The Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation integrates scholarly research on self-regulation in the personality, developmental, and social psychology traditions for a broad audience of social and behavioral scientists interested in the processes by which people control, or f…
How do people cope with having ""caused"" a terrible accident? How do they cope when they survive and have to live with the consequences ever after? We tend to blame and forget professionals who cause incidents and accidents, but they are victims too. They are second victims who…
This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on how intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and culture shape the cultural psychology of immigrants. It demonstrates the influence transnational ties and cultural practices and beliefs play on creating the immigrant…
Glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) is the ongoing response of the viscoelastic solid Earth, oceans and the gravitational field to the previous burden of the ice loads. The Earth’s surface was once covered with massive ice sheets, and melting of these ice sheets is still reshapin…
Sexual trauma is linked with increased risk for psychiatric disorders, health problems, psychosocial difficulties, and negative emotional states, such as guilt and self-blame. Sexual trauma history, especially during childhood, also increases the risk of exposure to additional t…
Transitioning from high school to college can be a challenging experience, especially for Latinx college students who are the first generation in their families to attend college. College students have incorporated spirituality and religiosity as ways of coping. However, there h…
This thesis focuses on associations between child, parent and family emotional and behavioural adjustment and a variety of challenging experiences. The parenting role has a critical influence on child development and parenting outcomes and its importance is reflected in the cont…
The current dissertation contains three series of studies that revealed laypeople's nuanced, meticulous, and early-emerging attentiveness to gender membership, gender self-identification, and gender roles and norms in their personal and social life. Specifically, the studies tog…
An increase in the numbers of aging baby boomers, longer lifespans, and organizational pressures over the past 15 years have contributed to an increasing over 50 workforce pursuing bridge employment. Little research exists on workforce adjustment after leaving long-term career e…
Despite the increasing presence of Saudi Arabian international college students in American higher education, the literature regarding the experience of Saudi students in the United States is limited. This qualitative study explored and described the lived experiences of 9 male …
There are complex adjustment issues that affect female spouses of returning veterans from the war in Iraq. These issues involved the daily experiences, challenges, expectations, role, and responsibilities that facilitated and interfered with the balance, comfort, and cohesion of…
Molecular family stability can be defined as the predictability and consistency of the daily activities and routines of the family, including activities in the home as well as activities occurring outside the home that are arranged and supported by the family. Previous research …
This study examines foreign workers who have been ignored in the Organizational Behavior domain. The study fills a gap in the literature that developed due to an increase in the number of workers who cross national boundaries seeking employment and the lack of a body of literatu…
This qualitative, phenomenological study explored the experience of cross-cultural adjustment among intermarried Iranian-American women and their European-American husbands. A review of the literature revealed that information on Iranian-Americans, intermarriage, and cross-cultu…
