Food insecurity (FI) among college students is a relatively new area of study that has revealed alarming rates of FI on four-year campuses. Most current scholarship on food insecure college students (FICS) measures the extent of the problem with scant attention paid to the lived…
Moral injury (MI) has been associated with various psycho-social issues, including guilt, shame, loss of trust, social disconnectedness and isolation, loss of meaning and purpose, difficulty forgiving, negative self-esteem, and spiritual matters. These issues can facilitate adve…
Research shows that shame can account for significant variance in depression (Tangney, et al., 1992; Wei, et al., 2005; Ding, et al., 2012; Rice, et al., 2016), making the connection between the two factors a point of psychological interest. While the relationship between depres…
Narcissism as a construct has a robust clinical history rooted in psychoanalytic theory. A widely accepted perspective on the etiology of narcissism, based in psychoanalytic theory, postulates that narcissism is deep-seated in feelings of shame. The relationship of shame to atta…
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a prevalent occurrence that includes stalking and physical, psychological, and sexual abuse (CDC, 2018). The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) estimates that “1 in 4 women” and in “1 in 10 men” have been impacted by I…
My dissertation explores the ethics of shame and honor at the end of the Republic to offer new perspectives on Tibullus’ work and Roman elegy. By situating Tibullus’ corpus within his contemporaries’ aristocratic discourse on honor, my research argues that the elegiac narrator i…
Objective: The current study examined prospective relationships between religious affiliation, feelings of guilt and shame, ethical orientation (relativism and idealism), alcohol consumption and quantity of heavy episodic drinking. Participants: Three hundred and seventy-one stu…
Guardedness is the plague of the International Church; guardedness rooted in shame is a prevailing cause of spiritual disease. Shame is universal in human existence, encouraging secrecy, isolation, and pretense—antitheses of authentic relationships. Bestselling authors like Bren…
Background: For many researchers, the focus of their work exploring the negative consequences of identifying as a gay man living with HIV has centred around stigma. Yet, over the past few years many have questioned whether the broad definition of stigma alone is able to explain …
This study explored honour and shame for South Asian British Muslim men and women. It aimed to offer plausible answers to the definition, concept, impact and gender differences of honour and shame for this sociocultural and faith group of people. This qualitative piece of resear…
This thesis comprises three main sections: a literature review, research report and a critical appraisal of the research process. The literature reviewed is the current scientific literature relating to shame and guilt. The review attempts to clarify the conceptual confusion reg…
This study examined the relationship between internalized shame, emotion regulation and attachment style in adult romantic relationships. Evidence suggests a connection between pathological shame and attachment experiences. Adults who self-report insecure attachment tend to repo…
This study is to minimize the effects of shame in Korean American Churches. This is a particular problem in Korean culture, especially related with historical factors such as Confucianism, Han , and Chemyeon as formation of social relationship of Uri. As a matter of fact, many t…
Despite the direct connection between anal sex and pleasure (Hite, 1981; Morin, 2010), the majority of academic literature on anal sex frames the topic in terms of homophobia (when referring to male-bodied people) and/or disease (Aguilar, 2017; Brody & Weiss, 2011; McBride &…
This project seeks to equip members of Church on The Way in Lake City, Florida, to counsel sexual abuse survivors biblically. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of Church on The Way and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of three passages of …
Internet pornography is a growing phenomenon in society and a growing body of research suggests that pornography usage can become problematic and be looked upon negatively by those who use pornography, especially in Christian populations. Such problematic pornography use (PPU) r…
Human sexuality is a complex phenomenon and is consequently a subject of frequent concern for client and counselor alike. Unfortunately, however, many counselors fail to adequately address their clients’ sexual concerns. The source of this omission in clinical focus has been the…
This paper explores the relationship between language, culture, and emotion in the Indonesian English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. It does this by focusing on the Indonesian concept of malu , an emotional response often translated as "shame." Malu is a complex emotiona…
This dissertation focuses on neo-Nazi and violent jihadi propaganda and its role in defining social boundaries. Frame analysis was used to gain a deeper understanding of how neo-Nazis and violent jihadis construct propaganda to neutralize objections and promote drift. Specifical…