Psychology Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC)
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How Spirituality and Fatigue Interact to Affect Quality of Life in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer
(2023)The cognitive theory of stress and coping by Lazarus and Folkman can explain how individuals cope with a stressful chronic illness, specifically metastatic breast cancer (MBC). If an individual appraises their MBC as ... -
Spirituality in American Muslim Marriages: An Investigation of Marital Sanctification, Spiritual Intimacy and Emotional Intimacy
(2023)The current study investigated how spiritual intimacy and emotional intimacy potentially mediated the impact of marital sanctification on positive and negative marital quality. Moreover, the present study examined if gender ... -
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 ... -
Social Anxiety Among Black Women
(2023)Social anxiety disorder is one of the most prevalent and chronic types of anxiety disorders. Yet, social anxiety often goes undetected and untreated, particularly among racial-ethnic minority groups. Existing research ... -
Acceptability and Feasibility of Using Virtual Reality to Address Mental Health Stigma with African American Young Adults
(2024)African Americans are disproportionately affected by mental illness compared to White Americans. Studies have reported that African Americans experience higher levels of mental health-related stigma (MHS) than White ... -
Intentions to undergo dementia screening among older Black adults
(2023)Stark health disparities exist between Black and White Americans including dementia risk. Black Americans are up to three times more likely to develop dementia compared to their White counterparts. These disparities can ... -
The Relationship Between Flow, Therapeutic Alliance, and Heightened Emotional Experience: A Preliminary Investigation
(2023)The therapeutic alliance, as outlined by several individual and group characteristics, plays an important role in the way that relational aspects of therapy can alter outcomes. Although at times difficult to form, once a ... -
Non-Religious Discrimination: Perceived Support, Social Connectedness, and Microaggressions against Non-Religious African Americans
(2023)Current literature has been exploring the lived experiences of non-religious Americans and how they are facing psychological distress due to how they are treated in America by their religious counterparts. The African ... -
A Qualitative Study of Psychologists in Perinatal Healthcare: Perspectives on Interprofessional Collaboration and Biopsychosocial Patient Care
(2023)Over the past several decades, mental health providers have become an integral part of interprofessional healthcare settings. Perinatal healthcare, or the health services provided to individuals during pregnancy, labor, ... -
Exploring Family Resilience and Connectedness During a Pandemic in Families Raising a Child with a Neurodevelopmental Disorder
(2023)Families have been significantly affected by coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and those raising a child with a Neurodevelopmental Disorder (NDD) may be particularly vulnerable to negative consequences from the health ... -
Prescription Medication Use in Bereavement: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Feasibility Study
(2023)Although many individuals experience a normal grieving process following the death of a loved one, some bereaved individuals will engage in prescription medication use to seek respites from their grief. More concerningly, ... -
Grief severity and health behaviors following bereavement: Exploring the moderating role of emotion regulation processes
(2023)The extant literature investigating associations between grief symptom severity and engagement in health behaviors is limited. Furthermore, research examining health outcomes in bereaved populations has yielded mixed ... -
Cognition, Fatigue, and Health-related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis: Exploring the Role of Polypharmacy and Anticholinergic Medication Burden
(2022)OBJECTIVE: Recent evidence suggests that polypharmacy, or the daily use of multiple medications, is common among individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). Some medications have anticholinergic properties that increase risk ... -
Parental Factors Related to Health Behaviors Among Children and Adolescents With and Without Developmental Disabilities Engaged in Weight Management Treatment
(2022)It is estimated that 19% of children between the ages of 2-19 years are considered obese in the United States (e.g., body mass index ≥ 95th percentile), and obesity is associated with significant adverse health problems. ... -
A Program Evaluation of the Seniors Who Paint Program
(2022)Aging research suggests that community-based art programs may serve as more practical interventions to improve the quality of life and cognition in older adults than more traditional or pharmacological interventions. ... -
The nature and functional significance of intra-individual neurocognitive ability across serious mental illness diagnoses
(2022)Intra-individual performance variability (IIV) is defined as lawful, transient, within-person changes in cognitive performance. IIV has been found to predict functional and other crucial real-world outcomes among clinical ... -
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 ... -
The relationships of discrimination and microaggressions with sleep quality in black Americans: the role of perseverative cognition
(2022)Disparities in health outcomes between Black and White Americans are well-documented, including sleep quality. Black Americans are more likely to report poor sleep quality sleep than their White counterparts. As sleep is ... -
Modeling shared decision-making: from factor analysis to mimic models
(2022)Shared decision-making (SDM) is a collaborative medical-decision making process that is presumed to be associated with numerous positive patient outcomes. This manuscript describes efforts to develop a brief assessment ... -
Physical activity in adolescents: an expanded theory of planned behavior approach with interaction effects
(2021)Obesity in adolescents in the United States has increased at an alarming rate over the past decade, with concerns related to the issue centered around a lifetime of greater prevalence of poor health outcomes for these ...