Information literacy (IL) is essential to nurses' delivery of quality patient care due to its role in evidence-based practice. Consequently all nursing students must achieve IL competence upon graduation. However, few publications have explored factors that influence IL skills of prelicensure baccalaureate nursing students and even less is known about current pedagogical strategies employed by faculty to promote IL competence. This study used a mixed method design to examine student factor...
Meagan L White.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Chunta, Kristy S. Committee members: Theresa McDevitt; Teresa Shellenbarger.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

Compassion and self-compassion have significant benefits for wellbeing and mental health (e.g. Neff, 2003a, 2003b). Recent literature has demonstrated that some individuals can come to experience fear when receiving compassion from oneself or others (Gilbert, McEwan, Matos, & Rivis, 2011). The present study examines how fear of compassion for others, fear of compassion from others, and fear of self-compassion are related to interpersonal and introjected behavior, stable personality traits, an...
Kenneth Volk.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Mills, John Committee members: Anson Long; Margaret Reardon.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

This qualitative case study examined the perceptions of former students who are economically disadvantaged from a poor, rural district in central Pennsylvania who left their traditional school to enroll in one of the three biggest cyber-charter schools in the state. Through extensive interviews with the students and their learning coaches, the study attempted to see the experience through the eyes of those who lived it. Particular emphasis was placed on supports students and their learning co...
James J Shoemake.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Paquette, Kelli R. Committee members: Annah Hill; DeAnna Laverick.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

Nurse educators are expected to teach nursing students health policy advocacy; however, there continues to be an absence of strong nursing presence within health policy creation and engagement. A nurse educator's own political knowledge (political astuteness) and confidence (self-efficacy) in health policy may be a contributing factor to the absence of nurses' lack of health policy engagement in practice. This descriptive, cross sectional study evaluates the political astuteness and polit...
Rebecca Catherine Modene.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hoffman, Riah L. Committee members: Diana Rupert; Teresa Shellenbarger.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

This qualitative study seeks to better understand how union member's perceptions of wages, benefits, and working conditions differ from those living and working in a Right-to-Work state and those in a Non-Right-to-Work state. Union workers from the mechanical construction industry in the Right-to-Work states of Nebraska, Nevada, and Texas, the Non-Right-to-Work states of Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and the recently Right-to-Work transitioned stated of West Virginia provide the data and ...
Todd M McKeever.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Korns, Michael T. Committee members: Christian Vaccaro; David Yerger.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

In response to the calls for more research into integrated organizational and psychological approaches to managing workplace safety (Huang, Lee, McFadden, Rinner, & Robertson 2017; Klockner, 2013), the overarching aim of this study was to develop a framework for linking workplace spirituality, mindfulness, worker safety engagement, and safety outcomes using structural equation modeling (SEM). An important specific objective of this research was to determine the impacts workplace spirituality ...
Kasarachi S Nnadede.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Wachter, Jan Committee members: Helmut Paschold; Majed Zreiqat.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of humanities in a physical therapy program committed to and successful with integrating the humanities into its curriculum. Research questions sought to explore methods and content areas in which humanities were being integrated, attitudes and perceptions of faculty and students regarding the value of humanities, assessment and expected outcomes of humanities integration, supportive departmental and institutional factors, and challenges to suc...
Jessica Lieb Cammarata.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Paquette, Kelli Committee members: Pamela O'Harra; Edel Reilly.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

This study investigated the relationship between social media use and cross-cultural competency among employees in who possess different job positions in multicultural companies in Saudi Arabia. Informed by Social Capital Theory and Uncertainty Reduction Theory, this study used a quantitative method to explore the role of social media in fostering employees' cross-cultural competency. A survey was snowballed to collect the data and resulted in a sample that was predominately Arabic males. For...
Majed Hatem Alharthi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Piwinsky, Mark Committee members: Mary Beth Leidman; Jay Start; Zachary Stiegler.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

This dissertation has five interrelated purposes: 1. To understand individual teacher and student mindsets in three first-year composition courses at one university, 2. to learn how teachers with certain mindsets preferred to comment on student writing, the purpose of their commenting, and what they viewed as shaping their comments, 3. to examine comments that individual teachers with these mindsets give on student writing on one particular assignment in a specific class, 4. to explore what k...
Roger Powell.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Driscoll, Dana Lynn Committee members: Laurel Black; Mary Stewart.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

This study explored racial attitudes of participants seeking to enter law enforcement in an attempt to shed light on the strained relations between law enforcement and minority communities. Mean levels of implicit racial bias and hostile attribution error within a group of individuals that indicated their intentions of pursuing careers in law enforcement was compared to mean levels of the same constructs as measured within a group of individuals that indicated no such intentions, as well as a...
Brian J Ferraccio.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Reardon, Margaret C. Committee members: Jonathon Cooper; Laurie Roehrich.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

The 2015 Disney Pixar film Inside Out© has garnered significant attention from mental health professionals since its release. Despite its popularity, no study to date has empirically evaluated the film's effectiveness in improving children's emotion competence. Thus, the researcher pilot-tested a group intervention for parents and children designed to reduce expressive suppression and increase emotion acceptance. Twenty children ages 7 to 12 participated in the current study; fifteen (5 males...
Ingrid J Krecko.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Knight, Laura A. Committee members: John Mills; Lisa Newell.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

This study set out to create and clearly define a pedagogical approach to teaching Composition I that centered around frequent instructor-student writing conferences and measure its impact on writerly self-efficacy and writing ability. Instructor-student conferences have been a threshold concept in academia, but due to a lack of replicable, aggregable, and data-driven research, it has been unable to move into the realm of knowledge. To facilitate this transition, I combined recent, relevant r...
Debra A Brown.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Driscoll, Dana Lynn Committee members: Laurel Black; David Hanauer.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

The current study investigated bariatric surgery patients' perceptions of their physical capabilities and appearance, along with their attitudes toward bariatric surgery. A cross-sectional sample of pre-operative (N = 41) and post-operative (N = 82) patients completed a 54-item survey. All respondents completed the Appearance and Capabilities Scale (Long & Eash, 2016), which measures the extent to which people focus on their appearance as a source of their self-views, and the extent to which ...
Jaclyn Fishalow.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Long, Anson Committee members: Maureen McHugh; Anthony Perillo.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

Despite women representing 61% of the workforce in banking, women hold only 23% of all senior level positions and 11% of CEO positions. Instead, women fill the majority of the lower level positions at banks, including that of the teller, customer service representative, and administrative positions. The purpose of this research was to explore the experiences of the relatively few women who have achieved executive leadership status in banking, particularly their perceptions of the opportunitie...
Christina L Yoder.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Mabry, J. Beth Committee members: Dana Hysock Witham; Melissa Swauger.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

This dissertation explores alternative readings of East-West intellectual and literary interactions in selected texts from late-eighteenth and early-to-mid-nineteenth-century English literature. My main argument is that Walter Savage Landor's Gebir, Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer, Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam, William Wordsworth's "Dream of an Arab" from the Prelude, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, and Charlotte Bronte's Villette have engaged with textual and contextual knowle...
Issam Aldowkat.
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Advisors: Williamson, Michael T. Committee members: David Downing; Michael Sell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

The American Time Use Survey (2017), sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed that U.S. citizens who were 15 years old or more spent 2.7 hours per day watching television. This number accounted for more than half of leisure time. Considering the widely examined media effects on audiences' perceptions (Morgan & Shanahan, 2010), increased availability of the media may, in part, explain why public perceptions of the police have become more negative over the last two decades (Gallup, 2...
Jaeyong Choi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lee, Daniel R. Committee members: Yongtao Cao; Bitna Kim; Alida Merlo.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

Medical marijuana is utilized to treat a variety of serious medical conditions. It is now legalized in 23 states, including Pennsylvania. Little research has been conducted on the relationship between communication channels and individuals' perceptions on the legalization of medical marijuana or its effectiveness as a treatment option. Through a quantitative research study distributed through Qualtrics, 595 respondents from a mid-size university in Pennsylvania provided feedback for analysis....
Kimberly J Flanders.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Wilson, B. Gail Committee members: James Lenze; Mark Piwinsky.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

This mixed methods study examines the impacts of participation in a four-week, once-weekly program of mindfulness intervention on the self-efficacy, management of writing anxiety, and dissertation writing productivity of advanced academic writers across the disciplines engaged in high stakes writing projects. Data was collected from participants in the form of self-report questionnaires and interviews at three distinct stages: before participation in the intervention program (pre-intervent...
Nadia Francine Zamin.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Driscoll, Dana Lynn Committee members: Curtis Porter; Daniel Weinstein.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

The purpose of this case study was to explore the impact mindfulness instruction and practice had on an early childhood teacher's perception of classroom climate, student interaction and self-efficacy when working in communities where poverty is prevalent. An analysis of the data was conducted to gain a deep understanding of teachers' experiences with mindfulness and the impacts it may have had on their teaching practices. A qualitative case study was used to understand a real-life phenome...
Marnie A Aylesworth.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fennimore, Beatrice S. Committee members: Joann Migyanka; Laurie Nicholson.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

Mindfulness, a practice with roots in Buddhism, has been used effectively as a Western psychological tool with both clinical and nonclinical populations. In the past 10 years, interest has increased in bringing mindfulness practice to health professionals themselves, often with the aim of improving self-care, coping with stress, reducing overall psychological distress, and reducing burnout and compassion fatigue. Efforts have also been taken to examine the impact that mindfulness may have on ...
Peter Hauge.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Mills, John Committee members: Derek Hatfield; Anson Long.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

This study explores naturally occurring data of the codeswitching use of Arabic and English by multilingual Arab students as they attend Arabic weekly cultural seminar sessions during their temporary stay and study in the US. More precisely, it captures their codeswitching use via video recordings which it subjects to linguistic, conversation, sociolinguistic, and education-focused discourse analyses with the implementation of the mixed-method approach. The findings reveal that when codeswitc...
Alaa Hamdan Alhamdan.
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Advisors: Savova, Lilia P. Committee members: Dana Driscoll; Curtis Porter.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

In this study, the author investigated how digital technologies mediate academic writing activities of four multilingual international students who had completed some college composition classes. Studying writing activities poses challenges; contemporary writing activities are diffuse, dispersed across multiple technologies and often inaccessible because of when and where the activities occur. The author developed a new methodology to gather real-time data during the on-going digital processe...
Emily Jayne Simnitt.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Deckert, Sharon K. Committee members: Dana Driscoll; Ben Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

With early detection through regular screening, cervical cancer is one of the most preventable diseases. Yet in the United States, thousands of women die from cervical cancer every year. Many barriers to cervical cancer screenings exist, including lack of insurance coverage for preventive health services. Research shows that insurance coverage for preventive services such as cervical cancer screening is linked to higher participation in recommended screenings. Under the Affordable Care Act, c...
Tonya Y Miller.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Boser, Susan Committee members: John Anderson; Alex Heckert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

This study was performed in order to determine the impact of nursing attitudes towards Pay -For -Performance (P4P) Initiatives. P4P often requires specific, defined steps be taken during the care of a patient, and compliance with the defined steps impacts an organization's quality score card and reimbursement. While the P4P requirements meet generally accepted clinical practice guidelines, this project sought to determine whether the mandatory nature of the requirements impacted nursing auton...
Annette V Godissart.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Heckert, Alex Committee members: Beth Mabry; Brandon Vick.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English