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Maternal influences on women's and men's body shame and body surveillance : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)
No full textResearch shows that body dissatisfaction is relatively common in the American society, particularly among European-American women. Sociocultural factors, such as the media, peers, and parents, play a significant role in the development of women's body dissatisfaction, including body surveillance and body shame. However, mothers, in particular, may be more influential than the media and peers in the development of women's body surveillance and body shame. Mothers will often emphasize the importance of thinness by actively encouraging their daughters to lose weight or by criticizing their body shape. However, women will often feel negatively about their bodies if they are unable to conform to the ideal body standard. This study proposes that there is a significant relationship between body surveillance, body shame, and maternal emphasis on appearance. Expected analyses and results for this study are also discussed.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg
Aggression and conformity in college students : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)
No full textThis study examined conformity and aggression in Reserve Officer Training Corps and Psychology 100 college students. The purpose was to determine if any difference in levels of aggression or conformity existed between the two samples. Participants took an online questionnaire that assessed levels of conformity and four subscales of aggression, physical, verbal, anger, and hostility. It was discovered that ROTC participants displayed higher levels of aggression, particularly physical, and PSYSC 100 participants displayed higher levels of conformity. Males scored higher in aggression than females. Younger participants displayed more hostility and conformity than older participants did. A negative correlation between conformity and aggression was found, as well. Examining aggression and conformity may provide useful information in the prevention of abuse and violence.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg
Analysis of victim and perpetrator blame in incident reports depicting sexual assault
No full textThe relationship between blame attribution, characterological and behavioral blame, and rape and prostitution myth acceptance was investigated. After reviewing an incident report of a sexual assault in which the victim was portrayed as either a prostitute, bank teller, or nun, 291 college-aged participants rated their level of agreement with rape myths and prostitution myths. They also assigned blame to the victim and/or perpetrator of the sexual assault. Results indicated that as rape and prostitution myth acceptance increased, victim blame increased and perpetrator blame decreased. Participants tended to blame the victimized prostitute more for the assault than the victimized bank teller and nun; similarly, participants tended to blame the perpetrator of the nun and bank teller more than the perpetrator of the prostitute. Gender differences in rape and prostitution myth acceptance and blaming attributions were also investigated. The findings are congruent with previous research on rape myth acceptance and blame.Thesis (M.A.)Department of Psychological Scienc
Mentoring Experiences of New Online Teachers: Voices of Graduate and Early Career Instructors
Get PDFThis research study explores the mentoring experiences of graduate student and early career instructors who teach online courses at a mid-size public university in the United States. As members of a centralized online learning unit that works with instructors teaching online courses across a range of disciplines, we sought to better understand the mentoring experiences of instructors who are new to online teaching. Using a narrative methodology, we analyzed interview transcripts and found that graduate student and early career instructors have variable access to mentoring, experience different sources of mentoring, and engage with multiple types of mentoring. We found that graduate student instructors have more access to different sources and types of mentoring than early career instructors, but that both groups desired additional mentoring opportunities. Participants recognized the value of mentoring experiences as part of their overall professional development. We conclude with suggested actions for units looking to support mentoring for online instructors
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2022 Oregon State University Student Textbooks and Course Materials Survey: Results and Findings
Get PDFThe summary and findings of the 2022 OSU student textbook and course materials survey. This survey was run in March 2022 by the Open Education Resources Unit. It is a derivative of the Florida Virtual Libraries 2018 Student Textbook and COurse Materials survey. The survey inquires about student access to their course materials, the cost of their textbooks, and what the implications are when student do not purchase their textbooks
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2025 Oregon State University Course Materials Affordability Survey : Results and Findings
No full textThe 2025 Course Materials Affordability Survey was developed collaboratively by Oregon State University, Portland State University, University of Oregon, and Southern Oregon University for the purpose of gaining a better understanding of the academic and personal consequences of required course materials costs on students. The version of the survey used by Oregon State was approved by the Institutional Review Board on 10-25-2024 (HE-2024-1180) and administered in March of 2025 to a random sample of registered undergraduates. This report reflects the responses of 690 Oregon State undergraduates
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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