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Will Daughters Walk Mom\u27s Talk? The Effects Of Maternal Communication About Sex On The Sexual Behavior Of Female Adolescents
No full textNumerous social marketing campaigns exhort parents to talk to their children about sexual abstinence, pregnancy risk, and sexually transmitted disease prevention. The effectiveness of these conversations is difficult to ascertain if parents are more likely to broach discussions related to sexual activity with adolescents who have greater propensities to engage in these risky behaviors. Our baseline empirical results indicate that female adolescents whose mothers communicate more about sex are more likely to have sexual intercourse, practice unsafe sex, and engage in casual sex. However, once we control for the adolescent\u27s environment and peers through the use of school fixed effects and for the daughter\u27s own propensity to engage in such behaviors through a rich set of adolescent-specific covariates, the effect of a mother\u27s talk on her daughter\u27s behavior is reduced dramatically indicating that mother\u27s talk is endogenous to the daughter\u27s sexual behavior. Models employing sister fixed effects to control for family-level unobservables, although imprecisely estimated, confirm this finding
The Effects of Religious-Body Affirmations and Religious Commitment on Men\u27s Body Esteem
No full textUsing a self-affirmation framework, this study tested whether religion buffered harmful media threats to men\u27s body esteem. It tested whether reading religious body-affirming statements or having a strong religious commitment protected men\u27s body esteem from media threats. It also tested whether religious commitment moderated the harmful media effects in the most threatened group (overweight men). Fifty-six men at a religious-affiliated college completed the religious commitment scale, demographic information, and body-esteem measures. Weeks later, they were randomly assigned to read either religious body-affirming statements, positive body-affirming statements, or control statements, after which they indicated their feelings, viewed lean muscular models, and answered body-esteem measures again. Results showed reading religious body-affirmations had no effect on changes in men\u27s body esteem. Religious commitment was positively related body esteem at Time 1 but not at Time 2, when media threats were present. In addition, as predicted, viewing muscular models was most threatening to heavy men, but religious commitment buffered this threat. Religiously committed overweight men were happier with their weight than less religiously committed overweight men, due in part to the former\u27s positive emotions. Results are discussed in relation to processing religious messages and self-affirmation processes
Plastic Fantastic: Holland, Michigan’s Boat Building Industry and the Use of Reinforced Fiberglass Plastic
No full textEssential Skills for Success: Feedback from Beginning Teachers of Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
No full textThis exploratory, case study used qualitative measures to investigate the perceptions of recent college graduates who were teaching students with emotional impairments / behavioral disorders on their preparedness to teach in the field. Structured open-ended interviews were conducted to explore how well their teacher education programs prepared them to work with this population and to meet the mandate of preparing students for entry in a global society. Findings garnered positive comments regarding global competencies and suggestions for improvements in teacher preparation. Effective communication and collaboration with school personnel and parents, organizing paperwork and data collection, decision making, and more relevant field placements were areas considered to be in need of increased focus
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No full textArtist Statement: My favorite books are the ones that can create entirely new worlds with mere words. Books that invite you into the world of the author and at the same time create that world in your own mind. This is a more literal interpretation of creating a world from a book. But it is also a map. And adventures, both in and outside of your imagination should begin with a map. So there it is.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/altered_book/1086/thumbnail.jp
This Fabulous Century
No full textArtist Statement: The women of the 40\u27s seemed never to go anywhere without a hat. Whether she was shopping in the daytime or attending the theater at night, she almost invariably had something on her head. And almost always, it was non-sensical--a high turban or perhaps a wide sailor, festooned with a veil and generally sprouting a profusion of feathers, folds and pleats. To display this culmlnatlon of the 1940\u27s era I decided to fashion a hat, but not just any hat. I wanted to make an over the top hat that any fashionable society woman would want to wear and would have all the GI Joes taking a second look. I hope you enJoy and appreciate This Fabulous Century through my artist book.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/altered_book/1099/thumbnail.jp
Study of Differential Ring Opening of Quinazolinespirohexadienones and Their Electrochemical Reduction
No full textQuinazolinespirohexadienones (QSHDs) are photochromes that the Gillmore group hopes to use as photochromic photooxidants. Our group has previously published QSHD synthesis and photochemistry, including the proof of direction of photochromic ring opening into the LW isomer. We have subsequently discovered that QSHD opens in the opposite direction upon one electron reduction to form a different electrochromic LW isomer. Computations of bond lengths, bond orders, and molecular orbitals rationalize these results. Prior to publication, further verification of the results need to be performed. This summer I resynthesized additional amounts of QSHDs and overcame impurities in our electrochemistry. Once complete, I will replicate a few key experimental results and we will craft a final draft of our manuscript for publication
What Do They Dream About?: The Long-lasting Effects of War and Trauma on Child Soldiers
Get PDFA child soldier’s life is ghastly and heartbreaking. Not only are these young boys and girls exposed to high levels of trauma due to the inherent atrocities of war, they are also subjected to devastating levels of abuse amounting to human enslavement. The purpose of our research was to explore this modern form of slavery and its manifestation in our world today. We focused on the adverse effects of trauma on child soldiers and how different organizations around the globe are trying to heal and improve the conditions of these children as they attempt to reintegrate back into society. Our preliminary findings prompted further research regarding the long-lasting effects the lifestyle of a child soldier has on its victims. We found a positive correlation between the number of traumatic events experienced and the severity of PTSD, psychological problems (such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation), physical complaints, and functional impairments. Our results also corroborate the effectiveness of proper reintegration programs. Most of our research was based on case studies done in the early 21st century in several African countries that use child soldiers
The Impact of Minimum Wage on Unemployment at the State Level Using Fixed Effects
No full textThis paper discusses the relationship between unemployment and the minimum wage using regression analysis. If the Obama administration increases the minimum wage to $9.00 in 2015, will the unemployment rate increase? According to beginning economics courses, the answer to this question is yes. Unfortunately, economics is slightly more complicated and this topic has been the source for serious debate among economists for decades. There have been reasonable arguments and numerous studies for support for both sides and the question is still left unsolved. This paper analyzes this relationship between unemployment and minimum wage using several empirical models. They are based off other economists’ empirical models and provide different results. I look at the simple relationship between unemployment and minimum wage for the last 12 years at the state level. My data consists of yearly unemployment rates for each state in a given year and inflation adjusted minimum wages for each state in given years. After using different empirical models and running various regressions, I decided the model with a regression that provided statistically significant results and best fit the data is a fixed effects model. At first, explanatory variables seemed to be necessary to control for bias. But the available explanatory variables I used proved to be unnecessary and the fixed effects controlled for omitted variable bias. I have concluded increasing the minimum wage decreases the unemployment rate. This negative correlation is small but shows that a 10 percent increase in minimum wage will results in a 1.52% decrease in unemployment