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Disordered Eating, Coping, and Perfectionism in a College Sample
No full textSurvey: Lifestyle health and coping (pdf) is included. Thesis completed for PSY 296B Honors Thesis with Professor Leslie D. Kirby.Perfectionistic tendencies and coping strategies have been implicated as important factors in both the onset and maintenance of eating disorders but have not been widely researched in conjunction with each other. Given the elevated levels of eating disorders and subclinical manifestations among college student populations, this study surveyed 180 undergraduate students about multiple aspects of health and well-being, in addition to disordered eating attitudes and behaviors, coping strategies, and trait perfectionism. Results showed that avoidant coping strategies are positively associated with measures of disordered eating. In addition, certain dimensions of perfectionism correlated with avoidant coping and other dimensions correlated with problem-focused coping. Implications for treatments targeted at improving coping strategies in individuals with disordered eating are discussed.Vanderbilt UniversityPsychological SciencesThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Science
Prehension Enrichment Experience Facilitates Motor and Perceptual-Cognitive Development in Early Infancy
No full textInfants received a prehension enrichment experience (active training), which allowed pre-reaching infants to gain experience with prehension before they would normally begin such behaviors. During the prehension enrichment experience, infants received 10-14 ten-minute play sessions wearing “sticky mittens”: mittens with palms covered in the loop side of Velcro, allowing them to pick up small toys covered in Velcro hook. Two months after the enrichment session, infants who received the prehension enrichment experience were compared with age-matched peers who wore “non-sticky mittens” while observing their parents and the experimenter manipulating objects (passive training). The results of this study indicate that two months after the prehension enrichment experience, infants who received active training engaged in more object exploration and exhibited accelerated reasoning about the support relations between objects when compared to infants who received passive training. These results suggest that early prehension enrichment experience facilitates the processes of object exploration and engagement while also enhancing infants’ cognitive and perceptual development.Vanderbilt UniversityPsychological SciencesThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Sciences under the direction of Dr. Amy Needham
FDR and the Katyn Forest Massacre: Geopolitics, Morality, and Truth in World War II
No full textHistory Department Honors Thesis, 2013. Awarded HonorsDepartment of HistoryCollege of Arts and Scienc
Exploring Formative Assessment: Current Practices in Westside Consolidated School District
Get PDFLeadership Policy and Organizations Department Capstone ProjectDepartment of Leadership Policy and OrganizationsPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Final Report of The Sustainability Project: 2012-2013
Get PDFThe 2012-2013 school year marked the final iteration of Sustainability Project programming. We aimed to continue the discourse that began in 2011: to heighten the atmosphere of environmental awareness on Vanderbilt’s campus. The ultimate goal for these two years of programming was to create a campus-wide conversation that would embolden Vanderbilt's efforts toward sustainability while deepening our understanding of what we are working toward
Vanderbilt Hustler; Vol. 125 Iss. 32 August 21, 2013
No full textThe official student newspaper at Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt Hustler; Vol. 125 Iss. 41 October 16, 2013
No full textThe official student newspaper at Vanderbilt University
Making Money: Leverage and Private Sector Money Creation
No full textlaw review articleIn the wake of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, practitioners and theorists in law, finance, and economics are rethinking our theories about how the financial sector influences the real economy. In particular, they are reexamining the linkages among financial innovation, supply of credit and money, monetary policy, bubbles, financial stability, and economic growth. One of the key issues that is being reconsidered is the dynamics of how banks and other financial institutions drive credit creation and credit allocation, and how these factors, in turn affect the performance of the macroeconomy. In this article, I argue that, by providing an alternative to “money” (as traditionally defined), credit acts like money in stimulating the economy. When financial institutions that provide credit to the real economy borrow too much and become over-leveraged, the effect is like an uncontrolled expansion of the money supply, increasing the risk of dangerous asset bubbles and making financial markets unstable. Excessive leverage in the financial sector can set the stage for sudden and catastrophic contractions when multiple financial institutions all try to deleverage quickly and at the same time. This is because when financial institutions collectively withdraw credit from the market, this depresses aggregate economic growth, I further argue that the tendency of financial institutions to use too much leverage will not be self-correcting because leverage has helped to drive up profits and incomes over time in the financial sector. Thus, because of the substantial negative social externalities of excessive leverage, financial market regulations must be deployed to prevent financial institutions from using too much leverage