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The concurrent rising rates of two societal concerns, rising rates of obesity along with increasing reports of parental indulgence, make it imperative to look at these issues in tandem. Not only has obesity become a national epidemic, ...
Older United States (U.S.) veterans are a population at risk for disability due to their early life experiences with military service and increasing age. Military service was a normative part of early adult life for today's older U.S....
This project examined the increased tendency towards suicidality in cisgender LGB college students as compared to their cisgender heterosexual counterparts. The responses of 1, 503 LGB college students to a survey distributed by the...
The experiences encountered during combat and military service can have lasting effects on mental health, physical health, and well-being for our nation’s veterans. Older veterans make up a large majority of the U.S. veteran population...
Family leisure is conceptualized as engagement and satisfaction with experiences that involve joint participation in activities with other family members during one’s free time. Although family leisure has been linked to family...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differential effects of the Capitalization vs. Compensation model applied to a brief, group-based intervention that focused on Character Strengths, as defined by Peterson and Seligman ...
When news of the most recent Kuomingtang invasion arrived, Ping and the other platoon members were more interested in its carrier, a new comrade that would join their unit--a girl this time--named Yong. She had transferred to Iron Well...
A leading objection to the compatibility of moral responsibility and determinism (the manipulation argument) involves a thought-experiment in which a person is manipulated such that she satisfies the most robust compatibilist conditions...
This dissertation is an examination of the ontological status of global character traits. Do global character traits exist? If so, what are they and how do they work? Globalism represents the most intuitive and widespread conception of...
A common decline in marital functioning has been observed in couples as they adjust to first-time parenthood. This prospective, longitudinal study examined the trajectories of change in marital quality and observed warm and hostile...
This dissertation takes the form of memoir and weaves three narratives together: (1) the story of my travels through Greece in search of my father's family, (2) the examination of my father's crimes and suicide and their effect on my...
The stories comprising the dissertation manuscript, Hellions, for the most part take place in the skewered and surreal landscape of Florida, a south not quite the south, but instead a swampy terra incognita that reflects the dislocation...
Although stigma theories suggest that multiple processes underlie variation in perceived stigma among people with physical disabilities, these processes are not clearly delineated in prior research. It is also unclear whether perceived...
In the study, anticipation and situational assessment skills were examined using a video-based simulated task environment (STE). The objectives of the study were to examine skill and gender based differences in the ability to predict...
Supervision is a hierarchical and evaluative relationship extending over time between a supervisor and a supervisee that permits quality control of service delivery of neophyte practitioners (Bernard & Goodyear, 2009; Watson, Zizzi, ...
Graduate Training in the Use of Homework in Psychotherapy: Relationship with Trainee Self Efficacy and Outcome Expectations, and Client Homework Compliance
Between-session homework assignments refer to activities completed by clients between therapy sessions which serve to meet therapy goals and maximize treatment time. A national sample of doctoral students within clinical and counseling...
Creating a positive college environment regarding body image concerns is warranted given their strong association with eating disorders (EDs) and the alarming rates of EDs on college campuses. There is also a growing need to universally...
The Deaner is the story of Dean Hauser, a metalhead who becomes a cult celebrity after starring in a mockumentary based on an amped-up version of himself—The Deaner. After two years of fame he's at wits end, spiraling out of control. On...
Sexual assault among college students in the United States is a widespread societal issue, although the pervasiveness of this problem is likely unknown due to several factors. For instance, the extant literature reveals that researchers...
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