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The Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology (ESCP)is an energetic place that provides a supportive, caring, and intellectually stimulating learning environment for students. Guidance counselors, licensed counselors, school psychologists, health educators and educational researchers are commonplace in today’s school systems and society in general. Faced with an increasing demand to fill these positions, schools turn to ESCP for graduates. ESCP has three centers that provide students and faculty with many opportunities to collaborate on research and service related projects while focusing on improving life for learners in all environments: Assessment and Consultation Clinic; Center for Multicultural Research, Training, and Consultation; Center for the Advancement of Mental Health Practices in Schools.
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Measurement invariance among Latinx and White engineering college students on the planning for career and family scale
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 08/01/2025] This study examined the measurement invariance of the Planning for Career and Family scale (PLAN; Ganginis Del Pino et al., 2013), originally developed to assess career and family planning ... -
Social-cognitive predictors of psychological well-being among college students with Autism Spectrum Disorder : application of the social cognitive well-being model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 08/01/2025] The current study tested and extended Lent's (2004) unifying social cognitive career theory of well-being among a sample of 219 college students diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). ... -
Not sure what I can say : the impact of politicization on rural secondary school mental health professionals' navigation of building sexual harassment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 08/01/2025] School mental health professionals frequently encounter occupational challenges stemming from their multifaceted roles within educational institutions. These factors are compounded by a prevailing ... -
Interrogating the conceptualization and measurement of socioeconomic status : exploring a novel methodology using South African data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 08/01/2025] This study explores various approaches to modeling socioeconomic status (SES) and examines their implications for understanding well-being outcomes in South Africa. Three modeling techniques ... -
Reintegration and decent work among United States veterans : impact of marginalization, social support, and career adaptability
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 08/01/2025] United States military veterans face challenges when reintegrating into civilian society. Among these difficulties often exist barriers for veterans in navigating work and career experiences. ... -
Intergenerational influences of second-generation Chinese American academic and career exploration : using a career genogram as a guiding tool
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 08/01/2025] Although many quantitative studies have explored career decision making for Asian- Americans, there is much less qualitative research on their lived experiences, particularly regarding ... -
Understanding sexual risk among men who have sex with men : a qualatative analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)Counseling psychology has expressed the necessity for more social justice within our research (Buchanan & Wiklund, 2020; Moradi & Grzanka, 2017). One of those areas that need expanding includes the impact of oppressive ... -
Supporting rural school-based mental health service delivery : examining the effect of peer coaching on the delivery of an evidence-based mental health intervention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)Mental Health (MH) needs of school-aged youth is a growing problem (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019) and youth in rural areas have increased risk for MH needs (Bettenhausen et al., 2021). Schools are ... -
Resistance for persistence : examining Latinx students' coping and well-being in the context of racial microaggressions using a radical healing framework
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)Latinxs face significant disparities in college degree attainment because of racism at the individual, social, and institutional levels. Racial microaggressions are a common stressor that poses threat to the academic ... -
Exploring the common factors that contribute to an effective coaching engagement : a thematic analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)The world of professional executive coaching is growing and being utilized by organizations around the world. Industries of all types, sizes, and functions are turning to executive coaching to enhance their employee's ... -
Increasing caregiver mental health literacy to support middle school youth : a randomized control trial of a brief virtual intervention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)Effective mental health literacy intervention for caregivers is a relatively under researched and underdeveloped field in psychology (Hurley et al., 2020). The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) identified that 1 ... -
Variable selection procedures under collinearity (multicollinearity)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)Variable selection is an important area of statistical modeling, which is still an active area of research. In this study, we investigated the performance of four variable selection procedures: backward elimination, Bayesian, ... -
Investigating the role of masculinity and alcohol use on alcohol expectancies and motivation to change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)In the United States (US), and many other countries around the world, problematic alcohol use is a significant public health concern, especially among young men. While it would be hard to capture the scope of the physical ... -
Better measures of online motivation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)There are currently no self-report scales that measure self-determined motivation in online learners that were designed specifically for the context of online university courses. Assessing online learner motivation is a ... -
The role of prosocial behavior and peer belonging in adolescents' classroom engagement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)Students' prosocial behavior is linked to their own and their classmate's engagement in the classroom. This raises the question of through what pathway prosocial behavior is linked to engagement. This study investigates ... -
Sexual consent in Greece and the United States : a cultural comparison
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)Despite a growing, global social pressure to emphasize the importance of sexual consent, there remains a lack of empirical research into the topic. Though research into sexual consent is an expanding field, there are ... -
Emotion centered racial coping and child development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)Victims of racist incidents can experience a host of negative emotions and how those emotions are processed is an integral part to one's well-being and mental health (Lewis et. al., 2015; Paradies et. al., 2015). Although ... -
Gendered racial microaggressions and identity in the career development of Black women college students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] In this study, Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994; 2000) was the theoretical framework to understand Black Women college students' career development process that ... -
A qualitative exploration of the discrimination experiences, navigational strategies, and identity development of Black females attending predominantly white institutions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] The purpose of this study was to explore how Black females describe their school-based racial discrimination experiences and the navigational strategies used to cope with these experiences. Given ... -
Development and validation of the teacher SEC scale (T-SECS) using Item Response Theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] The purpose of this dissertation study was to develop a comprehensive and effective self-report scale, Teacher Social-Emotional Competence Scale (T-SECS) using Item Response Theory (IRT) to measure ...