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“We’Re Doin’ Ok” An Investigation Of Parental Account-Giving For Divorce-Related Financial Stress, Monique Makhlouf

Graduate Research Symposium (2010 - 2017)

Divorce is a prevalent issue facing many Americans today with nearly one-third of first marriages ending in divorce within 10 years, and 50% of all first marriages ending in divorce at some point in the lifespan (Frisby, Booth-Butterfield, Dillow, Martin, & Weber, 2012). Considerable evidence suggests that divorce can increase the likelihood of adverse effects on the psychological well-being of family members, particularly in families with children (Brown, Portes, & Christensen, 1989). Among the many issues that confront families going through a divorce is a shift in socioeconomic status or a loss of financial stability during and after a divorce …

A Critical Analysis Of Intellectual Disabilities And End-Of-Life Decision Making, Saritha Farris

Graduate Research Symposium (2010 - 2017)

Presently, research suggests the involvement of individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDs) in making end-of-life (EOL) decisions appears to be minimal (Ellison & Rosielle, 2008).

The reasons for the lack of involvement include but are not limited to communication challenges, lack of education on caring for individuals with IDs by the medical community, incorrect assumptions that the individual lacks cognitive capacity to consent, and fear of legal consequences if formal caregivers are accused of not providing enough care. (Wagemans et al., 2010).

These factors then often culminate in the individual with IDs having decisions made for them by someone else, whom …

Oppl Agenda 04/21/2014, Orland Park Public Library

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Parental Involvement: Perceptions Of Stay-At-Home Fathers, Lauren Moore

College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs Presentations

The purpose of this study was to explore how men and women differ in essentialist perceptions of gender roles and gender ideologies as they relate to attitudes about father involvement and stay-at-home fathers. There were a total of 442 undergraduate students who completed an online survey. Results indicated that there was a significant gender difference regarding perceptions of stay-at-home fathers’ masculinity, t (433) = 5.68, p = .000, with men perceiving stay-at-home fathers as more feminine (M = 3.12) than women (M=2.51). Also a significant difference was found between men and women concerning gender ideologies, t (435) = 5.53, p …

Defining Honesty: A Qualitative Analysis Of The Trait Honesty, Sara Couture, Kim Hayes, Kyle Brasil, Drew Lindgren, Lauren Stephens Stephens, Jared Talley

College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs Presentations

A popular theoretical model in personality psychology is the Five Factor Model, or the Big Five. This model is structured to have five superordinate factors; Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientious, Neuroticism, and Openness (McCrae & Costa, 2003). Each of these factors includes numerous facets that contribute to each of the superordinate traits. However, there is some controversy over what these facets incorporate. For example, Agreeableness, according consists of straightforwardness, altruism, compliance, modesty, and tender-mindedness (Costa & McCrae, 1995). However, the factor of Agreeableness, as defined by the Big Five Model, lacks an important personality variable: honesty. Honesty can be conceptualized as acting …

The Role Of Soft Law In International Securities Cooperation: The Implementation Of The Iosco Mmou, Christine Fimognari

Washington Semester Program

No abstract provided.

77 Cents Redux, Michael Hemesath

Administration Publications

No abstract provided.

Columbia Chronicle (04/21/2014 - Supplment), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

A special edition of the student newspaper from April 21, 2014 entitled The Weed Issue. This issue is 27 pages.

Columbia Chronicle (04/21/2014), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle (student newspaper)

Student newspaper from April 21, 2014 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 20 pages and is listed as Volume 49, Number 27. Cover story: "College's million-dollar deficit shrinks" Editor-in-Chief: Lindsey Woods

April 21, 2014: The Newberry Center For Renaissance Studies Presents, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Tie Strength, Embeddedness, And Social Influence: A Large-Scale Networked Experiment, Sinan Aral, Dylan Walker

Business Faculty Articles and Research

We leverage the newly emerging business analytical capability to rapidly deploy and iterate large-scale, microlevel, in vivo randomized experiments to understand how social influence in networks impacts consumer demand. Understanding peer influence is critical to estimating product demand and diffusion, creating effective viral marketing, and designing “network interventions” to promote positive social change. But several statistical challenges make it difficult to econometrically identify peer influence in networks. Though some recent studies use experiments to identify influence, they have not investigated the social or structural conditions under which influence is strongest. By randomly manipulating messages sent by adopters of a Facebook …

Time Distribution Of Faculty Workload At Boise State University, John P. Ziker, Allyanna Wintermote, David Nolin, Kathryn Demps, Matthew Genuchi, Katie Meinhardt

College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs Presentations

This project’s first phase was to get a general idea of what the average work day looks like for a Boise State University faculty member; from this stage we developed activity definitions to use for the next phase. Thirty faculty members were interviewed by fourteen trained undergraduate research assistants over the course of two weeks on alternating days, April 9-21, 2013. These thirty faculty members represented all colleges of the Boise State University campus, including the Library, providing a total of 166 faculty days’ worth of data. The positions held by each participant ranged between an Assistant Professor and a …

Family Relationships Effect On Transition To Kindergarten, Catherine Mcarthur

College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs Presentations

The relation between positive family relationships and children’s transition into kindergarten was investigated in this study. Data were collected from 1,364 children and their families in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD). Analysis of these data found that lower rates of internalizing behaviors in kindergarten correlated to higher rates of maternal stimulation (r = -.128, p < .01) and maternal sensitivity (r = -.100, p < .01). Lower rates of externalizing behaviors in kindergarten were correlated to higher rates of maternal and paternal stimulation (r = -.151, p < .01; r = -.104, p < .01), sensitivity (r = -.213, p < .01; r = -.155, p < .01), and total positive relationship with both parents (r = -.158, p < .01; r = -.155, p < .01). The strongest correlation was found between maternal sensitivity and externalizing behaviors in kindergarten (r = -.213, p < .01).

Urban/Rural Spatial Identity And Legislative Behavior In Nebraska, The Impact Differences On Economic Development And Environmental Legislation, Melissa L. Trueblood

Community and Regional Planning Program: Theses

The urban/rural divide is pervasive in policy-making in Nebraska. In this nonpartisan state, coalitions based on spatial identity or whether the legislator is urban or rural seem to have greater weight than party especially in the creation of economic development policy. Often, economic development policies include locational considerations which give areas such as rural areas and economically distressed areas greater weight when distributing program funds. In my study, I investigate whether constituency or party has a greater impact on the legislative behavior of Nebraska state legislators when voting on economic development and environmental legislation. I expect that constituency would have …

Climate Change And The Westhampton Lake, Kendel Ahnell, Yaz Nuñez, Natasha Rathlev

Geography and the Environment Capstone Projects

The Westhampton Lake is a cultural monument on campus and one of the University of Richmond's most prominent features. Prospective students have made college decisions based on the lake's beauty and alumni look forward to returning to the waterfront to reminisce about their college experience. The significance of place attachment that members of the Richmond community hold toward the lake imbues great value on the lake as a key geographic element of campus (Devine-Wright, 2013). However, our community suffers from a lack of knowledge around the health and sustainability of this dearly beloved body of water. Over the course of …

Attitudes Towards Climate Change And Sustainability, Sammy Easby, Tess Manning

Geography and the Environment Capstone Projects

The University of Richmond has made great strides as a community to decrease our carbon emissions and live in a more sustainable way. In November of 2007 President Ayers signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, which resolves Richmond to mitigate climate change. In response to this action, the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar of 2008 created a report outlining the view of our community about these issues, as well as, offer recommendations for our campus. We, the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Class of 2014 have chosen to focus our capstone on climate change. We recognize that climate change …

Relationship Conflict In College Students At Utah Universities: Dating Violence And Help-Seeking Behavior, Kevin Rushton, Dr. Niwako Yamawaki

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This study was a secondary analysis of the data collected in Dr. Ridge’s study, “Relationship Conflict in College Students at Utah Universities: Dating Violence Assessment.” That project was a large-scale assessment of dating violence victimization and perpetration in incoming college freshmen and upperclassmen at all ten colleges and universities in Utah, including Brigham Young University. The brief online survey assessed factors associated with dating violence victimization and perpetration, including background and personal factors, self and personality factors (i.e., self-esteem, entitlement), and relationship attitudes and other factors (i.e., attachment).

Do Gaba(A) Receptors Switch For All Drug Dependence?: Examining The Dopamine-Dependent Pathways Of Alcohol Addiction, Catie Nielson, Dr. Scott Steffensen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The prevailing model for addiction proposes that neurotransmission of dopamine (DA) in the brain reward system is dysregulated, with enhanced levels during acute drug exposure and reduced levels during drug dependence and withdrawal. One emerging view is that during drug addiction, GABA(A) receptors switch the effect of GABA neurons on DA neurons from inhibitory to excitatory. This has been demonstrated for opiate addiction (Vargas-Perez et al., 2009). Our lab has previously demonstrated that GABA neurons become tolerant to acute ethanol and hyperexcitable during chronic ethanol (Gallegos et al., 1999), which may explain why dopamine neurotransmission is reduced during withdrawal. The …

Developing Clinical Evaluative Norms In A Residential Setting, Melissa Richardson, Dr. Jared Warren

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Providing feedback to clinicians has been shown to reliably increase duration of treatment and leads to significantly improved outcomes in adult populations (Lambert et al., 2001), though little has been done for youth populations. Using feedback systems aid clinicians by allowing means for them to obtain valuable information about the baseline and contributors to a patient’s mental illness as well as the progression of the patient throughout treatment. This study used this notion of feedback to utilize a new psychotherapy outcome measure, the Treatment Support Measure (TSM) in the context of a youth residential treatment center (RTC) setting to determine …

Patient Attrition At The Brigham Young University Counseling And Career Center: Obstacles And Opportunies In Care, Viktor Koltko, Dr. Tyler Pedersen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Premature termination from treatment is a common problem across all psychotherapeutic settings. Dropout undermines the potential benefits of therapy to those in need and also reduces overall cost-effectiveness of treatment. Research indicates that those who terminate unilaterally from therapy are more likely to be dissatisfied with services, are less likely to have improved, and are typically more impaired and hence in need of services. Current research yields no consensus as to the causes of early client termination from therapy. Results of prior studies indicate that wait-time before and between sessions, client improvement, dislike of the therapist, dissatisfaction with services provided, …

Effects Of Light Stimulation On Long-Term Potentiation In Dopamine Neurons In The Nucleus Accumbens, Eliza Lee Warren, Dr. Scott C. Steffensen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Light therapy has been utilized to treat alcoholics in the past (Zalewska- Kaszubska & Obzejta, 2004), and opiate dependent rats (Mirzaii-Dizgah, Ojaghi, Sadeghipour-Roodsari, Karimian, & Sohanaki, 2009). Unfortunately, research is limited and still little is known. It was the aim of this study to determine what these effects are, specifically in the nucleus accumbens (NAc). Dopamine (DA) release in the shell of the NAc has been shown to be a contributing factor in addiction. As DA levels in the NAc are raised, behavior reinforcement occurs. Addictive drugs hijack this system by raising levels of DA in the NAc, and raising …

Blue And Orange Lunch Line, Donald Riger

College of Business and Economics Presentations

The fall 2013 section of Supply Chain Management 420-Creating Sustainable Goods and Services, taught by Dr. Tom Gattiker, completed a group project using the Green Breakthrough process which is based on Design Thinking. The assignment for this portion of the course was a written proposal for a product or service that:

– Is highly innovative, not incremental

– Meets a customer (e.g. student, faculty) need

– Has a significant environmental benefit

– Related to the BSU / our campus

– Customer facing

– Could be implemented at BSU (or nearby) within one year

I was a member of team 2 …

Pigeonpea: Alleviating The Poverty Cycle Sustainable Agriculture And Economic Development, Natalie Lipkowitz, Courtney Harding, Lucas Westcott

College of Business and Economics Presentations

Guatemala is the most malnourished nation-state in the Western hemisphere and considered a developing nation. The Guatemalan government and nonprofit organization Semilla Nueva are inquiring into what solutions, if any, can impact economic development through sustainable agriculture. This article will analyze the pigeon pea crop, considered a highly nutritious supplemental crop that can be planted between current cash crops maize and sesame for a nominal cost. Simultaneously, India is in high demand of the pigeon pea in its processed form dal, which is widely used in the Indian diet, as its citizens become less impoverished and increase the frequency and …

Idaho Careline 2-1-1 Data Analysis And Update To Idaho Legislators, Catherine Dickson, Adiya Jaffari

College of Health Sciences Presentations

The Idaho CareLine 2-1-1 Data Analysis and Update to Legislators project has consisted of analyzing and organizing data collected by the 2-1-1 CareLine throughout 2013 regarding Alzheimer’s information. Once significant data trends had been identified, a PowerPoint presentation was developed and presented to the Idaho House Health and Welfare Subcommittee, the Greater Idaho Chapter Alzheimer’s Association, and incorporated into a community education film evening on Alzheimer’s.

Out Cold: A Case Study Of Human Skeletal Remains Demonstrating The Importance Of Site Context, Melissa Kidd, Audrey Rogers, Nicole Inghilterra, Beki Jumonville, Samantha H. Blatt

College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs Presentations

When excavating human remains, the context of the site can be just as important in understanding the cause of death as the skeletal materials themselves. This research examines the implications of bioarchaeology and forensic contexts in the following case study. A site excavated in the 1980s presented a skeletonized individual with a rifle leaning against a tree. Later identified, this individual was a missing person who disappeared in the winter in the 1920’s. Due to the presence of the rifle, the location of the individual under the tree, and the missing cranium, the manner of death was initially assumed a …

Prosocial Behavior And Posttraumatic Growth After Trauma, Rhiannon Trull

College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs Presentations

The purpose of this study was to examine prosocial behaviors of individuals who have or have not experienced individual traumas, and to assess whether experiencing multiple types of trauma will be related to prosocial behavior and posttraumatic growth. There were 118 undergraduate students who responded to an online survey comprised of three established measures. Participants indicated the nature of traumatic events through a checklist, with prosocial behavior and posttraumatic growth assessed through self-report questionnaires. There was no difference between those who experienced trauma and those who had not experienced trauma in their tendencies toward prosocial behavior. However, individuals who had …

The Effects Of Masculinity And Trauma On Prosocial Behaviors, Kyle Brasil

College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs Presentations

I examined the difference between men who scored higher in masculinity and experienced a trauma, less masculine men who suffered a trauma, less masculine men who did not suffer from a trauma, and higher masculine men who did not experience a trauma. I compared the four groups on their prosocial tendencies. I used the Male Roles Norms Inventory-Short Form, Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale, and the Adult Prosocial Tendencies Measure to establish masculinity, trauma experience, and prosocial tendencies respectively. The sample used was 54 males ranging in age from 18 to 28 years (M = 19.58, SD = 1.89) collected …

Facebook And Life Satisfaction: In Search Of The Happy Balance, Jamie Lundergreen

College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs Presentations

This study focuses on what psychological and behavioral changes lead to increases in life satisfaction for Facebook users either after they delete their profiles or after they alter the way they use the site (e.g. through behaviors such changing the friends visible on the News Feed). College students are the primary sample for this study as they are some of the major consumers of Facebook. The research is conducted through online questionnaires, and it includes a 2-week experimental period where participants are asked to change a Facebook behavior and report back. With more knowledge about what increases life satisfaction in …

Tshiluba Language Structures, Vanessa Rosenbaum, Kelli Billings, Janessa Gohn, Libby Holcomb, Jessica Lahey, Jessica Milanez, Kelly Nuttall, Tyler Scoggins, Kristen Smith, Stephanie Todd, Jake Young, Albert Romain Bantumbakulu Mukuna, Daniel Miko-Mikyene

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

This poster provides a preliminary description of the linguistic features of Tshiluba (also known as Luba-Kasai), a major language spoken in the south-central, Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and by several refugee families in the Boise area. Tshiluba is characterized as an Atlantic-Congo, Narrow Bantu, Central language (L31) within the Niger-Congo language family and, although it is spoken by over 6 million people and enjoys national language status in DRC, it has not received extensive recent attention in the linguistic literature. Over the course of a semester, our group has met with native speakers of Tshiluba …

#Egypt: Exploring Social Media As Association And Participatory Reporting, Emily Fisk

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

The discussion of the role of social media in the Arab Spring is often characterized by two opposing views: one citing social media as a causal link in the myriad protests and revolutions, and the other downplaying social media's influence in these events and instead emphasizing social and political factors. However, for scholars, mass media, citizens, and activists alike, it is more useful now to move beyond this debate, and instead to critically analyze the undeniable role that social media has played in recent protests. Understanding these events requires looking at both social media's affordances and social and political factors. …