Browsing by Author "Duke, Adrienne"

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A 4-Year Longitudinal Study of Children’s Competent Problem Solving in the Context of Positive Parenting and Peer Relationships

Su, Shu (2016-08-05)

The ability to effectively, positively, and productively cope with social problems is considered one of the most important developmental tasks for children’s emotional and psychosocial adjustment. However there is a paucity ...

Adolescent Perceived Parenting as a Moderator of the Be SAFE Bullying Prevention Program: Examining the Influence of Parenting on Adolescent Program Outcomes

Norton, Jessica (2017-07-27)

Evaluations of universal bullying prevention programs often find modest effects on adolescent bullying outcomes. It may be advantageous for those in bullying research to test differential effects of program outcomes via ...

Attachment Dimensions of Closeness, Anxiety, and Dependence and Parent and Peer Relationships in a Population of Adolescents who have Sexually Offended: Are These Associations Mediated by Emotion Regulation?

Stepancich, Lindsay (2016-07-20)

Adolescent males who sexually offend are at great risk for continuing difficulties in managing emotional arousal, their relationships, and their futures. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between ...

Children’s Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior and Social Competence predicted by Home Environment: Are These Associations Mediated by Social Competence and Moderated by Child Maltreatment?

Silva, Kelcie (2015-07-24)

Home environment is often related to child functioning, including child social competence and child externalizing and internalizing behaviors. However, there is limited research that has examined how child abuse status, ...

Contextualizing Relationship Education Effects on Adolescent Attitude toward Sexual Behavior Delay: Considering Class Social Climate

Morrison, Sandra (2014-05-02)

Using data from a statewide relationship education (RE) program targeting youth, this study used a more complex theory-driven and empirically-based model to explore the influence of the program on adolescent attitudes about ...

Coping, Meaning in Life, and Posttraumatic Growth in Incarcerated Women

Mautz, Elizabeth Kelley (2019-07-23)

The purpose of this study was to examine treatment results for incarcerated women in a southern-US women’s prison system who have participated in Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey for Women (BT). Research indicates that ...

Creating Black Girl Magic: The Weight of Motherhood for Middle Class Black Mothers and their Preschool-Aged Daughters

Craig, Ania (2020-04-28) ETD File Embargoed

Guided by an intersectional perspective, the current study was a qualitative inquiry into how the body image of six Black mothers impacted their mothering in regard to physical activity for their preschool-aged daughters. ...

Emotion Regulation and Sleep among Black and White College Students

Homandberg, Lydia (2020-07-29)

Emotion regulation has been associated with a range of health outcomes including cardiovascular activation, elevated inflammation, and psychopathy. However, few studies have examined the extent to which specific regulatory ...

Exploring Socialization Processes in Mothers’ Styling of their African American Millennial Daughters’ Hair

Purvis, Saufeeyah (2017-04-25)

In many cultures, hair has been a long-standing representation of beauty (Bankhead & Johnson, 2014). For African Americans, notions about hair have been passed down from teachings perpetuated during slavery. These teachings ...

Health Disparities within Rehabilitation Outcomes: A Theoretical Framework and Application

Eugene, DaJuandra (2021-08-06) ETD File Embargoed

In America 5.3 million men, women, and children are living with the often devastating and permanent long-term Traumatic Brain Injury-related disabilities. TBIs require thousands of dollars in resources for immediate and ...

Hispanic, African American, and White ministers: The Intersection Between Spiritual and Mental Health Counseling.

Christianson, Boone (2020-07-24)

If talk therapy is to “shape the way people think and behave” (Minuchin & Fishman, 1981, pg. 2), then the vast majority of relational and mental health therapy is done outside of therapy clinics. It is conducted by friends, ...

The Impact of Poverty: Relationship Quality, Individual Symptoms, Fee for Services, and Attrition

Knizley, Laura (2016-08-02)

Psychotherapy research has acknowledged the importance of examining dropout in therapy. However, researchers consistently neglect to look to the effect of fee-forservices on therapy attrition. Addressing this gap in the ...

The Influence of Classmates on Gains following Relationship Education

Morrison, Sandra (2022-04-26)

Using data from a statewide couple relationship education (CRE) program efficacy study, this implementation science study considered whether and how classmates influence gains from CRE exposure. We pursued a theoretically ...

(K)notting Strands of Change: Radical Deconstruction Through Afrofuturist-Feminist Design

Shealey, Alaundra (2023-08-01)

Black women have combatted hegemonic forces that forced them into chattel slavery and other forms oppression by using needle, thread, patterns, and design for centuries (Tobin & Dobard, 1999). Working through needle, thread, ...

Longitudinal Effects of Juvenile Recidivism and Justice Contact on Parent-Adolescent Relationships

Norton, Jessica (2021-08-03) ETD File Embargoed

Research consistently shows that parents play a significant role in the etiology and desistance of delinquent behaviors (Cottle et al., 2001; Flanagan et al., 2019; Hoeve et al., 2009). However, much research has not ...

A Longitudinal Study of Defender Identity, Defending Behavior, and Peer Victimization in Childhood

Winter, Madison (2023-07-27) ETD File Embargoed

Research has shown the importance and benefit of children being willing to defend peers who are the target of peer victimization. Currently, little is known about the influence of having a defender identity on defending ...

A Longitudinal Study: Examining the Effect of Campus Racial Climate and Sense of Belonging on First-Year African American College Students’ Depressive Symptoms

Williams, Brianna (2018-04-29)

There is limited quantitative evidence examining how race, sense of belonging and campus racial climate collectively affect first-year African American college students’ depressive symptoms. The present study explores these ...

Prevention, Protection, or Institutional Oppression? Exploring the Institution of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention in Alabama

McDaniel, Beth (2020-08-07)

In light of the need for child abuse and neglect prevention efforts to target institutional and social conditions underlying family challenges, I use institutional ethnography to analyze focus group discussions (secondary ...

The Relationship Between Polyvictimization and Perceptions of Police Moderated by Race in Survivors of Sex Trafficking

Schiferl, Michael (2020-07-17)

Sex trafficking is a violent crime that affects millions of survivors every year (International Labor Organization [ILO], 2017). Law enforcement officers frequently interact with victims of sex trafficking, putting them ...

Romantic Relationship Trajectories: A Qualitative Analysis of Young Adults Exposed to Marital Violence

Carlson, Camille (2016-08-05)

Guided by a review of the literature on the theory of intergenerational transmission of violence (ITV) and Johnson’s typology of violence, the current study qualitatively examined 25 young adults’ romantic relationship ...