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Evaluating the Effects of a Brief Social Emotional Learning Program on the Functioning of At-risk Youth
(2024-04)
Research on social emotional learning (SEL) programs with at-risk adolescents is scant, resulting in a limited literature to inform educational professionals on how to best deliver SEL to this population. The intention of ...
Testing the Moderating Role of Rumination Between Sexual Orientation Discrimination and Factors Associated with Suicide Risk
(2024-04)
The interpersonal theory of suicide states that suicidal ideation develops through perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness (PBTB) and that individuals acquire the capability to attempt suicide through repeated ...
The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Hopelessness on Proximal Transitions to Suicidal Thinking
(2024-04)
The integrated motivational-volitional (O’Connor & Kirtley, 2018) model states that feelings of entrapment contribute to the development of suicidal ideation but only occur when motivational moderators such as perceived ...
Testing Cognitive Flexibility in the Relationship Between Traumatic Events, Posttraumatic Symptoms, and Nonmuricidal Self-injury
(2024-04)
Individuals with PTSD use a various strategies to manage their symptoms, such as nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI; Smith et al., 2014). Cognitive flexibility has evidence of being related to NSSI. Research shows that cognitive ...
Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? : Assessing the Consistency Between Self-Reported and Observable Pro-Environmental Behavior
(2024-04)
The current study aims to explore the alignment between self-reported intentions and actual behavior, focusing on bringing reusable mugs to coffee shops. There is a well-documented disparity between what individuals claim ...
From Theoretical to Practical : Validating the Use of Hypothetical Purchase Tasks in Assessing Pro-Environmental Behavior
(2024-04)
Consumer behavior is of great interest across various disciplines seeking to understand and influence consumption decisions. Hypothetical purchase tasks (HPTs) have been utilized to study how much individuals are willing ...
Factors Mediating the Relationship Between Social Support and Perceived Recovery From NSSI
(2024-04)
The purpose of this project was to use archival data to investigate whether resilience and self-compassion mediate the relationship between social support and perceived NSSI recovery. Evidence suggests that social support ...
College Students’ Achievement Pressures and Well-Being : Preliminary Findings
(2024-04)
Mental health concerns among college students have been on the rise over the last decade. In a recent survey of over 90,000 U.S. college students, 41% of the students reported symptoms of depression and 36% reported symptoms ...
Born in Nation : Protest Music : Impacts on Racial Attitudes, Knowledge, and Emotions
(2024-04)
Songs with protest messages frequently gain popularity; however, little is known about the extent to which listeners process the true meaning of such songs. Occasionally, a specific protest song or music video has spurred ...
Smartphones, Attention, and Brain Electrical Responses
(2024-04)
The mere presence of one’s smartphone can be a distraction, impairing behavioral performance on an attention task (Ward et al., 2017). Attention is positively associated with both amplitude of the P3 (a component of EEG-based ...