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A Randomized Pilot Trial Of A Mobile-Delivered Brief Behavioral Economic Intervention To Reduce Emerging Adult Alcohol Misuse, Kathryn Soltis Gex

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Objective. Heavy episodic drinking is a significant social and public health problem that peaks during emerging adulthood. In-person brief motivational interventions have been shown to be efficacious in reducing heavy drinking and problems in college students, but require student effort and personnel resources that may limit dissemination. The current study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a counselor-administered, synchronous text-message delivered brief motivational intervention aimed to reduce college student alcohol misuse. Method. Participants were 66 college students (63.6% identified as cisgender women; 61.9% identified their race as White; Mage = 19.95, SD = 1.66) who at baseline reported …

Conceptualizing Wakanda High: Informing Critically Conscious Institutions To Impact Black Students' Resilience, Jessica Felicia Henderson

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Black students in the United States are permanently operating within systemicallyinequitable environments that produce inequitable outcomes. Despite thesecircumstances, they exhibit resilience and overcome challenges to ultimately succeed.This study proposes a Critically Conscious Institution Framework that illustrates theimpact of critically conscious educational institutions on the resilience of Black Students.The framework is meant to inform the educational environments that help Black studentsdeal with the sustained adversity of functioning within anti-Black systems and considernarratives of current and former Black students to explore the various characteristics ofinstitutions on their own resilience capacity. The CCI Framework seeks to support theability of institutions to address the …

Who Wants You To Say Youre Sorry?: The Moderating Effect Of Brand Response On The Relationship Between Customer Attachment Style And Reactions To Brand Transgressions, Aaron David Joyal

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In psychology, negative behavior on the part of an individual is described as a transgression and transgressions are defined as an action by one individual towards another which violates the implicit or explicit norms and rules that serve as guides for conduct within the context of a relationship. Transgressions range from the mundane to the extreme and when an individual transgresses, they typically react in one of two ways: They may try to explain why they engaged in transgressive behavior by providing excuses or justifications through the use of apologia or they may take responsibility and apologize. Individuals who were …

Erwin Schulhoff (1894 - 1942): Life, Work, And Analysis Of String Quartet No. 2 (Wv 77), Miguel Alejandro Lesmes

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ABSTRACTErwin Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist of Jewish heritage whose life came to an untimely end in the Holocaust. His work incorporated elements of several avant-garde and popular styles of his day, and he advocated for popular styles, such as jazz and folk music, to be included on the classical stage. His career was hindered by the Nazis through the last decade of his life until he was captured and sent to the Wlzburg concentration camp, where he died at the age of 48. After his death, his work did not receive much attention for about forty years. …

Saudi Efl Learners Knowledge And Use Of English Prepositional Verbs In Academic Writing, Hatim Abdulhadi Masoudi

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Prepositional verbs are essential for English as a foreign language (EFL) and English as a second language (ESL) learners in academic writing. However, most learners, regardless of their proficiency, encounter difficulties using these verbs, and there is a lack of research on these difficulties. This study sought to describe, analyze, and understand Saudi EFL learners knowledge and use of English prepositional verbs in academic writing. The study also assesses the relevant teaching contexts and reasons behind common errors.The study utilized a mixed-methods approach with data collected from a cloze test, multiple-choice test, and semi-structured interview. The two tests were administered …

Investigating Interculturality Of Saudi Students In The Us Academic Environment, Ruqayyah Nasser Moafa

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This study applied Mixed Methods research (MM) to understand the possibility of developing the intercultural competence of Saudi students through language classes in Saudi Arabia, since there is an indication of a gap between language classes in Saudi Arabia and the globalized world. This study was conducted to investigate the intercultural competence development of Saudi students enrolled in American universities and compare it to the way they developed their interculturality during their language classes in Saudi Arabia. Thus, this dissertation sought to determine the necessary strategies to enrich intercultural competence through English language classes in Saudi Arabia. Using MM, this …

Depression In Young Adult Women Following Childhood Maltreatment: The Role Of Attitudes And Perceptions About Social Support, Thomas Dodson

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Introduction: A history of childhood maltreatment has been related to mental health concerns inadulthood, with depression showing the largest amount of empirical support. Perceptions of social support have been shown to have a protective effect (buffer against mental health symptoms particularly for survivors of more severe maltreatment) and a promotive effect (direct positive effect on mental health symptoms regardless of the severity of child maltreatment) with mental health concerns. Research has shown more consistent support for the promotive effect of social support on mental health outcomes in adults who have a history of childhood maltreatment. The protective effect of social …

Counselor Trainee Empathy, Exposure And Attitudes Towards Offenders With Mental Illness, Frances I. Ellmo

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There is a large and growing population of individuals within the United States Criminal Justice system suffering from both diagnosed and undiagnosed mental health issues. The stigma associated with their offender status and mental illness can prevent sufficient quality of mental health services from being provided to this population. Even individuals that work closely with offenders have been shown to exhibit negative perceptions of offenders with mental illness and little research exists in this area related to counselors. Further, the offender population is one that requires specialized training and consideration and it is unclear how much training or exposure counselors …

Beyond What We Knew:Health And Disease Among Blacks,With An Emphasis On Women In Memphis, From Slavery To Early Twentieth Century, Letoshia Foster

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Letoshia, Foster, Ph.D. The University of Memphis, August 2020. Beyond What We Knew: Health, and Disease Among Blacks: With an Emphasis on Women in Memphis, From Slavery to Early Twentieth CenturyThis dissertation provides a comprehensive analysis of health issues among Black people in Memphis from the antebellum period through the early twentieth century. Throughout this period, slavery and Jim Crow had an inescapable effect on black Memphians lives. Race and gender were strong indicators for poor health outcomes. The topics of morbidity and mortality among Blacks over a seventy-year period is reflected in various types of scholarship, especially medical history …

College Experiences Of Individuals With Mild To Moderate Intellectual Disabilities: Stories Of Our Success, Lisa Lynn Bryant

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This article presents a case study of four participants diagnosed with mild-to-moderate intellectual disabilities, enrolled in support programs for neuro-atypical students at four-year private Christian universities in the Southeastern United States. Further, this article examines how these participants measured success in said programs, as well as whether success was achieved. This program aimed to provide students with opportunities to learn and grow alongside their neuro-typical peers in a rich academic environment. Through this case study, it was found that there are three primary criteria for success: class attendance (both general population and support-program classes), independence (including independent living, sustained employment), …

Gender Representation In American Made English Language Learning Textbooks: A Multi-Modal Study, Amy Simpson Burden

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Using Critical Discourse Analysis and computational linguistics in the present study, I investigated the discursive representations of gender in two series of English Language Development textbooks in the largest markets in the USA Texas and California. In addition, I examined the pictorial gender representations within images of these two series adhering to Critical Image Analysis. I also engaged in previously unnavigated realms of learning material study by examining the linguistic and pictorial gendering of non-human characters as well as examining types and tokens of gendered language. I also investigated the roles genre played in gendered messaging in both series. Finally, …

Paths From Spiritual Support To College Self-Efficacy, Mollie Dianne Kaye Carter

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College students undergo identity development in emerging adulthood, including adjustments in relationships, exploration of occupations, and revisions of spiritual worldviews (Arnett, 2000). Using a modified portion of Lents (2004) normative model of life satisfaction, this study sought to construct a moderated mediation path to assess the role spiritual models play in college students developing traits of spirituality, mindfulness, forgiveness, and hope, and the associations these traits had with college self-efficacy. Additionally, this study proposed perspective-taking as a moderator of the association between environmental support from spiritual models and spirituality, mindfulness, forgiveness, and hope, such that college students high in perspective-taking …

Evaluating The Need For A Gender Specific Risk Assessment For Female Intimate Partner Violence Offenders, Amanda Leigh Russell

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AbstractRisk assessments are considered to be best practice in many states for assisting in sentencing decisions, bail conditions, and probation/parole requirements for intimate partner violence (IPV) offenders. However, most risk assessment tools that are currently being used were created using research on risk factors for recidivism in male IPV offenders. This is problematic given the percentage of females arrested for IPV-related crimes has increased substantially over the past decade. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of a risk assessment tool developed for use specifically for female IPV offenders in predicting recidivism in comparison to a risk …

A Comparison Of Conducting Effectiveness, Instrumentalists Performances, And The Underlying Biomechanics Of A Conductor While Performing Exaggerated And Understated Variations Of Staccato And Legato Gestures, Jonathan Herbert Schallert

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The purposes of this study were to compare the biomechanical characteristics, musicians performances, and ratings of perceived conducting effectiveness of exaggerated and understated staccato and legato conducting gestures using motion capture data, clarinet and saxophone audio recordings, and a researcher created conducting effectiveness scale. Participants included one professional conductor, clarinet and saxophone players (n = 11), and university level large ensemble instrumentalists (n = 41) and vocalists (n = 34) from one large urban university in the Mid-South region of the United States. Results revealed that staccato gestures had higher vertical ranges of motion than horizontal, while legato gestures had …

A Transcendental Phenomenological Study On Persistence In Online Mindfulness Programs, Sheila Seiler

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The purpose of this research is to uncover the essence of the lived experiences of nontraditional learners who persist in online mindfulness programs. While there are quantitative studies and meta-analyses of what makes online mindfulness programs effective, there has not been an investigation and analysis of the experiences participants have in the programs that result in their persistence. Therefore, this transcendental phenomenological study examined the factors that encourage people to persevere and remain in online mindfulness programs. Ten nontraditional learners were recruited through convenience and snowball sampling, then purposeful sampling. Data were collected using a survey, open-ended interviews with participants, …

Truncated And Aggregated P Value Test, Lei Shi

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High throughput genome screening techniques are enabling researchers to interrogate human genome at single base pair level for their association with outcomes by genome wide association study (GWAS). However, it is usually challenging for GWAS to provide clear statistical conclusions at the gene level when multiple genomic features, either from same platform or different platforms, reside in the same gene. Traditionally a gene is considered as associated with an outcome when at least one genome feature within that gene is significantly associated with the outcome after adjusting for multiple genome-wide tests. Under that framework, only the most significant genome feature …

How Social Norms Moderate The Association Between Gender Role Conflict And Grief Cognitions, Whitney Shuman

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College students experience a myriad of both death-related and non-death losses throughout their academic careers, which may impact their academic and psychological well-being. Male gender role conflict (GRC) related to restrictive emotionality and restrictive affectionate behavior between men is associated with multiple negative psychological outcomes and may be associated with difficulties related to the grieving process, as grief is typically closely linked with affective experiences related to the loss. The current study specifically examined maladaptive grief cognitions, which are beliefs about ones grief experiences that lead to increased psychological distress and decreased adjustment to the loss. Additionally, descriptive and injunctive …

Multiple Job Holders: The Impact Of Employment Structure On Health, Access To Care, And The Effect Of Policy Intervention, Courtney Jenkins Sievers

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Access to healthcare services is impactful to health, and barriers to access can lead to disparities in health outcomes for different populations. Barriers to care can be financial and nonfinancial, and some populations may be more at risk for encountering barriers than others. As the American workforce is dynamic and heterogenous, understanding the different subgroups aids in understanding how to address their healthcare needs. This research aims to understand the impact employment structure, specifically the multiplicity of jobs, has on health and access to healthcare services. In addition, it aims to understand the effect of previous policy intervention on Multiple …

Predicting The Adoption Of Connected Autonomous Vehicles By Transportation Organizations Using Peer Effects, Jesse Simpson

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This dissertation presents and tests a methodology for predicting the adoption rate of Connected Autonomous Trucks (CATs) in transportation organizations using peer effects. There are a number of different factors that must be considered when developing innovation adoption models for organizations. This dissertation briefly describes each of the relevant variables and combines them into a discrete choice model for predicting the adoption rate of CATs by transportation organizations. The model incorporates new peer effect modeling techniques to simulate competition and the informal communication network. A stated-preference survey is conducted, and information from 400 freight transportation organizations is gathered. The survey …

An Examination Of Probation Officer Attitudes Towards Juvenile And Adult Offenders With Mental Illness, Michael Stephen Skirius

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This cross-sectional survey examines probation officers attitudes towards offenders with mental illness (OMI) using demographic data and the Community Attitudes Toward the Mentally Ill (CAMI) scale, following community demonstrations for systemic criminal justice reforms in 2020. Results indicate officers exhibit elevated attitudes of Benevolence and Community Mental Health Ideology towards OMI, which indicates fewer stigmatizing beliefs towards OMI than previous research. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.

Can Motivational Messages Engage Individuals At-Risk For Gambling Disorder In An Online Assessment?, Samuel Cody Peter

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Individuals experiencing gambling-related problems are not likely to seek psychological services; therefore, there is a need to better understand how to motivate at-risk gamblers to engage in help-seeking behaviors. This experiment tested whether online messages based on principles of Motivational Interviewing (MI) could be used to encourage individuals to complete a problem gambling screener. Participants (N = 805) who gambled at least weekly and were not currently receiving treatment for gambling problems were recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Our sample was 63% male, 65% White, and on average 36.67-years-old (SD = 11.40). Participants were randomly assigned to one of three …

Just Culture In Healthcare Error Management: Nurse-In-Training View Of Just Culture And Outcomes Of Event Involvement, Rebecca Roberts Quillivan

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This experimental study will assess the behavioral and psychosocial effects of just culture error management strategies for medical errors in a healthcare setting, and the outcomes of such strategies on work-related perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors. A total of 247 nurses-in-training were randomly assigned to one of 6 experimental conditions. In each condition, participants read a vignette that described an at-risk medical error and the error management strategy employed by a hypothetical organization. The medical error was written to implicate both the individual involved, and the larger organizational system. Vignettes differed with regard to error management strategy employed by the organization …

Factors Contributing To Student Persistence At Tennessee Technical Colleges, Roland Rayner

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The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore factors that may contribute to student persistence in the completion of their program of study in an urban technical college setting. The study aims to identify the cognitive, social, and institutional factors that contribute to student persistence in the completion of their program of study. The following questions guided this study: (1) what are the cognitive, social, and institutional factors that may help technical college students persist in the completion of their training program, (2) what social factors would enhance technical students educational experience to improve persistence to program completion, …

How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault And The Corporate Government Of The Public, Cory Wimberly

Philosophy Faculty Publications

How Propaganda Became Public Relations pulls back the curtain on propaganda: how it was born, how it works, and how it has masked the bulk of its operations by rebranding itself as public relations. Cory Wimberly uses archival materials and wide variety of sources — Foucault’s work on governmentality, political economy, liberalism, mass psychology, and history — to mount a genealogical challenge to two commonplaces about propaganda. First, modern propaganda did not originate in the state and was never primarily located in the state; instead, it began and flourished as a for-profit service for businesses. Further, propaganda is not focused …

Entrepreneuring After 50: The Liminal Identity Transitions Of Older Emergent Entrepreneurs, Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Lucia Sell-Trujillo, Paul Donnelly

Articles

Entrepreneurship has been proposed as a solution to extending working lives. However, little is known about how older (50+) entrepreneurs manage their personal transitions into entrepreneurship. In this paper, we propose to use a liminal identity work perspective to explore the identity paradoxes that older entrepreneurs experience during their transition into entrepreneurship and how they manage it. We use a qualitative study conducted over 14 months in the United Kingdom. Our analysis shows how older entrepreneurs confront identity paradoxes, interruptions and identity polarization in their attempts to shift from older identities and activity patterns into new ones. The entrepreneurs who …

Uses And Gratifications Of Generation Z Within Social Networks: A Dialectical Investigation Into The Facebook Domain, Ryan O'Carroll, Tara Rooney

Articles

To date, little research has considered how various types of gratifications operate within SNSs such as Facebook (LaRose et al. 2001; Quan-Haase and Young, 2010; Wang, 2015). To address this gap, we explore Generation Z’s motivational behaviour through the lens of Uses and Gratifications Theory. Additionally, we investigate the types of gratification obtained by Generation Z through Facebook. The research adopted an interpretivist philosophy and employed a qualitative approach. The data collection method used semi-structured interviews, in conjunction with qualitative digital diary research. Research participants were requested to record emotions, behaviours and opinions in their digital diaries over a consecutive …

Influence Of Psychological Factors On The Prognosis Of Temporomandibular Disorders Pain, Bong-Jik Suh, Won Jung, Kyung-Eun Lee

Journal of Dental Sciences

Abstract Background/purpose The leading symptom of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) is pain, and psychological factors are involved in the persistence of TMD-related pain. Therefore, this study was aimed to analyze the influence of psychological factors on the prognosis of TMD-related pain. Materials and methods The medical records of 486 patients with TMD-related pain were analyzed. Each patient's psychological profile was assessed using the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Patients were classified into two groups according to a post-treatment numeric rating scale (NRS). Patients with an NRS score of 0 or 1 at the last visit were classified into group G, and those with …

Impact Of Positive Psychology In Pk-12 Settings, Daniel Paul Butler

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Educator burnout is threatening the well-being of society, having a financial impact on the United States, as well as influencing the optimal growth of students and the quality of our educational system. Overexposure to stress while trying to meet countlessdemands can lead to burnout and jeopardizeworkforceretention. Stress, burnout, and teacher attrition have reached alarming levels, threatening quality instructionand subsequent student achievement (Steinhardt et al., 2011). The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding ofthe effect of the Happiness Advantage | Orange Frog positive psychology framework and whether schools that employ these techniques experience a significant difference in their …

Physiological Performance Characteristics Of Universal Tennis Rating (Utr), Savanna Storm Hunt

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The purpose of this study was to create a physiological profile based on UTR through a series of tests to aid coaches in improving the performance of their athletes of any UTR level and to prepare the athletes physiologically for the level above. The UTR patent details skill and tactical development of players at each level as well as a few psychological skills. Physiological skills are only vaguely mentioned and not quantified creating a desire for a physiological profile. It has been previously agreed upon that high capabilities in linear speed, agility, power, anaerobic, aerobic, and strength are correlated with …

Placas Pleurales Por Inhalación De Fibras De Asbesto. Reporte De Dos Casos Y Revisión De Literatura, Diemen Delgado-García, Alfonso Mercado, María De Lourdes Preciado-Serrano, Gabriel Davalos-Picazo, Ashley Delgado

Psychological Science Faculty Publications

Introducción: Las placas pleurales por fibras de asbesto se caracterizan por lesiones compuestas por tejido fibroso que se ubican en la pleura parietal. Suelen aparecer hasta en un 3% a 58% de los trabajadores que estuvieron expuestos a fibras de asbesto, y en un 0,5% a 8% en población general. El objetivo de este artículo es presentar dos casos clínicos de pacientes a los que se les detectó en la radiografía de tórax alteraciones pleurales posiblemente asociadas a la exposición a fibras de asbesto.

Casos clínicos: Caso 1. Paciente de sexo masculino de 49 años, trabajador de la construcción con …