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Investigating the Moderating Role of Caregiver Loss in the Relationship Between Attachment Style, Self-Esteem, and Romantic Relationship Satisfaction During Emerging Adulthood
No full textEmerging adulthood is a developmental period where romantic relationships become more important in an individual\u27s life. Attachment style and self-esteem have previously been found to impact romantic relationships and the satisfaction within them. The development of attachment style and self-esteem have also been linked to the quality of parent-child connections and parenting styles. Therefore, the loss of a caregiver may impact the relationships between these variables. The current study investigates how caregiver loss moderates the relationship between attachment style, self-esteem, and romantic relationship satisfaction in emerging adults. Of 94 participants, the average age was 25.81 years (SD = 2.67) with 64.9% having experienced caregiver loss and 79.8% being insecurely attached. The results suggest that emerging adults with a secure attachment style are more satisfied in their romantic relationships compared to those with an insecure attachment style. Similarly, emerging adults with better self-esteem are more satisfied in their romantic relationships compared to those with worse self-esteem. There were no differences in romantic relationship satisfaction based on attachment style and self-esteem, regardless of whether they had lost a caregiver or not. These results may suggest the loss of a caregiver does not further impact romantic relationship satisfaction for those who may have an insecure attachment style or worse self-esteem. Shifting the focus from caregiver loss may encourage therapeutic practices to prioritize attachment security and address self-esteem issues to promote relational satisfaction within romantic relationships
Designing a Natural History Timeline Website Using Researched User Interface Principles and Guidelines
No full textMore and more websites and other online applications are created each year. With so many to choose from, the question for a person looking for a good option isn\u27t does this exist? and is instead is this one easier and faster to use than another one I can find? . Many websites are lacking in their user interface (UI) design. The user interface (UI) makes up the part of the website users first interact with. If a website is confusing, awkward, or just unpleasant, then many users will leave and find an alternative, or maybe just give up entirely. Despite this issue being prevalent today, many designers still believe the UI design isn\u27t as important as the rest of the application design, or don\u27t know how to design a UI well due to lack of expertise. This project builds a website by applying web user interface design principles from texts written by experts, studies, and other websites. The website displays an interactive natural history timeline covering earliest life on earth until the present. The purpose is to show how design principles can be studied and applied without other significant experience and can still have a strong, positive impact on the resulting website. The design principles are mostly easy to apply in this project and combine well with the goals of the website. This project doesn\u27t conduct user testing on the website, and would have future work where it develops the website to be fully functional and conducts user testing with more intention for getting a website to be publishable with the help of the design principles
Pups, People, and Personality in the Wake of a Post-Pandemic Shelter Crisis
No full textAmerican animal shelters are in crisis following the COVID-19 pandemic adoption spike. With returns and relinquishments at an all-time high, it is crucial to understand the complex web of factors that determine the success or failure of shelter dog adoptions. This study aimed to examine the effect of dog-owner pair personality interactions using a cross-species model of the Big Five. The dogs of the Wayne County Dog Shelter (n = 48) had their personalities assessed using the Canine-Big Five Inventory, the Monash Canine Personality Questionnaire-Revised, and routine, shelter-conducted temperament tests. The people who adopted them (n = 50) were asked to complete the Ten-Item Personality Inventory and to answer questions relating to their satisfaction with their new companions. Novel methods were designed to determine what is considered as a “match” between personalities in the owner-dog pairs. Owners’ personalities generally were not similar to that of their dogs. Furthermore, personality similarity had no significant correlation with adoption satisfaction/success (p\u3e.05), although participants reported being generally satisfied with their dogs regardless of personality match or length of ownership at time of report (r(48) = .037, p \u3e.05). Qualitative results supported this, as even owners who indicated several, long-term behavioral issues reported being satisfied. My findings not only provided the Wayne County Dog Shelter with information on the post-adoption experience for their shelter dogs, but also added a unique approach to the limited literature on how personality interaction in owner-dog pairs relates to adoption success
Private Money and Public Work: Evaluating Funding Sources for US-Based Archaeological Research in Guatemala
No full textThe establishment of archaeological projects in the 20th and 21st centuries was often shaped, consciously or unconsciously, by the political motivations of involved parties. I evaluate this premise through the examination of archival records and interviews pertaining to two archaeological projects, each established in Guatemala but in distinct periods and political contexts. My goal is to examine the implicit or explicit ties that come with certain funding sources associated with archaeological projects and how they have changed over time. I consider the history of excavations of the Penn Tikal Project (1956-1970) and the Proyecto Arqueológico Waka’ (2003-present). Understanding the motivations and changes in governmental/state (as well as private) support for archaeological projects allows the archaeological community to better evaluate the ethics and unintentional/intentional biases of past and current research while supporting a cross-disciplinary method of examining archaeological practices
PFAS: The Sociology of Risk
No full textPFAS represents a growing public health concern due to pervasive exposure, their associated negative health effects, and longevity in the environment. Different demographic groups experience various levels of exposure to these chemicals and have unequal access to options to mitigate risk. Using the theoretical framework of Beck’s risk society, this survey study examined differences in PFAS risk assessment between demographic groups by comparing rated concern levels, willingness to pay (WTP) for risk limitation options, and willingness to use (WTU) different risk limitation options. While socioeconomic class influenced WTP for risk mitigation options, the difference between class groups diminished when cost was not a barrier
How Do Monetized Content Creators on Social Media Determine Their Labor Supply
No full textThe purpose of this study is to determine content creators’ labor supply decisions after their video goes viral by comparing Prospect Theory to the Neoclassical Labor Supply Theory under transitory increases in daily earnings. Measuring the content creators’ upload frequency, income and substitution effect was used to theorize a content creator’s uploading decisions under the Neoclassical Labor Supply. The Prospect Theory measured decisions made by content creators under uncertainty. Using the Probability Weighting function to measure a viral video\u27s potential impact on the behavior of content creators. Many factors can alter a content creator’s upload frequency, this paper sets out to understand what those factors are and how they’re causing an effect
The Impact of Making Intertemporal Decisions on Behalf of Others
No full textThis study examined if and how making intertemporal decisions on behalf of others influenced temporal discounting. Temporal discounting, the tendency to devalue delayed rewards, can be thought of as a proxy of impulsive decision-making. Two hundred adult Americans completed the Monetary Choice Questionnaire (MCQ) on behalf of either one close friend, five close friends, one distant acquaintance, or five distant acquaintances. Based on construal level theory, I hypothesized that when participants made decisions on behalf of a stranger, it would induce high-level construal and reduce temporal discounting. I also hypothesized that increasing group size from one to five would reduce temporal discounting for the acquaintance condition and increase temporal discounting for the friend condition. Results did not find significant differences in overall temporal discounting rates (k) between the conditions. This may indicate that temporal discounting is not sensitive to social distance information; however, this study also provides limited evidence suggesting that social distance may interact with temporal distance to influence temporal discounting. The constraints of the MCQ restrict the ability to test for this interaction, so future research is necessary to investigate the possibility. If the identified trends in this study represent real-life decision-making, it would mean that making intertemporal monetary decisions on behalf of close friends or family increases self-controlled decision-making only when the time difference is within a few months. In contrast, making intertemporal monetary decisions on behalf of distant acquaintances increases self-controlled decision-making when the time difference is longer than a few months
Streamlining Speed: A Mathematical Analysis of the Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles
No full textThis project explores the mathematical foundations, derivations, and applications of some of the most important and foundational aerodynamics and fluid dynamics equations relevant to road vehicles. It also examines the historical development and growing relevance of road vehicle aerodynamics, highlighting the main phases of aerodynamic vehicle design as well as the major breakthroughs and advancements that have shaped modern aerodynamic design. It introduces, explains, and derives some of the most significant equations that govern the behavior of airflow over, around, and through road vehicles. Beyond the background and derivation of these equations, this research paper emphasizes the necessary assumptions and simplifications that apply to these equations and their role in the derivations to make the equations easier to solve without the use of computers. This project also explains how these equations model the behavior of air as it flows around road vehicles, and will discuss various methods that take advantage of these effects to increase fuel efficiency, performance, stability, and other attributes. This project also models a simplified full-size pickup truck inside of a cylindrical wind tunnel test section to model a simplified wind tunnel scenario using the viscous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations as the governing equations. This problem goes through all the setup steps, from defining regions and boundaries to prescribing an initial condition