Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Community Research & Action"
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(2023-06-30)Department: Community Research & ActionIn this paper, I seek to understand how staff members of Faith in Indiana (a Midwestern federation of the national faith-based community organizing network Faith in Action) perceive and talk about navigating their new roles ...
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(2023-06-30)Department: Community Research & ActionIn this paper, I seek to understand how staff members of Faith in Indiana (a Midwestern federation of the national faith-based community organizing network Faith in Action) perceive and talk about navigating their new roles ...
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(2023-11-27)Department: Community Research & ActionYoung people have long played an important role in challenging and dismantling racism and white supremacy. However, little is known about what explains how some adolescents come to hold antiracist attitudes and engage in ...
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(2020-11-16)Department: Community Research & ActionThe Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement seeks to disrupt dominant cultural patterns and norms both through the use of traditional movement tactics, such as protest, and through the strategic and intentional integration of ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Community Research & ActionWorking to fill existing gaps in the study of digital wellbeing and advance teen-centric methods mostly absent from prior research, this manuscript-style dissertation builds upon theoretical and conceptual foundations of ...
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(2020-07-24)Department: Community Research & ActionRacial discrimination has been consistently identified as a major stressor associated with poor developmental outcomes for African Americans. Despite a plethora of studies examining the effects and consequences of racial ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Community Research & ActionThis dissertation investigates the complex relationship between community violence and school environments in Nashville, Tennessee, through the lenses of social disorganization theory and routine activities theory. It ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Community Research & ActionAn approach to addressing complex social issues that has become ubiquitous in recent decades is the establishment of community coalitions and collaboratives. Prevailing theories of community coalition action suggest that ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Community Research & ActionAn approach to addressing complex social issues that has become ubiquitous in recent decades is the establishment of community coalitions and collaboratives. Prevailing theories of community coalition action suggest that ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Community Research & ActionAn approach to addressing complex social issues that has become ubiquitous in recent decades is the establishment of community coalitions and collaboratives. Prevailing theories of community coalition action suggest that ...
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(2022-03-27)Department: Community Research & ActionAlthough community and environmental psychologists have examined stigma against mentally and intellectually disabled people for decades, we rarely extend this analysis to wheelchair users. In addition, we tend to overlook ...
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(2023-11-09)Department: Community Research & ActionThe way that women of color make sense of adverse experiences such as intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization affects the way that they respond to the situation. Cultural contexts provide a frame for making sense of ...
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(2023-07-25)Department: Community Research & ActionThis study examines the effects of a place-based action civics intervention, Design Your Neighborhood (DYN), on middle school students’ place attachment (PA) and sociopolitical control (SPC). DYN is a cross-curricular ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: Community Research & ActionThe course and correlates of adolescent alcohol use disorder (AUD) recovery remains underexplored. Research that identifies protective and risk factors for adolescent AUD recovery, which include alcohol use, well-being, ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: Community Research & ActionThe course and correlates of adolescent alcohol use disorder (AUD) recovery remains underexplored. Research that identifies protective and risk factors for adolescent AUD recovery, which include alcohol use, well-being, ...
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(2022-01-13)Department: Community Research & ActionIn 2016, the Jamaican General Election witnessed the lowest voter turnout rate since independence. A popular media narrative suggests that this is an example of Jamaicans’ hopelessness or political apathy. However, an ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: Community Research & ActionThe Family Stress Model posits that environmental stressors place a burden on families that indirectly impact family dynamics and parenting, thereby undermining children’s adjustment. Past studies have acknowledged the ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: Community Research & ActionThe Family Stress Model posits that environmental stressors place a burden on families that indirectly impact family dynamics and parenting, thereby undermining children’s adjustment. Past studies have acknowledged the ...
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(2020-03-18)Department: Community Research & ActionMyriad studies describe the link between media use and youth sexual attitudes, intentions, and behaviors, but little is known about its influence on sexual development across adolescence, and about how factors, such as ...
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(2022-03-23)Department: Community Research & ActionMany formerly incarcerated individuals are experiencing nominal freedom (Lateef, 2019). They occupy a “parallel universe” where discrimination, stigma, and exclusion run rampant (Alexander, 2010, p. 94). If we wish to build ...