Project 150

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United States Police & Society Reform

For many years, people of color have had an unsteady relationship with police departments and law enforcement due to police misconduct, use of force, and police brutality. We’ve had many of the same conversations over and over again about what we can do to bring upon change within our departments, but no true, consistent action has been taken. In this paper we discuss multiple solutions to help address the issue of police misconduct, the need for police and society reform, and ways we can work towards mending the relationship between citizens and our police departments. In today’s society, change is proven to be necessary in order to restore this essential relationship. Without the change, things will continue to progressively get worse in our country

Psychological Well-Being, Eating Disorder Risk, & Weight-Related Concerns in First Semester College Students

Both mental health and eating disorders are increasing health concerns for college students. This study aimed to examine associative links between psychological distress, adverse childhood experiences, food addiction, and weight-related concerns among first semester college students. Freshman students 18 years or older in all majors in a southeastern university were invited to take an online survey. The measures included demographic characteristics, psychological behaviors and eating disorder risks. Pearson’s correlation analysis was used to assess associations. Ninety-two students (79.3% female, 61.5% white) completed the survey. Psychological distress was significantly correlated with higher eating disorder risk (stress r=0.28, anxiety r=0.28, depression r=0.42; p’

The Academic Achievement of Dual Language Learning Preschoolers

The proposed research is designed to address major deficits in the knowledge regarding the development of dual-language learners in the U.S. preschool setting, including the lack of information about the impact of free choice play with non-dual-language learning peers and the absence of descriptive data on the social interactions that occur during free play as such. The focus of the study is on the dual-language learners’ growth of executive functioning skills and English language development across the preschool year, in relations to their social interactions during free play with non-dual-language learning peers. The participants will be 50 dual-language learning children attending preschool programs residing in low socioeconomic status communities. Participating children will be screened for English proficiency and administered the Woodcock-Johnson and Minnesota Executive Functions Scale to assess executive functioning skills at the start of the school year, with quarterly executive functioning assessments, and a final screening for English proficiency at the end of the year. Observations of the free play social interactions will be completed via teacher-report in relations to the Child Observation in Preschools Manual, and teacher/parent surveys will identify potential outside influences on the child’s development. Higher frequency of effective socialization during free play is expected to be associated with positive executive functioning and language growth. The proposed research will provide additional support to existing research on specific methods and educational tools that need to be implemented in preschools with dual language learners to support their development and academic success.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/roesch_symposium_content/1044/thumbnail.jp

IPEI 2018: Madisen Breunig

ProgramSpeech-Language Pathology, MS EducationCommunication Sciences and Disorders, BS | Saint Louis Universityhttps://griffinshare.fontbonne.edu/ipei-2018/1001/thumbnail.jp

An All-Female Hamlet

A semester spent studying gender through the eyes of a female Hamlet

Women In Formula 1 - A Social Media Campaign Designed To Promote F1 Academy

This social media campaign is designed to promote F1 Academy; an all female racing series backed by Formula 1. The goal is to use media to encourage young girls and women to know they can achieve anything they put their minds to

A Critical Geopolitical Analysis of Urban/Suburban Green Spaces: Meadowbrook Park as a Material Discourse

This project was created for the EVRN 371 class and presented at the 2020 Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium online event, held November 30th-December 4th. The Symposium was sponsored by the KU Center for Undergraduate Research.This presentation is a critical geopolitical analysis of urban and suburban green spaces using Meadowbrook Park as an example of a material discourse. This presentation emphasizes a critical geopolitical approach to analyzing a physical space, which is Meadowbrook Park. Critical geopolitical analysis aims to unpack a place, text or idea and to think of these things as a narrative with a deeper meaning and to identify what may be hidden or obscured in that narrative

In Sickness and in Health: Interactions between Romantic Dyads, Power, and Health

The current study applied the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (Cook & Kenny, 2005) to assess influence in romantic dyads regarding health attitudes and behaviors (exercise, eating), and the moderating effects of gendered power. Associations between dyad similarity scores on health attitudes, health behaviors, and gendered relationship quality was also explored. Forty-five heterosexual romantic couples who were exclusively dating (72% White/Caucasian; age M = 22.3 years; relationship length M = 28.7 months) completed several questionnaires including: the Relationship Power Inventory – Overall (Farrell et al., 2015), the Perceived Relationship Quality Components Inventory (Fletcher et al., 2000), a modified Exercise Identity Scale (Anderson & Cychosz, 1994), a modified Healthy-Eating Identity Scale (Strachan & Brawley, 2009), and a modified Health Practices Scale (Jackson, 2005). Results showed that female health attitudes predicted female (p = .006) and male health behaviors (p = .043). Male health attitudes only predicted male health behaviors (p = .004), not female health behaviors. Similar results held true for actor and partner pathways between exercise attitudes and behaviors (p’s \u3c .05). Regarding eating, all female actor and partner effects were nonsignificant, while male eating attitudes only predicted male eating behaviors (p = .009). Male power only moderated the female actor effect of health attitudes predicting health behaviors, such that female health attitudes were more predictive when males had lower versus higher power (p = .008). Female power only moderated the female partner effect of female exercise attitudes predicting male exercise behaviors, such that female exercise attitudes were more predictive when females had higher versus lower power (p = .010). Lastly, dyad similarity scores on health attitudes, health behaviors, and gendered relationship quality were unrelated. Consistent with gender role socialization and gendered power, females had more influence on male partners’ health behaviors. Continued data collection and assessment of key personality constructs is recommended

Military as Welfare State: Conditions Leading to the Adoption of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program

Since its inception in 1993, nearly 90,000 high school dropouts have completed the National Guard Youth Challenge Program, a youth diversion program for unemployed high school dropouts. As of 2008, 27 states have partnered with the military to implement this residential program for at-risk youth. There is limited research on this new social welfare program despite its representing a dynamic military-state-welfare relationship. This study examines state-level conditions and looks to answer three research questions: 1) Under what conditions do states start a ChalleNGe program?; 2) What role do time-varying social and economic factors have in influencing states to initially adopt the program?; and 3) To what extent does the racial composition of program sites reflect the racial composition of its host state\u27s young high school drop-outs? I examined state-level social and economic conditions using data from a variety of federal agencies and public opinion surveys. I examined social and economic circumstances that may have influenced state-level participation. Due to the nature of time-dependent variables and states\u27 launching programs as various times since 1993, I used an event history analysis to predict the timing of initiation of a ChalleNGe program. The results of this research indicate that high unemployment rates and low high school graduation rates increase the likelihood that a state will create a ChalleNGe program. The results from this study provide insight into the creation and expansion of the ChalleNGe program as well as the changing role of military as a part of the welfare state