Multiracial youth are one of the most at-risk racial groups for child maltreatment. Multiracial individuals are also more likely to report mental health concerns than other racial or ethnic groups. This study aimed to identify demographic and psychological risk factors that are …
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Identity development is associated with positive functioning in youth. For Muslim-American adolescents who have to navigate the heated sociopolitical context of the U.S., positive identity development may be particularly important. However, past research has ignored the dynamic …
Melville's revision and completion of his two most ambitious novels, Mardi and Moby-Dick, uncannily mirrored the pregnancies and births of his first two children. With both, Melville revised nearly complete but less ambitious works at learning of the pregnancies. Despite financi…
It has been suggested that depression and anxiety may not be distinct, but may represent one 'Internalizing' disorder (Waikar & Craske, 1997). Based on neuropsychological models, Fowles (1994) and others have suggested that depression is uniquely associated with high avoidance a…
This thesis offers a holistic insight into the expectations and experiences of university students in relation to academic feedback. The subjects are a diverse group of first year accounting and finance students in a post-92 university. What is identified and examined here is th…
Locating itself in relation to existing work on youth in, primarily American cinema, the thesis questions the analytical usefulness of conceptualising the 'youth/teen film' as a genre and, instead, seeks to establish the value of analysing the 'coming-of-age film' as a genre inv…
Sleep in children is important for the functioning of a range of cognitive processes, including memory, attention, arousal, executive functioning, and the processing of emotional experiences. This, in addition to the high comorbidity between sleep problems and anxiety, may sugge…
Girl protagonists in rite of passage films regularly come to be burdened with a sobering maturity that sees them acquire a dysphoric subjective position under an oppressive patriarchal paradigm. According to Oedipal logics, both genders, in extricating themselves from the imagin…
Assuming a cultural psychology approach to the study of life-course development and a narrative approach to the study of identity, this dissertation examined adolescent identity development in the context of political conflict. From 2003 to 2006, fieldwork was conducted in two A…
This dissertation focuses on conceptualizing psychosocial functioning in Malaysian adolescents, and understanding school factors related to these outcomes, so as to eventually assist school staff in developing techniques and programs in promoting positive youth development. Ther…
The dissertation analyzes the intersections between the discourse of adolescence and the discourse of Empire. The adolescent is a major, if not the central, figure in the rhetoric of Empire, specifically as a site of adult anxiety and imperial contestation. Chapter 1 revisits Ho…
While there is an emerging body of literature on teen programs in museums, research has not addressed how these programs affect adolescents' racial, cultural, or ethnic identities. This qualitative study explores how teen programs in museums attempt to impact and are impacting p…
Although religious and spiritual coping has been studied in adults, little is known about adolescent spiritual coping. Using an exemplar methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 youth exemplars, ages 12-21, nominated from five continents for living with a p…
The adolescent transition from childhood to adulthood requires a qualitative shift in the focus on social interactions and reward. The male Syrian hamster provides a unique model for understanding how social information processing matures throughout adolescence, as juvenile male…
The overarching goal of this thesis was to compare the mother-child relationship and child behaviour across cultures. The three articles in this thesis were part of a multi-method investigation comparing England (an individualistic culture) and Turkey (a collectivistic culture).…
Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the characteristics of existing choral pedagogical repertoire for early adolescent males, and to place those findings within a broader historical framework. Specifically, the study endeavor…
Over the course of this project, the project director created a strategy for a team approach to student ministry at Harvest Bible Chapel Niagara. The team approach allows for a holistic approach to ministry that would involve adult student ministry leaders, parents/student minis…
This dissertation outlines the literature and processes used to create the self-MADE Group, a group therapy intervention designed specifically for college-aged, first generation, Muslim-American men who may potentially be at risk for future maladaptive behaviors. The acronym MAD…
Adolescents are the vigor of the Church today and the hope of the Church tomorrow. Young people in the world and in the Church are full of potential, and it is incumbent upon preachers to harness that potential through their preaching. Unfortunately, many adolescents find contem…