Browsing by Thesis Department "Psychology (UMKC)"
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Coping Methods of College Women of Color Facing Discrimination
(2023)Scholars have documented that experiencing microaggressions can have a negative impact on the psychological and physical health of women of color. Female college students of color specifically have shown to experience ... -
Cued affective modulation of startle reflex as a measure of emotion regulation
(2013)Emotion regulation is characterized by one's ability to consciously modulate experienced and expressed emotion. Poor emotion regulation skills have been associated with a variety of negative physical and emotional outcomes. ... -
Dance as a Community of Practice: Exploring Dance Groups in the Kansas City Area through the Lifespan
(2015-08-04)This dissertation examines the embodied cultural practice of dance among several groups in the Kansas City area. The dance groups were studied as Communities of Practice (CoP), as outlined in the Lave-Wenger model of ... -
Determinants of Perceived Social Support in Individuals with Serious mental Illness: A Secondary Analysis
(2022)Social support appears to provide protective effects for those with serious mental illness (SMI), but these effects may be attenuated by factors that hinder positive perceptions of support. Improved understanding of social ... -
Discrimination and health: how being Hispanic can make you sick
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-25)The perception of discrimination is a stressor that can lead to a reduction in an individual's reserve capacity and an increase in negative emotions, among other deleterious effects. I tested the Reserve Capacity Model as ... -
A Double-Blind Randomized Intervention to Reduce Distress from Perceived Cognitive Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)OBJECTIVE: Up to 65% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience cognitive impairment. However, patients frequently overestimate the extent of their cognitive dysfunction, reducing their overall quality of life. ... -
The Effect of Emotion Stimulus Intensity on the selection and Implementation of Distraction and Reappraisal as Emotion Regulation Strategies
(2015)Emotion regulation is an important coping mechanism for handling emotional situations and stimuli in day-to-day life. More effective emotion regulation is linked to better mental and physical health. The present study ... -
The Effect of Peer Presence on Risk Taking Behavior Among Late Adolescents
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The present study used an experimental method to examine risk-taking in a simulated environment involving risky driving behaviors. The study examined the effects of peer presence on risk-taking behavior among late ... -
The Effect of Stress on Prosocial Sharing Behavior in Young Adults
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Prosocial behavior benefits both an individual and society. Sharing behavior is considered the most altruistic, due to individuals sacrificing time and resources without the expectation of reciprocation. A cost-benefit ... -
The effect of violent video game exposure on emotion modulation of startle and aggression
(2014 Fall)Video games are quickly becoming the most widely accessible, and used, form of entertainment, with those that contain violence have consistently been the most popular. Building on previous research examining other forms ... -
The effect of violent video game play on emotion modulation of startle
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-04-26)Previous research investigating the effects of violent video games have repeatedly demonstrated a connection with increased aggression. The General Aggression Model has incorporated many different theories of aggression ... -
Effects of a violence prevention program on the aggressive scripts and prosocial behavior of "high risk" students
(2015-07-28)The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a school-based violence prevention program, Project SAFE, which was designed to decrease beliefs supporting the use of aggression in response to conflict, as measured ... -
The effects of age and gender on optimistic bias and stereotype salience for cardiovascular disease in college students
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-08-17)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death within the United States, yet many of its risk factors are largely preventable and begin early in life. College students engage in many unhealthy behaviors ... -
The Effects of Calorie Information on Food Choice
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016-05-17)Decision making is a constant activity, from making the decision to get out of bed to choosing which TV channel to watch at night. Food choice is especially pervasive – it’s estimated that a person makes approximately 220 ... -
The Effects of Trauma on Emotion Regulation and Skin Conductance Level
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 5/19/2014)This study will explore the relationship between trauma, emotion regulation and skin conductance level (SCL) in a young adult population. More specifically, we will study how past trauma experiences and self-reported ... -
Emotional responsivity in people high and low in trait positive affect
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-18)Previous research has shown that individuals who report high levels of Trait Positive Affect (TPA) experience better mental and physical health outcomes than individuals low in TPA. The current study examined emotional ... -
Episodic Future Thinking in Young Children: Considering Body Mass and Memory
(2015-08-04)With the increase in pediatric obesity, research continues to evaluate new intervention strategies to improve the effectiveness of current obesity treatments. One area of study which may hold promise for pediatric obesity ... -
Examination of Non-Facial Emotion Recognition in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)The purpose of this study was to examine social cognitive skills of adolescents with anorexia nervosa. Per the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), the specific focus of this study was the ability to understand non-facial c ... -
Examination of self-determination theory constructs as mediators of the effect of motivational interviewing on tobacco cessation outcomes
(2021)Despite an abundance of evidence supporting the efficacy of motivational interviewing for health behavior change, little is known about how it works. This study conducted a secondary analysis of autonomous motivation as a ... -
Examination of the Relationship between Startle Eyeblink Modulation and Perceived Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disorder from which fatigue is one of the most commonly reported symptoms. Recently, research into the underlying neural mechanisms of fatigue has focused largely on the ...