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This critical qualitative dissertation aimed to highlight the experiences and amplify the voices of Black, public school educators in the Boston metro area. Grounded in critical race theory and further defined by trauma and organizational/systems theories, this study illuminated…
Self-coherence as the hub of all needs is a novel proposition made by Carol Dweck (2017), and not yet further explored. While supporting self-coherence with a comprehensive review of its presence within behavioral sciences, Dweck does not dive deeper into it, and offers an invit…
While high levels of cumulative lifetime adversity (CLA) are associated with negative outcomes across a variety of domains, moderate levels of CLA have been found to predict higher levels of functioning and well-being. Additionally, research has indicated that adversity experien…
Arab Americans are a rapidly growing population in the United States; however, sparse research exists that examines their mental health experiences. As such, this study investigated factors influencing mental health with the Arab American population in the United States. There i…
Although nations with a dominant worldview of individualism are a minority in the world as a whole, most psychological models are generated based on research conducted in these countries. Existing models and measures of well-being tend to have an individualistic, Western cultura…
In this study, the researcher proposed to a) examine the relationship between hours of Internet accessibility and the psychological well-being of a group of military personnel deployed at the time of this research project to combat regions in Afghanistan, and b) examine differen…
This dissertation contains three essays on development economics, addressing trade liberalization and inequality in Brazil, a large-scale child health intervention in Indonesia, and conceptual and methodological aspects of measuring household economic well-being. The three consi…
Using the Job Demands-Resources model as a theoretical framework, this study examines the relationships between job demands (role conflict, role ambiguity, and work-family conflict) and burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy), as well as the effect of j…
This study examined the moderating effect of acculturation on the relationship between collective self-esteem and psychological well-being from a sample of Arab American adults. Data consisting of 75 Arab American adults were used, participants completed an online survey. The mo…
The literature on psychological well-being reveals a number of conceptual and methodological issues such as multiple definitions, non-theoretically based measures, and neglect to study this concept in Muslim Arab cultures. Therefore, this study aims to provide base-line data on …
This study examined the traumatic experiences and psychological symptoms of 60 refugees who were recently resettled in the United States. Subjects were from Cuba, Iraq, Haiti, Sudan, and Bosnia. Data was collected for each subject on traumatic experiences occurring prior to thei…
The purpose of this study was to provide a theoretical framework based on a review of the literature of the practice of Sabbath-keeping to determine whether this practice promotes psychological health and spiritual well-being. Psychological health and spiritual well-being were d…
The social networks of 127 elderly Russian immigrants to the US were studied to determine more general network types and compare these types and their predictive relationships to self-rated health, depression, and immigration satisfaction with the equivalent parameters of elderl…
This thesis looks at the relationship between labour migration and socio-economic well-being of the rural households in the communities in Northeastern Thailand, and provides one of the few detailed case studies of the costs and benefits of labour mobility within Southeast Asian…
The concept of social axiom represents generalized beliefs regarding individuals, agencies and other social institutions, and the spiritual world. The relationship between social axioms and social and mental well-being has not been widely investigated. The aim of this research i…
Human enhancement continues to be hotly debated by both 'professionals' and academics, and increasingly also by the general public. This is no surprise, given that the idea of making human beings better - individually and collectively - has existed for centuries. Parents appear …
This thesis explores the interaction between well-being and environmental volunteering. Focusing on five case study groups across Scotland, the emotional, social and physical well-being impacts of active environmental volunteer work are examined. Through an extensive ethnographi…
This thesis is an ethnographic study of craftsmanship among the Lulesámi in Northern Norway. The study, which is based on an apprentice-style methodology, focuses in particular on the role and significance of making and wearing the gáppte, a characteristic Sámi dress. While the …