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Adverse Childhood Experiences: Predicting Cyclical Patterns Between Childhood Experiences and Adverse Behaviors in Adulthood
Northwest University, 2019
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are ten specific incidences occurring in childhood known to have deleterious impacts on an individual’s life (Felitti et al., 1998). The more ACEs (i.e. abuse, neglect, household ...
Selfies, Personality, and Narcissism
Northwest University, July 18, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a statistically significant relationship between the frequency of capturing selfies and extraversion, agreeableness, and self-esteem and whether these measures ...
Adolescent Problem Behavior: The Impact of Parents, Peers, and Perceptions
Northwest University, July 31, 2019
The relationship between negative parent-adolescent relationships and problem behavior, such as substance use and delinquency, has been validated through research in several ways, often citing increased peer influence and ...
Experiencing Meaningful Work and Burnout in Community Mental Health
Northwest University, March 7, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine community mental health staff, the depth to which they are experiencing their work as meaningful, and the level of burnout they are experiencing. Though research on burnout in ...
Effect of Mentally Subtracting Grateful Events on the Affective State of Older Adults
Northwest University, December 10, 2018
Depression among older adults is increasing, thus, addressing negative affect is relevant to the care of geriatric individuals. As part of lifespan development, older adults reflect on life events, leading to feelings of ...
Exploring the Experiences of Female Gamers
Northwest University, 2017
Video games are growing in popularity, with nearly half of all game consumers being women. While there is a change in consumer demographics, the majority of video game content continues to portray females as sexually ...
Social Self-Efficacy and Depression Among Children Living in the Kangemi Slum of Nairobi, Kenya
Northwest University, 2014
Social self-efficacy plays an important role in one’s psychological well-being, and a low sense of social self-efficacy is often associated with depression. But, does the relationship between social self-efficacy and ...
Major Depressive Disorder Treatments in Community Mental Health Clinics
Northwest University, 2018
Depression affects many individuals worldwide, indiscriminant of race, gender or age (Burnett-Zeigler, Zivin, Islam, & Ilgen, 2012; Cuijpers & Schoevers, 2004; Watters, 2010). In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
The Effectiveness of Literature Circles for Increasing Engagement and Comprehension in Language Arts/Social Studies Novels
Northwest University, July 2011
What teaching strategies work best to increase the engagement level and comprehension of required texts for middle school students? This study looked at the effectiveness of specific reading strategies in conjunction with ...
Science Vocabulary and ELL Students: a Qualitative Study
Northwest University, July 2014
Vocabulary acquisition is a multi-faceted process in any language. Truly knowing a word is incredibly complex in nature (Richards, 1976). When two of my ELL students appeared unengaged in science, I questioned the role of ...