11289 research outputs found
Sort by
9th GSEP Research Symposium - 2025
No full textThe Ninth Annual GSEP Research Symposium, themed Building Bridges to Elevate Humanity: Innovations and Insights in Education and Psychology , was hosted by the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP) on June 19–20, 2025, at the historic Château d’Hauteville in Switzerland and virtually via Zoom.
This hybrid symposium convened a vibrant global community of students, alumni, faculty, and scholars to share research that addresses real-world challenges, advances scholarly inquiry, and builds pathways for inclusive collaboration and leadership. Spanning a wide array of topics—from artificial intelligence and mental health to trauma-informed practices, educational equity, social justice, and cross-cultural leadership—the event showcased 50 selected presentations. These contributions represented emerging and established scholarship that bridges disciplines and responds to the evolving needs of diverse communities.
Highlights included deep dives into educational and psychological research, explorations of culturally responsive pedagogy and equity in STEM, discussions on public health and wellness, and innovative uses of AI in learning, leadership, and research. The event emphasized applied practices, social impact, and transformative leadership across sectors and settings.
The proceedings include comprehensive abstracts and updated references, capturing the richness of ideas shared during this meaningful event.
As GSEP continues its mission to foster academic excellence and global engagement, the 2025 Research Symposium proceedings stand as a testament to the power of research to elevate humanity, drive innovation, and inspire purposeful action across borders and disciplines.https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/gsep_symp/1001/thumbnail.jp
Extending the Emotional and Multiple Intelligence Theories: Integrating Cultural and Spiritual Intelligence Constructs to Fill Research Gaps
No full textThis proposed mixed-methods convergent research study aims to explore extending the Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Multiple Intelligences Theories by integrating Spiritual Intelligence (SI) and Cultural Intelligence (CQ) constructs. The goal is to explore the interconnectedness of these intelligences to bridge existing research gaps concerning leadership, EI, SI, and CQ. By employing both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods from organizational leaders, this study seeks to develop a more comprehensive and holistic understanding of leadership efficacy across various organizational contexts. The anticipated outcomes aim to contribute to the body of knowledge and potentially impact leadership development in business, education, and other sectors
Impacts of artificial intelligence on the human workforce
No full textThis qualitative study explored how artificial intelligence (AI) implementation was experienced by employees across organizations with varying levels of AI maturity. Drawing from semi-structured interviews with fifteen professionals across twelve organizations, including technology firms, government agencies, and healthcare providers, the research examined perceptions of AI\u27s impact on daily work, role evolution, organizational culture, and employee learning. Thematic analysis revealed seven major themes: trust and transparency in AI, productivity and job security, training and learning support, organizational culture, customer-centric use of AI, ethical and environmental concerns, and evolving roles. While participants recognized AI’s potential to enhance efficiency and innovation, they also expressed concerns about fairness, job displacement, and the lack of formal learning systems. The study highlights the importance of transparent communication, ethical AI governance, and investment in workforce development. It concludes with recommendations for organizational leaders to adopt more intentional and human-centered approaches to AI integration and calls for further research into the long-term societal and environmental implications of AI in the workplace
Cultural matching and treatment utilization and outcomes in Asian Americans: a systematic review
No full textResearch regarding cultural matching in clinician and client dyads as a means of improving care for underserved populations has become less prevalent over the past two decades. This review sought to examine and synthesize the existing literature on the relationship between three forms of cultural matching (i.e., racial matching, ethnic matching, and language matching) and mental health treatment utilization and outcomes for Asian Americans. Following an extensive database search process, we identified a total of 10 peer-reviewed studies as relevant to the review\u27s topic. Overall, results from the studies suggest that ethnic and language matching were associated with an increased number of treatment sessions and reduced rates of treatment dropout. Conversely, the review provided limited evidence that cultural matching variables predict treatment outcomes. The review identified several mediating and moderating factors that could influence the interactions between these variables. The results of the review can direct future research and interventions to improve the mental health of Asian Americans. Future research should use more generalizable data and randomized controlled designs to further elucidate the relationship between these variables in the Asian American population. Likewise, interventions with Asian Americans should focus on developing the initial therapeutic alliance and integrating culturally sensitive interventions to increase treatment utilization during the initial stage of therapy
How to encourage consumers’ adoption of clean energy? The interplay of framing, loss aversion, and the unexpected role of socioeconomic status.
No full textThis dissertation and its underlying hypotheses seek to determine what factors play a role in U.S. consumers’ adoption of clean energy. Consumer adoption of clean energy plays an important role as part of the long-term clean energy transition. How to encourage consumers to adopt clean energy? The findings of the dissertation about how framing effects, loss aversion, and socioeconomic status affect clean energy perceived value present evidence that a one-size-fits-all approach to boosting adoption is unwise. The research adopted an explanatory sequential quantitative approach. In phase 1, a series of cross-sectional surveys examined the best predictors of current and future use intentions of clean energy. In Phase 2 of the study, field experimentation was introduced to assess how to best frame potential savings from clean energy to change perceptions of clean energy perceived value and thus encourage adoption. Phase 1 concluded that social and technological factors drove consumers’ current use of clean energy and that clean energy perceived value was the most important predictor of intentions to use clean energy in the future. Phase 2 showed that gain or loss messaging frame interacts with the level of consumers’ loss aversion in affecting clean energy perceived value, but this predicted effect was itself moderated by consumers’ socioeconomic status. Through applied research, this dissertation’s findings provide evidence and advocacy for a more nuanced and segmented approach to driving consumers’ future adoption of clean energy
Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change
No full textShows a common logic to IO exit: a strategy to negotiate institutional change. Examining exits across 198 states, 534 IOs, and 100 years, this will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, think-tankers, and for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on international relations, international organizations, and applied research methods -- Provided by publisher.https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/facultybooks/1318/thumbnail.jp
Self-compassion and leadership effectiveness at work
No full textLeaders are currently facing unprecedented times in the workforce, with rapid technological advancements, complexity with geopolitical implications and economic fluctuations, and employee disengagement. Through these changes, leaders are expected to make business decisions, guide their teams, and deliver business results. To navigate these complexities, the role of business leaders is evolving, making self-compassion and associated practices potentially important for leaders. Complexity and the speed of change may lead to an increase in challenges and mistakes experienced at work, actual or perceived, which may lead to decreased internal capacity, higher stress and potentially burnout. This study explores the relationship between self-compassion and leadership effectiveness, focusing on how leaders’ self-compassionate practices influence their leadership
Is Snap Removal Unconstitutional?
Full text linkIn snap removal, an individual removes a civil action to federal district court from the courts of a state where one or more putative defendants are a citizen before any such putative defendant has been served with process. By removing before any forum-state defendants are served, the removal arguably eludes the forum-defendant rule, which prohibits removal based solely on the diversity or alienage jurisdiction statute if “any of the parties in interest properly . . . served as defendants is a citizen of the State in which such action is brought.” For years, federal judges and legal academics have disputed the propriety of snap removal as a matter of statutory interpretation: some endorse it; others decry it. Yet, these debates have focused entirely on whether snap removal evades the forum-defendant rule’s statutory bar, not whether the federal district courts exceed their constitutional boundaries by hearing the removed civil action if no defendant has been served or waived service. This essay is the first to tackle the constitutionality of snap removal, making the novel claim that the federal district courts may violate Article III by hearing civil actions removed via snap removal when no defendant has been served with process or waived service
In memoriam - Nora Sabelli: Master orchestrator of grant programs and mentor for advancing the interdisciplinary learning sciences field
Full text linkOn Friday, September 6, 2024, the learning sciences field lost a giant in Dr. Nora Sabelli, 87 years old, a personal mentor to many researchers and an inspiration to so many learning scientists and STEM leaders. Nora’s first professional career was as a computational chemist, and later she became a passionate leader in research for improving STEM education. Nora’s time as a senior program officer at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Education and Human Resources (EHR) directorate was legendary; she was a force of nature who reshaped funding priorities for stronger science and a stronger connection of science to education practice
Counting Hamiltonian cycles in quartic circulant graphs
Full text linkWe consider the problem of counting Hamiltonian cycles in circulant graphs . Our method is to partition the set of Hamiltonian cycles according to their winding numbers. Then, we construct a weighted digraph that allows us to produce a generating function that counts the number of Hamiltonian cycles for each winding number. Summing these generating functions derives a formula for the total number of Hamiltonian cycles in a circulant graph with vertices