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The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experience, Guilt Proneness, and Shame-Proneness: An Exploratory Investigation
Get PDFThe research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in relation to shame and guilt proneness in adults is limited. Studies have shown that children and adults can be affected by ACEs. More specifically, ACEs are associated with negative health and wellness. This study examines a unique relationship between ACEs and guilt and shame proneness. Participants in this study were comprised of a convenience sample of 137 adults. Two primary assessment instruments were used: Adverse Childhood Experience questionnaire and the Test of Self-Conscious Affect-3 (TOSCA). The surveys were distributed through social media, email, and classrooms . Results revealed a statistically significant positive relationship between ACE scores and shame proneness. Furthermore, a statistically significant difference was discovered between participants with high ACEs versus participants with low ACEs regarding shame proneness
A seminar for student leaders to engage and retain members in student-led organizations
Get PDFThe challenge of attracting and maintaining members in student-led organizations (SLO) inspired this thesis. Current research literature was used to create a presentation for student leaders. The presentation applied marketing principles as well as best practices suggested by the research. Interviews with four student leaders and two administrators involved in student activities were conducted to interact with the research. Their insights suggested that the strongest factor in attracting students was social, whether personal invitation or a sense of belonging to the group. The strongest deterrent to participation was a perception that the benefits did not outweigh time commitments to school and work. Best practices based on the research included communicating values and goals, promoting community, offering a variety of opportunities, and utilizing a variety of modes to connect with students. The process of assembling current literature into a presentation and receiving feedback from student leaders based on their experiences provided practical insights into best practices for attracting and maintaining students
An Exploration Of The Relation between Neighborhood Resource, Crime, And The Development Of Paranoia.
Get PDFSchizophrenia affects 1% of the US population. It is characterized by positive symptoms like paranoia, and hallucinations and negative symptoms like flattened affect, and reduced speech. Stressors like income, crime, diet, and trauma can epigenetically cause schizophrenia. However, is it possible that schizophrenic behavior is not indicative of impending psychosis but rather a coping mechanism to environmental stressors? Here, I explore how paranoia could function as a coping mechanism to two stressors-- poverty and crime --through a computer-simulation of the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. Results: paranoia was directly related to increased crime, regardless of poverty level. Crime is also directly related to poverty. Poverty could be an indirect cause of paranoia. In no-crime neighborhoods, individuals in poverty showed less paranoia than did those in high-income areas. Therefore, individuals in poorer areas with higher crime display paranoia in response to a dangerous environment, not as a potential indication of schizophreni
College students\u27 engagement and academic outcomes in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Get PDFThis study examined the relationship among motivation, engagement, and academic outcomes in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were 41 students enrolled in at least two online classes. They completed a survey measuring motivation, engagement, and academic performance in their online courses. It was hypothesized that greater motivation and engagement would predict greater academic outcomes, and that engagement mediates the relationship between motivation and academic outcomes. Regression analyses showed that both motivation and engagement significantly predicted academic outcomes. Engagement was not a significant mediator between motivation and academic outcomes; rather, mediation analyses found that motivation mediated the relationship between engagement and academic outcomes. Findings suggest that both motivation and engagement are important for understanding academic outcomes in online courses
Media sexualization and its impact on college aged women
Get PDFSocial and traditional media are often studied in relation to women’s perceptions of sex. However, they are often studied separately instead of together, missing the overall connection of media on attitudes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between media consumption, specifically social media and television, and college-aged women\u27s levels of internalized sexualization. The findings of this study found a significant positive correlation between time spent consuming romanced-based reality television and romantic comedies and higher levels of internalized sexualization in college-aged women. This study also found there to be a significant positive correlation between college women’s usage of Instagram and their levels of internalized sexualization. These findings suggest that there is a significant relationship between time spent on Instagram, consumption of romance-based reality television and romantic comedies, and higher levels of internalized sexualization
Authors as figures, functions, and persons: theories on intention
Get PDFMy honors thesis is an exercise in which I approach a singular work with three different theories on authorial intent and analyze how the author figure exists along with the work through the lens of each theory. After providing background for the discourse on authorial intention, I explore the theories of Michel Foucault, Alexander Nehamas, and Reed Way Dasenbrock and then demonstrate what each theory looks like in practice by applying each theory to Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel The Woman Warrior. I consider how the different theories fit together, where they differ, and how practical they are as standards of literary criticism
An argument and model for Garden Corps
Get PDFThe benefits of community gardening have been thoroughly documented. Despite the value of community gardens, however, these gardens face many barriers that threaten their sustainability. This research investigated the benefits, barriers, and solutions to barriers of community gardening. The author performed literature review and conducted interviews with four community garden coordinators from the Chattanooga area to explore these topics. The author used the insights gained from the interviews to develop a business model for Garden Corps, a nonprofit dedicated to building capacity for community gardens
Reimaging take-up in challenging times: determining the predictive value of publicly available socio-demographic data for social assistance programs
Get PDFSocial assistance programs throughout the nation have experienced major obstacles to both funding and service provision related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study examines one strategy that a local Chattanooga nonprofit organization, Chattanooga Endeavors, explored to increase the rate of participation in a 21-day online program that assists justice involved individuals to address goals related to employment, education, and public assistance. The organization has access to judgment orders from Hamilton County (TN) Criminal Court and has used this information to identify individuals who have been sentenced to serve a prison term and who are eligible for an outreach program that it operates in prison. Because many of judgment orders (81%) are for individuals who have been sentenced to a period on community supervision and not prison, the organization wanted to see if the information it had on those individuals could be used to make them aware of assistances that is available to them without going to prison. The initial interest of researchers was to determine if there was any information that was predictive of an increased probability that they will voluntarily attend a two-hour online orientation. However, because the majority of the sample selected for this project (N=150) were not able to be contacted by telephone, findings were indeterminate. Researchers speculate that the reasons for this can be helpful to Chattanooga Endeavors to develop an outreach for this segment of the correctional population with attention to factors of convenience, incentive, and stigma – all critically important to the rates of up take for any social assistance program
Deep learning-based anomaly detection for edge-layer devices
Get PDFThis thesis work proposes a novel DL-based anomaly detection framework for IoT environments, employing higher-capacity embedded devices as a first line of defense for the IoT edge layer. In the proposed framework, embedded devices implement the DL anomaly detection engine at the network gateway and adapt to potential attacks by retraining on incoming network traffic. In order to test the feasibility of this framework, two neural network models, trained on variations of the CICIDS 2018 Intrusion Detection Data Set, are deployed and tested on the Raspberry Pi 4. Model performance metrics, including fit and evaluation time across various batch and data sizes, are compared alongside those of identical models running on higher-capacity devices. Device resource metrics of CPU and Memory usage are monitored for comparison across model variations, batch and data sizes.The potential benefit of retraining models at the edge is evaluated by comparing performance of models executing consistent retraining
Social change through rhetorical action: case studies of two Tennessee women in the archives
Get PDFIn conversations about social change and activism, the American South is rarely represented as a place where such change occurs. However, this analysis will focus on two unlikely activists who used their writing and voices to advocate for change on a local scale in their individual communities. These activists are Emma Bell Miles, an artist, naturalist, and creative writer from Chattanooga, Tennessee who wrote a persuasive column in the Chattanooga News on feminism and naturalism, and Mary Cunningham, a local librarian and mother from McMinnville, Tennessee who created the Magness Library and Community House. This thesis argues that Miles and Cunningham were both capable and intelligent rhetors who understood that their voices alone were not sufficiently persuasive within their patriarchal, religious communities. Therefore, they both chose to situate their voices as extensions of the Christian God and Christianity to validate their opinions and achieve their goals. This strategic rhetorical choice to use God as a form of ethos, or a persuasive tool, is a performance of metis (briefly defined as embodied rhetorical cunning) because both Cunningham and Miles realized that their bodies made their rhetoric less credible. These women’s rhetoric and persuasive skills helped make their communities better places for people in their time, and created space for future generations of marginalized people, especially women, to speak out for their beliefs and continue that legacy of community change