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Willingness to Ostracize for Norm Violations: Examining Ostracism as a Function of Attachment Using Sex-Norm Violations
(2017-01-09)
The current study set out to examine the effect of attachment style on willingness to ostracize through ignoring and excluding behaviors. Place-attachment was also a construct of interest in how it affects willingness to ...
An Examination of Job Satisfaction and Work/Life Balance among Racial Minority Faculty in Higher Education
(2017-07-25)
Racial minority faculty remain underrepresented in higher education institutions across the U.S. Faculty continue to encounter barriers to recruitment and retention such as over extension, discrimination, the lack of ...
Attachment Style, Tinder Use, and Permissive Sexual Attitude
(2017-04-24)
Research has demonstrated that attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance plays a significant role in the development, maintenance, and satisfaction of adult romantic relationships (Hazan & Shaver, 1994). Technology has ...
Advanced Relational Interventions, Emotional Arousal, The Real Relationship, and Single Session Outcome
(2017-11-30)
This study examined relationships among client-perceived session factors (self-reported emotional experience and judgments about the extent to which the therapist utilized process interventions), therapist-perceived session ...
Big spoon or little spoon: Relations of couples’ attachment styles to cuddling, affection, sleep, and relationship satisfaction
(2019-04-22)
The purpose of this study was to examine the association of attachment styles on relationship satisfaction and sleep quality in romantic couples. The study also sought to understand how cuddling and other types of affection ...
The Role of Media Images on the Psychosocial Experience of Acne
(2016-11-03)
Media portrayals of idealized body images have been linked to body image disturbance and reduced satisfaction with appearance. This study sought to determine whether exposure to idealized facial images in the media, ...
Foster Care Graduates' Experiences Obtaining Life Skills
(2017-04-20)
Foster care is the 24-hour temporary care for children outside their homes (Department of Social Services, 2016). Children are often placed in foster care because they have “suffered abuse, neglect, abandonment, or the ...
An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Postings to an Online Group Forum: Individuals Abstaining from Pornography
(2018-07-24)
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the experiences of individuals that have chosen to abstain from pornography with an aim to better understand its effects. Current research suggests negative effects of excessive ...
The Relationship Between Social Networking and Student-athlete Well-Being
(2019-11-25)
Young adults ages 18-29 were found to be the most avid users of social networks (Pew
Research Center, 2018). Engagement with social networks has been found to have both positive and negative impacts on well-being. Research ...
An Examination of the Impact of Client Excuses on Therapist Emotional Reactions and Expectancy for Client Change
(2019-07-10)
Using an analogue structure, this study examined the impact of client excuses on a therapist’s emotional reactions, the therapist’s prognostic impression for therapy, and the level of smoothness and depth in the session. ...