- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Diversity and Impact of Dance
- Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity
- Ego Development and Educational Practices
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
Illinois State University
2016-2021
University of Wisconsin–Stout
2012-2013
This study examined parental and professor attachment as buffers against acculturative stress predictors of college adjustment 210 Asian international students (AISs). Moderated hierarchical regression analyses revealed that negatively secure positively predicted academic integration. Secure grade point average. Mother may buffer on integration; father exacerbate it. Counselors use these findings to enhance AISs' functioning for their adjustment. Este estudio examinó el apego y al profesor...
This High Impact Practices (HIPS) contribute to higherretention and graduation rates. HIPS are effective for racial ethnic minorities in particular, who disproportionately experience high persistent levels of post-secondary attrition. Little is known aboutthe mechanism by which promote retention. Based on a random survey 268 undergraduate students, we conclude that correlate with engagement, defined as the alignment student institution (identifiedin present study behavioral cognitive...
This study examined the relationships among acculturative stress, coping styles, self-efficacy, English language proficiency, and various demographic characteristics as predictors of procrastination behavior in Asian International students (N = 255) studying United States. Results multiple logistic regression indicated that a collective style, avoidant academic proficiency were significant non-Indian international students. Implications for college student affairs professionals researchers...
Abstract This study examined mothers' and fathers' parenting challenges strategies/resources used when toddlers. Through a qualitative interview protocol, implemented with mothers fathers separately at university laboratory, this found that both appeared to be transitioning from traditional gender roles towards co-parenting practices. Thirty-eight, mostly Caucasian middle-class, of toddlers reported many similarities in challenges, coping strategies, resource use. Common sources stress for...
Because college students who have accomplished developmental tasks less effectively may be at risk for detrimental behavior such as binge eating, we examined emotion regulation a mediator of attachment insecurity and eating. Based on undergraduate graduate student responses to Web-based survey ( N = 381), structural equation modeling revealed that eating were associated mediated by regulation. Implications counseling development are discussed.
Openness to diversity is a crucial component of cultural competence needed in the increasingly diversified modern society and necessary condition for benefitting from contacts interventions (e.g., training, courses). Responding recent call more research on personality its relation outcomes, we examined associations between Big Five (i.e., Experience, Agreeableness, Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness) higher order factors lower facets universal-diverse orientation open attitude...
In this study, we examined associations among perceived discrimination, ethnic identity dimensions (exploration, resolution, affirmation), and psychological well-being (self-esteem, life satisfaction, flourishing) 156 Arab Americans. Multiple moderated regression analyses revealed that discrimination was negatively associated, resolution affirmation were positively with well-being. Ethnic the association between flourishing by buffering negative effect of discrimination. exploration did not...
In this study, we examined a structural equation model in which attachment anxiety and avoidance were associated with binge eating restricted behaviors through distinct emotion regulation difficulties of emotional reactivity cutoff among college women ( n = 744) men 200). As predicted, was which, turn, eating. Attachment eating, both men. Two gender differences found: the association between statistically significant only for women, stronger than women. Clinical implications are suggested,...
Research using Western samples shows that talking about unpleasant emotions-distress disclosure-is associated with fewer psychological symptoms and higher well-being. These benefits of distress disclosure may or not be observed in East Asia where emotional control is valued. Instead, mindfulness more relevant to emotion regulation (e.g., Taiwan). In the present study, cultural context (Taiwanese nationals vs. European Americans) were examined as moderators relation between both depression...
In this study we examine the mediating roles of psychological needs satisfaction (i.e., autonomy, competence, and relatedness) emotion regulation difficulties in relationship between attachment insecurity anxiety avoidance) binge eating behavior college students. A total sample 820 students participated study. Structural equation modeling was performed to test a mediation hypothesis. The model that included as sequential mediators for link fit data well.
This study assessed perceived needs for psychological support program family with victim of child sexual abuse in South Korea. We conducted two separate focus group interviews five therapists who served victims and families as well four mothers a victim. Consensual qualitative research analysis revealed domains: Emotional parents, psychoeducation, therapy, tailored flexible service delivery. Core ideas the domains were identified. The results consistent contents developed Western countries...
I tested a path model that integrated cultural and psychological factors as predictors of disordered eating among Asian American college women. values honoring family through achievement conformity to norms, intergenerational conflict due acculturation gap were the predictors. Psychological needs thwarting anxious parental attachment indirect which predicted eating. Two-hundred forty-four women participated in an online survey. Structural equation modeling analysis results indicated value...
There is compelling research to suggest that individuals high in perfectionistic concerns are at risk for psychological distress because they fail effectively regulate their emotions. From a theoretical perspective, there may be multiple forms of maladaptive emotion regulation operating the context concerns, but empirical studies have generally examined only one or two these time. Our tested diverse set emotion-regulation factors predict while accounting and it indirect effects between via...
This study tested a model in which bicultural self-efficacy is associated with identity integration (BII), which, turn, psychological well-being, both associations being moderated by critical consciousness of racism. Participants were 289 people color who identify as residing the United States (Mean age = 30.73, SD 7.31). The utilized cross-sectional design. A path analysis was conducted using PROCESS MACRO. Bicultural harmony and blendedness components BII. association between component BII...