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Change In “Everyday Multicultural Competencies” As A Response To Resident Advisors Multicultural Training: Association With Five-Factor Personality Traits, Nicole Crystal Chery Aug 2017

Change In “Everyday Multicultural Competencies” As A Response To Resident Advisors Multicultural Training: Association With Five-Factor Personality Traits, Nicole Crystal Chery

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Residence Life “Resident Advisors/Assistants” (RAs) are an essential component of student affairs staff on many college campuses. They live in residence halls and share important responsibility for the emotional health, physical safety, and student development of the undergraduates living in their residence hall. Because they provide such an important function, RAs often receive extensive training, however, the emphasis on multicultural training varies from university to university. Surprisingly, there is little research to show whether the training makes a difference. This study utilizes the 29-item Brief Everyday Multicultural Competencies Scale (BEMCS) as a tool for measuring the effects of multicultural programming …


Predictors Of Musical Performance: Personality, Performance Anxiety, And Flow, Whitney Jean Statham Aug 2016

Predictors Of Musical Performance: Personality, Performance Anxiety, And Flow, Whitney Jean Statham

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There is evidence to suggest that many university schools of music struggle with student retention. In many music programs, a significant factor in students being able to matriculate in their areas of study is based on quality of performance under “high-stakes” or high-pressure performances in the form of jury performances. The importance placed on these jury performances makes the ability to predict a student’s success in this area highly valuable to students and music educators. Using the Big Five Model of personality, and a measure of narrow personality traits, this study used a stepwise multiple regression to examine the relationship …