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Resilient Individuals Reform Their Assumptive Worlds after Stressful Life Events
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-11)
Individuals develop core attitudes and beliefs that bring a sense of reality and purpose to
their lives. They make up one’s assumptive world. After a particular trauma or stressful life
event, one’s assumptive world is ...
The Relation of Trauma to the Persistence of Functional Abdominal Pain from Childhood into Adolescence and Young Adulthood
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03)
Traumatic life experiences in childhood, particularly sexual and physical assault and abuse, have been consistently related to poor physical and mental health outcomes later in life. There is some evidence linking such ...
Differences in the Motivational Urges and Enacted Behaviors of Guilt and Shame: A Study on Individualism and Collectivism
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-24)
There has been limited research regarding the differences in motivational urges, action tendencies and enacted behaviors on a cross-cultural basis. To study this, we administered an online questionnaire, composed of two ...
Effects of Frequency and Regularity on New Learning in Preference Readers
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)
Learning to read English requires both knowledge of grapheme-phoneme (GP) rules and rapid recognition for familiar words, which can be mediated by whole-word (WW) mappings. Previous research has suggested that readers ...
Flow and Life Satisfaction
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)
Through a 30 question survey, I aim to examine flow experiences as a positive emotion-inducing activity and how individuals respond to these events. The survey targets the relationship between momentary happiness and life ...
The Effects of Withdrawal Treatment on Attentional Biases towards Drug Cues in Opioid Addiction
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03)
To investigate attentional biases in drug addiction, the Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm was used to study opioid-dependent patients undergoing inpatient withdrawal treatment at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital. ...
Neurocognitive Effects of Radiation Therapy in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)
This study characterizes the neurocognitive late effects of treatment in pediatric
brain tumor survivors by examining patterns of executive function, coping, emotional
outcomes, and brain activation. We examined associations ...
The Influence of Prior Reading Instruction and IEP Goals on the Reading Skills of Children with Down Syndrome
(Vanderbilt University, 2012)
The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between IEP goals and prior reading instruction for children with Down Syndrome, and whether both of those variables had an impact on the children’s ...
Obesity and Mental Health in Adolescents
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)
The study examined the relationship between obesity and depression, conduct disorder, and substance abuse in adolescents using data from the 2008 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Depression at baseline was ...
Self Esteem Instability – Scale Development and Relations to Appraisal and Dispositional Constructs
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)
Past literature indicates that self-esteem may not be a stable entity for all individuals, and there may be some individuals for whom their self-esteem varies across contexts. Research has shown that further exploring the ...