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Illuminating collaborative talk in healthcare interactions with people with aphasia: Three linguistic approaches
(2021-07)
The works collated here provide evidence of the benefits of viewing communication with people with aphasia (PWA) as a joint interactional process and of applying linguistic methodologies to the study of discourse and ...
Psychological distress, well-being and academic performance: A cascade effect among Black college students
(2021-07)
In the traditional paradigm, mental health and illness exist on a single continuum where the emphasis is on the presence or absence of pathological outcomes. In contrast, a new theoretical framework recognizes and promotes ...
University Student Belonging Scale: Defining and evaluating students' sense of belonging to their university
(2022-05)
Students’ Sense of Belonging (SoB) to a University is important because high levels of Sense of Belonging have a positive impact on students’ motivation and retention. This mixed methods research design was developed to ...
Examining the beliefs, academic achievements, and background characteristics of students enrolled in Quantitative Reasoning and Pre-Calculus I at a community college
(2020-07)
College Algebra has been the main credit bearing mathematics course for many college students, but only one in five students at the community college level were passing this course. Students that did not have a mathematics ...
Thrive or survive?: A critical evaluation of the moderated mediating effects of job resources on employee psychological well-being leading to the intention to quit
(2022-05)
According to the Department of Labor, employees are leaving their organizations at higher-than-expected rates. This departure is being called “The Great Resignation.” These departures are causing significant impacts on ...
Usage-based construction grammar approach to Korean DO-causative constructions
(2023-05)
This dissertation examined the two Korean DO-syntactic causatives, V-key HA and V-tolok HA, from a usage-based construction approach. Previous studies on the two DO-causatives have been heavily grounded in traditional or ...
Social network study of support to retain principals
(2020-12)
With the increased job complexity and lack of support from central office, principal turnover has increased and ranges from 15 to 30 percent in the United States. This qualitative case study, conducted in a suburban, ...
Succession versus harvest in family businesses: The role of passion and family involvement in exit strategies
(2022-12)
Through this research, I investigate the influence of leadership passion and family involvement on family businesses’ exit strategies (succession versus harvest). I execute two studies to do this: 1) a survey of 118 family ...
Emerging parasitic infections vectored by brown dog ticks in North America
(2022-07)
The research conducted in this dissertation provides a better understanding of the prevalence and geographic distribution of emerging and zoonotic organisms transmitted by brown dog ticks throughout the United States. In ...
Measuring college student financial literacy
(2022-05)
There has been a lack of consensus among researchers and practitioners about how to define financial literacy, but there is agreement that financial education changes depending on the stage of life to which people belong. ...