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Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Contributions to Professional School Counselors Entering and Remaining in the Profession: A Grounded Theory, Kathryn Babb

Testing the Three-Step Theory of Suicide: An Examination of Pain in First Responders, Shelby Baker

Children's Knowledge of Intravenous Needle Insertion and Distress: The Indirect Effects of Cognitive Appraisals of Threat and Coping, Emily Bernstein

The Relationship Among Identity Development, Dark Personality, and Risk-Taking Behaviors, Reilly Branch

Employee Volunteering: Integrating the Volunteering and Helping Literatures Using a Latent Profile Approach, Emily Broksch

The Development and Validation of the Intolerance of Uncertainty in Social Interactions Scale, Anne Eible

Investigating the Role of Loss in Refugee Mental Health: Exploration through the Lens of Ambiguous Loss Theory, Dania Fakhro

Defining Sober Harms and Factors that Influence Them: Blame it on the Alcohol?, Jessica Flori

An Investigation of Change Mechanisms Using Psychophysiological Data: Child-Centered Play Therapy with Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences, Caitlin Frawley

Predicting Implementation Citizenship Behavior Rating Discrepancies Between Supervisor-Subordinate Dyads, Alexandra Kandah

Locating the Attentional Template Using Theta-Gamma Coupling, Michael Miuccio

Stress Appraisals of Organizational Change: The Role of Adaptability and Communication, Wheeler Nakahara

Neural Dynamics of Categorical Representations Used for Visual Search, Ashley Phelps

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Resources and Racism: An Examination of a Dual-Pathway Model of Economic Stress and Workplace Prejudice and Discrimination, Nicole Carusone

Testing a Dynamic Model of Counterproductive Work Behavior (CWB): How Changes in Job Stressors and Affective Experience Influence CWB Trajectory, Katherine Ciarlante

Sexual Aggression Risk and Sexual Assault Scripts in Men: A Vignette Study, Matthew Cook

Mistreatment Anticipation and Mistreatment Anxiety, Michael DiStaso

Zombie at Work (Aggressive) Zombie at Home: The Relationship Between Work Boredom and Romantic Partner Undermining and Disengagement, Kenzie Dye

Automation, Take the Wheel: An Examination of Factors Influencing Trust in Automated Driver Assist Technologies, James Ferraro

A Quantitative Examination of the Relationship Between Curiosity, Cultural Humility, and Multicultural Counseling Competence in Master's-Level Counselors-in-Training Enrolled in CACREP-Accredited Programs, Amber Haley

Investigating Group Differences Of Mental Health Service Use (Tele-mental Health, Face-to-face Counseling, And No Counseling) On Psychological Openness, Levels Of Computer Self-efficacy, And Coping Behavior In Young Adults During Covid-19, Lea Herbert

Note to Survivors: An Analysis of Suicide Discourse on Suicide Noted and the Figured World of Suicide, Breahannah Hilaire

Can Feeling Like an Imposter Be Favorable? A Qualitative Study on the Role of Appraisal in Harnessing the Imposter Phenomenon for Growth, Emily Hill

Addressing Sexual Harassment (SH) at Work: Examining the Role of Social Identity on Observer Intervention Behavior, Tisnue Jean-Baptiste

Risk and Protective Factors for Negative Psychological Outcomes in LGBTQ+ Individuals, Emalee Kerr

A Survival Analysis Examining Risk and Protective Factors of Foster Care Reentry for Children Aged 0 to 5 within a Social Ecological Framework, Samantha Klaver

Hannibal Lecter and a Friend Walk into a Bar: The Role of Psychopathy in Peer Drinking Behaviors, Matthew Kramer

Examining the Relationship Between Alcohol Expectancies and Behavioral Economic Theory, Tatiana Magri

The Empathy Reading Project: Supporting Parents And Their Children Living With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sarah Mendoza

Investigation of Realism in Facial Characteristics and Anthropomorphic Language in the Design of Multimedia Instruction, Ecem Olcum

Leadership Emergence: Is There a Dark Side To Leadership Claiming Behavior?, Haroon Pervez

Assessment of Sexual and Protective Behavioral Strategies: Development of the Sexual and Negative Dating Inventory, Roselyn Peterson

Team Virtuality and Psychological Safety: An Experiment, Moses Rivera

Awareness, Attitudes, and Self-efficacy of School Counselors Towards Twice Exceptionalities, Dilian Rolins

An Examination of Gender-Based Differences in Perceptions of Supervisor Support, Ann Schlotzhauer

Gamification of Sleep Hygiene Education for Insomnia: An Examination of Its Efficacy and the Role of Individual Differences, Christine Seaver

Killing Two Birds with One Stone: An Examination of the Role of Three-dimensional Energy in the Relationship Between Health Behaviors and Job Performance., Nina Steigerwald

Predictors of PTSD, Depression, and Suicide-Related Outcomes for Military Personnel and First Responders in a Three-Week Intensive Outpatient Program for PTSD, Victoria Steigerwald

Examining the I in Team: The Relationship Between Narcissism and Team Decision-Making, Krisztina Szabo

Development and Validation of a Counterproductive Work Behavior Situational Judgment Test With an Open-ended Response Format: A Computerized Scoring Approach, Saba Tavoosi

The Dialectics of Ambivalent Identification in the Supervisor-Subordinate Dyad, Barret Vermilion

The Effects of Traumatic Experiences on Identity Among People with Expressive Language Disorders, Bailey Wagaman

Predictors of Technology Use among Older Adults: Evidence Ranging from Non-Users to Elite Users, Xiaoqing Wan

Underlying Dimensions of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Pre and Post-treatment in Women with Co-occurring Substance Use Disorder, Emy Willis

Investigating A Psychoeducational Job Search Intervention Among Unemployed Individuals, Galaxina Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

"A Penny for Your Thoughts?": Development and Validation of a Revised Measure of Rumination, Jenna Beltramo

A Longitudinal Examination of Depression Among Older Adults: The Role of Working Memory and Sleep, David Brush

Loss of Control Eating Predicted by the Interaction Between Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Distress Tolerance, and the Expectancy that Eating Reduces Negative Affect, Emily Burr

Attention Control in Children with ADHD: An Investigation Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), Catrina Calub

How Do You Feel About your Entitled Coworker? Effects of Perceiver's Entitlement and Impact Type on Reactions to Workplace Entitlement, Colleen Cui

None of Your Beeswax: The Role of Perceived Coworker Nosiness and Interpersonal Trust in Predicting Knowledge Provision at Work, Richard Currie

Predicting Employee Performance: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review on Data Mining Methods, Turku Erengin

Dissociable Temporal and Performance Effects of Two Stress Pathways on Economic Decision Making, Kylie Fernandez

Will It Be OK Boomers?: Effects of Precarious Work on Older Job-Insecure Workers, Alissa Gebben

Empathy as a Buffer: The Moderating Effect of Trait Empathy on Counterproductive Work Behavior, Amanda Grinley

The Relationship Between College Students' Level of Alcohol Use and Their Grit, Personal Growth Initiatives, and Emotion Regulation Scores Using Structure Equation Modeling, Gelawdiyos Haile

Measurement Invariance in the CESD-8 and Assessment of Mood Correlates Between American and Mexican Community Studies on the Multisystemic Geriatric Depression Cycle, Manuel Herrera Legon

Sexual Orientation and the Disclosure of Unwanted Sexual Experiences, Rebekah Kanefsky

Modeling the Relationship between Perceptual and Stimulus Space in Category Learning, Clay Killingsworth

"I Drink (Responsibly), Therefore I am": Development of the Personal Assessment of Responsible Drinking Identity, Angelina Leary

Recovery from Work: An Investigation of the Effects of the Shared Recovery Activities and Companionship Experiences During Weekends on Employee Well-being, Juseob Lee

Initiation of Alcohol Use in College Students, Gabrielle Lynch

A Study of Deep-level Processing and Self-efficacy of Reflective Practice and Their Relationship with Achievement Goal Orientation, Interest, Reported Reflective Practice, and Formal Instruction in Graduate Clinical Psychology Students, Brandon Matsumiya

Family and Child Functioning During Parental Separation: A Two-Part Study, Krystal Morrison

Trauma-Informed Clergy: An Investigation of Factors Predicting the Trauma-Related Attitudes of Christian Clergy in Florida, Elizabeth Pennock

Creativity as a Resource: How Creativity Influences the Appraisal of Work Stressors and Subsequent Strain, Alyssa Perez

Online Organizational Citizenship Behavior: An Exploration of New Avenues for Prosocial Behavior in the Digital Age, Sarah Rabon

Applicant Reactions to One-Way Video Interviews: An Investigation of the Role of Individual-Level Cultural Values, Krystyn Ramdial

The Reciprocal Effect of Gastrointestinal Health on Psychological Distress and Disability in Emerging Adults, Emily Ross

Highly Sensitive Child Scale for Preschool Age Children: Development, Initial Validation of a New Instrument, Bethany Russell

Parental Fear of Hypoglycemia, Adherence, and Glycemic Control in Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes, Jennifer Scheurich

Big Five Aspect Personalty Scales and Social Anxiety Severity in a Nonpsychiatric Sample, Samantha Simpson

A Psychosociodevelopmental Framework for Conceptualizing the IPV Transgenerational Cycle: The Relationships Between Maternal Mental Health, The Parent-Child Relationship, and Young Child Outcomes., J'Nelle Stephenson

Getting Crafting When You're Bored: The Interaction Between Personality and Boredom, Jamie Striler

An Evaluation of the Differences Between Perpetrators in Completed and Averted School Shootings, Ashley Winch

Examining the Indirect Effects of the Big-Five Traits on the Change in Job Satisfaction via the Change in Specific Work Characteristics, Jimmy Zheng

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Sexual Assault Acknowledgment and Psychological Symptoms: The Indirect Effect of Social Reactions to Disclosures, Emily Bernstein

Comparing Human and Machine Learning Classification of Human Factors in Incident Reports From Aviation, Claas Tido Boesser

Lego my Ego: The Puzzling Role of Self-esteem and Goal Orientation on Appraisals of Unsolicited Help, Emily Broksch

The Mediating Role of Leader-Member Exchange: Leader Personality and information Sharing, Hillary Chandler

Effects of Nurses' Workload on Creativity and Innovation: Examining the Role of Trait Mindfulness as a Moderator, Kinjal Chheda

Social Connectedness and College Student Alcohol Use: Understanding the Role of Alcohol Expectancies, Social Anxiety, and Need to Belong, Mark Crisafulli

A Test of Counterfactual Thinking Theory to Change Intentions to Use Protective Behavioral Strategies, Ardhys De Leon

Assessing Stress Outcomes of Interpersonal Helping: An Application of Hindrance Stress Appraisals, Michael DiStaso

Working Memory in Children with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity disorder: An Investigation of Short-term and Central Executive Memory Components Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Samuel Eckrich

What Do You Do When You are Bored? Outcomes and Moderators of Job Boredom, Mitchell Eid

Changes in Likely Activation Patterns of Alcohol Expectancies After Exposure to the Expectancy Challenge Alcohol Literacy Curriculum (ECALC), Jessica Flori

Move Your body, Change Your Mind: Physical Activity in the Morning and its Implications for Work, Charlotte Holden

Rethinking Burnout in Informal Caregivers: Development and Validation of The Informal Caregiver Burnout Inventory - 10 Item Form, Nicholas James

Determining and Assessing Fault Attribution in Collisions Involving Autonomous Vehicles, Alexandra Kaplan

Examining the Role of Anxiety and Depression in Predicting Dietary Choices in Emerging Adults, Michelle Keck

Neurophysiological Correlates of Trust in Robots, Theresa Kessler

When Mothers and Fathers Are "Gone": Predicting Intergenerational Pathways of Trauma, Substance Use, and Attachment in Parents Who Are Opioid-Involved, Maria Khan

The Relationship Between Familism and Social Distancing Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Thien-An Le

Examining the Moderating Role of Coping Strategies in the Relationship Between Team Role Alignment and Employee Well-being Outcomes, Justine Moavero

Workplace Stress and Sleep Quality: The Differential Moderating Effects of Problem- and Emotion-focused Coping, Wheeler Nakahara

Impacts of State and Trait Anxiety on Category Learning, Pooja Patel

Why Experienced Incivility Triggers Instigated Incivility: Combining the Affect-based and Resource-based Pathways, Xin Peng

Social Support and Mental Health Outcomes of LGB People of Color, Jessica Ruiz

Does One Bad Phish Spoil the Whole Email Load?: Exploring Phishing Susceptibility Task Factors and Potential Interventions, Dawn Sarno

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