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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences"”.
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How Justice System Contact, Race, and Gender Intersect: Examining Their Short- and Long-Term Associations with Mental Health, Educational, and Occupational Outcomes
This study utilizes intersectionality, life-course perspective, and cumulative disadvantage theory to examine the association between criminal justice system contact (JSC) on short- and long-term mental health, educational, and occupational outcomes, exploring how these associations vary by race …
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Mathematic Teachers’ Lived Experiences of Teachable Moments
This study emerged from a deeply felt tension rooted in my lived experiences as a teacher—moments when unexpected insights and connections surfaced in the classroom, calling forth profound questions about their essence and transformative potential. The study sought to interpret K–12 mathematics …
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Situational Affordances and Psychopathy: Examining Contextual Influences on Exploitative Behavior in Economic Games
… factors in shaping decision-making and social interactions. In Study 1, a meta-analysis was conducted to provide a quantitative summary of the empirical literature on the relationship between psychopathy and exploitative behavior in economic games. A novel theoretical framework, the …
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Autistic Youth Experiences of Coerced Assimilation in the Context of Enforced "Social Skills" Practice: Findings and recommendations from a mixed-methods participatory analysis project
… of Autistic traits is formally taught through “Social Skills” classes or therapies. This thesis project delves into the relationships between development of masking, social self-esteem, and autonomy in Autistic youth who have undergone “social skills” programming (SSP), using a mixed-methods …
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Empathy and Self-efficacy Contributions to Water Resilience and the Role of a Serious Game
… drive governance shifts and societal change. The social cognition approach—how people think about and interpret environmental problems—strongly influences behaviour. Empathy and self-efficacy represent two of the most influential psychological drivers for engaging in sustainable practices in …
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Aging and Event Segmentation
Episodic memory, our memory for events in our lives, typically becomes less detailed and more prone to error with advancing age. An extensive literature exists investigating age-related memory decline using simple stimuli (e.g., words, pictures), but fewer studies have used naturalistic stimuli …
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The Weak Spot: Psychopathic Traits and Environmental Cues for Exploitation
The social predator hypothesis claims that people with psychopathic traits are capable of and often do engage in the exploitation of others for their own benefit. For people with psychopathic traits to be successful in this regard, they need to be able to judge the vulnerability of those they aim …
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Examining the Underlying Mechanisms and Potential Outcomes of Stress Bragging
… and detrimental effects for organizations (e.g., social loafing). Additionally, it explores the moderating role of competitive work environments (CWE). The study collected temporally segregated data from employees (n = 355) across diverse industries in the USA and Canada. The findings revealed …
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Exploring the Effect of 1:1 Acceptance and Commitment Training Sessions on Staff Engagement in Committed Actions using Ecological Momentary Assessment
Stress can impact the quality of care that support staff provide to clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) within community agencies. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT) focuses on helping people develop psychological flexibility to improve well-being. This …
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The Heterogeneity of Adolescent Factors: Investigating Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Factors
… study, I explored the role of a variety of social media platforms on in-person and online friendships. In the first part of the study, I employed social network analysis, with results suggesting that there is considerable, but not complete, overlap between adolescents’ in-person and online …
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Cognitive Engagement Across Academic and Extracurricular Activities
As young people move from middle childhood through adolescence, school disengagement tends to increase, placing some adolescents at risk of drop out (Archambault et al., 2022; Widlund et al., 2021). Youth engagement involves active participation both inside and outside of school settings, including …
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The relation between post-migration experiences and psychosocial wellbeing: an exploratory study of the perceptions of highly educated refugees in the U.K.
… their post-migration experiences and their psychosocial well-being. A literature review of the migration and psychological health area and the widely-used stress and coping approach revealed that the “vulnerable” and “passive” images have all too often been assigned to refugees when discussing …
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