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…
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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…
The theoretical framework for the study was based on social cognitive theories of motivation (Bandura, 1986, 1995, 1997, 1998; Zimmerman, 1989, 1995, 1996, 1998) and state and trait anxiety theory (Spielberger, 1975, 1980; Spielberger & Vagg, 1995). Using two separate questionna…
The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences in attitude toward and achievement in mathematics of secondary school students in Imo State, Nigeria. The conceptual framework of the study is grounded in the work of first-generation feminist theorists, who argued that…
The purpose of this study was to investigate job satisfaction among female and male academic chairpersons in Saudi Arabia. The focus of this study was an examination of the differences between female and male department chairpersons with respect to job satisfaction. The study in…
This study investigated differences in students' motivation and its correlation to student's self-efficacy and achievement. The study examined the relationship between students' self-efficacy and their motivation to learn English as foreign language. The participants in this stu…
Background and rationale. The largest group of women veterans today served in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The influx of OEF/OIF women veterans has created increased demands for VA health services beyond the levels usually associated with t…