptions and later …

Diagnostic Utility Of The International Hiv Dementia Scale For Hiv-Associated Neurocognitive Impairment And Disorder In South Africa, Karl Goodkin, David Hardy, Dinesh Singh, Enrique Lopez

Psychological Science Faculty Works

Studies in sub-Saharan Africa indicate that most HIV seropositive persons have HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND). HAND diagnosis is facilitated by specific screening. Seventy participants were recruited from an HIV voluntary counseling and testing clinic in Durban, South Africa. The diagnostic utility of the International HIV Dementia Scale (IHDS) was analyzed using a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) model. The ROC analysis comparing any HAND diagnosis (based on two neuropsychological tests) versus no diagnosis was statistically significant, with an optimal cut-off score of 10.5, sensitivity of 69%, and specificity of 74%. Sensitivity of the IHDS was highest for HIVassociated dementia.

“I Felt Like A Superhero”: The Experience Of Responding To Drug Overdose Among Individuals Trained In Overdose Prevention, Karla D. Wagner, Peter J. Davidson, Ellen Iverson, Rachel Washburn, Emily Burke, Alex H. Kral, Miles Mcneeley, Jennifer Jackson Bloom, Stephen E. Lankenau

Sociology Faculty Works

BACKGROUND: Overdose prevention programs (OPPs) train people who inject drugs and other community members to prevent, recognise and respond to opioid overdose. However, little is known about the experience of taking up the role of an "overdose responder" for the participants.

METHODS: We present findings from qualitative interviews with 30 participants from two OPPs in Los Angeles, CA, USA from 2010 to 2011 who had responded to at least one overdose since being trained in overdose prevention and response.

RESULTS: Being trained by an OPP and responding to overdoses had both positive and negative effects for trained "responders". Positive effects …

Disturbing Inequities: Exploring The Relationship Between Racial Disparities In Special Education Identification And Discipline, Jongyeon Ee

School of Education Faculty Works

This study used negative binomial regression to investigate whether exposure to novice teachers and risk for identification for special education predicted suspension rates. Data from the 2009-2010 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) was used. The sample was comprised of 72,168 schools from nearly 7,000 school districts from nearly every state. Identification as having emotional disturbance and specific learning disabilities were found to predict an increase in suspension rates for some subgroups across some school levels. Conversely, identification as being autistic was found to predict a decrease in suspension rates for some subgroups across some school levels. Policy implications are discussed.

Β-Alanine Supplementation Improves Tactical Performance But Not Cognitive Function In Combat Soldiers, William Mccormack

Health and Human Sciences Faculty Works

Background: There are no known studies that have examined β-alanine supplementation in military personnel. Considering the physiological and potential neurological effects that have been reported during sustained military operations, it appears that β-alanine supplementation may have a potential benefit in maintaining physical and cognitive performance during high-intensity military activity under stressful conditions. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of 28 days of β-alanine ingestion in military personnel while fatigued on physical and cognitive performance. Methods: Twenty soldiers (20.1 ± 0.9 years) from an elite combat unit were randomly assigned to either a β-alanine (BA) or placebo …

Sophia: Theoretical Wisdom And Contemporary Epistemology, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Philosophy And Theology: Duties To Children, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

The article offers the author's insights related to adoption of children and the duties of parents on their children. The author discusses the criticisms of author Mhairi Cowden on philosopher professor Matthew Liao regarding the right of children to be loved which according to Liao, love is necessary to flourish children in terms of emotional, physical, and social well-being.

Antonio T. Denicolás: Poet Of Eternal Return, Christopher Key Chapple

Theological Studies Faculty Works

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The Impact Of Attitudinal Ambivalence On Weight Loss Decisions: Consequences And Mitigating Factors, My Bui, Courtney M. Droms, Georgiana Craciun

Marketing & Business Law Faculty Works

This research takes a new look at individuals' attitudes and intentions towards losing weight. Study 1 examines the relationship among those interested in losing weight and individual self-evaluative ambivalence on attitude towards trying to achieve a weight loss goal and the intentions to achieve the weight loss goal. For Study 2, a between-subjects experimental design, where attitudinal ambivalence and prior outcome feedback were manipulated and self-efficacy was measured, is conducted to examine attitude towards eating healthier and intention to change eating behaviours. Findings across the two studies show that attitudinal ambivalence about the self and the individual's abilities and motivation …

Reply To Christensen And Christensen And To Malter: Pitfalls Of Erroneous Analyses Of Hurricanes Names, Madhu Viswanathan

Marketing & Business Law Faculty Works

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Reply To Bakkensen And Larson: Population May Matter But Does Not Alter Conclusions, Madhu Viswanathan

Marketing & Business Law Faculty Works

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Reply To Maley: Yes, Appropriate Modeling Of Fatality Counts Confirms Female Hurricanes Are Deadlier, Madhu Viswanathan

Marketing & Business Law Faculty Works

No abstract provided.