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A culturally appropriate mindfulness intervention to reduce health disparities among African Americans : feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of mantram repetition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Mindfulness interventions improve psychological and physiological health outcomes because they interrupt the link between stress and disease processes. Despite the promise of these interventions in promoting health among...
BIPoC perspectives of behavioral sleep treatment: a mixed-methods examination of ways to better address sleep health disparities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Growing evidence suggests that there are sleep health disparities in the United States that disadvantage Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color (BIPoC), and other socioeconomically marginalized groups in medical and mental health settings...
Sleep intraindividual variability and fatigue in parents of children on the autism spectrum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Fatigue is associated with numerous harmful physical and mental health outcomes. Despite the established relationship between sleep and fatigue, research on the association between the variability of sleep measures within a person (i...
The downstream well-being effect of encounters with the criminal justice system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This dissertation explores the relationship between encounters with the criminal justice system and well-being in a large nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. Previous literature has documented several negative health and well...
Pilot evaluation of the CBT tracker : a hybrid measurement feedback system for monitoring treatment integrity and client progress
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Routine outcomes monitoring (ROM) and the use of evidence-based treatments (EBTs) are two research-supported practices that have potential to improve client outcomes in mental healthcare, including youth psychotherapy, but are largely underutilized...
Iterative refinement and testing of a brief school-based intervention for internalizing symptoms via an academic-community partnership
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
while retaining their integrity and efficacy may help bridge the research-to- practice gap in youth mental health services....
Examining the association between extreme drinking and prefrontal cortex functioning in young adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
research has found that heavy alcohol exposure damages the PFC, especially during adolescence. Prior correlational research in humans has also consistently found that heavy drinking is associated with PFC functional and structural alterations. However...
The role of drinking context in the relationship between impulsivity and alcohol use in daily life
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
AC was moderated by drinking location, showing a stronger association when away from home. There was not a significant relationship between day-level impulsivity and alcohol-related consequences. This study contributes valuable insights into the nuanced...
Hopeful feelings : inducing the feelings of hope and examining its social and cognitive effects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The experience of hope predicts a host of positive outcomes. However, to date, the psychology of hope has paid little attention to hope as an emotion, focusing instead on hope as a sense of agency and effective goal pursuit, ...
Subjective-objective sleep discrepancy in older adults : examining the roles of cognition and arousal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
sleep onset (WASO) on 3+ nights/7] completed measures of subjective sleep (7-day baseline of sleep diaries), objective sleep [one-night ambulatory polysomnography (PSG)], objective cognition (National Institute of Health Toolbox - Cognition Battery...
Sensory processing sensitivity among college adults : evidence of validity and ties to psychological functioning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] Sensory processing sensitivity, characterized by heightened central nervous system reactivity and deep cognitive processing of external and internal stimuli, is relevant for adjustment and ...
Pre-bedtime light, physical activity, and sleep in children with autism spectrum disorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Introduction: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) suffer from insomnia at much higher rates than typically developing (TD) peers. Research indicates that sleep problems in ASD may be due to hypersensitivities to stimuli and melatonin...
A behavioral genetic examination of the relation between adolescent polysubstance use and educational attainment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] Most individuals who use substances use more than one, which is referred to as polysubstance use. Polysubstance use has consistently been related to poorer outcomes compared to use of a single ...
Examining positive schizotypy's relationship with openness facets, maladaptive openness, and other maladaptive traits
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
to experience (OE) is associated with increased genetic risk for schizophrenia, and popular models of personality hypothesize that positive schizotypy should be related to increased OE. However, much previous research has failed to identify large associations...
Examining the time course under which specific and gist episodic memory representation are established at encoding among young and older adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] One of the most pervasive adult age-related declines in episodic memory is in the ability to remember associations between components of an episode, such as between a person and a location where ...