<p> This research describes psychological values as they appear in social commerce related online marketing campaigns. Values are studied by their functional roles, which is what they do, rather than what they are (Gouveia, Milfont, &amp; Guerra, 2014). According to the functional theory of values, values guide actions and express needs. Marketing campaigns and values are explored because both marketing and values seek to guide actions and express needs. Exploring this calls for a qualitative study using content analysis. This research conducts two content analysis studies to verify accuracy. The first uses an open coding method, and the second uses a qualitative deductive analysis approach. The results retrieved throughout both studies use different word codes, but when listed together indicate that insightfulness, knowledge, and social support show the highest frequency and co-occurrence. Both studies also show that digitoral marketing campaigns rely much more on thriving needs than survival needs. Both studies confirmed, however, that survival needs are mostly expressed through displays of power, obedience, personal stability, and survival.</p><p>

<p> A formative evaluation of behavior change elements of an ongoing Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) offered by the Energy Resource Center (E.R.C.) in Denver, CO was conducted. The WAP as administered by the E.R.C. in Colorado saves residents an average 15% of energy consumption (E.R.C., 2015). However, research suggests that adding behavioral components to WAPs could increase energy savings to 21&ndash;26% (Gregory, 1992; APPRAISE, 2002). The goal of this evaluation is to provide recommendations to E.R.C. for program changes using Community Based Social Marketing (CBSM) and Theory of Planned Behavior. The CBSM Step 1- Step 3 is the focus of this formative evaluation. This program evaluation has four components: 1) review of written materials, 2) interviews with staff, 3) surveys mailed to E.R.C. clients and 4) in-home observations conducted with E.R.C. clients. Results of this formative evaluation has 3 sections of behaviors recommended for future intervention high priority, mid priority, and low priority recommendations based on CBSM penetration, probability, and impact factors. Behaviors that are listed as high priority for E.R.C. Behavioral intervention are cold water washing, hang drying, setting back thermostats, and window coverings. Overall increase in staff engagement is also recommended to be pursued. Each staff level is also given recommendations on how to engage in behavior change interventions.</p><p>

<p> Many women experience intimate partner violence (IPV), and research shows this violence significantly impacts their mental health, physical health, and substance abuse. The experience of IPV may also impact other areas of life. This study aims to explore the relationship between the experiences of IPV, perception of safety, and perception of faith, among female college students attending Christian universities. Archival data from the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) was used to explore this relationship among female students who experienced physical, sexual, or psychological IPV in the past twelve months. Results indicate students who experienced IPV endorsed lower perceptions of safety than their counterparts who did not experience IPV. In addition, results failed to find that faith moderated the perception of safety among students who have experienced IPV.</p><p>

<p> Developing a sense of self as an independent and unique person, or identity, is an important developmental milestone for adolescents and young adults. Thus, understanding the factors that influence an individual&rsquo;s identity is useful. This thesis examines two factors that influence interpersonal identity: internal working models of attachment and perceived parenting. Internal working models are an individual&rsquo;s cognitive roadmaps of self-worthiness and other-trustworthiness. Perceived parenting consists of perceptions of parental support and parental over-control during childhood and adolescence. A sample of 397 college students (107 males, 287 females, 2 others) receiving course credit at a Southern university were surveyed using online Likert-type questionnaires to determine whether or not internal working models of attachment mediate the relation between perceived parenting and interpersonal identity. Results indicated that there was evidence that internal working models do mediate the relation between perceived parenting and interpersonal identity. However, this research will need to be approached longitudinally and use objective assessments of parental behaviors, rather than subjective assessments. However, there is enough evidence in this study to continue the endeavor.</p><p>

<p> Previous research has demonstrated that collective rumination&mdash;dwelling on a provocation with another person&mdash;augments aggression relative to individual rumination. The goal of the current study was to (a) extend these findings to <i>displaced aggression</i>, or &ldquo;taking it out&rdquo; on an innocent target and (b) examine type of target as a moderator. Participants were provoked, randomly assigned to ruminate either collectively or individually, and subsequently given the opportunity to displace their aggression against in-group, out-group, and no-group control targets. Results indicate that when individually ruminating about a provocation from an out-group member, participants displayed less aggression toward in-group (vs. out-group) targets. In contrast, participants who engaged in collective rumination did not differentiate among targets thus eliminating favorable behavior towards in-group members. Mediation analysis indicated that collective rumination increased negative affect which in turn augmented displaced aggression towards in-group targets. Implications for aggression will be discussed.</p><p>

<p> Guided Autobiography is a process of writing, sharing and preserving one&rsquo;s life stories and life experiences. It leads one down a path through vast stores of memories, leading to an increased awareness and appreciation of having lived through so much. </p><p> The purpose of this study was to adapt Birren&rsquo;s Guided Autobiography (GAB) program for U. S. veterans 65 years of age and older. The themes developed for this study were based on Birren&rsquo;s nine themes for conducting autobiography groups. It was tailored to include themes relevant to older adult war veterans. Local veterans were interviewed and asked about past war experiences. The responses were recorded and analyzed using qualitative research methods. GAB serves to assist Gerontologists, Social Workers and other Health Practitioners in that it helps to provide insight into veterans&rsquo; experiences.</p>

<p> Self-compassion has been described as an adaptive form of self-to-self relating. It involves the three interrelated components of self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity exhibited toward the self at times of pain and perceived failure. This study explored the process of becoming self-compassionate for people attending the Compassionate Reparenting Training, a five-week program aimed to facilitate emotional self-awareness and the development of self-compassion. The aim of the present study was to pursue an idiographic investigation into the lived experiences of the participants in their process of developing self-compassion and the obstacles, barriers, and opportunities encountered. Data was analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) with the aim of identifying people&rsquo;s experiences of the process of becoming more compassionate to themselves after completing the training. Based on qualitative inquiry using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of interview data with nine participants, the findings suggested that self-compassion is a learned ability that ebbs and flows as a life-long journey and can be enhanced in self-to-self relating through the image of the inner child self. The presence of four superordinate themes and ten subthemes emerged from the descriptions of the journey in the lives the participants. The superordinate themes included (1) Strategies Used in Initiating the Process, (2) Making Meaning&hellip;<i>Connecting the dots</i> (3) The Struggle to be Self-Compassionate&hellip;<i>It&rsquo;s a work in progress</i>, and (4) The Value of Developing a Self-Compassion Practice. A higher-order construct was identified that appeared embedded within and across both superordinate and subthemes: Self-Compassion is an ongoing and evolving process&hellip;<i>A life-long journey that ebbs and flows </i>. The current dissertation expands the scope of inquiry to include a qualitative dimension to the recent literature on self-compassion. Findings will help to develop future research and guide clinical interventions in order to cultivate compassionate self-to-self relating.</p><p>

<p> This critical hermeneutic case study of the Occupy movement and Occupy Portland considers indicators of cultural change and new social imaginary significations through the lenses of bodily relations to place and depth psychology&rsquo;s psychoanalytic tradition. In Occupy, the convening power of mass self-communication technologies allowed the substitution of organizing properties of place for organizational capital (structures developed in advance of the gathering); and, the configuration of physical capital within convening places had a co determinative influence over the development of social structures and group identities. The partial substitution of place for organizational capital reduced the distanciation that might otherwise have been required to convene such large gatherings, and so provided a paradoxical opportunity for increased participant experience of both autonomy and community. In connection with Occupy Portland, qualities of the ever present struggle between desires for connection and autonomous expression shifted with shifting places. Events associated with Occupy indicate ontological changes may be increasing the relevance of communal social imaginary significations counter to those of Western capitalism, or at least departing from it significantly. Ephemeral gatherings like Occupy (here termed social condensation events) are revelatory of that which is socially unconscious and are likely to occur with increasing frequency due to mass self-communication technologies. As with Occupy, places of future social condensation events will give shape to the resulting social spaces as they become organically constructed in relation to those places. </p>

<p>Janice, Josephine. Bachelor of Arts, University of Indonesia, Spring 2014; Master of Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Summer 2017 Major: Psychology Title of Thesis: Preschoolers? Prosocial Responding to Social Others? Distress Thesis Director: Dr. Hung-Chu Lin Pages in Thesis: 83; Words in Abstract: 199 ABSTRACT The present study examined the effect of familiarity with social partners on preschoolers? prosocial responses to social others? distress and related their responses to dispositional empathy and temperamental inhibition. Sixty-one preschoolers (38 boys, 23 girls, mean age: 44 months) were recruited from local preschools. Preschoolers went through three conditions of simulated distress in different social partners in the same order (the caregiver, an adult stranger, and an infant manikin). Parent-report Griffith Empathy Measure (GEM) and the Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire (BIQ) were used to measure children?s dispositional empathy and temperamental inhibition. The results indicated that preschoolers? behavioral responses to social others? distress varied by familiarity with social partners, with the greatest amount of time spent in showing caregiver-oriented actions followed by infant-oriented actions. Overall, higher levels of dispositional empathy were related to a greater amount of time spent in response behaviors with a focus on others? well-being. Temperamental inhibition also exhibited predictive values for prosocial behavior, with high inhibition related to less other-oriented behaviors. Together, the present study underscored the social and personality factors that are implicated with individual differences in preschool children?s prosocial responses to social others? distress. Keywords: preschoolers, prosocial behavior, familiarity, social partners, dispositional empathy, temperamental inhibition

The current research investigates how the perceived emotional responses of a majority of Americans to 9/11 (i.e., collective anger and fear) affect individuals’ support for governmental policies, in particular, military intervention, anti-immigration policy, and restricting civil liberties. Study 1 found that perceived collective anger was associated with support for military intervention and anti-immigration policy, and that those effects of perceived collective anger on policy support were significantly driven by individuals’ own anger. Study 2 showed that experimentally manipulated collective anger (i.e., exposure to the majority’s anger relative to the minority’s anger) had marginal effects on support for anti-immigration policy and restricting civil liberties, and individuals’ own anger mediated the marginal effect of collective anger on support for restricting civil liberties. Participants exposed to either the majority’s or minority’s fear supported anti-immigration policy and restricting civil liberties as strongly as did those exposed to the majority’s anger. Implications and limitations of these findings were discussed.