Personality is a social and organizational construct with a substantial history and discourse. One particular area in personality that is of interest is gender differences in personality. Gender differences have been found on scales measuring various aspects of personality, such…
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It is of global knowledge and concern that voter turnout in elections among young people is on the decline, hence the richness of literature around the topic. This study considers the opposite by asking why young people vote in elections? Secondly, rather than focusing on urban …
Justice-involved youth are exposed to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) at higher rates than youth in the general public, highlighting the importance of addressing childhood trauma and adversity in juvenile justice settings. A majority of ACEs research has focused on the gene…
Prostitucijom se prevashodno bave žene zbog čega se često naziva i „ženskom profesijom”. U Republici Srbiji zastupljen je prohibicionistički model regulisanja prostitucije. Prema odredbi čl. 16. st. 1. Zakona o javnom redu i miru Republike Srbije, lica koja se odaju prostituciji…
Childhood abuse/neglect is a consistent concern in the United States and is related to future physical and mental health concerns. Studies have shown that childhood abuse/neglect can result in negative trauma appraisal, difficulties in emotion regulation, and lower levels of sel…
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD) are often chronic and debilitating conditions that can cause significant impairment in an individual’s personal, professional, and social life. However, research pertaining to posttraumatic stress responses among olde…
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the world-leading cause of mortality. The pathophysiological process underlying CVD is atherosclerosis, often preceded by dysfunction of the endothelium, the inner layer of the artery wall. The endothelium is sensitive to hemodynamic stimuli, incl…
Extant literature has demonstrated that having adverse childhood experiences (e.g., child maltreatment, domestic violence, etc.) would place trauma survivors at high risk for experiencing emotion dysregulation and violence later in life. While a sizable body of literature has in…
This study sought to examine how graduates of the "at-risk youth" category experience their selfhood years after they populated this category. The sample comprised adults who had been removed from their homes in their youth by court order or at the local welfare department's rec…
Water resource management is a major concern worldwide due to the rapid population growth and demands of economic development. Water resources are distributed unevenly and sharing water between multiple users or countries is common. Transboundary rivers create an interdependency…
Through econometric and economic analyses, this dissertation addresses three key issues in the household educational decisions in Malaysia. First, by addressing selectivity bias, it provides new and more accurate information about the private rates of return to education in Mala…
In terms of Nigerian students taking mathematics courses in high school, there are a number of factors that determine how they are perceived and how they perceive mathematics. This study was designed to investigate how variables, such as parental influence, teacher influence, re…
On the surface, it seems that women are no longer excluded from academia and that the social changes in the last century made women ‘equal among equals’ in the academic institutions. Although it is true that women students today consist of more than half of the undergraduate stu…
The study objective was to determine the impact that sex-selective abortion has had upon gender differentials in child morbidity and mortality in India. If prenatal discrimination against girls has been substituting for postnatal discrimination, then eliminating sex-selective ab…
This thesis investigates the extent to which micro-credit programmes are able to contribute the empowerment of women. This thesis brings forth empirical evidence from Turkish Grameen Micro-Credit Project. Field research for the thesis, which was carried out in Diyarbakir, Turkey…
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there are any significant differences in the mathematics anxiety levels between students of grades nine through twelve in Jordan and their counterparts in the United States. Another purpose is to examine whether there are gende…
The focus of this study was to determine if there were gender differences in terms of accuracy and latency of performance on visual-spatial tasks. A second objective was to determine if there were gender differences in confidence in visual-spatial performance. The study was base…
Cognitive control, a facet of executive functioning, is engaged under high conflict and enables us to flexibly regulate behaviors by suppressing automatic, but contextually irrelevant behaviors, and produce appropriate-goal relevant actions instead. Executive deficits are associ…