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University Students' Perceptions of Stalking : A Mock Law Enforcement Study
(East Carolina University, 2011)
This study examined how students from a large southeastern university in the U.S. (N = 177) placed in the position of a law enforcement officer judged hypothetical stalking scenarios. Utilizing a 2 x 2 independent groups ...
Individual Differences in Error Related Processing of Expectancy Violations
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Electrophysiological investigations of brain processing of feedback reveal that the anterior cingulate cortex is important in monitoring for behavioral errors. The feedback related negativity (FRN) is an event related ...
Predicting Treatment Success : Assessing Theoretically-Driven Constructs that Impact the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Among African American Women in a Novel Peer-Delivered Small Changes Treatment Approach
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Rural African American women have greater prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and poorer treatment outcomes compared to Caucasians. Some research suggests that self-efficacy, subjective norms, and locus of control ...
Project MENTOR+ : Mentor-led exercise with cognitive-behavioral therapy to improve perceived competence, reduce social anxiety, and increase physical activity in overweight adolescents.
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Overweight adolescents are at increased risk for peer victimization and avoidance of physical activity, thus perpetuating overweight status and peer victimization. Avenues of intervention include (1) reducing avoidance ...
The Impact of Moral Judgment on the Relationship Between Trait Aggression and Deviant Behavior
(East Carolina University, 2014)
The purpose of this study was to investigate moral judgments' mediating effect on the relationship between trait aggression and deviant behavior. Participants consisted of 337 undergraduate students at a large southeastern ...
"Did you Hear?" : Gossip as a Manifestation of Trait Aggression
(East Carolina University, 2014)
This study sought to ascertain how trait aggression relates to individuals' motives and tendencies to participate in various types of gossip; while empirically differentiating between the application of negative and positive ...
Identifying the missing piece of suicide prevention : Formative risk assessment
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2011). However, no evidence-based suicide prevention programs currently exist that utilize formative ...
The Effects of Emotional States and Traits on Time Perception
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Background: Leading models of time perception share an important element of Scalar Expectancy Theory known as the internal clock, containing specific mechanisms by which the human mind is able to experience time passing ...
Paving the Way : A Biopsychosocial Survey Study of Young Adults Diagnosed with Heart Failure and Identification of Key Intervention Priorities
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Introduction: Rates of heart failure have been increasingly noticed in individuals between 20 and 50 years of age, especially in Eastern North Carolina. Little is known about this subset of patients with heart failure. The ...
Workplace Mentoring : The Roles of Humor Style Agreement, Humor Frequency, and Positive Mentor Humor Style
(East Carolina University, 2013)
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the roles of humor style agreement, humor frequency, and positive mentor humor style in workplace mentoring relationships. The author hypothesizes that the aforementioned ...