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The same and different: A grounded theory of the experiences of college students who have a sibling with a developmental disability
(2007-06-03)Research on people who have a sibling with a disability has focused minimally on the experiences of college students who have a sibling with a disability and generally focused on specific aspects and outcomes instead of a ... -
School Climate and Public High School Student Achievement
(2009)The goal of this study was to examine the influence of school ecology, milieu, social system, and culture on public high school student achievement. Utilized data from the ELS:2002 restricted-use dataset, a series of ... -
School Counselors' Knowledge, Perceptions, and Involvement Concerning Gifted and Talented Students
(2004-06-21)The purpose of this study was to explore school counselors' knowledge and perceptions of gifted and talented students, and to investigate whether these variables influenced their involvement with such students. The following ... -
School-Based Referrals to the Juvenile Courts: Prevalence and Characteristics in Several States
(2015)Effective school discipline practices are essential to keeping schools safe and creating an optimal learning environment. However, the overreliance of exclusionary discipline often removes students from the school setting ... -
Secondary Transition Experiences: Analyzing Perceptions, Academic Self-Efficacy, Academic Adjustment, and Overall Impact on College Students' with LD Success in Postsecondary Education
(2011)The National Center for Special Education Research at the Institute of Education Sciences under the United States Department of Education funded the National Longitudinal Transition Study - 2 to provide the first national ... -
Secondary Traumatic Stress, Financial Stress, and the Role of Coping in Understanding Southeast Asian American Mental Health
(2019)This study advances the literature by jointly examining two stressors (secondary traumatic stress and financial stress) hypothesized to impact the mental health of the Southeast Asian American (SEAA) community and focused ... -
Seeing the canvas through the eyes of the painter: The experience of secular Jewish college students
(2004-02-10)This hermeneutic phenomenological study is concerned with understanding authentic Being and our experience of the Other within the context of higher education. By engaging phenomenologically with college students in the ... -
Self-Compassion and the Expressive Writing Paradigm: A Study of Therapeutic Effectiveness for Chronic Pain
(2014)Chronic pain represents a wide-spread and costly problem that is often not treated effectively with traditional biomedical approaches (Turk et al., 2011). The literature emphasizes the importance of using psychological ... -
Self-compassion, hope, and well-being of women experiencing primary and secondary infertility: An application of the biopsychosocial model
(2009)Infertility is experienced by 10% of couples in the United States. This study examined the well-being of 119 women experiencing primary infertility and 53 women experiencing secondary infertility. Utilizing the biopsychosocial ... -
Self-Concept and Learning Disabilities: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Results
(2006-03-31)Using the ECLS-K national database, this study compared the self-concepts in reading, math, general academic (all-subjects), and peer areas for third-grade students with and without identified learning disabilities. Unlike ... -
Self-concepts of adolescents with learning disabilities: A large-scale database study
(2005-08-20)Using the ELS: 2002 national database, we compared the self-concepts in reading, math, and general academic areas for students with and without identified learning disabilities. Unlike most similar research, students’ ... -
Self-Monitoring of Attention Versus Self-Monitoring of Performance with Second-Grade Journal Writing: A Comparison of Two Techniques
(2004-12-14)Students do not generally self-monitor when they write. This study examined the comparative effectiveness of self-monitoring of performance (SMP) and self-monitoring of attention (SMA) in the area of journal writing. Eight ... -
Self-Perceptions of Leadership Ability and Achieving Styles of Female Student-Athletes
(2004-05-17)This study examined female student-athletes' self-reported leadership ability and achieving styles and the relationship of individual and team sport female student-athletes' self-perceptions of leadership ability and ... -
Self-Regulated Strategy Development and Generalization Instruction: Effects on Story Writing Among Second and Third Grade Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
(2005-12-12)The effects of a self-regulated strategy intervention with three second and third grade students identified with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) in the area of story writing with an additional focus on the effects ... -
Sense of belonging among women of color in science, technology, engineering, and math majors: Investigating the contributions of campus racial climate perceptions and other college environments
(2007-11-27)This study examined the relationship between campus racial climate perceptions and other college environments to sense of belonging among undergraduate women of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ... -
Service-learning and diversity: The relationship of race, gender, and prior service experience to students' self-perceived appreciation of difference and awareness of structural inequality
(2004-08-10)This thesis explored the relationship between students' participation in a one-semester service-learning course and their self-perceptions of diversity, defined as appreciation of difference and awareness of structural ... -
A session level analysis of the relationship between a group member’s fit with her group and PTSD symptom change in a sample of incarcerated women seeking trauma treatment
(2010)The present study sought to apply the concept of person-group fit from the domain of organizational psychology to the domain of group psychotherapy. Specifically, using a time-series series design, the current study examined ... -
SHATTERING THE COLLEGIATE GLASS CEILING: UNDERSTANDING THE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN STUDENT GOVERNMENT PRESIDENTS
(2019)In the last few decades, leadership skills have arisen as a core part of undergraduate education. The general outcomes associated with leadership skills in college include decision-making skills, increased cognitive ... -
Social Cognitive and Acculturation Predictors of the College Adjustment of Asian Americans
(2011)The purpose of the present study was to extend understanding of factors related to the college adjustment of Asian and Asian Americans. The study was based on the SCCT model of well-being and included an exploratory focus ... -
Social Cognitive and Self-Construal Predictors of Academic Satisfaction among African Students Attending U.S. Universities
(2013)The purpose of this study was to examine select sociocognitive, environmental, and cultural factors that may relate to African students' academic satisfaction. The Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) satisfaction model ...