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…
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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…
This dissertation can be divided into two large questions. The first is a supervised learning problem: given text from an individual, how much can be said about their personality? The second is more fundamental: what personality structure is embedded in modern language models?
Researchers have begun to explore how humans discount sex; however, these evaluations have not yet extended to considering sexual acts using toys vs. sexual intercourse with another human. The current study will evaluate discounting choices between sexual acts with another human…
This dissertation examines the ways in which educators that self-identify as religious produce themselves as ethical subjects within the pseudo-secular space of public schools. This inquiry has its foundations in poststructuralist theories such as Derrida’s deconstruction (deepl…
The purpose of this study is to understand how national identity and historical background can shape the mindset and ambition of individuals in three different societies: Northern Italy, Southern Italy, and the U.S. Italy’s fragmented regional history, the way the nation was for…
Video games are steadily becoming one of the largest and most influential forms of media in history. Today, video games are so popular that the Nintendo mascot Mario from the Mario Brothers video game series is more recognized than Disney's Mickey Mouse. The reach and influence …
Previous research on the behavioral effect of choice as a reinforcer indicate a parallelism between methodology to quantify, enhance, evaluate, and establish the reinforcement efficacy of choice to function as a conditioned reinforcer. Applied research on the efficacy of choice …
Although emotional intelligence research continues to increase across various industries and business contexts, relatively little research on emotional intelligence has occurred within the faith-based non-profit sector. The lack of research is noticeable as it relates to clergy …