The Wiley handbook of personality assessment
The Wiley Handbook of Personality Assessment presents the state-of-the-art in the field of personality assessment, providing a perspective on emerging trends and placing these in the context of recent research advances. Linking theory with practice, the volume delineates current…
& Quot;In his new book, eminent psychologist - Daniel Stern, author of the classic The interpersonal world of the infant, explores the hitherto neglected topic of "vitality"--That is, the force or power manifested by all living things. Vitality takes on many dynamic forms and pe…
Given the substantial morbidity associated with symptoms of adulthood posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), it is important to understand and contextualize the variety of psychological and life history correlates and risk factors associated with the disorder. Multiple robust ris…
Heartwork is a collection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures that explore the many ways identity is shaped by familial histories and personal memory. Focusing on my time growing up on a pine tree farm in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 90s, Heartwork explores gender, relig…
Throughout history, warfare is used as a means to accomplish the goals of a nation or faction. In an ideal situation, the cause for war is to defeat an evil force. Warfare is a means of exacting peace, and each side can have a different definition of peace and the means to obtai…
Although emotional and psychological abuse, in addition to physical assault, are now commonly accepted as aspects of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), narcissistic abuse as a subset of IPV is not widely recognized or understood. Due to the extremely debilitating, chronic mental h…
The purpose of this project was to explore the relationship between self-efficacy, self-compassion, and anger in Evangelical men ages thirty to forty years old. This involved Evangelical men being surveyed with the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the Self-Compassion Scale, and the …
This thesis explores how narcissists and co-narcissists are created and how to cope with the epidemic of narcissism in Western culture. A heuristic research approach is used to investigate how repressed femininity and a patriarchal culture influence narcissistic tendencies perso…
Sexual violence in America is quite prevalent and can negatively affect individuals who experience it in a variety of ways. The present research compared people’s rape myth acceptance versus child sexual abuse (CSA) myth acceptance. Further, participants’ personality and sexual …
High non-acceptance of emotion, or the rejection of one’s own emotional experience as bad or unacceptable, is consistently associated with depressive pathology, including elevated depressive symptoms and past and current major depressive (MDD) diagnoses. To progress toward a ful…
The Enneagram has become popular among evangelical Christians as a spiritualized personality typology that claims to help people better understand themselves and others. Several influential evangelical Christian leadership ministries have promoted the Enneagram as a tool in form…
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine if, and to what extent, a relationship exists between trait emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and spiritual well-being in non-college Christian adults with no previous mindfulness training in East Tennessee. …
This study aimed to differentiate brainwave activity in an individual diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), in hopes that patterns of brain activity could be recorded for the potential creation of a neurofeedback self-regulation protocol to be used for this pati…
This dissertation followed the two-manuscript model and includes the following manuscripts: (1) A review of masculine ideals within cultural groups, with a specific focus on highlighting consequences of masculine gender role norms across cultures. (2) An empirical study that exa…