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Narcissism and relationship satisfaction: The impact of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism on relationship duration
No full textThe present study investigates relationship satisfaction of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism in short- and long-term relationships. Participants include 164 Texas Woman’s University students. The participants are asked to complete an online survey first gathering demographics and then measuring for grandiose and vulnerable narcissism characteristics. The survey also measures relationship satisfaction and the relationship duration they prefer. A Pearson correlation and regression analyses was conducted to test all of the hypotheses. The results of the study did not support the hypotheses. Overall narcissism, grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, nor did their interactions with relationship duration preference, did not have a significant positive or negative effect on relationship satisfaction
Occupational Therapy Interventions for Patients with Disorders of Consciousness (DOC)
No full textThere is a strong need to increase occupational therapists' (OTs) knowledge on Disorders of Consciousness (DOC) and for OTs to understand how to implement effective treatments for this population to increase their overall awareness and improve functional outcomes. There is also a need for more OTs to be involved in DOC research. My capstone project focused on attainment of research skills and specialized clinical practice skills evaluating and treating patients with DOC and brain injuries in the neurological inpatient rehabilitation setting. A case study was also developed following a patient with DOC on our caseload who sustained an anoxic brain injury. The focus area of the case study was spasticity management and its impact on functional outcomes and overall awareness in patients with DOC.TIRR Memorial Herman
Muscle damage, inflammation, and muscular performance following the physical abilities test in professional firefighters
No full textProper monitoring of fatigue, cardiovascular disease, and muscular damage may be used to decrease the high levels of cardiovascular disease, overuse musculoskeletal injuries, and workers compensation claims within the profession of firefighting. The purpose of this study was to examine muscle damage, muscular fatigue, and inflammation responses following a typical firefighting shift. Twenty-four professional firefighters completed two Physical Abilities Tests to standardize the tasks typically performed in a day of work and elicit similar physiological responses. These individuals were then monitored for 48hrs. Prior to and 48hrs following the PAT these individuals were evaluated for changes in strength, power, range of motion, as well as blood markers including myoglobin, TNF-α, and C-Reactive Protein. Following the PAT significant differences in myoglobin (p < 0.05), grip strength (p < 0.05), vertical jump (p < 0.05), and sit-and-reach (p < 0.05) were observed. No differences in TNF-α or C-Reactive Protein
were observed (p > 0.05). Twenty-four hours following a shift firefighter still show decreased levels of strength, power, and range of motion. This may lead to decreases in performance and an increased risk of injury
Supporting early biliteracy in english‐medium classrooms: Initiatives for family engagement and instructional innovations
No full textSince many bilingual students do not have access to bilingual education, this article illustrates how to collaborate with families and create instructional innovations to support biliteracy for all young bilinguals. The authors implemented a Biliteracy Jumpstart for 6 weeks at the beginning of school year culminating in Family Biliteracy Day with one linguistically diverse Pre-K classroom.
"An English-medium Pre-K teacher implements initiatives to support students' biliteracy through purposeful instruction, innovative curriculum, and family partnerships."
Much research illustrates the benefits of biliteracy (e.g., Babino & Stewart, 2020), the ability to engage in oral and written language across two or more languages. However, many bilingual students are in English-medium classrooms with only one official language of instruction (Office of English Language Acquisition, 2022). Bilingual students might be classified as emergent bilinguals, needing English language support, or they could be simultaneous bilinguals who have been exposed to two or more languages from birth. They may also be heritage speakers who are English dominant, particularly if they are the youngest child, often responding in English to their parents who speak to them in another language (Wright, 2019). Nevertheless, they are all bilingual children. Consequently, we should not approach their emergent literacy from a monolingual perspective (Gort, 2019). This article illustrates how to partner with families and create instructional innovations that support early biliteracy for all bilinguals
Spiritual abuse and psychache: The association of sacred wounding with gender, sexual orientation, and race
No full textThe researcher of the current study sought to expand understanding of the impact that religious and spiritual experiences have on the mental health outcomes of adults. While research on various forms of abuse has been extensive in nature, literature exploring dimensions of spiritual abuse have been diminutive in comparison. Even less is known about the impact spiritual abuse has on survivors’ overall well-being and the role spiritual abuse might play in the intolerable emotional suffering or psychache of those who experience sacred wounding. This study seeks to facilitate increased understanding of spiritual abuse not only due to the concerning association between psychache and suicidality (Spínola et al., 2022; Troister & Holden, 2012) but also in service of psychology’s mandate to provide ethical, intersectional, and competent integration of religion and spirituality in clinical practice (Currier et al., 2023). Participants were recruited through social media and email listservs to complete the following questionnaires: a demographic questionnaire, the Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire (Keller, 2016) and the Psychache Scale (Holden et al., 2001). The researcher recruited adult participants (n = 150) who had been involved in a religious or spiritual group at some point in their lives. The researcher conducted correlational and multiple regression analyses to test their hypotheses. The data supported the predicted higher rates of spiritual abuse for sexually marginalized participants than for heterosexual participants (Hypothesis 1). As expected, the data confirmed significant positive relationships between spiritual abuse and psychache (Hypothesis 2). The results did not support that the relationship between spiritual abuse and psychache would be moderated by race (Hypothesis 3), sexual orientation, (Hypothesis 4) or gender identity (Hypothesis 5). Additional findings, limitations, research implications, and treatment considerations are discussed
Aspirante bilingual educators’ development of critical consciousness: A critical qualitative inquiry
No full textThe critical teacher shortage of bilingual educators in the state of Texas has created a need to examine the experiences of preservice teachers or aspirantes in teacher preparation programs. Recent research has also documented the need for future bilingual educators to be critically conscious (Cervantes-Soon et al., 2019) to fulfill the purpose of bilingual education as a transformative endeavor. Palmer et al., (2019) consider critical consciousness the foundational goal of bilingual education. The purpose of this study is to explore how aspirante (pre-service) bilingual teachers enrolled in a teacher education program at a local Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), understand, interpret, and reflect on the role of critical consciousness as a foundational goal in becoming a bilingual educator. A critical qualitative inquiry approach rooted in Xicana/Feminista epistemologies was conducted in a study that incorporated three phases. The first phase consisted of an exploratory survey; the second phase consisted of aspirantes engaged in two critical professional development sessions, and the last phase consisted of aspirantes participating in a 1-1 plática. Aspirante bilingual educators engaged in critical professional development comprised of two sessions that fostered dialogue surrounding critical consciousness including language, culture, pedagogy, and policy as well as in a 1-1 plática (conversation). This exploration of aspirante bilingual educators’ embodied knowledge around critical consciousness provided an opportunity to critically listen to their understandings, interpretations, and negotiations surrounding critical consciousness in Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE). This study aimed to learn the ways in which aspirantes engaged with elements of critical xii consciousness through their lived experiences, consciousness raising, and counternarratives as they participate in critical professional development and pláticas. The critical professional development sessions explored racial literacies, critical multilingual language awareness, and policy formation. Findings indicate that aspirantes’ experiences in bilingual education shape their beliefs about teaching, learning and biliteracy fostering the practice of interrogating and reimagining education. Additionally, a critical consciousness framework reveals how aspirantes understand and interpret critical consciousness and their advocacy lens. Finally, this inquiry explored the ways in which aspirantes engage in counternarratives. Aspirantes engaged through advocating for self, utilizing navigational capital in higher education, and counternarratives about gender roles
Genealogies and legacies: A postcolonial historiography of Mohiniyattam
No full textThis dissertation develops an alternate history of the classical dance form Mohiniyattam native to the state of Kerala in India to acknowledge the amalgamation of the kinesthetic contributions of different practitioners in Mohiniyattam. I explore how the identities of the indigenous Mohiniyattam dancers shifted as they became implicated in the changing discourses of colonialism and nationalism and how they became the subjects in larger debates about sexuality, womanhood, and the nation. In this project, I situate Mohiniyattam in the larger context of nationalist movements in the late 1800s and the early 1900s, which paved the way to the independence of India in 1947 and connect it with the notion of Victorian morality, which seeped into the social ethos of the nation during the colonial period. I also focus on the shift of a major community in Kerala society from matriarchy to patriarchy as well as on the division of India into various states on the basis of regional languages after independence; I explore how these socio-political issues are all intertwined with the history of bodies in Mohiniyattam as well as the reconstruction of the form. In this dissertation, I pay attention to the choreographies, dance pieces, and movement vocabularies of various dancers whose contributions are considered as invaluable to the development of Mohiniyattam. My research mainly relied on oral histories and archival research to develop a qualitative study of four practitioners who were identified as pioneer contributors to the field of Mohiniyattam in the postcolonial era: Kalyanikuttyamma, Kalamandalam Satyabhama, Kanak Rele, and Bharathi Shivaji. Though the reconstruction of Mohiniyattam in the 1950s parallels the renaissance and reincarnation of many classical dance forms in India, I argue that the historical, cultural, and geographic elements of Mohiniyattam are specific to the form
Music and traumatic brain injury: An arts-based first-person retrospective case study
No full textThe purpose of this arts-based first-person retrospective case study was to explore the impact of music during the researcher’s recovery from a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The research process included journaling before, during, and after viewing the researcher’s medical records from her TBI and creating a performance to artistically communicate what she found about the impact of music in her life during this time and the benefit of music therapy to patients with this condition. The researcher discovered that music did indeed greatly benefit her recovery from a severe TBI, and existing literature indicated clear benefits of music for TBI patients in the form of music therapy. The researcher artistically communicated these findings in a performance which was recorded and is linked in Chapter IV
The effects of the pitcher-ground interaction on fastball pitching velocity
No full textBaseball is one of the most popular sports worldwide and participation continues to rise, including the number of pitchers per team. Previous studies have investigated the relationship between ground reaction forces (GRF) and pitch velocity; however, no study has fully defined the pitcher-ground interaction as it relates to fastball pitch velocity. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the pitcher-ground interaction variables and normalized linear wrist velocity (NLWV), an indirect indicator of pitch velocity, in experienced baseball pitchers. Fifteen male baseball pitchers (4 left-handed; age = 20.9 ± 5.2 years; height = 177.2 ± 7.6 cm; mass = 80.0 ± 10.8 kg; experience = 5.6 ± 5.2 years) were recruited for participation. All participants were able to throw at least 10 full-effort fastballs and had consistent pitching mechanics. This study utilized a 10-camera motion capture system and a custom pitching mound with three imbedded force plates. Pitchers were asked to throw 10 successful fastballs at top velocity to a target. Variables measured were maximum NLWV, GRF for the drive, stride, and combined feet in the up/down (U/D), towards/away (T/A), and left/right (L/R) directions, and pitcher-ground interaction moments [ground reaction force moment (GRFM) and total external moment] for the drive, stride, and combined feet about the U/D, T/A, and L/R axes. It was determined that maximum GRF of the drive foot in the towards direction, and the stride foot and combined feet in the up and away directions were significantly (p < .05) and strongly correlated with NLWV. Additionally, maximum GRFM and total external moment of the drive foot about the L/R axis, and total external moment of the combined feet about the T/A axis during the first peak were significantly and strongly correlated with NLWV. Based on these findings, the drive foot is responsible for creating large external moments, while the primary role of the stride foot is to generate large external forces prior to ball release, which are associated with increased NLWV. Therefore, pitchers may choose to adapt a pitching style that maximizes the pitcher-ground interaction prior to ball release
From Bal Anat to Hahbi'Ru: An oral history of John Compton, American male belly dancer
No full textJohn Compton is one of the earliest formative male figures in the history of fusion belly dance in the United States. Using oral history methodology, multiple masculinities theory, and relevant historical context, this thesis uses John’s story to analyze the cultural shifts in fusion belly dance in the US from the early 1970s to 2012. By analyzing interview data, performance videos, extant published interviews, and archival research on belly dance, this thesis evinces a myriad of John’s influences as a male belly dancer on the discourses around gender, masculinity, and Orientalism. These influences include movement stylization of early fusion belly dance, attitudes towards male belly dancers, and the embracing of culturally appropriative practices. This thesis concludes that John’s story presents an interesting inconvenience to narratives around belly dance history and masculinity at large, and serves as a foundation for interrogating the broader issues of gender and masculinity in belly dance