Trait mindfulness, or the tendency to pay attention in the present moment, nonjudgmentally, is associated with emotion regulation (Prakash et al., 2017), posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms (Boelen & Lenferink, 2018), and...
Keyword:
Mindfulness, Negative Mood Regulation Expectancies, Posttraumatic Growth, Sexual Coercion, and Trauma
Subject:
Sexual abuse victims, Psychic trauma, Mood (Psychology), Mindfulness (Psychology), and Posttraumatic growth
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are prevalent dual impairments in Veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is little existing research that investigates the...
Keyword:
attention, posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, veterans, and vision
Subject:
Post-traumatic stress disorder, Brain -- Concussion, and Attention
This research study will examine the changes in online help seeking behavior among college undergraduate students as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on how that help-seeking behavior changed between before and after...
Subject:
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-, Online social networks, Social networks, Social surveys, and College students
Jails are the front door to the criminal justice system, serving as the initial point of contact with inmates (Raggio, Hoffmann, & Kopak, 2017). Females in jail are the fastest growing correctional population (Swavola,...
Keyword:
Comorbid Psychopathologies, Female, Jail, Methamphetamine, Opioids, and Recidivism
Subject:
Psychology, Pathological -- Comorbidity, Women prisoners, Jails, Methamphetamine, Opioid abuse, Substance abuse, and Recidivism
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a truancy prevention program operated by a rural school district in southwest Virginia in reducing absenteeism and improving academic performance for students. The...
Keyword:
Court-Based Truancy Interventions, Dropout Prevention, Program Evaluation, Truancy, Truancy Prevention, and Truancy Prevention Programs
Subject:
School attendance -- Virginia, Dropouts -- Virginia -- Prevention, and Academic achievement -- Virginia
Preliminary eye-tracking studies have identified two distinct gazing strategies which males employ when assessing the attractiveness of female images (Melnyk, McCord, & Vaske, 2014). It has been hypothesized that...
Keyword:
Attractiveness, Evolutionary Psychology, Eye tracking, and Mating strategy
Subject:
Gaze -- Psychological aspects, Sexual attraction -- Psychological aspects, and Men -- Psychology
This study assessed whether differences exist in the way females, males, and people with opposing political partisanships focus their visual attention during evaluations of politicians’ facial images. Eye movements were...
Keyword:
Decision Making, Eye Tracking, Political Affiliation, and Visual Processing
Subject:
Visual communication -- United States -- Case studies, Cognitive psychology -- Political aspects -- United States -- Case studies, Voting -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies, Party affiliation -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies, and Voting research -- United States
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been under-researched in females when compared to the amount of research devoted to their male peers. This qualitative study involves individual interviews with middle-school...
Keyword:
ADHD, Classroom Interventions, and Females
Subject:
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Sex factors, Girls -- Psychology, High school students -- Psychology, and Middle school students -- Psychology
Many individuals who suffer from psychological distress and mental illness experience barriers to seeking help, including an individual’s level of mental health literacy and self-stigma of seeking help. Religious individuals...
Subject:
Mental health, Religious adherents, Religious adherents--Mental health, Mental health education, and Stigma (Social psychology)
This research investigated the multifaceted dynamics of disparagement humor through the lens of Benign Violation Theory by incorporating the variables of psychological distance as well as the novel variable of punch potential....
Subject:
Wit and humor, With and humor -- Social aspects, Wit and humor -- Psychological aspects, Courtesy, and Factorial experiment designs
