Social and Personality Psychologyhttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/2082024-03-28T22:43:29Z2024-03-28T22:43:29ZGuild Play in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGS) as a Predictor of Online Social Support and VictimizationPulliam, Katherinehttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/88442018-05-07T20:38:07Z2018-04-23T00:00:00ZGuild Play in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGS) as a Predictor of Online Social Support and Victimization
Pulliam, Katherine
Although the negative social effects of video games have been carefully studied, there is less work on the positive social effects of video games. Because video games are so ubiquitous in modern-day society, research is needed on the ways that playing online games, specifically MMORPGs, can result in both social support and victimization. In order to determine this, an online self-report survey was used to collect data regarding MMORPG players’ levels of online and in-person social support as well as online and in-person victimization and compared these to their levels of perceived stress, depressive thoughts, and self-esteem. Results indicated that playing in guilds in MMORPGs is related to both more online social support and online victimization, both of which have significant but opposite associations with stress, depressive thoughts, and self-esteem.
This paper covers the likelihood of accruing online social support and/or victimization from different types of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) play. It specifically examines the use of social structures called "guilds" in-game, and whether regular use of guilds is significantly associated with online social support and victimization. Written as part of the Psychology Honors Program with Dr. John Rieser and Dr. Jo-Anne Bachorowski, PSY-4999.
2018-04-23T00:00:00ZImplications of Effortful Control and Negative Affectivity in the Persistence and Recovery of StutteringHitti, Stephaniehttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/75592016-04-28T19:46:34Z2016-04-04T00:00:00ZImplications of Effortful Control and Negative Affectivity in the Persistence and Recovery of Stuttering
Hitti, Stephanie
The present study investigated the differences in Negative Affectivity and Effortful Control in the presence and absence of stuttering. A Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) measured the stuttering-like disfluencies (SLDs) of 92 preschool-aged participants at two separate time points (i.e. time point 1 and time point 2). The participants were then divided into four stutter groups: children who did not stutter at either time point (CWNS), children who stuttered at both time points (Persistent), children who stuttered at time point 1 but did not stutter at time point 2 (Recovered), and children who did not stutter at time point 1 but stuttered at time point 2 (Transitional). Results indicated that at time point 1, both the Recovered and the Persistent group had significantly lower scores of Effortful Control on the Children’s Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ) than the CWNS group. Additionally, both the Persistent and the Transitional groups had significantly higher Negative Affectivity scores on the CBQ at time point 1 than at time point 2, but the other groups did not.
Explores the effect that aspects of temperament, specifically effortful control and negative affectivity, have on the persistence and recovery of childhood stuttering. PSY 4999 - Honors Thesis - Walden, Tedra
2016-04-04T00:00:00ZAcoustic Parameters of Speech and Attitudes Towards Speech in Childhood Stuttering: Predicting Persistence and RecoveryGerald, Rachelhttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/75582020-04-22T06:31:57Z2016-04-01T00:00:00ZAcoustic Parameters of Speech and Attitudes Towards Speech in Childhood Stuttering: Predicting Persistence and Recovery
Gerald, Rachel
The relations between the acoustic parameters of jitter and fundamental frequency and children’s experience with stuttering were explored. Sixty-five children belonging to four talker groups will be studied. Children were categorized as stuttering (CWS) or non-stuttering (CWNS), and were grouped based on their diagnosis of stuttering/not stuttering at two time points in a longitudinal study: persistent stutterers (CWSàCWS), recovered stutterers (CWSàCWNS), borderline stutters (CWNSàCWS), and never stuttered (CWNSàCWNS). The children performed a social-communicative stress task during which they were audio-recorded to provide speech samples from which the acoustic parameters were measured. There were no significant relations between talker group and acoustic parameters, nor were children’s attitudes towards their speech different across talker groups. Therefore, acoustic parameters nor children’s attitudes towards their speech did not determining their prognosis with stuttering.
PSY 4999: Honors Thesis | Dr. Jo-Anne Bachorowski. This paper was completed under the advisement of Dr. Tedra Walden. This study explored if the acoustic parameters jitter and fundamental frequency can determine a child's prognosis with stuttering with data taken from a five-year longitudinal study focusing on the intersection of emotion and stuttering. Children's attitude towards their speech was also studied to see if there was an effect on their stuttering prognosis.
2016-04-01T00:00:00ZThe Effects of Realistic and Unrealistic Optimism on Performance and CopingMartinez, Sarenahttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/75562020-04-22T06:18:42Z2016-04-26T00:00:00ZThe Effects of Realistic and Unrealistic Optimism on Performance and Coping
Martinez, Sarena
Historically, optimism has been studied as a dichotomous variable. However, research has found that there are two types of optimists: cautious/realistic and unrealistic/cockeyed. A cautious/realistic optimist is defined as someone that has a good grip on reality, and a cockeyed/unrealistic optimist as someone that engages in self-delusion (Wallston, 1994). The purpose of the present study was to administer an intervention to students (N=67) to attempt to shift their perspective towards that of a cautious optimist, and to determine the effects of optimism on performance and coping. The study took place across four time points. As a whole, the intervention was not fully supported by the data, as the changes in optimism were not large enough to be statistically reliable. The data also did not support our hypothesis that level of optimism would predict a student’s exam grades. Coping behaviors were assessed before and after Exam 1 and Exam 2, and were markedly different, specifically after Exam 2. Poor performance on Exam 2 was associated with behavioral disengagement and denial, whereas positive performance on Exam 1 was associated with self-encouragement and sustain coping.
Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program
in Psychological Sciences Under the direction of Dr. Craig Smith.
2016-04-26T00:00:00Z