This provocative work explores concepts of body and space to understand the daily struggles of women with chronic illness. Moss and Dyck show how such women-coping with notions of illness, health, and being female-restructure physical and social environments through strategies t…
Leadership is a sacred stewardship. Women leaders bring collaboration to this stewardship, and African American women leaders bring a certain savoir faire to their hallowed leadership responsibilities. However, research is needed to appreciate the unique stresses that female Afr…
Personal narrative and research stress that Black womxn college students employ various types of coping strategies to navigate anti-Black gendered racism at institutional and interpersonal levels while obtaining their college degrees. Throughout this dissertation, I explore how …
Multiple studies have shown forgiveness across various types of relationships is associated with increased relationship satisfaction, commitment, and closeness (McCullough et al., 1998; Riek & Mania, 2012; Worthington 2005a; 2006). While hundreds of studies have been completed i…
The teaching profession is known to be highly stressful. Teacher stress is a real concern as there is a well-established link between job stress, burnout, and teacher attrition. Teacher attrition rates are currently at concerning levels in the United States and around the world.…
The 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred a major global crisis. Collective trauma is inevitable. Compared to posttraumatic stress, relatively little research has been conducted on posttraumatic growth. This study examined the associations between individualis…
AbstractInformal caregiving results in substantial physical and psychological costs for those assisting a loved one with a debilitating disability such as schizophrenia. In a developing nation like India, where over 90% of patients depend on family members for primary provision …
Red carpets are often anxiety-inducing for the actors who walk them. Red carpet anxiety is a well-known issue within the entertainment industry but is virtually unknown within the psychological community. The extant literature on stage fright; Social Anxiety Disorder, Performanc…
Three widows were selected from Mount Zion Baptist Church to participate in my thesis project on Death and Grief. Their stories are individually told respectively as shared by them during the interview sessions. Although a semi-structured format was used and open-ended questions…
SCAD is an atypical cause of myocardial infarction that most commonly affects younger women without traditional cardiac risk factors, and causal factors and optimal treatment and prevention strategies remain unclear. Studies suggest that psychological distress, such as depressio…
Researchers have found that seventy-seven percent of the persons released from prison will be rearrested within five years of their release. Most recently, the national recidivism rate among offenders released from prison is sixty percent, and most offenders released from prison…
This research comprised a secondary study using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health restricted data set to examine the buffering effects of religiosity on adolescent alcohol coping following victimization within the context of Agnew’s general stain theory. Its p…
Women ages 18-24 are at the highest risk for sexual victimization (SV), with more than 20% of women affected during college. The self-medication model of alcohol use, whereby drinking is negatively reinforced through the reduction of distress, is widely supported as a method by …
A small but expanding body of research has sought to investigate the role of religion and spirituality in coping and posttraumatic growth. Recently, researchers have begun to focus on the phenomenon of spiritual growth following trauma, specifically that of cancer patients and s…
