- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Career Development and Diversity
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Higher Education and Employability
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
- Education and Learning Interventions
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
- Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Environmental and Air Quality Management
- Legal Issues in Education
- Legal Education and Practice Innovations
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
University of Kentucky
2016-2024
Kentucky Department of Education
2018
Abstract Background Self‐efficacy has been shown to be positively related undergraduate engineering students' achievement. Designing self‐efficacy measures assess the multifaceted skills required of engineers could improve predictive relationship between efficacy beliefs and performance. Purpose This study evaluates factor structure, validity, reliability general skill‐specific created for use with students. Design/Method items used were adapted from those previously. Survey responses...
Psychological factors such as grit and self-efficacy have been heralded powerful predictors of performance. Their joint contribution to the prediction early adolescents’ school success has not fully investigated, however. The purpose this study was examine U.S. elementary middle students’ (N = 2,430) (assessed perseverance effort) self-efficacy, their predictive relationship with achievement teacher-rated motivation competence in reading math across one year. Scalar invariance found for...
Self-report surveys that are online, lengthy, and contain sensitive material greatly increase the probability of invalid responding (IR) on instrument. Most research to inform our identification responders have not been able test their methodologies where all these conditions present. This study systematically adopted 10 IR indicators based direct, archival, statistic strategies identify providing answers a lengthy survey collecting campus climate/violence information college students ( N =...
Data from a campus climate/violence survey (CCS) include psychometric information for items/scales plus findings large state university to promote its usefulness assessment of interpersonal violence/harassment. This CCS can thus be evaluated measurement and documented findings, allowing benchmarking purposes. An innovative strategy is introduced comprehensively capture incidence victimization types through streamlined questioning. Tables provide detailed data 6,995 undergraduate...
Personality traits, attitudes, and behavioral intentions of high school seniors prior to attending or not institutions higher education were explored. Because this age-group’s risk level, variables assessed included historical social/cultural factors, internal/contextual lifestyle factors potentially associated with violence experiences. Participants at 24 Kentucky schools who voluntarily completed surveys. A year later, 2,073 reported whether they attended a 4-year institution ( n = 1,038),...
Persistently high rates of campus rape combined with changing legal landscapes surrounding reproductive health make student perceptions the consequences resulting from an important topic research. In this study, we analyze a hypothetical in which victim experiences no medical consequences, becomes pregnant, or contracts sexually transmitted infection (STI) as result rape. Students sample recommended consistently severe punishment for perpetrator across all three experimental conditions but...
With growing attention to adjudication of campus sexual assault cases, more is known regarding students' views assault, but little the literature focuses on how students perceive "justice" in terms assigning sanctions or guilt/responsibility for such cases. The present study focused understanding whether college preformed attitudes and beliefs were associated with severity they applied across a range cases as well their assignments guilt responsibility parties involved. To determine...
Assessing change in campus interpersonal violence over time is an important step to understand the nature and prevalence of students’ victimization experiences. Using a repeated cross-sectional survey from large southern university, this article tracks experiences three-year period for two identified undergraduate student cohorts offers empirical evidence determine best college student’s career initially launch how often such data should be collected. Controlling demographic characteristics,...
Personality traits, attitudes, and behavioral intentions of high school seniors prior to attending or not institutions higher education were explored. Because this age-group’s risk ...