Ingram, Amber(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
Close friendships become increasingly prevalent during late childhood and early adolescence. While these friendships can provide general positive outcomes, they also have the possibility of generating negative emotions, ...
Doran, Stephanie Chambers(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
In 2002, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that offenders diagnosed with intellectual disability (ID) could not be sentenced to death (Atkins v. Virginia). Though the judicial determination is made in ...
Scicolone, Monica Alexandra(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
The current study examines the constructs of caregiver burden, self-efficacy, perceived social support, and well-being (physical health and depression) in caregivers of veterans to obtain a better understanding of their ...
Johnson, Alexandria Kaye(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
Two hormones, testosterone and cortisol, were examined in relation to psychopathic traits among adolescents. Students were presented with a stressor (pop-quiz) and baseline levels and reactivity of hormonal output were ...
Enam, Tasnuva(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017-12)
Metamemory is the process of inspecting and judging our own memory. One type of judgment is feeling of knowing (FOK) judgments that are similar to making self-evaluations during learning for later performance. These judgments ...
Tungate, Andrew(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
Executive function refers to a set of cognitive processes involved in goal-oriented behavior—especially inhibition, attention shifting, and working memory. In Down syndrome, there was an established weakness in executive ...
Reardanz, Jenna(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
Research shows that typically developing (TD) individuals who have lower expressive communication and emotion regulation skills are much more likely to be victimized by peers. However, little research has been done to ...
Kouchi, Kathryn(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
Retirement is often celebrated as an important milestone in life. It is also a time when health concerns may increase as retirees enter the early stages of old age. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there ...
Paisley, Courtney Ann(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) report higher levels of stress than do parents of typically developing (TD) children and children with other developmental disabilities (DD). Parenting stress has ...
Delacy, Rachel(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017-12)
Psychopathy is a personality disorder marked by affective (e.g., callousness) and interpersonal (e.g., superficial charm, manipulative nature) impairment as well as a socially deviant style characterized by unstable and ...
Massey, Katelyn(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
This study explored competition in adolescent friendships by distinguishing between two distinct forms, one which is divisive and superiority-oriented and another in which competitors can both improve and excel together. ...
Mensch, Zachary(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
How biased do people think they will be in the future? Prior research has shown that people perceive themselves as less biased than others and less biased than their past selves. The current study investigated perceived ...
Mieskowski, Lisa Marie(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
The feasibility and utility of a self-administered treatment (workbook composed of Quality of Life Therapy activities, aimed at improving participants’ subjective quality of life (QoL), was investigated through a mixed ...
Dragan, Deanna(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
Research suggests that lay persons’ conceptualizations of religion and spirituality may differ from how researchers operationalize these terms. Also, emerging evidence has identified that one’s cohort may influence how one ...
Williams, Jordan Chase(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
The goal of this dissertation is to examine factors that could relate to length of stay (LOS), latency to readmission, and number of admissions. Length of stay is generally defined as the amount of time an individual stays ...
Gibson, Carolyn(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in empathy and prosocial and aggressive behavior based on rejection experiences, both immediate and chronic. Adolescent participants (N = 101) were randomly accepted ...
Ford, Katy Lauren(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
The underutilization of mental health services (MHS) by older adults – and especially by racial/ethnic minority elders – is a well-recognized problem. Though several national-level mental health policies have been enacted ...
Kim, Hwaheun(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
Habitual or unreasonable jealousy over friends is linked to various psychological and social relationship problems in children and adolescents. Given that friendship jealousy involves one’s relationship with a friend and ...
Van Dyke, Benjamin Prime(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
Objective: The primary goal of the current study was to characterize perceived social support (PSS) and isolation longitudinally among people with chronic pain (CP) who were and were not receiving group psychosocial ...