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Emotion Disclosure In Spanish And English Bilinguals, Maya Cohrssen-Hernandez Jan 2021

Emotion Disclosure In Spanish And English Bilinguals, Maya Cohrssen-Hernandez

Scripps Senior Theses

Previous literature has identified a difference in emotion comprehension and production of bilinguals. This study aimed to explore differences in emotion expression in the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) among Spanish and English bilinguals. The bilingual participants were interviewed and asked to recount two frustrating events, one in their L1 and one in their L2. These interviews were analyzed for the occurrence of four semantic categories: emotion words (with a subcategory of negative emotion words), emotion-laden words, expressive interjections, and intensifiers that strengthen content words. The data indicated that Spanish and English bilinguals both used more emotion …

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Deconstructing Social Anxiety: Through Gifs And The Inspiration Of Artists' Books, Ashley Hsieh Jan 2021

Deconstructing Social Anxiety: Through Gifs And The Inspiration Of Artists' Books, Ashley Hsieh

Scripps Senior Theses

My project deconstructs social anxiety through the form of gifs. This is an important issue to address especially now, as it is one the most current stressors for my peers and myself upon returning to school after over a year in quarantine. Although not everyone has had the same experience, there is a large concern for students’ mental health and well-being post-pandemic. Learning how to re-navigate socializing after a year in isolation has been exhausting, physically and mentally, adjusting to places and new faces on campus. My work is composed of a series of three digital gifs that depict different …

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Is Parent Report Of Bilingual Children's Language Environment As Valid As We Think?, Gabrielle Zeyl Jan 2021

Is Parent Report Of Bilingual Children's Language Environment As Valid As We Think?, Gabrielle Zeyl

Open Access Master's Theses

Researchers have defined bilingual language proficiency and dominance in different ways for decades; however, to date there is no standard, systematic description used by the scientific community to quantify bilingual children’s language skills. Parent report questionnaires have been regarded as a valid measure of a child’s language skill. The purpose of this study is to explore the validity of parent report of their child’s language use when compared to hand coded audio segments retrieved using the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) System. Additionally, this study explores potential differences in the number of conversational turns and amount of child-directed speech between monolingual …

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Undergraduate Student Perceptions Of The Qualities Of Effective Online Software Instructional Video, Chelsy Hooper Jan 2021

Undergraduate Student Perceptions Of The Qualities Of Effective Online Software Instructional Video, Chelsy Hooper

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Undergraduate university students experience a knowledge gap when required to use unfamiliar software applications without the benefit of direct instruction. As a solution, students often turn to online support, particularly video, but little is known about students perceptions of the effectiveness of support videos. As libraries are a principle resource on campus where students can seek additional academic help, library staff can benefit from a study of student perceptions of the effective qualities of online instructional support video for software knowledge development. Understanding student perceptions can increase the effectiveness of library staff instructional video and improve the knowledge gap of …

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First Destination Survey 2021: For Degrees Awarded December 2020-August 2021, Hart Career Center, Illinois Wesleyan University Jan 2021

First Destination Survey 2021: For Degrees Awarded December 2020-August 2021, Hart Career Center, Illinois Wesleyan University

First Destination Survey

[from the email sent by Warren Kistner] "The Hart Career Center is responsible for producing an annual First Destination (graduate) survey that tracks the post-graduate activity of our students within a six-month window of commencement. Following this collection period, we work to produce a report that provides our university community with vital information about the success of our graduates and allows us to address questions posed by prospective students and families. I am pleased to share our report for the class of 2021. Based on data obtained for 90.5% of our graduates, 96.8% are either employed or in graduate/professional school …

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Using A Person-Centered Approach To Explore Patterns Of Ptsd, Sexual Functioning And Sexual Satisfaction In College Women Exposed To Sexual Violence, Alexandra Lipinski Jan 2021

Using A Person-Centered Approach To Explore Patterns Of Ptsd, Sexual Functioning And Sexual Satisfaction In College Women Exposed To Sexual Violence, Alexandra Lipinski

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Elevated symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, impairment in sexual function, and decreased sexual satisfaction are common among female survivors of sexual violence. Although these symptoms frequently co-occur, little is known regarding whether patterns of symptom comorbidity exist across these conditions. The present study identified empirically-derived profiles of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and domains of sexual function and satisfaction among 348 college women who had experienced sexual violence. A four-profile solution was identified. The first profile, Resilient (RES), was characterized by low severity of PTSD and sexual functioning complaints. A second profile, Sexual Distress (SEXDISS), was characterized by greatest endorsement of …

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Multivariate Analysis For Understanding Cognitive Speech Processing, Md Sultan Mahmud Jan 2021

Multivariate Analysis For Understanding Cognitive Speech Processing, Md Sultan Mahmud

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Categorical perception (CP) of audio is critical to understand how the human brainperceives speech sounds despite widespread variability in acoustic properties. Most studiesthat examine cognitive speech processing have applied methodological approaches that focuson specific or a set of brain regions. Departing from hypothesis-driven approaches, in thisdissertation, we proposed multivariate data-driven approaches to identify the spatiotemporal(i.e., when in time and where in the brain) and spectral (i.e., frequency-band power levels)characteristics of auditory neural activity that reflects CP for speech (i.e., differentiatesphonetic prototypes from ambiguous speech sounds). We recorded 64-channel EEG aslisteners rapidly classified vowel sounds along an acoustic-phonetic continuum. We usedparameter …

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Individual Auditory Categorization Abilities Are Shaped By Intrinsic And Experience-Driven Neural Factors, Kelsey Mankel Jan 2021

Individual Auditory Categorization Abilities Are Shaped By Intrinsic And Experience-Driven Neural Factors, Kelsey Mankel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

To make sense of the auditory world, listeners must organize diverse, continuously varying sounds into meaningful perceptual categories. The auditory categorization process is believed to be a foundational skill for language development and speech perception. Despite decades of behavioral research, neuroscientific evidence is only beginning to uncover where, when, and how auditory categories arise in the brain. Although it has been proposed that categorical perception is shaped by both innate (nature) and experience-driven (nurture) factors, it is unclear how these features manifest neurally at the individual level. In the first study of this dissertation, we recorded multi-channel electroencephalography (EEG) in …

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Examining The Process Of Advising Adults At Community Colleges, Angelo Marade Jan 2021

Examining The Process Of Advising Adults At Community Colleges, Angelo Marade

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

AbstractThis qualitative grounded theory approach study examined the process of academic advising in community colleges in the United States. The purpose of this research study was to gain a better understanding of the process of advising adult learners in community colleges. Because of academic advisors unique positions, that is, they actively advise adult learners in community colleges, a goal of this research study was to gain a better understanding of the process of advising adult learners in community colleges from community college advisors themselves. Accordingly, eight currently active community college academic advisors who advise adult learners aged 25+ years were …

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Learning Organization In A Time Of Crisis: A Case Study Of Logistics And Freight, Llc And Covid-19, Matt Meador Jan 2021

Learning Organization In A Time Of Crisis: A Case Study Of Logistics And Freight, Llc And Covid-19, Matt Meador

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The term learning organization (LO) is a widely used conversation piece in corporate cultures, particularly among managing practitioners and leaders in talent management, learning and development, and leadership development (Marquardt, Berger, & Loan, 2004). Given the market upheaval due to COVID-19, this work incorporates current literature on a learning organization's dimensions, known as characteristics, through a qualitative approach. This investigation aims to capture the experiences of managing practitioners as the logistics community revisits learning strategies due to the extremely rapid change of COVID-19 (Ferguson et al., 2020; Marquardt, Berger, & Loan, 2004). Marsick and Watkins dimensions of a learning organization …

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Mason Bates: Rusty Air In Carolina For Wind Ensemble And Electronica, Nakia Maurice Medley Jan 2021

Mason Bates: Rusty Air In Carolina For Wind Ensemble And Electronica, Nakia Maurice Medley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Medley, Nakia Maurice. DMA. The University of Memphis. May 2021. Mason Bates: Rusty Air in Carolina for wind ensemble & electronica. Major Professor: Albert T. Nguyen, DMA.Frederick Fennell established the standard instrumentation for the wind ensemble in 1952 with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, providing composers and conductors the op- tion of using more or fewer instruments. As with anything new, a period of expansion and development can be expected. Development years of The Wind Ensemble Con- cept initially spanned over four decades. With the advancement of technology along with innovative composers, we are able to experience the wind ensemble with …

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Factors That Impact First-Generation College Student Engagement While Attending A Technical College, Laura Denise Monks Jan 2021

Factors That Impact First-Generation College Student Engagement While Attending A Technical College, Laura Denise Monks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

First-generation college students are associated with lower educational outcomes leading to decreased career aspirations. Student engagement has been linked to positive college retention outcomes. The present study surveyed 6,421 technical and two-year college students, who were in their first term of college, to determine if there are differences in the factors that impact student engagement of those students that identify as first-generation or continuing generation. Framed by Astins (1999) Student Involvement Theory and Bourdieus (1986) Social Capital Theory, and using a quantitative, non-experimental correlational design with a cross-sectional survey, this study examined several constructs from the student engagement conceptual model …

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Storytelling Health: A Content Analysis Of Narrative Transportation And Identification Cues In Direct-To-Consumer Advertisements, Stephanie Lynn Montgomery Jan 2021

Storytelling Health: A Content Analysis Of Narrative Transportation And Identification Cues In Direct-To-Consumer Advertisements, Stephanie Lynn Montgomery

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Using qualitative content analysis, I studied the visual and verbal narratives in DTCAs and analyzed transportation and identification cues that are described in narrative persuasion. My DTCAs were mined from the top ten programs (Neilsen Ratings), during the last three months of originally aired shows of the 2016 and 2018 season. All of the narratives are either a classic drama or vignette and are messages that communicate wellness or a restoration of health. Other results show a distinct difference between the narratives that are communicated visually versus verbally, with the majority of transportation and identification cues contained in the visual …

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Investigating Speech Rate Alignment In Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury, Megan Battles Parsons Jan 2021

Investigating Speech Rate Alignment In Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury, Megan Battles Parsons

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The alignment of verbal and nonverbal behaviors is important for conversation. Research has shown that interactive behavior alignment is commonly impaired following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and the ability for an individual with TBI to align their speech rate with their conversational partners can be affected. This non-convergence of speech rates can lead to negative social outcomes, including perceptions of decreased social connectedness and decreased willingness of conversational partners to engage in conversation. Despite these negative outcomes, researchers have yet to discover a therapeutic technique to increase speech rate convergence, and in turn, lead to positive social outcomes during …

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The Washback Effect Of Self And Peer Assessment In Second Language Writing, Musbah Abdussayed Jan 2021

The Washback Effect Of Self And Peer Assessment In Second Language Writing, Musbah Abdussayed

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The influence of tests and assessments on learning and teaching is known as the washback effect. The purpose of this study is to investigate the washback effect of self and peer assessment in Arabic writing as a second language. The study was conducted on high school advanced Arabic learners at an Islamic school in the USA. The study examines the learners attitudes and perceived capability towards self and peer assessment, their perceived importance of using self and peer assessment in revision, and their perceived effectiveness of taking the two assessments together. Moreover, the study seeks to reveal whether self and …

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The Roles And Functions Of The Virtual School Counselor, Latraci Aldridge Jan 2021

The Roles And Functions Of The Virtual School Counselor, Latraci Aldridge

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

As technology increases, so does the integration of technology in educational settings. That integration also extends to school counseling and the field of counseling in its entirety. The purpose of this study is to compare the role and functions of an online and traditional setting school counselor. Due to virtual/online school counseling still being in the early stages, there is limited research about what a virtual school counseling program looks like or the academic outcomes for students enrolled in virtual schools. As more virtual schools emerge, it is imperative that we investigate the best practices for online school counseling. Should …

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A Poet's Guide To Loving Yourself, Massey Armistead Jan 2021

A Poet's Guide To Loving Yourself, Massey Armistead

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

A Poets Guide to Loving Yourself asks the question, how do we move from grief of losing another to a place of empowerment and fulfillment? The poems explore the dual nature of being human, such as wanting independence while also desiring the affection of another. The use of narrative and emotionally driven language show the evolution of a woman transforming from a place of self-doubt and insecurity to one of wholeness in her place in the world and an understanding that she is valued for simply being. The use of the aubade is heavy in this collection and the speaker …

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How Do Classroom Teachers In Urban Charter Schools Enact Humanizing Pedagogy Amid Neoliberal Education Reform? A Case Study From The American South, Michelle R. Armstrong Jan 2021

How Do Classroom Teachers In Urban Charter Schools Enact Humanizing Pedagogy Amid Neoliberal Education Reform? A Case Study From The American South, Michelle R. Armstrong

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Neoliberal education reform perpetuates the dehumanizing belief in individual merit within high-stakes testing environments. As a result, schooling experiences continue to disenfranchise historically marginalized African American children because of the overreliance on narrow standards to deem students proficient in their academic progress or not. Therefore, the purpose of this narrative case study was to examine the humanizing practices that classroom teachers enact within high-stakes testing environments of state and locally authorized urban charter schools in Tennessee that primarily serve African American students. The study found that classroom teachers acknowledge the problematic nature of the high-stakes testing and accountability environments in …

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An Investigation Of The Relative Impacts Of Hearing Aid Self-Efficacy And Personality On Aspects Of Hearing Aid Success, Lipika Sarangi Jan 2021

An Investigation Of The Relative Impacts Of Hearing Aid Self-Efficacy And Personality On Aspects Of Hearing Aid Success, Lipika Sarangi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

It has been hypothesized that patient factors such as self-efficacy and personality impact aspects of hearing aid (HA) success. Thus, researchers have recommended that clinicians incorporate these factors while planning individualized audiologic rehabilitation. However, the different contributions of these factors have not been evaluated in tandem. Additionally, most of these factors are evaluated using generalized measures. It is unclear whether general measures reflect nuanced psychosocial impacts of listening in difficult environments. This dissertation evaluated the relative impacts of patient factors on aspects of HA success using a series of quantitative and qualitative studies.First, we evaluated the associations between hearing aid …

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Danish Cedar Falls, Carrie Eilderts Jan 2021

Danish Cedar Falls, Carrie Eilderts

The Bridge

In 1855, Frederick Petersen’s family became the first Danish immigrants on record to settle in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The Petersens came from the Schleswig area on the Danish/German border, and in 1860, Christian Petersen came to Cedar Falls, also from Schleswig. More Danish families moved to Cedar Falls from Pine River, Wisconsin in 1866, and the next year Danes began arriving directly from their homeland after enduring a long journey by ship and train. By the early 1870s, Danes were settling in Cedar Falls in large numbers. By 1871, three hundred Danes called the city home, making up about ten …

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Danes In Kenmare, North Dakota, Bertel Schou Jan 2021

Danes In Kenmare, North Dakota, Bertel Schou

The Bridge

The town of Kenmare, in Denmark Township in the northern part of Ward County, North Dakota, is famous for its Danish windmill, one of only three in the United States (the other two are in Elk Horn, Iowa and Solvang, California). The mill, with its gears of hand-hewn maple, was built eleven miles north of Kenmare by a Danish immigrant named Christian C. Jensen in 1902 and was in daily operation until 1918. It was transported into the center of Kenmare in 1958, restored in 1961, and moved to its current location on downtown Park Square in 1965. It doesn’t …

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From Bornholm To Jamestown: C. C. Beck And The Settlement Of Danish Immigrants In Chautauqua County, New York And Warren County, Pennsylvania, John Everett Jones Jan 2021

From Bornholm To Jamestown: C. C. Beck And The Settlement Of Danish Immigrants In Chautauqua County, New York And Warren County, Pennsylvania, John Everett Jones

The Bridge

One of the earliest Danish immigrant settlements in North America was a community in western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania called Jamestown. Marcus P. Jacobsen has been recognized as the first person from Bornholm to settle in the Jamestown area1 in 1855 or 1856, and early on, members of this community came almost exclusively from Bornholm. However, histories have not recognized the importance of Charles C. Beck in the origin of this community. Emigration from Bornholm has been written about by Henning Bender2 this article adds to that research by situating Beck within the larger community of Danish immigrants who …

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Digitize Your Yearbooks: Creating Digital Access While Considering Student Privacy And Other Legal Issues, April K. Anderson-Zorn, Dallas Long Jan 2021

Digitize Your Yearbooks: Creating Digital Access While Considering Student Privacy And Other Legal Issues, April K. Anderson-Zorn, Dallas Long

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Student yearbooks are distinctive cultural records. For the schools and universities that produced them, yearbooks promoted a shared sense of identity and experience among students and helped create enduring loyalty to the institutions long after the students graduated. For scholars and other users, yearbooks are unique primary sources that provide insight into past eras of local student life and culture. In regards to user engagement and preserving local histories, student yearbooks should be ideal candidates for digitization by libraries and archives. However, yearbooks are challenging digitization projects because they are likely to contain privacy-sensitive photographs and other information as well …

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The Right To The City: San Francisco's Chinatown Before And After The 1906 Earthquake, Alexandra Hsu Jan 2021

The Right To The City: San Francisco's Chinatown Before And After The 1906 Earthquake, Alexandra Hsu

Scripps Senior Theses

The development of San Francisco, much like many American cities, is deeply entwined with the spatial process of settler-colonialism. Fueled by White supremacist processes of appropriation, dispossession and exclusion, city officials and White San Franciscans legally, financially, and socially segregated Chinese immigrants who entered into the U.S. context to a dense and degraded ethnic enclave. Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey theorize on The Right to the City, the social production of space and the ways in which social processes can be concretized by space. This thesis applies these concepts to the racialized space of San Francisco’s Chinatown. An examination of …

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“Send Me No Husband” How Succession Anxiety In Elizabethan England Influenced The Marital Politics In Shakespeare's Comedies, Olivia Silva Jan 2021

“Send Me No Husband” How Succession Anxiety In Elizabethan England Influenced The Marital Politics In Shakespeare's Comedies, Olivia Silva

Scripps Senior Theses

While revered and idolized, Queen Elizabeth I’s unmarried status throughout her reign increased anxieties surrounding succession amongst the 16th century British public. Amidst a continental debate surrounding the Querelle des Femmes, or “the woman question", that attempted to label female roles within societal and political spheres, Elizabeth was infamously defined by her unconventionality as both a monarch and a woman. These succession and patriarchal anxieties not only influenced but were actively played out in Shakespeare’s canon, particularly in his comedies. Shakespeare used the Unconventional Woman trope within his comedies in creating certain female characters, all of their endings concluding in …

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Eye Of The Beholder: How The Female And Male Gazes Perpetuate Anti-Catholicism And The Cult Of Domesticity In The Awful Disclosures Of Maria Monk And Matthew Gregory Lewis’ The Monk, Olivia Silva Jan 2021

Eye Of The Beholder: How The Female And Male Gazes Perpetuate Anti-Catholicism And The Cult Of Domesticity In The Awful Disclosures Of Maria Monk And Matthew Gregory Lewis’ The Monk, Olivia Silva

Scripps Senior Theses

Based on our own privileges and placement within the social hierarchy, we each view the world differently depending on how we identify. Oftentimes, this "gaze" is incorporated into media through narrative voices and characters to induce understandings as well as act as a form of political commentary. Readers and viewers, in turn, can gain different and more diverse perspectives through seeing the world through different eyes. This paper examines the role of gaze in the 19th century Anti-Catholic convent exposé The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk. Monk's narrative surrounds a victimized Catholic nun and uses a gaze that is similar …

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Reproduction Or Replication? Deconstructing The Myth Of Maternal Glorification In Sexton's "Those Times" And "The Double Image", Kaila Sivan Finn Jan 2021

Reproduction Or Replication? Deconstructing The Myth Of Maternal Glorification In Sexton's "Those Times" And "The Double Image", Kaila Sivan Finn

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis’s interpretation of “The Double Image” and “Those Times” explores the reproduction of gender norms between mother and daughter. These poems imagine motherhood as a rather grim replication of body image issues, lack of self-identity, and the internalization of sacrifice. When considering both the context of the 1950s as well as our current moment, the grotesquity of Sexton’s description of motherhood is particularly shocking. The renaissance of women in domestic roles troubled Sexton’s poetry and Sexton herself. Therefore, in considering these poems’ impacts on American culture, it is critical to imagine how shocking such a grotesque portrayal of “domestic …

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The Making Of An Iconic Cheese: Mozzarella Di Bufala Campana D.O.P., Michele Graziadei Jan 2021

The Making Of An Iconic Cheese: Mozzarella Di Bufala Campana D.O.P., Michele Graziadei

FIU Law Review

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Beliefs About Mental Illness In A Spanish Speaking Latinx American Sample, Michiyo Hirai, Serkan Dolma, Laura L. Vernon, George A. Clum Jan 2021

Beliefs About Mental Illness In A Spanish Speaking Latinx American Sample, Michiyo Hirai, Serkan Dolma, Laura L. Vernon, George A. Clum

Psychological Science Faculty Publications

The US Hispanic population is large and rapidly growing, with serious healthcare disparities. Alarmingly, 67% of Hispanic adults with a mental illness go untreated. Attempts to increase treatment rates have had limited success, likely partly due to stigma beliefs. There is an urgent need to develop and utilize a Spanish language stigma assessment tool. The current study is the first to do so, translating the Beliefs Toward Mental Illness (BTMI; Hirai et al., 2018) scale into Spanish (S-BTMI). Our psychometric findings with English-Spanish bilingual Latinx undergraduate students suggest that the S-BTMI can be a reliable measure of mental illness stigma. …

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Dimensional Latent Structure Of Icd-11 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Complex Ptsd, And Adjustment Disorder: Evidence From Ghana, Kenya, And Nigeria, Ruby Charak, Ines Cano-Gonzalez, Mark Shevlin, Menachem Ben-Ezra, Thanos Karatzias, Philip Hyland Jan 2021

Dimensional Latent Structure Of Icd-11 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Complex Ptsd, And Adjustment Disorder: Evidence From Ghana, Kenya, And Nigeria, Ruby Charak, Ines Cano-Gonzalez, Mark Shevlin, Menachem Ben-Ezra, Thanos Karatzias, Philip Hyland

Psychological Science Faculty Publications

With the release of ICD-11 in 2018, there has been a surge in studies examining the nosology of mental disorders, including disorders associated with stress, namely, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD (CPTSD), and adjustment disorder (AjD). Few studies have examined the same in low- and middle-income countries that have disproportionate levels of exposure to trauma and stressors and are under-resourced in mental health services. The present study examined the latent factor structure of a joint model comprising PTSD, CPTSD, and AjD symptoms and their association with stressful and traumatic life events to assess the degree of distinctiveness between these …

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