Browsing VanLiere Symposium Posters by Title
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Parent Emotion Coaching and Emotion Language Effects on Children's Use of Emotion Words
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009)Mothers' and fathers' emotion socialization through parent-emotion coaching and parent emotion language was investigated for effects on children’s positive and negative emotion language. The sample included 14 two-parent ... -
Parental Styles and its effects on Self-Esteem and Mental well-being of Adolescents in Individualist and Collectivist cultures
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)This literature review seeks to investigate how parental styles influence self-esteem, and mental well-being of adolescents in different cultures. Self-esteem is important because it controls the emotional state and function ... -
Peer Educators In Comprehensive Sex Education Will Improve Efficacy: A Proposed Study
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)Sexuality education is high school settings is a topic that taught in many different ways depending on state laws, district policies, and resources available. However, sexuality education falls into two main overarchin ... -
Perception of Upper Extremity Strength in Elderly
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)Perception of grip strength between hands, and actual grip strength being applied in elderly adults was studied. Four performed a series of grasping tasks. It was hypothesized that participants would not accurately match ... -
Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions on Injury Rehabilitation in a Proposed Study
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2016)Until recently the use of psychological interventions to assist with injury rehabilitation was not very common due to a lack of knowledge. Now that these practices are gaining more support the key is to get the backing of ... -
Personality Correlations Between Mothers and their Biological Children
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Adoption and twin studies such as Horn, Loehlin, and Willerman (1979) and Bergeman et al. (1993) suggest that genetics has the most influence on the formation of the personality, while the environment has little to no ... -
The Positive Effects of Cultural Immersion on Cross-Cultural Awareness and Knowledge
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)The most common type of cultural immersion today is study abroad. Dating back to when it first emerged in the 1960s, cultural psychology has always been very interested in the different ways humans interact (Markus, 2001). ... -
The Potential of Neurofeedback: A Case Study of a 9-year ADHD Child
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)Neurofeedback is a non-invasive, drug-free, treatment option for a wide variety of illnesses and disorders. Neurofeedback therapy is a relatively new method of mind-body treatment. Neurofeedback therapy is the process of ... -
The Prevalence and Labeling of Sexual Assault and Rape at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)• Around one in four women will experience sexual assault in college (Elliott, Mok, & Briere, 2004), and one in five women and one in 71 men will experience sexual assault in their lifetimes (U.S. Center for Disease Control ... -
The Primary Factor of Perceived Risk of Injury and its Effects on Performance
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2006)Researchers have examined three psychological factors that impair the performance of athletes that have suffered an injury: (a) anxiety from being injured, (b) confidence in avoiding another injury and (c) perceived ... -
Pro-Environmental Behavior Modification Techniques: A Program Designed to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions at a Residential Level
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)This study takes several behavior modification techniques, specifically, (a) group-based peer learning, (b) implementation intentions, (c) prompts, (d) public commitments, and (e) social-injunctive norms and combines them ... -
Promoting Creative Process in a Product Design Firm
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Initially an effort to understand the variables and dynamics effecting product design, this research is the sum of my experiences working as an Idea Development Assistant (IDA) at Billings Jackson Design in NYC, as well ... -
The Psychological Effects of Sports Related Concussions and a Proposed Plan for Recovery at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Concussions can be a complicated injury for an athlete to sustain as they are invisible to the onlooker. Often, athletes who are already experiencing some kind of underlying psychological issue tend to have poorer ... -
The Psychological Effects of the Ecological Network on African American Adolescents’ Pregnancy Behavior
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2008)Research on the pregnancy tendencies and sexual behaviors of African American female adolescents, 14-18 years of age reveals patterns and influences that lead to these behaviors, and repeat pregnancies within a year. ... -
Racial and Educational Disparities in Adherence to Safe Sleep Recommendations: Knowledge and Behavior in Kalamazoo
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Black infant mortality is a pertinent issue in Kalamazoo and highlights structural inequities such as access to healthcare, housing, education, and employment. In Kalamazoo, 3 times as many Black infants die from sleep ... -
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Treatment for Restrictive Eating Disorders in Women
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)Women of color in the United States have historically been considered immune from restrictive eating disorders including anorexia and bulimia nervosa (Kuba & Harris, 2001). However, various stressors, including acculturation ... -
The Recruitment Process: Attracting and Retaining Quality Employees
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2012)My experience as a human resource intern for St. John Providence Health System led to research of the recruitment process. I found that job recruitment and retention are closely linked to the theory of motivation in regards ... -
Rehabilitative Imagery and Placebo Responding: An Objective Measure of Expectancy Effects
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)Mental imagery (MI), or the process of re-creating an event within the mind, has been used in a variety of contexts. Imagery training has been used mostly within the context of sport (see Martin, Moritz, & Hall, 1999, for ... -
The Relation of Depressive Symptoms to Anger Arousal, Aggression, Submissiveness, and Anger Suppression
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2004)Past research has clearly demonstrated that depressive symptoms are associated with anger arousal and anger suppression (e.g., Allan & Gilbert, 2002; Quiggle, Garber, Panak, & Dodge, 1992). However, the literature is ... -
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MATERNAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, DIFFICULT INFANT TEMPERAMENT, AND MATERNAL PERCEPTIONS OF INFANT BEHAVIOR
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2012)The current study explores the relationship between maternal PTSD and depression and infant temperament in a sample of mothers and their infants (n = 55). I hypothesized that maternal psychopathology would relate to ...