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Daily spillover in conflict from the marital relationship to the parent-child relationship: the moderating role of attributes associated with parent emotion-related regulation

Baden, Rachel Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Research has consistently documented that negativity generated in the marital relationship will "spill over" to negatively influence how parents interact with their children. The present study uses a daily reporting design ...
Death and Taxes: A Grounded Theory of Financial Stress, Coping, and Decision-Making Among Diverse Female-Identified Dementia Care Partners

Carden, Keisha Dawn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

As the population longevity increases, so does the demand for caregivers. The cost for providing unpaid care also continues to increase significantly. Given the weight of this financial burden, it is imperative scientific ...
Decision making quality of younger and older adults in familiar and unfamiliar domains

Wayde, Ernest N. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

The older adult population of the United States is expected to increase substantially in the next twenty years. Working memory, one of the cognitive resources crucial for decision making, declines with age. The decline in ...
Dementia Risk Elevates Brain Activity During Memory Retrieval: An Fmri Analysis of Middle Aged and Older Adults

McDonough, Ian M.; Letang, Sarah K.; Stinson, Elizabeth A. (2019-07-08)

Longitudinal research suggests that genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors enhance one’s risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). However, it is not known how an accumulation of such ...
Detecting the Differences in Miranda Abilities Between Individuals with and without Intellectual Disability

Erickson, Sydnee (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

Objective: Although Miranda v. Arizona (1966) enacted safeguards for individuals entering custodial situations, existing research suggests that most individuals do not understand these protections. The purpose of this study ...
Determinants of mental health utilization in a palliative care outpatient setting

Azuero, Casey Balentine (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

This study examines the determinants of psychology service utilization among a chronically ill population. Data were combined from an outpatient palliative care clinic using two patient outcome studies for a secondary data ...
Determinations of mental retardation: the influence of standard of proof

Chen, Debra R. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

The effects of two standards of proof (preponderance of the evidence and clear and convincing) and quantified definitions (quantified and non-quantified definitions) on two dependant variables (mock juror determinations ...
Developing deception detection skills: an investigation of theory of mind and emotion knowledge as precursors

Nancarrow, Alexandra Failor (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

Examining developmental factors that impact young children’s success in both social and cognitive domains has important implications for advancing our current knowledge concerning social cognitive development. Both emotion ...
Development of the composite catastrophizing measure-short form (CCM-SF)

Smitherman, Anna (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

Pain-related cognitions play an important role in the pain experience. Several different pain cognitions are frequently assessed in both research and clinical evaluation. Among them, pain catastrophizing has been shown to ...
Developmental differences in repeated visual search as modulated by signal to noise ratio

Yang, Yingying (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

This dissertation was designed to study developmental differences in the way simultaneous and sequential signal to noise ratios impact contextual cueing effects. Contextual cueing refers to a form of implicit associative ...
Differences in Spatial Memory Between Chronic vs. Normative Smartphone Users and Texting Distractions

Mendoza, Jessica (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

Excessive smartphone usage affects daily life (i.e., interpersonal relationships, sleeping patterns, exercise, and physical health). With frequent phone use on the rise, researchers have developed several ways to distinguish ...
Differences in Weeknight Versus Weekend Self-Reported Sleep Parameters Across Sleep Subgroups

Molzof, Hylton Elisabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

Insomnia identity refers to the conviction that one has insomnia, which can occur independently of poor sleep. The present study explored weeknight-weekend differences in sleep as a commonly overlooked factor contributing ...
Dimensional personality traits and normative externalizing behavior in a college sample

Johnson, Alexandria K. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

This study aimed to determine personality traits that are associated with a variety of different problematic externalizing behaviors among college students versus personality traits that are selectively associated with one ...
Disability as a risk factor for psychological distress among asian-american elders

Huang, Chao-Hui Huang (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Research has shown a strong association between disability and psychological distress (PD) among older adults. However, little is known about how this relation varies among different subgroups of Asian-American elders. The ...
Disarming the hostile media: an intervention to reduce perceptions of media bias by reducing naïve realism

Shreves, Wyley Burnett (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

When viewers see coverage of an issue on which they are strongly partisan, they tend to perceive even unbiased news coverage as biased against their own position. This “hostile media effect” has important implications for ...
Does Chronic Cannabis Use Impact Risky Decision-Making: An Examination of fMRI Activation and Effective Connectivity

Raymond, David R.; Paneto, Adrian; Yoder, Karmen K.; O'Donnell, Brian F.; Brown, Joshua W.; Hetrick, William P.; Newman, Sharlene D. (2020)

With the increase in use of cannabis and its shifting legal status in the United States, cannabis use has become an important research focus. While studies of other drug populations have shown marked increases in risky ...
Does ethnicity impact academic success?: examination of ethnic identity mediation on academic self-efficacy and academic achievement

Jimenez-Camargo, Luis Alberto (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

The current literature appears to have mixed results as to how ethnic identity (EI) impacts academic achievement. This study attempts to clarify EI's role by proposing it as a potential mediator for the relationship between ...
Does nodding cause contagious agreement?: the influence of juror nodding on perceptions of expert witness testimony

Simpson, Jolene Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The act of head nodding is thought to convey a signal of agreement and approval of a message (Helweg-Larson, Cunningham, Carrico, & Pergram, 2004; Stivers, 2008). Head nodding has also been shown to affect attitude change ...
Does perceived social support mediate the relationship between catastrophizing and pain response?

Van Dyke, Benjamin Prime (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Objective: The objective of the current investigation was to attempt to contribute to the limited body of literature regarding the role and importance of social context, in particular social support, to the experience of ...
Does race moderate social support and psychological distress among rural older adults?

Hyams, Adriana (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

Psychological distress (PD) among older adults is prevalent but undertreated, especially in minorities. Most of what is known about late-life PD in African Americans comes from studies comparing them to Caucasians, but ...

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