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V. Paul Poteat; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Robert A. Marx; S. Henry Sherwood; Abigail Richburg; Gabriel R. Murchison; Arthur Lipkin; Megan K. Yang; Jerel P. Calzo – Grantee Submission, 2023
Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) are school clubs for LGBTQ+ youth and peer allies to support one another. This eight-week weekly diary study considered whether a youth's positive and negative affect during a given week could be predicted by experiences in their most recently attended GSA meeting. Ninety-nine GSA members (M[subscript age] =…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Clubs, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation
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Lee, Shanique J.; York, Portia Marie; Williams, John A., III; Richardson, Sonyia C.; Davis, Alicia W.; Williams, Brian Keith; Lewis, Chance W. – Urban Education, 2023
Teachers experience a great deal of psychological distress. However, there is a gap in the literature concerning the difference between the distress of teachers working in urban schools versus those in non-urban schools. Thus, the present study utilizes data from the 2018 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey to conduct a statistical…
Descriptors: Teachers, Stress Variables, Psychological Patterns, Rural Urban Differences
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Li, Christine Jie; Monroe, Martha C. – Environmental Education Research, 2019
Hope is an important component that helps engage people in solving problems. Environmental educational resources addressing climate change effectively should ideally nurture hope as well as increase understanding about the issue. However, hopefulness about resolving climate change challenges is a relatively new construct in the literature and…
Descriptors: Climate, Psychological Patterns, Environmental Education, High School Students
Wang, Feihong; Algina, James; Snyder, Patricia; Cox, Martha; Vernon-Feagans, Lynne; Cox, Martha; Blair, Clancy; Burchinal, Margaret; Burton, Linda; Crnic, Keith; Crouter, Ann; Garrett-Peters, Patricia; Greenberg, Mark; Lanza, Stephanie; Mills-Koonce, Roger; Werner, Emily; Willoughby, Michael – Grantee Submission, 2017
We examined individual differences and predictions of children's patterns in behavioral, emotional and attentional efforts toward challenging puzzle tasks at 24 and 35 months using data from a large longitudinal rural representative sample. Using latent transition analysis, we found four distinct task-oriented patterns in problem-solving tasks…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Children, Task Analysis, Early Childhood Education
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Meier, Matt E.; Kane, Michael J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Three experiments examined the relation between working memory capacity (WMC) and 2 different forms of cognitive conflict: stimulus-stimulus (S-S) and stimulus-response (S-R) interference. Our goal was to test whether WMC's relation to conflict-task performance is mediated by stimulus-identification processes (captured by S-S conflict),…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Short Term Memory, Executive Function, Cognitive Processes
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Altpeter, Mary; Mitchell, James F.; Pennell, Joan – Health & Social Work, 2005
This study provides the basis for customizing culturally responsive social work health promotion programs aimed at eliminating breast cancer screening and mortality disparities between white and African American women. Survey data collected from a random sample of 853 women in rural North Carolina were used to explore the impact of psychosocial…
Descriptors: Females, Social Work, Caseworkers, Cancer