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Evaluation of the ecst-r atp scales: detecting coached diagnostic-specific feigning and coached feigning of incompetency to stand trial, with comparison to the m-fast

The current study used a simulated design to evaluate the performance of the ECST-R ATP Scales with undergraduate participants who were coached using information readily found on the internet to feign incompetency, schizophrenia or both. This study was largely exploratory in nature, but sought to determine if the ATP Scales would be effective when identifying participants with different feigning motivations. The present study also compared the performance of the ATP Scales to the M-FAST in te...
Alynda M Randolph.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Reardon, Margaret Committee members: Laura Knight; David LaPorte.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

Exploring academic and disciplinary literacy socialization and enactment of seven international undergraduate business students

This dissertation explored the academic and disciplinary literacy socialization of seven international undergraduate business students. It used a qualitative multi-case design to answer the question: How do international undergraduate students in business and management experience academic literacy and disciplinary socialization in their majors? The data collected to answer this question utilized face-to-face interviews and writing samples. The respective participants were seven international...
Abdullah S Darwish.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Driscoll, Dana Lynn Committee members: Gian Pagnucci; Bennett Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

Exploring how chemistry and english majors understand and construct disciplinary identities in relation to life, departmental, and writing experiences: implications for wac and retention

To suggest how U.S. colleges and departmental programs can further engage and retain undergraduates and how writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) programs can support student engagement and retention, this study explored how chemistry and English majors at one northeastern U.S. state public university understood and performed identities in relation to their life, departmental, and disciplinary writing experiences. Data gathered to answer the study's research questions came from co-written acade...
Justin Nicholes.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hanauer, David I. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Dana Driscoll.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

An eye toward change: examining requests in teacher-student writing conferences

Combining methods from speech-act theory, conversation analysis, and second-language writing (applied linguistics), this dissertation study examined the ways students and teachers make, perceive, and respond to requests during writing conferences. Aiming to discover why miscommunication occurs, this study examined how composition instructors adapt their requests to account for their own and their students' communicative backgrounds defined as language background, experience with writing confe...
Angie McKinnon Carter.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Bennett A. Committee members: Laurel Black; Sharon Deckert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

Factors influencing information literacy self-efficacy of prelicensure baccalaureate nursing students

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

Fear of compassion: links to interpersonal and intrapsychic behavior, personality variables, and mental health outcomes

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

Former students' and their learning coaches' perceptions of their cyber-charter school experiences: a case study

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

Health policy engagement among nurse educators: a descriptive, cross-sectional study into political astuteness and political self-efficacy and the impact of personal and professional factors

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

How do the perceptions of wages, benefits, and working conditions differ among unionized mechanical construction workers in right-to-work and non-right-to-work states

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

Human performance improvement: towards a framework for linking workplace spirituality, mindfulness, workers' engagement, and safety outcomes

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

Humanities in physical therapy education: a case study of successful curricular integration

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

The impact of social media use upon the cross-cultural competency among employees within multinational companies

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

The impact of teacher and student mindsets on responding to student writing in first-year composition

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

Implicit racial attitude, hostile attribution bias, and the desire to enter law enforcement: exploring possible relationships

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

Instructor-student conferencing as pedagogy: measuring isc pedagogy's impact on student writing and self-efficacy

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

Investigating perceptions of capabilities and appearance as predictors of satisfaction with bariatric surgery

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

Leadership journeys of women in the banking industry: a qualitative study exploring women's perceived barriers and opportunities to advancement in bank leadership in pennsylvania

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

Literary orientalism: east-west literary and intellectual interactions in selected texts from late-eighteenth and early-to mid-nineteenth-century english literature

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.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Williamson, Michael T. Committee members: David Downing; Michael Sell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2018.
English

Media exposure, confidence in the police, and police legitimacy

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