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Women's Shame Resilience: Examining Various Theoretical Assumptions of Shame Resilience Theory
(2014-12-12)
Shame has been identified as a self-conscious emotion (i.e., emotions evoked by self-reflection and self-evaluation) that negatively impacts interpersonal relationships, mental health, and psychological adjustment (Tangney ...
Negotiating Acceptance: A Sociocultural Analysis of Second Language Users’ Constructions of Speakerhood in Cherokee Nation Language Revitalization
(2014-05-09)
Language revitalization has the major goal of creating new speakers, and the approaches and ideologies employed in the journey toward this goal are multiple and diverse. This research project presents the experiences and ...
Measuring the Effects of Poverty: Property Value as a Proxy of Socioeconomic Status
(2014-08)
This study explored property value as a proxy of socioeconomic status. The effects of poverty on general health, academic achievement, and child development are devastating. The endurance and growth of poverty can be ...
General Strain Theory for LGBQ and SSB Youth: The Importance of Intersectionality in the Future of Feminist Criminology
(Feminist Criminology, 2014-10-01)
This study applies an intersectional general strain theory (GST) framework to understand the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning (LGBQ) youth, and youth involved in same-sex sexual behavior (SSB). Using a ...
CHARTER SCHOOLS AND INCLUSIVE SCIENCE EDUCATION: THE CONCEPTUAL CHANGE AND ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS WITHOUT DISABILITIES
(2014-03-06)
As a philosophy and educational approach, inclusive education provides opportunities for all students to have effective conceptual understanding and positive social attitudes (Idol, 2006). With inclusion, educators incorporate ...
A Three Essay Dissertation on Social Movements and Social Media
(2014-05)
Users of social media are now empowered to self-organize in new ways. In particular, participants of social movements have used social media to spread their message, organize their activities, and recruit others. For ...
Synergistic Opportunities for Computational Resource Providers and Local IT
(2014-09-24)
Talk Abstract
How do high-speed data paths benefit research computing, and should you care? This talk explores the means of engaging local Information Technology resources to build two-way, collaborative partnerships ...
Ecological opportunity and the adaptive diversification of lineages
(2014-12-17)
The tenet that ecological opportunity drives adaptive diversification has been central to theories of speciation since Darwin, yet no widely accepted definition or mechanistic framework for the concept currently exists. ...
ATTACHMENT AND SELF-ESTEEM: IMPLICATIONS FOR PROSOCIALITY AND THE SELF
(2014-12)
Two experimental studies test a model of prosociality (including prosocial actions and emotions) that integrates research from the areas of attachment theory and self-esteem. The model suggests that primed relationship ...
Censorship Citadels: Geography and the Social Control of Girls
(2014-05)
This qualitative study examines the way in which local attempts to censor certain books reflect a greater community agenda of controlling young female behavior, specifically sexual and violent behavior. To abet my argument, ...