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Showing 1 to 20 of 239 for “"Hurt"”.
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Hurt people who hurt people: anger and violence among individuals with substance use disorder and post traumatic stress disorder
Substance use disorder (SUD) and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are chronic disabling disorders that frequently co-occur. This comorbidity (SUD+PTSD) has been associated with a range of harms, however, little research has examined the association between these disorders, anger and violence; …
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Superficial Self-Harm Behavior: Helping Young Women Who Hurt Themselves
Roughly 1 to 4% of the population engages in self-harm. Superficial self-harm is reported by more young women, than young men. Appropriate responses from family, friends, and other important individuals are a key ingredient in facilitating recovery. Non-therapists, such as family, friends, and …
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Third party hurt: consequences of receiving hurtful messages through a third party
Previous work on hurtful messages focused on receiving hurtful messages in dyadic relationships. However, hurt feelings are also elicited when people receive hurtful messages from individuals other than the person who originally stated the message. The current study examined peoples’ experience of …
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When Boys Hurt: A Pilot Study on Adolescent Males with Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
The current literature on nonsuicidal self-injury among male adolescents is lacking in amount and level of understanding in comparison to females. The purpose of this study is to determine the gender differences in treatment outcomes for adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury in a Dialectical …
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Healing Schools That Hurt: The Principal's Impact on School Improvement in High -Stakes Situations
… leadership are instrumental in healing these hurting schools.
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Hope or hurt? Unpacking the complex effects of hope and ethnic identity on ethnic discrimination
Racial discrimination remains a pervasive challenge for many racially minoritized college students, contributing to adverse mental health outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and trauma-related stress. Though hope and ethnic identity are often viewed as protective factors, recent evidence suggests …
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What I Don't Know Can't Hurt Me?: Cognitive Avoidance in Adults At-Risk for Depression
The current study examined cognitive avoidance in people at-risk for depression. Avoidance was assessed by performance based and self-report measures. Forty-five recovered depressed (RD) and 53 never depressed (ND) participants viewed emotional images. Approximately half of the participants in each …
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Whoever said a little 'dirt' doesn't hurt? : exploring tuberculosis (TB)-related stigma in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
This paper considers the significance of Tuberculosis (TB)-related stigma and stigmatising acts in areas of Khayelitsha Township in Cape Town, South Africa. Data is drawn from three months of in-depth participant observation, interviews and support group sessions. Stigma is a moral process which …
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"I Don't Want to Hurt Anyone's Feelings": Using Race as a Writing Prompt in First Year Writing
<p>First Year Composition (FYC) is one of the most important courses for any incoming college student. This course (often designated as English 101) provides students the rhetorical tools to fully engage in critical thinking and writing on the college level. One of the most common methods of …
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You Hurt My Feelings: Autonomic and Behavioral Responses to Social Exclusion and the Moderating Effect of Psychopathic Traits
<p>Humans have a fundamental need to form and maintain social connections, and thus experiencing social exclusion is extremely distressing as it threatens this basic human need. Individuals who are socially excluded often respond aggressively, not only towards their ostracizers but also towards …
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Who said "words can never hurt?": an investigation of child weight status, childhood psycosocial variables, and later adult quality of life
The first purpose of the research project was to examine the relationship between child weight status and adult quality of life. The second purpose of the research project was to test psychosocial variables as mediators of the relationship between child weight status and adult quality of life. A …
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You Don't Have to Get Hit to Get Hurt: Social Aggression on Television and Its Relationship to Children's Aggression in the Classroom
The purpose of the present dissertation was to examine the amount and nature of social aggression in programs popular with children and to assess whether exposure to socially aggressive content was related to similar behaviors in children. Two studies were conducted to comprehensively explore this …
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Developing A Clinical Support Tool of Suboptimal Caregiver Behaviours During Vaccination: Preliminary Validation of the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt Inoculation (OUCHI) Tool
… Tool (Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt Inoculation Tool), and establish its preliminary psychometric properties (i.e., reliability and validity). The tool was developed and validated by synergizing extensive research experience in vaccination behaviours, clinician expertise in …
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“So yes, you’ve battered me. Yes, you’ve hurt me. But you know what? I’m not giving up on you”: The experiences of Teaching Assistants supporting excluded children in Alternative Provisions
Alternative Provisions (APs) are under increasing pressure, the result of rising exclusions, increasing accountability measures and difficulties with recruitment and retention of educational staff. Described as challenging and emotionally demanding environments, staff within these settings are …
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Cognitive and Behavioral Biases Toward Close Partners in Conflict with Others
… one person (i.e., the perpetrator) upset or hurt another (i.e., the victim). Participants either imagined a close partner filling the role of perpetrator, victim, or neither role, in the conflict scenario. Results indicated that participants both attributed and communicated more blame for …
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THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
… in this community of people who have been deeply hurt by evangelical spaces but who have not given up on the Divine despite that hurt. <em>The Women’s Chapel</em> shows up as both the experiences and stories shared in our group and in artifacts of that sharing. It is a gift of love for anyone who …
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The Promise and the Peril of Equipping Service Chatbots with Emotions and Choices
… when these critical features would benefit or hurt customers. In my first essay, I examine the impact of positive emotion expressed by a chatbot on service evaluations. I show that chatbot-expressed positive emotion does not enhance service evaluations as in human-to-human interactions. Drawing …
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Violence & Volition: Choice, Acceptance, and Identity in Selected Works by Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, and Cormac McCarthy
… depending on the situation, can help or hurt someone when violence surrounds them.</p>
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