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Personality Correlates of Attitudes Towards Relationship Infidelity
No full textA substantial amount of research has examined the psychological factors related to people’s attitudes toward relationship infidelity (both physical and emotional) in heterosexual couples. However, with the rising usage of social media, there is an increasing gap in the literature regarding how online behaviors may play a role in impacting perception and attitudes toward relationship infidelity. Furthermore, more nuanced understanding of people’s attitudes toward relationship infidelity can be achieved by examining the underlying individual difference factors. The present study therefore examined how personality differences related to attitudes toward infidelity in romantic relationships. Participants completed measures of personality, and provided assessments for a wide range of hypothetical relationship scenarios that may be perceived as infidelity. We identified four common types of relationship situations: Social Media Interactions, One-on-one Interactions, General Social Interactions, and Ex-Partner Interactions. Analyses showed that higher Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism were generally related to greater likelihood of perceiving a behavior as an infidelity. On the other hand, higher Agreeableness was related to lower likelihood of perceiving a behavior as infidelity. This work can provide a more detailed understanding of the specific types of characteristics that are associated with attitudes toward relationship infidelity, and can contribute to the literature in both personality psychology and close relationships.PsychologyBachelors of Arts (BA
Concept Mapping In A Community Of Practice For University-Based Engagement With Rural Scholastic Journalism Programs
No full textScholastic journalism has been a part of university-based outreach and engagement for more than a century, with higher education institutions hosting scholastic press association workshops and contests for high school journalists who produce yearbooks, newspapers, magazines, and broadcasts. Research indicates academic advantages and civic self-efficacy associated with high school journalism and the disproportionate number of suburban high school students with access to those advantages. This mixed-methods action research study employed a community of practice (CoP) frame to investigate university-based engagement with rural high school journalism programs. The CoP was comprised of rural high school journalism teachers, high school journalism mentors, and university-based scholastic press association directors. A rural scholastic journalism needs analysis revealed the pivotal role of the journalism teacher and a unique regard and disregard for journalism in the rural community. The CoP engaged in concept mapping, using interactive brainstorming software to illustrate the study’s findings in the form of concept maps, visual displays of data showing consensus around securing funding to launch, support, and sustain rural high school journalism programs and working with leaders in rural school districts to communicate its value. Recommendations suggest seeking a communication plan, asset maps, and engagement capacity to inform and determine next steps in the action research cycle, acknowledging divergent views between current scholastic press directors and current and former educators in this study’s CoP.EducationDoctor of Education (Ed.D.
Selected Teachers' Perspectives On Classroom Management Post-Emergency Remote Teaching: A Grounded Theory
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of education, including classroom management practices. Following the 2020-2021 school year, as students returned to in-classroom learning, their misbehavior increased (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2022b), presenting novel challenges for teachers to address through their classroom management practices (Prothero, 2023). This study examined how selected elementary education teachers engaged in classroom management practices after emergency remote teaching (ERT) and how, if at all, they saw their students’ experiences during ERT affecting the teachers’ post-ERT classroom management practices. Using a Straussian grounded theory approach (Strauss & Corbin, 1998), I examined the perspectives of 11 elementary general education teachers from five school districts. Data were generated through individual interviews, document analysis, and focus group discussions. Results indicated that participants chose classwide and individual classroom management practices based on their students’ intensified self-regulation and social skills challenges. Each participant selected similar pre- and post-ERT classroom management practices but used them with increased focus and additional direct instruction for proportionately more students post-ERT. As the selected teachers spent more time managing students’ behavioral and emotional needs post-ERT, they experienced overwhelming levels of job-related stress. Implications of these results provide recommendations for school administrators, district leaders, and policymakers interested in supporting teachers navigating the tremendous challenges of classroom management post-ERT, and suggestions for future research to expand our understanding of teacher classroom management practices during a largely unexplored time in recent history.EducationDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.
Reconsider Eternal Recurrence: A Nietzschean Re-evaluation of Death
No full textNietzsche’s doctrine of Eternal Recurrence occupies a central – though profoundly ambiguous – position in his philosophical corpus. Whether interpreted as a brick of his metaphysics, a psychological test of life affirmation, or a literal cosmological thesis, the doctrine continuously induces transformative philosophical and existential responses across time and spaces. This thesis aims to investigate a particular implication of the doctrine, namely, how Eternal Recurrence challenges the classical and existential meaning of death as the absolute boundary of human existence. Traditionally, death is conceptualized as end par excellence – an irreversible cessation of life that confers meaning and urgency upon human existence. Eternal Recurrence, in disrupting temporality, demands a radical reinterpretation of death, and significantly destabilizes established metaphysical and religious paradigms that treat death either as definitive extinction or a gateway to transcendental other-worldly immortality. My thesis proposes that Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence constitutes a radical re-evaluation of death, dismantling traditional metaphysical and religious frameworks predicated upon human finitude, thereby opening novel pathways toward affirmation. The doctrine completes Nietzsche’s project of the re-evaluation of all values, which involves two central negations: first, the negation of values themselves, particularly those rooted in Christian morality; and second, the negation of the being who issues these values – namely, we as beings-in-the-world who are naturally concerned with our existence, or, in Martin Heidegger’s terms, beings for whom Being “is an issue”. Yet, importantly, Eternal Recurrence by itself does not establish any positive foundation; rather, it aims to dismantle, negate, and even turn against itself. The doctrine must be acquired and overcome, subjected to its own scrutiny, again and again. Any putative foundation, including the doctrine itself, must be perpetually shattered if the radically affirmative mode of life that Nietzsche envisions is to be made possible.PhilosophyBachelors of Arts (BA
“An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being”: Stowe, Gaskell, and the Emotional Stakes of Nineteenth-Century Social Reform
No full textAs two social protest novels written by white female authors, Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell serve as fascinating case studies for analyzing the construction of sympathy and female activism through martyrdom in the mid-nineteenth century. By carefully recasting the victims of the vast and impersonal systems of enslavement and industrial capitalism into personages in moving personal melodramas, Stowe and Gaskell actively engage in relevant debates regarding white women’s suffering as grounds for social reform, shaping the way that nineteenth-century women could make themselves intersectional advocates against transatlantic conditions of inequality and subjugation. To invoke sympathetic feelings in her readers, several crucial episodes throughout Uncle Tom’s Cabin trace moments of shared connection through the exchange of gifts or tokens. These scenes of gift-giving signal the morality of a character, such as Little Eva St. Clare, while serving as a metaphorical acknowledgement of shared qualities, such as motherhood or piety. In contrast, as Gaskell uses intersectionality to illustrate class struggles, crucial scenes in her narrative depict protagonist Margaret Hale shedding the presumed passive nature of femininity in favor of physicality and action as depicted in moments of bodily contact, both through touching and being touched. These moments advocate for direct connection and a revised paternalistic approach to industry. As they both confronted the preeminent economic, political, and social issues of their time, Stowe and Gaskell expertly navigated the convoluted doctrine of separate spheres. The extraordinary results are persuasive and moving pieces centered on shared feeling, shared contact, and shared objects as they attempted to transform society for the greater good.EnglishBachelors of Arts (BA
Global Crisis and Financial Regulations: Who Determines What?
No full textBy observing the economies of China, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, the article aims to study whether the economies are genuinely motivated to enhance global financial regulations. Throughout the Great Recession, the G20 nations have repeatedly declared that reforming international financial regulations is a prerequisite for stabilizing the global financial system. However, the reality often proves different, as the competing economies face challenges that contradict the national economic interests. A regulatory race to the bottom via global deregulatory pressures is one of the many examples. Thus, via conducting cross-country analysis, this paper aims to offer a more comprehensive depiction of whether the economic status quo incentivizes the creation of enhanced international financial regulations. In order to answer the question, five different case studies are conducted about the respective countries, which are preceded by an introduction and overall assessment of the economic conditions regarding the five particular economies. Lastly, a conclusion will be made discussing the variables identified from the case studies that could both contradict and support the sustainability of future global financial regulations.I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Tamara Woroby from the Economics Department of Towson University. Without her guidance and feedback, this paper would not have been possible
Dataset: Shorelines of Wallops and Assawoman Islands, Virginia, 2016-2025
No full textThis dataset contains shoreline polylines of Wallops and Assawoman islands, Virginia, delineated from Planet Labs satellite imagery. The dataset spans August 2016 to 2025, with monthly observations increasing to biweekly from August 2020 to September 2021 during NASA's 2020-2021 beach renourishment project on Wallops Island. The imagery resolution is 3 meters, enabling detailed and accurate shoreline delineation. The wet-dry line was traced in ArcGIS Pro to capture temporal changes in the island's coastal boundary. Shorelines were created and are stored in the WGS 1984 UTM Zone 18N coordinate system. Data is saved in an ArcGIS Pro 3.4.0 geodatabase, stored in a .zip file.
Time Period Beginning: 2016-08-22
Time Period End: 2025-08-29
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical 4.0 InternationalAccess to Planet data was provided through Planet's Education and Research Program. Funding for researchers provided by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and is supported by the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Hazards Resources Program under the Integrated Geomorphic Assessment of Virginia Eastern Shore Barrier Islands project.Virginia Institute of Marine Scienc
Virginia Game Fish Tagging Program Annual Report 2024
No full textThrough 2024, the Virginia Game Fish Tagging Program (VGFTP) has maintained a 29-year database of records for tagged and recaptured fish. The program is a cooperative project of the Virginia Saltwater Fishing Tournament (VSFT) under the Virginia Marine Resources Commission-(VMRC) and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) of William & Mary (under the VIMS Marine Advisory Program). The main goal of the program is to train and maintain an experienced group of anglers who volunteer their time to properly tag and release fishes. Data on tagged and recaptured fish are summarized in annual re- ports and are accessible on VIMS website: http://www.vims.edu/vgftp/. Time series data are organized and provided when requested by anglers, angling groups, researchers, and fishery managers.Virginia Institute of Marine Scienc
The Role of Relationship Attachment Styles in Disordered Eating B
No full textThis study examined women's eating disorder symptoms and the quality of the attachment relationship with their mothers and romantic partners for a sample of 117 participants, ages 18 to 22. Seventeen of the participants were in treatment for an eating disorder and 100 were untreated college students, but engaging in binge eating. There were no significant differences between the groups in dieting and bingeing. The treated group reported higher levels of depression, anxiety, esteem threat from mothers and boyfriends, attachment avoidance, and anxious ambivalent attachment as compared to the untreated group. Depression related positively to bingeing behaviors for untreated participants. There was a negative relation between esteem threat from mothers and dieting behavior for those in treatment. Esteem threat from both mothers and romantic partners related positively to anxiety and depression for both groups. Esteem enhancement from romantic partners related negatively to anxiety for those in treatment. An anxious ambivalent attachment relationship with mothers related positively to depression for both groups and to anxiety for the untreated group. The results suggest the value of improving relationships with mothers and romantic partners for the mental health of young women with disordered eating behaviors
The Weight of Things: Inheritance and Gender in Alice Munro's Short Fiction
No full textThis thesis examines the role of the material world in Alice Munro’s short fiction, particularly as it relates to gender roles imposed on women and girls in mid-twentieth-century rural Southern Ontario. In analyzing a body of work, including two short stories from the 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: “Family Furnishings” and “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage,” the study employs a new-materialist framework, informed by Bill Brown’s definition of “Things” as more dynamic and personal than what we consider objects. It uses close textual analysis to explore the relationship between the dynamic role of material things, especially inherited material things, and Munro’s comments on the female body and women’s role in society. The findings suggest that inherited material objects convey inherited gendered expectations of domesticity, and their aggressive behavior in the text evokes a hostile domestic world, one in which dynamics of ownership and inheritance complicate the presentation of gender roles in the text. This analysis sheds light on Munro’s portrayal of the complexities of female identity and domestic life.EnglishBachelors of Arts (BA