140 research outputs found
Mapping the Pathways to Campus Writing Sites: Implications for Writing Program Administrators
This dissertation investigates the extent to which the writing program administrator and their affiliated writing program are structurally, organizationally, and rhetorically visibly connected to other campus sites of writing. To complete this project data was collected across five benchmarked institutions from publicly accessible online texts. Rhetorical analysis, informed by rhetorical genre studies and institutional ethnography, was conducted to conclude how writing programs are rhetorically situated in their home campus and how the role of the writing program administrator is rhetorically shaped within institutional structures and texts. The analysis concludes with recommended authorial interventions for the writing program administrator to adapt to their local institutional setting
Self-Verification as a Mediator of Mothersā Self-Fulfilling Effects on Adolescents\u27 Educational Attainment
This research examined whether self-verification acts as a general mediational process of self-fulfilling prophecies. The authors tested this hypothesis by examining whether self-verification processes mediated self-fulfilling prophecy effects within a different context and with a different belief and a different outcome than has been used in prior research. Results of longitudinal data obtained from mothers and their adolescents (N = 332) indicated that mothersā beliefs about their adolescentsā educational outcomes had a significant indirect effect on adolescentsā academic attainment through adolescentsā educational aspirations. This effect, observed over a 6-year span, provided evidence that mothersā self-fulfilling effects occurred, in part, because mothersā false beliefs influenced their adolescentsā own educational aspirations, which adolescents then self-verified through their educational attainment. The theoretical and applied implications of these findings are discussed
Unfair Treatment and Self-Regulatory Focus
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89950/1/oyserman__uskul__yoder__et_al..pd
Interpersonal Discrimination and the Health of Illicit Drug Users
Although discrimination has been shown to adversely affect the health of
marginalized populations, there is a paucity of research on the health impacts of
discrimination experienced by illicit drug users. The purpose of this study was to
examine the association between interpersonal discrimination and the mental and
physical health of illicit drug users taking into account several potential confounding
factors. A sample of 1,008 active illicit substance users (defined as having used
cocaine, crack, or heroin in the previous 2 months) were recruited in three New York
City neighborhoods between August 2000 and January 2001 using street-outreach
techniques. Discrimination due to illicit drug use was the most common form of
interpersonal discrimination experienced and more than one-half the study participants
reported experiencing discrimination due to more than one attribute. Discrimination
was significantly associated with poor mental health (measured by the SF-36 mental
health score), depression (measured by the CES-D), and the number of self-reported
chronic physical health conditions. The presence of multiple stigmatizing characteristics
was associated with poorer mental and physical health. Discrimination may contribute to poor mental and physical health in this marginalized population,
potentially complicating the provision of substance abuse treatment.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/40280/2/Young_Interpersonal Discrimination and the Health_2005.pd
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