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An Open Trial Of Group Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (Act) With An Adjunctive Mobile App For Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Gad), Jennifer Krafft, Clarissa W. Ong, Carter H. Davis, Julie M. Petersen, Michael E. Levin, Michael P. Twohig Jan 2021

An Open Trial Of Group Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (Act) With An Adjunctive Mobile App For Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Gad), Jennifer Krafft, Clarissa W. Ong, Carter H. Davis, Julie M. Petersen, Michael E. Levin, Michael P. Twohig

Psychology Student Research

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common and debilitating condition. Effective treatments exist, but they are time-and resource-intensive. This study tested the initial efficacy and acceptability of a novel treatment protocol designed to increase efficiency: acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) taught in groups and through an adjunctive mobile app. Participants were 21 individuals with GAD who received six weeks of 2-hour group ACT sessions as well as access to an adjunctive ACT mobile app. Significant improvements occurred in worry, anxiety, social functioning, and depression as well as relevant processes (psychological inflexibility, anxiety-related cognitive fusion). In-the-moment improvements were also observed in …

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Sexual Orientation Intrusive Thoughts And Well-Being: The Mediating Role Of Psychological Inflexibility, Julie M. Petersen, Michael P. Twohig Jan 2021

Sexual Orientation Intrusive Thoughts And Well-Being: The Mediating Role Of Psychological Inflexibility, Julie M. Petersen, Michael P. Twohig

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Sexual orientation intrusive thoughts are a debilitating form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study aimed to elucidate how psychological inflexibility and dysfunctional beliefs may impact the relationships of sexual orientation intrusive thoughts and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms with well-being. A total of 181 undergraduate students completed measures of sexual orientation intrusive thoughts, OC symptoms, psychological inflexibility, dysfunctional beliefs, and well-being. Results indicated positive correlations between psychological inflexibility, sexual orientation intrusive thoughts, dysfunctional beliefs, and OC symptoms, along with negative correlations between well-being and sexual orientation intrusive thoughts, OC symptoms, dysfunctional beliefs and psychological inflexibility. Psychological inflexibility acted as a …

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Examining The Feasibility And Effectiveness Of Online Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Self-Help In A Quasi-Stepped Care Model: A Pilot Study, Clarissa W. Ong, Carina L. Terry, Michael Levin, Michael P. Twohig Jan 2021

Examining The Feasibility And Effectiveness Of Online Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Self-Help In A Quasi-Stepped Care Model: A Pilot Study, Clarissa W. Ong, Carina L. Terry, Michael Levin, Michael P. Twohig

Psychology Student Research

The global burden of mental illness and limited resources make increasing the efficiency of available mental healthcare resources especially crucial. One way this can be done is a stepped care approach to treatment. To test the viability of using internet-based self-help in a stepped care model, we examined the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of an online self-help acceptance and commitment (ACT) program prior to starting in-person therapy at a university community clinic (N = 51). Online program acceptability was at least moderate. There was clinically significant change in 75.9 to 79.3% and reliable change in 31.0 to 100% of …

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Does The Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire Measure More Than Frequency Of Negative Thoughts?, Jennifer Krafft, Michael E. Levin Jan 2021

Does The Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire Measure More Than Frequency Of Negative Thoughts?, Jennifer Krafft, Michael E. Levin

Psychology Student Research

Cognitive fusion is a psychopathological process that appears to be relevant to a wide range of disorders. This process is frequently measured with the Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (CFQ). However, the construct validity of similar measures has been criticized for substantial overlap with distress. It is possible the CFQ may excessively measure the presence of unwanted thoughts, rather than fusion per se. Therefore, this study examined the discriminant validity of the CFQ relative to a measure of automatic negative thoughts (the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire) in a college student sample (n = 389). While the two measures were highly correlated (ρ …

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Neural Efficiency And Spatial Task Difficulty: A Road Forward To Mapping Students' Neural Engagement In Spatial Cognition, Ariel W. Snowden, Christopher M. Warren, Wade H. Goodridge, Ning Fang Jan 2021

Neural Efficiency And Spatial Task Difficulty: A Road Forward To Mapping Students' Neural Engagement In Spatial Cognition, Ariel W. Snowden, Christopher M. Warren, Wade H. Goodridge, Ning Fang

Psychology Student Research

The current study examined the neural correlates of spatial rotation in eight engineering undergraduates. Mastering engineering graphics requires students to mentally visualize in 3D and mentally rotate parts when developing 2D drawings. Students’ spatial rotation skills play a significant role in learning and mastering engineering graphics. Traditionally, the assessment of students’ spatial skills involves no measurements of neural activity during student performance of spatial rotation tasks. We used electroencephalography (EEG) to record neural activity while students performed the Revised Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Visualization of Rotations (Revised PSVT:R). The two main objectives were to 1) determine whether high versus low …

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A New Epoch For Community Renewable Energy Co-Operatives In Ireland? An Exploration Of The Factors Influencing Their Development, Gerard Doyle Jan 2021

A New Epoch For Community Renewable Energy Co-Operatives In Ireland? An Exploration Of The Factors Influencing Their Development, Gerard Doyle

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The paper outlines the capacities required for community groups to successfully establish and maintain renewable energy co-operatives in Ireland. The paper finds that community groups that successfully establish renewable energy co-operatives must possess high levels of resilience, have access to technical expertise, and have appropriate finance. It also highlights how it is crucial that at least one member of each renewable energy co-operative engages with state agencies and the community. Pringle’s (2015) theoretical framework applied in this paper focuses on the capacities required for the successful implementation of community renewable energy projects (which include community renewable energy co-operatives) in rural …

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Considering Children’S Travel Needs: Perceptions Of Transport Planning Professionals In Ireland, Sarah Mcdonagh, Sarah Rock Jan 2021

Considering Children’S Travel Needs: Perceptions Of Transport Planning Professionals In Ireland, Sarah Mcdonagh, Sarah Rock

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In recent years it has been reported that in an international comparison of children’s independent mobility that Ireland has one of the lowest rates of both children’s independent mobility and active travel among several countries (Shaw et al., 2015). Children’s independent mobility and active travel are shown to be affected by several factors including parental time pressures and lifestyle choices; societal fears (‘stranger danger’); and the fear of traffic and road safety (Shaw et al., 2015, Hillman et al., 1990; Lynch, 1977; Johansson, 2006; Shaw et al., 2013; and Zwerts et al., 2010). This research focuses on the latter – …

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You Can't Lose A Game If You Don't Play The Game: Exploring The Ethics Of Gamification In Education, Dympna O'Sullivan, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Damian Gordon, Andrea Curley, Brendan Tierney, Emma Murphy, Michael Collins, Anna Becevel Jan 2021

You Can't Lose A Game If You Don't Play The Game: Exploring The Ethics Of Gamification In Education, Dympna O'Sullivan, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Damian Gordon, Andrea Curley, Brendan Tierney, Emma Murphy, Michael Collins, Anna Becevel

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Gamification has been hailed as a meaningful solution to the perennial challenge of sustaining student attention in class. It uses facets of gameplay in an educational context, including things such as points, leaderboards and badges. These are clearly efforts to make the student experience more entertaining and engaging, but nonetheless, they are also clearly digital nudges and attempts to change the students’ behaviours and attitudes to a specific set of concepts, and in which case they must, and should, be subject to the same ethical scrutiny as any other form of persuasion technique, as they may be unintentionally eroding the …

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“You Must Have Your Webcam On For The Entire Duration Of The Examination”: The Trade-Off Between The Integrity Of On-Line Assessments And The Privacy Rights Of Students, Damian Gordon, Paul J. Gibson, Brendan Tierney, Dympna O'Sullivan, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Andrea Curley Jan 2021

“You Must Have Your Webcam On For The Entire Duration Of The Examination”: The Trade-Off Between The Integrity Of On-Line Assessments And The Privacy Rights Of Students, Damian Gordon, Paul J. Gibson, Brendan Tierney, Dympna O'Sullivan, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Andrea Curley

Conference Papers

The impact of COVID-19 has been widespread and far-reaching, and one domain that has experienced severe disruption is the university education sector, where the entire apparatus of teaching and assessment for many programmes of study had to move on-line in a matter of days. This was accomplished notably through enormous co-operation between staff and students in educational institutions (Adnan and Anwar, 2020). The negative economic impacts of COVID-19 on university students has been highlighted in terms of poor access to online resources, delayed graduation and lost internships with this effect felt more keenly by students from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Aucejo, …

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Hublinked: A Curriculum Mapping Framework For Industry, Paul Doyle, Cathy Ennis, Anna Becevel, Stephane Maag, Radu Dobrin, Mojca Ciglarič, Yunia Choi, Alan Fahey, Deirdre Lillis Jan 2021

Hublinked: A Curriculum Mapping Framework For Industry, Paul Doyle, Cathy Ennis, Anna Becevel, Stephane Maag, Radu Dobrin, Mojca Ciglarič, Yunia Choi, Alan Fahey, Deirdre Lillis

Conference Papers

A key aim of HubLinked is to improve the effectiveness of University-Industry linkages between CS faculties and ICT companies. One of the problems identified as core to the Project was to match Learning Outcomes from different curricula with the requirements dictated by the ICT industry with the final aim to enhance students Graduate Skills and employability. Based on agreed core U-I linkage attributes, lower-level curriculum L0s have been designed and reviewed by industry partners. To enable the replication of this process, a tool was designed to make the comparison of graduates' skills from different institutions easily accessible. Using this tool …

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Managing A Mega-Project To Explore And Enhance Careers: Insights From Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3, Alison Pearce, Brian Harney, Mark Bailey, Katarzyna Dziewanowska, Janine Bosak, Peter Pease, Brenda Stalker, Dimitra Skoumpopoulou, Paul Doyle, Samuel Clegg, Alireza Shokri, Suzanne Crane, Susan O'Donnell, Rose Quan, Ilsang Ko, Katarina K. Mihelič, Robert Kaše, Matej Černe, Julie Brückner, John Mcmackin, Szu-Hsin Wu, Jose Aldo Valencia Hernandez, Huan Sun Jan 2021

Managing A Mega-Project To Explore And Enhance Careers: Insights From Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3, Alison Pearce, Brian Harney, Mark Bailey, Katarzyna Dziewanowska, Janine Bosak, Peter Pease, Brenda Stalker, Dimitra Skoumpopoulou, Paul Doyle, Samuel Clegg, Alireza Shokri, Suzanne Crane, Susan O'Donnell, Rose Quan, Ilsang Ko, Katarina K. Mihelič, Robert Kaše, Matej Černe, Julie Brückner, John Mcmackin, Szu-Hsin Wu, Jose Aldo Valencia Hernandez, Huan Sun

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Contemporary careers are changing and face many challenges. This creates a need for innovative cross-cultural and multidisciplinary research. In this chapter, twenty-three participants in a European/South Korean research mega-project provide an overview of their diverse experiences of trans-national, trans-sectoral, and trans-generational work. First, the project’s architects explore the context and rationale in five countries, selection of partners, securing funding and the underpinning principles of ‘strategic entrepreneurship’ and ‘multi-sociation’. Key workstream leaders then outline the project content, including diplomacy in research design, reflecting gender, ensuring impact, capturing learning, communicating to various audiences. Major aspects of Implementation are described: quality management, managing …

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Attitudes Of Community College Faculty Toward Online Foreign Language Courses, Erika Dale Stevens Jan 2021

Attitudes Of Community College Faculty Toward Online Foreign Language Courses, Erika Dale Stevens

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This study examined the attitudes that Tennessee community college faculty hold toward online foreign language courses and the predictive correlational relationship between those attitudes and advising behaviors of the faculty in regard to online foreign language courses. According to the Reasoned Action Approach, formerly the Theory of Reasoned Action, attitudes, perceived social norm, and perceived behavioral control can be used to determine behavioral intention, which can predict future actions. The data collected from this cross-sectional descriptive and predictive correlational study was analyzed using a hierarchical multiple regression analysis to determine if there is a correlation between faculty attitudes, perceived social …

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A Study Of The Lived Experiences Of Early Childcare Education Professionals At A Department Of Defense Center, Jessie Tinoco Jan 2021

A Study Of The Lived Experiences Of Early Childcare Education Professionals At A Department Of Defense Center, Jessie Tinoco

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The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological qualitative study was to investigate how early childhood care (ECCE) professionals make sense of their lived experiences working in an ECCE Department of Defense (DoD) program in the Southern United States. In this study, I incorporated Herzbergs two-factor theory of motivation to explore the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that play a role in an ECCE professionals decision to remain in their job. The central research question focused on the lived experiences of the participants, each of whom had 5 or more years of experience in the ECCE profession. Three themes emerged from the study: …

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Exploring The Moderating Role Of Ethnic Identity In The Relation Between Adolescent Stress And Life Satisfaction, Allyson Topps Jan 2021

Exploring The Moderating Role Of Ethnic Identity In The Relation Between Adolescent Stress And Life Satisfaction, Allyson Topps

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Research in the field of positive psychology has expanded knowledge about factors that contribute to well-being. Less attention has focused on the role of ethnic identity in youths reactions to environmental factors and perceived life experiences. This study examined the potential protective effect of ethnic identity in the relation between adolescents normative social stressors (family and peer) and a minority stressor (perceived discrimination) and life satisfaction. Data was collected via self-report measures from 417 adolescents (age range 14 to 18, 63.0% girls) at a public high school in the mid-south region of the United States. Moderation analyses were conducted in …

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Bridging Symtpoms In Ptsd And Suicidal Ideation: Disentangling Dysfunctional Cognitions And Emotions In The Ptsd Symptoms D2, D3, And D4, Han Tran Jan 2021

Bridging Symtpoms In Ptsd And Suicidal Ideation: Disentangling Dysfunctional Cognitions And Emotions In The Ptsd Symptoms D2, D3, And D4, Han Tran

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Specific PTSD symptoms, certain dysfunctional cognitions and emotions in particular, may be central to the PTSD and the PTSD/suicidal ideation comorbidity networks. The present study applied network analysis to identify 1) central symptoms in PTSD, and 2) bridging symptoms that may account for the comorbidity between PTSD and suicidal ideation. In both networks, the DSM-5 PTSD symptoms D2, D3, and D4 were disentangled, where the cognitions and emotions (negative thoughts about the self, self-blame, negative thoughts about the world, blaming others, anger, fear, shame, and guilt) within these symptoms were measured and analyzed as separate variables. Additionally, variables from the …

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Switching Between The L1 And L2: Teachers Corrective Feedback And Learner Uptake, Md Nesar Uddin Jan 2021

Switching Between The L1 And L2: Teachers Corrective Feedback And Learner Uptake, Md Nesar Uddin

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Over the years, an interest in switching between the L1 and L2 in L2 classroom instruction has grown in SLA research in parallel with the uptick in corrective feedback (CF) research. Separate studies on CF (e.g., Shirani, 2019; Bryfonski & Ma, 2020) and L1 use (e.g., Iyitoglu, 2016) have found that CF and language switching promote L2 learning, with L1 use facilitating the accomplishment of cognitively demanding tasks. However, research has not considered how switching between languages in the provision of CF impacts learning opportunities. This dissertation combined CF and language switching and explored the role of CF practices in …

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Exitosos, A Pesar De Todo: What Is The Nature Of Ethnic And Scholar Identity For High-Achieving High School Latinx Students Who Identify As A Boy In A Southern Context?, Alyssa Jasina Villarreal Jan 2021

Exitosos, A Pesar De Todo: What Is The Nature Of Ethnic And Scholar Identity For High-Achieving High School Latinx Students Who Identify As A Boy In A Southern Context?, Alyssa Jasina Villarreal

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The present study investigated the nature of the ethnic and scholarly identity development in high-achieving, high school students who identify as both Latinx and as a boy. Further the study explored any interactions between the ethnic and scholarly identities of participants. By conducting this study, it is the researchers hope that documented the student testimonios contributed to the preparation of teachers, school administrators, and families understandings on what leads to success. Furthermore, the study will contribute to the validity of the importance of identifying and acknowledging the individuality each student brings to the classroom and unique experiences that have contributed …

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Measurinig Elementary Teacher Concerns About Integrating English Language Arts And Music In The Common-Core Classroom, Hilary Robb Dow Ward Jan 2021

Measurinig Elementary Teacher Concerns About Integrating English Language Arts And Music In The Common-Core Classroom, Hilary Robb Dow Ward

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Leadership & Policy Studies

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A Longitudinal Examination Of The Relation Of Profiles Of Children Based On Overt, Relational, And Cyber Aggression, To Assessments Of Peer Liking And Popularity, Robert Washington Jan 2021

A Longitudinal Examination Of The Relation Of Profiles Of Children Based On Overt, Relational, And Cyber Aggression, To Assessments Of Peer Liking And Popularity, Robert Washington

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The present research examined the association of empirically derived, person centered profiles based on overt, relational, and cyber aggression to peer liking and popularity over a two-year period. Children from six cohorts of grades 3 5 (IRB approved) participated in the study (boys = 127, girls = 165; primarily middle-class SES families). A latent profile analysis (LPA) was conducted using third grade levels of the three subtypes of aggression. Three distinct groups were identified: non-aggressive (low in all three forms), traditionally aggressive (high only in overt and relational aggression), cyber aggressive (only high in cyber aggression). Growth curve models indicated …

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The Behavior Of Rotation Criteria In Exploratory Factor Analysis With Ordinal Data: The Role Of Number Of Indicators And Number Of Factors, Rachel Lynn Ankney Jan 2021

The Behavior Of Rotation Criteria In Exploratory Factor Analysis With Ordinal Data: The Role Of Number Of Indicators And Number Of Factors, Rachel Lynn Ankney

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Many considerations influence the results of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) including rotation criteria and estimation method. Past research has given recommendations for matching estimation method to measurement of indicator variables, and some recommendations exist for the choice of rotation criteria across item complexity and factor intercorrelation. Less guidance exists, however, on rotation recommendations across number of factors and indicators included in the model. To fill this gap, the present study manipulated the number of factors and indicators in EFA models with ordinal data across multiple rotation criteria and across additional data considerations. Using Monte Carlo methods, data were generated (1,000 …

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Faith, Hope, And Torture: Music In The Prisoner-Of-War Camps Of North Vietnam, Angela Michelle Brunson Jan 2021

Faith, Hope, And Torture: Music In The Prisoner-Of-War Camps Of North Vietnam, Angela Michelle Brunson

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North Vietnams cruel treatment of captured American pilots included music torture which rivaled the CIAs program in Guantnamo Bay, but the aural persecution suffered for nearly a decade by the American prisoners of war has never been documented. Unlike other victims of music torture, the prisoners consistently turned to music as a healing, empowering, and unifying force, which raises several questions. Why did the POWs fare better than Guantnamo detainees? Can music reverse the trauma that music torture caused? How do we determine which music will cause harm and which music will heal? Through numerous interviews with repatriated POWs and …

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Disenfranchised Losses: Grief And Growth In Non-Death Loss Events, Mae-Lynn Germany Jan 2021

Disenfranchised Losses: Grief And Growth In Non-Death Loss Events, Mae-Lynn Germany

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Although non-death losses (NDLs) can be recognized as grieveable events, they rarely benefit from the social recognition, support, and empirical examination afforded to death-related bereavement. Disenfranchised losses can result in prolonged grief reactions and lead to increased vulnerability, challenges to meaning making, and confusion. Dynamics related to the global COVID-19 pandemic and political unrest in 2020 have resulted in myriad NDLs for individuals and communities, making the salience of and for fuller understanding of NDLs more important than ever. To this end we examined tangible and intangible loss experiences (e.g. loss of safety, security, respect, housing) associated with NDL events, …

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Complexity, Accuracy And Fluency, Reformulation As A Corrective Feedback Strategy In Pair And Individual Writing And Revision: A Study In An Efl Context, Abdul Hakim Jan 2021

Complexity, Accuracy And Fluency, Reformulation As A Corrective Feedback Strategy In Pair And Individual Writing And Revision: A Study In An Efl Context, Abdul Hakim

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Some research (e.g., Dobao, 2012; Shehadeh, 2011; Wigglesworth & Storch, 2009; Storch, 2005) suggests that collaborative L2 writing results in higher quality L2 writing production than individual writing. Similarly, collaborative L2 writing has also been found to bring about more L2 learning opportunities for learners (e.g., Dobao & Blum, 2013; Dobao, 2012; Wigglesworth & Storch, 2012; Brooks & Swain, 2009). However, much is still unknown about how CW promotes higher quality L2 writing and other L2 learning opportunities. The purpose of the current study was to examine second language collaborative writing in an under-researched EFL context to determine (1) whether …

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Exploring Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Emotion Regulation, And Problem Behaviors Among Adolescents In Residential Treatment, Kiersten Alicia Hawes Jan 2021

Exploring Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Emotion Regulation, And Problem Behaviors Among Adolescents In Residential Treatment, Kiersten Alicia Hawes

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The high prevalence of conditions among adolescents such as anxiety, depression, substance use and suicide has become a global concern. Given the growing rates of internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems at the onset of adolescence, researchers have begun to find interest in identifying associations that account for dysfunctional patterns and problem behaviors. Findings suggest that these negative psychological and behavioral outcomes could be linked to exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) like abuse, neglect, violence, and household dysfunction. The present study investigated associations between ACEs, difficulties in emotion regulation, and problem behaviors among a sample of 43 adolescents age 11-17 …

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Sleep, Health, And Wellbeing Among Middle-Aged And Older Adults: Impact Of Insomnia Symptoms On Incident Heart Failure, Cognitive Performance, And All-Cause Mortality, Asos Qadir Mahmood Jan 2021

Sleep, Health, And Wellbeing Among Middle-Aged And Older Adults: Impact Of Insomnia Symptoms On Incident Heart Failure, Cognitive Performance, And All-Cause Mortality, Asos Qadir Mahmood

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In this three-paper dissertation, we used longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to investigate prospective associations between time-varying insomnia symptoms (difficulty initiating sleep, difficulty maintaining sleep, early-morning awakening, non-restorative sleep) and incident heart failure (HF), cognitive impairmentno dementia (CIND), and all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older adults (aged 50 years). In each study, we implemented a marginal structural modeling approach to generate the average causal effects of insomnia symptoms, while taking into account time-dependent biological, psycho-cognitive, behavioral, and lifestyle factors, and adjustments for selection bias.The first paper employed data from the 2002 through 2018 waves of HRS, …

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Social Media Interaction And Self-Perception In Adolescents And Young Adults With Cancer, Sarah Daniels Jan 2021

Social Media Interaction And Self-Perception In Adolescents And Young Adults With Cancer, Sarah Daniels

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The unique psychosocial needs of adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer are often overlooked or left unmet during treatment (Zebrack, 2011). Self-development is an important task for all AYA, and it is often informed by social interaction (Goffman, 1959). Given that social interaction among AYA occurs in offline and online spaces, the role of social interaction on social media for self-development is curious (Calvin, 2020). But examining this relationship also requires thoughtful attention by researchers to adequately describe the population being studied (Davis et al., 2020). As such, this exploratory sequential mixed methods research study sought to address the …

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Identifying Student, Institutional, And Economic Factors Associated With Increasing Tuition Revenue Through Tuition Discounting At Public Institutions, Bridgette Decent Jan 2021

Identifying Student, Institutional, And Economic Factors Associated With Increasing Tuition Revenue Through Tuition Discounting At Public Institutions, Bridgette Decent

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Tuition discounting has long been an important component of revenue management at private institutions and has been steadily growing in prevalence in public institutions. The fundamental assumption of tuition discounting is that student enrollment behavior can be influenced by strategic optimization of student aid and tuition price. However, a literature review reveals the inherent tensions between relevant economic theories describing human behavior at the aggregate level, and student choice theories detailing the complex individual factors that combine to form a student enrollment decision. This three-part quantitative study evaluates trends in institutional tuition discount rates for first-time freshmen at public, four-year, …

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Building Culturally Responsive Stem Peer Mentoring Relationships Through Virtual Training: A Case Study, Chelsie Marie Dubay Jan 2021

Building Culturally Responsive Stem Peer Mentoring Relationships Through Virtual Training: A Case Study, Chelsie Marie Dubay

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According to the National Science Foundation (2017), women who represent ethnically or racially minoritized backgrounds accounted for only 11% of earned bachelors degrees in science and engineering. To better understand why racially minoritized women do not choose to pursue or fail to persist in STEM programs, one must delve into the intersectional barriers that create and contribute to these disincentives. Using a qualitative, field-based learning experience design following a multi-site case study approach, this study examined racially minoritized female STEM students' experiences within a virtual peer mentoring training program. The aim was to determine how, if at all, the training …

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Allah Made Me This Way: Negotiating Identities For Muslim Americans With Same-Sex Attraction, Emily El-Oqlah Jan 2021

Allah Made Me This Way: Negotiating Identities For Muslim Americans With Same-Sex Attraction, Emily El-Oqlah

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To date, little research has focused on the experiences of U.S. Muslims with same-sex attraction. The purpose of this study is to extend research on the experiences of Muslims in the United States of America who have same-sex or same-gender attraction. This study sought to answer the following research questions: (1) How do LGBQ+ Muslims negotiate their intersecting identities? (2) What are experiences with discrimination or acceptance in and out of the Muslim community? (3) How do LGBQ+ Muslims approach the topic of coming out to their communities? and (4) What do mental health professionals need to know when working …

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The Effects Of Oxytocin On Fear-Related Behavior, Anxiety-Related Behavior, And Mesolimbic Dopamine Functioning, Mary Kathlyn Estes Jan 2021

The Effects Of Oxytocin On Fear-Related Behavior, Anxiety-Related Behavior, And Mesolimbic Dopamine Functioning, Mary Kathlyn Estes

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Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent psychological diagnoses in the U.S. Current pharmacological treatments for anxiety disorders have high non-response rates highlighting the necessity for novel therapeutic treatments. Oxytocin, a neuropeptide, is a potential candidate. The current study aimed to examine the effects of oxytocin on anxiety- and fear-related behaviors through (1) a battery of behavioral tests and (2) a fear extinction test in males and females from two strains of mice, C57BL/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (D2) which differ in the aforementioned behaviors and in dopaminergic circuitry. A second aim was to investigate the effects of oxytocin administration on mesolimbic …

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