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A Qualitative Study of Florida Institute of Technology International Students’ Perceptions and Their Reactions to President Donald J. Trump’s Political Discourse on Immigration and to Florida Institute of Technology’s Response to President Trump’s Executive Orders
(2018-05)This study investigates the meaning international students at Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) gave to candidate and President Donald J. Trump’s political discourse on immigration; along with their reaction to FIT’s ... -
Quantifying Errors of Bias and Discriminability Emitted by Children during a Matching-to-Sample Task
(2018-07)Children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) make errors during discrimination training regardless of antecedent or consequent procedures implemented to decrease errors. Further, these interventions are not ... -
A Quantitative Analysis of Errors during Conditional Discriminations: Changing Sample-Stimuli Disparity in Delayed Matching-To-Sample Task with Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2019-12)Conditional discrimination skill is foundational in teaching many other functional skills in children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and error occur during training. Antecedent- and consequence-based ... -
Raising Eaters Part II: Generational Effects of Parenting Styles on Females Eating Behaviors in Childhood
(2017-04)Over the past four decades pediatric obesity rates have more than tripled and child eating disorders are on the rise, suggesting a significant health concern in children’s eating habits (US Department of Health and Human ... -
The Relationship between Social Anxiety and Leadership Emergence: A Resource Perspective
(2018-09)Despite its certain prevalence, mental illness has remained largely unstudied in the field of Industrial-Organizational Psychology. The research at hand addresses a widening gap in the literature: what does mental illness ... -
Relationship of Initial Symptoms and Differential Dementia Diagnosis in a Memory Disorder Clinic Sample
(2017-01)Objective: The present study examines the consistency of differential dementia diagnoses based on neuropsychological testing. The accuracy rate of clinical diagnoses of various types of dementias, including Alzheimer’s ... -
Relationships Among Health Counseling Training Experiences and Time Engaged in Counseling, Percentage of Patients Counseled, Practitioner Confidence, and Perceived Importance
(2017-01)In the current healthcare system, the need for collaborative care is higher than ever. With current reforms in reimbursement and healthcare policies, it is becoming increasingly necessary for psychologists and other ... -
Resilience to Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Child Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
(2019-05)Just as adults may develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after being exposed to death, serious injury, or sexual violence, so too may children. Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is one traumatic event that has been ... -
The Role of Athletic Scholarship on Suboptimal Performance in Baseline Concussion Testing
(2018-12)Objective: To date, there is a very limited amount of research regarding the topic of sandbagging (i.e., intentional poor performance) during concussion baseline testing in a collegiate athlete population. It is known that ... -
The Role of Injury Type (Concussion versus Orthopedic), Coping Style, Depressive Symptomology, and Neurocognitive Functioning in Predicting Student-Athlete Injury Rehabilitation
(2019-11)Objectives:To examine the role of injury type, coping style, depressive symptomology, and neurocognitive functioning in student-athlete injury recovery Method: Eighty-two (54.9% male; 45.1% female) students, aged 18-25, ... -
The Role of Type 2 Diabetes and Metformin Use in Cognitive Decline
(2018-12)Objectives: Primary objectives of the present study include exploring the role of both A1C values and the anti-diabetic medication, metformin, on cognitive decline through measured by a brief neuropsychological exam (BNE) ... -
Satisfaction with Ability and Reported Functional Impairment in Cancer Survivors with Chronic Illness-Related Fatigue
(2014-01)Long-term consequences of cancer have assumed more importance than ever before as cancer survival rates have increased over the past few decades. As a result, cancer has been conceptualized more recently as a chronic ... -
“Say Something!”: Examining the Bystander in Sexual Harassment
(2020-05)This research addresses the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace. Past research on harassment has primarily investigated the victim and the perpetrator, with limited research on bystanders in these events. ... -
The Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP): Predicting Low, Medium, or High SAPP Scores from the 16PF Primary and Global Factors
(2020-02)To measure a person’s self-knowledge, Miller (2000) created the Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP), a measure derived by comparing subjects’ obtained and self-predicted scores across the 21 scales of the ... -
Self-confident, Inside and Out: Exploring the Antecedents of Internal and External Self-Confidence in Women Leaders.
(2019-07)This study was conducted to examine levels of internal and external self-confidence in women leaders. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to explore the antecedents of self-confidence levels in women leaders, ... -
Self-Reported Malingering: Prevalence, Strategies, and Decision Making
(2019-01)Objective: Malingering is intentional fabrication or exaggeration of physical or mental symptoms for the purpose of gaining an external incentive, whether it be for a reward or a gain of some sort or avoidance of an unwanted ... -
Sexual Satisfaction and Functioning in Women with Histories of Sexual Victimization
(2019-01)The present study evaluated the relationship between a history of sexual abuse and adult sexual satisfaction and functioning. This included examining psychological symptomology, revictimization, and the degree of sexual ... -
Shared Leadership: Enactment, Perception, and the Role of Power Distance
(2017-07)Interest in shared leadership stems from the growing evidence that adopting this approach to team management results in enhanced team performance, team effectiveness, and team satisfaction. However, to fully realize the ... -
Sink or Swim: Maximizing the Impact of 360° Feedback in Leader Development
(2018-11)Leader development initiatives prescribed as isolated events often fall short of their intended outcomes (Avolio, Reichard, Hannah, Walumbwa, & Chan, 2009). Initiatives should instead be enacted as part of an ongoing ... -
Smartphone use in Children's Shows: A Qualitative Content Analysis
(2019-05)This study analyzes media messages through the lenses of social cognitive theory and cultivation theory. Specifically, this study focuses on messages about smartphone use in children’s cartoons. This study found smartphones ...