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Investigating the relative salience of race, sex, and facial expressions of emotion among preschoolers : introducing a new facial categorization task
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)The present study was used to explore the relative salience of sex, race, and emotion expression among preschoolers using an author-developed facial categorization task. Forty-one children between the ages of 2.76 and 5.45 ... -
Estrogen signaling and UCP1 : exploring mechanisms to improve metabolic health
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Metabolic disease risk rapidly escalates following menopause. The mechanism is not fully known, but likely involves reduced signaling through Estrogen Receptor a (ERa) which is highly expressed in brown (BAT) and white AT ... -
Marital conflict and spousal wellbeing : the moderating role of emotion regulation strategies among couples in first married families and stepfamilies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This study examined cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression as moderators of the association between marital conflict, marital satisfaction, and mental health among couples in first-marriages and remarriages. ... -
Personal and organizational predictors of service provision for refugees
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This cross-sectional research study examined related predictors such as knowledge of refugees, familiarity with community resources, cultural competence, and organizational culture factors associated with service provision ... -
Testing a U.S. Mexican cultural value transmission model of maternal socialization of youth civic responsibility values and prosocial behaviors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Youth are taught the values that their culture considers important through socialization and cultural values, such as civic responsibility, that can serve as a guide for future social behaviors. One set of social behaviors ... -
Divorced fathers' perceptions of parental disclosures to children
(2017)Parental disclosures about divorce-related topics can help children understand changes and reduce uncertainty following divorce; however, such disclosures can be often hurtful and damaging if they contain harmful and ... -
Developing baseline design criteria for people with lower body mobility impairments using inclusive design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)The mainstream clothing market focuses on people without disabilities; however, all people should be free to enjoy aesthetic values of clothing, including wearing what they want to wear and being confident in their ... -
Pediatric nursing care with post-divorce families : a multiple segment factorial vignette investigation
(2017)Recent trends in family formation and dissolution necessitate adapting healthcare procedures to better serve contemporary families. This study investigated nurse responses to variability in children’s family structure and ... -
Impact of leaders, team behaviors, and sense of community on innovation in conventional fashion and wearable technology product development teams
(2017)With the current historical moment’s rapid growth in technology, many researchers thinks that the fashion industry is currently going through another major industrial revolution. Therefore, an examination of the product ... -
Buyers' power strategies and suppliers' compliance mechanism : case of Indian apparel export firms
(2017)Apparel industry in the developing world is experiencing a boom in apparel export since the quota free trade. However, incidences of poor working conditions and labor standard violations are commonly reported. Therefore, ... -
Perceived corporate hypocrisy : scale development in the context of US retail employees
(2017)The study drew attention to matter that employees might perceive corporate hypocrisy as their employers pretend to be something they are not. In the US retail sector, businesses are often wrestling with unethical business ... -
Stages of change, coparenting patterns, and post-divorce parent education programming : a pre-program assessment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Given concerns about the effect of divorce and interparental conflict on children, many judges now require divorcing/legally separating parents with children under age 18 to attend parent education programs (PEPs). In ... -
Transinstitutionalization: A case study of two residential care facilities in rural Midwest North America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Since deinstitutionalization began during the 1950’s in North America, thousands of individuals with a Severe and Persistent Mental Illness were forced out of large, state run, institutions. While society may have seen ... -
The role of place in assisted living
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)The qualitative inquiry explored what physical attributes and tangible items that assisted living residents at one facility determined to be personally meaningful and emblematic of their concept of 'home.' Using grounded ... -
Use of financial planners and portfolio performance
(2016)Using modern information economics as the conceptual framework and data from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, this study adopts a decomposition technique to explore the relationship between the primary information ... -
Consumption patterns of Chinese elders: evidence from a survey in Wuhan, China
(2006)The elderly population in China has grown since 1999. Many Chinese businesses have noticed this trend and began to focus on the Gray Market. The behavior of older Chinese consumers has significantly changed. Descriptions ... -
Gender differences in financial risk tolerance
(2017)The purpose of this research is to explore gender differences in financial risk tolerance using a large, nationally representative dataset, the Survey of Consumer Finances. The impact of the explanatory variables in the ... -
Correlates of credit card adoption in urban China
(2012)Analysis of data from the 2008 Survey of Chinese Consumer Finance and Investor Education indicated that 30.0 % of the sample households held at least one credit card. Significant factors associated with the probability ... -
Source of information and projected household investment portfolio performance
(2016)Using modern information economics as the conceptual framework and data from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, this study adopts a decomposition technique to explore the relationship between the primary information ... -
Self-perceived age and attitudes toward marketing of older consumers in China
(2010)Understanding consumer psychological characteristics and their impact on consumer behavior is an important foundation for business marketing strategies. Self-perceived age has a great impact on older consumers' behavior. ...