Current research on Asian American college students articulates the impact of different aspects of life on the decision-making and development of Asian American college students. However, Asian Americans are comprised of people of many different ethnicities. Much of the research…
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Research has found that those who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) have higher pain thresholds and tolerances than non-injuring controls. Higher pain tolerance is believed to reduce the fear of pain involved in death by suicide, thus those who engage in NSSI may be more …
The idea of offender participation in programming and reform is largely an unstudied issue that has important implications for incarcerated individuals, as well as for those who develop and oversee correctional programming. This researcher sought to understand the effect (i.e., …
This work examined the relationship between academic entitlement and noncompliance among college students using trauma or adverse childhood experiences to moderate the relationship. Additionally, this study explored how gender, enrollment type (full-time vs. part-time), and type…
Recently, equine assisted learning (EAL) has emerged as a novel approach to building resiliency competencies in at-risk youth. This mixed-methods study presents evaluation results for an 8-week community-based EAL program with 83 young women (age 13-18 years) with a history of i…
Democrats and Republicans in the United States have become increasingly hostile toward and distrustful of one another over the past five decades. This dissertation documents the rise of this phenomenon, which is called affective polarization, and develops and tests a novel theor…
Breast cancer patients have a high incidence of co-morbid chronic insomnia which frequently persists into survivorship. The mechanism behind this insomnia is poorly understood, yet maladaptive responses to the sleep disturbance resulting from an acute stressor are implicated in …
This research explores the lived experience of Navy Hospital Corpsmen (medics) who have served in combat with U.S. Marine Corps units in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. It uses interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) to examine both the lived experiences and the derived meaning of…
About half a million youth - between the ages of 7 and 17 - roam the streets of major urban centers in Bangladesh, overcoming unprecedented challenges to survive. They experience overwhelming poverty, dangerous living conditions, daily hassles and threats to their safety, and in…
In the present dissertation I tested the hypothesis that discontinuous hormone replacement paradigms that maintain endogenous-like hormone release profiles are more effective than constant release regimens at maintaining male sexual behavior (MSB) in castrated male hamsters. Fur…
Low demand for index insurance in several recent pilot programs has created a puzzle for development economists and policy makers concerned with enhancing farmers risk management capacity in low-income economies. Chapter 1 contributes to the resolution of this puzzle by providin…
The phenomenal financial expansion of the last decades has been characterised by an exacerbation of systemic instability and an increase in the frequency of financial crises, culminating in the recent meltdown in the US financial sector. The literature on financial crises has de…
INTRODUCTION: South Asians are a rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population. Despite improvements in the care of coronary artery disease over the last half century, the prevalence remains disproportionately high in this population. Much of this is felt to due to the early ac…
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationships among child cognitive development, provision of care to the child, and the child's iron status through the use of quantitative and qualitative data. Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia remain widespread problems t…
The need related behavioral dynamics that are revealed in self-determination and academic motivation research control factors which pinpoint and examine settings that facilitate self-motivation and well-being. This study examined differences in motivational and self-determinatio…
Job satisfaction is the key contributor to an organization's gain, quality, and revenue. Lack of job satisfaction can lead to employee retention issues, reduced productivity, and in the end, decline of the company. The present study examined the relationship between leadership a…
Sleep disturbances are a core and salient feature of PTSD and can maintain or exacerbate associated symptoms. Recent research demonstrates that cognitive-behavioral sleep-focused interventions improve sleep disturbances as well as PTSD symptoms. The present study is a randomized…
Nigeria, like many other African countries, has seen the emergence of chronic diseases such as stroke, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes. In particular, the rapid increase in diabetes mellitus type 2 has become a national concern. The effect of social cognitive function asso…
Invariant recognition is the ability to recognize an object regardless of how it is transformed given that the transformation is allowable. A small change in image will cause a dramatic change in signals. Visual system needs to be able to perform recognition without being influe…
In this study, the researcher proposed to a) examine the relationship between hours of Internet accessibility and the psychological well-being of a group of military personnel deployed at the time of this research project to combat regions in Afghanistan, and b) examine differen…