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Effects of Impaired Verbal Abilities on Miranda Comprehension and Reasoning: "Do You Understand Your Rights?"

In Miranda v. Arizona (1966), the Supreme Court of the United States required that custodial arrestees be informed of their constitutional and continuous rights to silence and to legal counsel. Moreover, the ruling mandated that waivers be considered valid only if they were made knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily. However, in the decades that followed, evidence from both caselaw and empirical scholarship clarified that, for many vulnerable populations, these rights are in jeopardy. Among… more

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Date: December 2023

Creator: Tazi, Kamar Y.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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On the Frontline of Athlete Mental Health: The Mental Health Literacy of NCAA Coaches

Coaches' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about mental health – the construct of mental health literacy (MHL) – affects teams' mental health (MH) climates and the early detection, referral, and treatment of athletes' MH concerns. Thus, assessing collegiate coaches' MHL, and the factors related to its presence, is critical. Using the Mental Health Literacy Scale, I surveyed 1,571 NCAA coaches (Mage = 37.5 years, SD = 11.8; 51.4% cisgender female; 85.9% White) regarding their MHL and related de… more

Date: July 2023

Creator: Beebe, Kelzie E.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Trait vs Occasion Unipolar Depression

Unipolar depression is a leading cause of disability and overall burden of disease for millions of individuals across the world. Depressive symptoms (e.g., depressed mood, anhedonia, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, difficulties concentrating, etc.) can drastically affect an individual's life leading to occupational, social, and personal impairment. Past research shows significant ethnic and racial differences in depression rates and treatment. Moreover, previous literature has also begun to… more

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Date: May 2023

Creator: Gonzalez Zapata, Deisy

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Survivor vs. Victim: Self-Labeling of Trauma Victims and Its Implicit Impact on Resilience and Recovery

Past research demonstrates that participants who label themselves as ‘victims' experience worse trauma-related outcomes than those who label themselves as ‘survivors.' Self-labeling in trauma research is typically measured using a dichotomous measure where participants choose either victim or survivor, but this construct may be better conceived as more continuous. The current study assessed self-labeling as a possible continuous construct and explored its predictive validity. To capture self-la… more

Date: May 2023

Creator: King, Ruth

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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An Uncivil Student and an Antagonistic Professor Walk into a Classroom: How Instructor Behavior During Class Conflict Impacts Learning

Exceptional classroom management (CM) for face-to-face and online classes is vital to instructor success, and importantly, directly impacts students' ability to learn. Classroom conflict may disrupt an instructor's CM and can occur when a student is uncivil (e.g., sidetracks from lecture) or when an instructor misbehaves (e.g., antagonizes students). A small but meaningful line of work suggests that uncivil students and misbehaving teachers negatively impact the learning environment. However, n… more

Date: December 2022

Creator: Carey, Caitlyn Nicole

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Cognitive States while Mind Wandering and Associated Alterations in Time Perception

Time perception is a fundamental aspect of consciousness related to mental health. One cognitive state related to time perception is mind wandering (MW), defined as having thoughts unrelated to the current task. Little research has directly assessed the relationship between these two constructs, despite the overlap in clinical significance and the shared importance of attention for healthy functioning. In the present study, I addressed this by having a sample of 40 adults in the United States c… more

Date: August 2022

Creator: Kelly, Megan Erin

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

Occupational Stress and Burnout among American Pastoral Musicians

Occupational burnout is a concern to the health and longevity of clergy and musician careers. However, no known study has assessed occupational burnout among pastoral musicians. A literature review revealed pastoral musicians anecdotally experienced multi-tasking, workplace politics, inequality of workload, competing liturgical styles, lack of job security, lack of financial security, and lack of rest, among other indicators of burnout. Therefore, the aims of this paper were to: (1) describe pa… more

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Date: August 2022

Creator: Behel, Kensley Anne

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Collegiate Student-Athletes' Psychological Distress and Counseling Use during COVID-19

The onset of COVID-19 and cancellation of collegiate sports may have exacerbated student-athletes' psychological distress. Within a national sample of collegiate student-athletes (N = 5755; 66.7% women; 72.3% White), I determined how gender, race, and sport season related to rates of depression, stress, and counseling use. I used a cross-sectional methodology and collected data in April/May 2020. Overall, 26.5% (n = 1526) and 10.6% (n = 612) of the collegiate student-athletes endorsed clinical … more

Date: May 2022

Creator: Slavin, Lindsey Eve

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Investigating the Motivation-Cognition Interface: The Influence of Motivation on the Recognition Old/New Effect and Metamemory

The purpose of this study was to thoroughly review previous work and to create a new experimental paradigm combining recognition memory with value-based incentives and metacognitive confidence judgments, which may provide convergent evidence for the motivation-cognition interface. This paradigm involves a game-like task administering global and local motivational incentives. Furthermore, trial-level metacognitive confidence ratings were gathered to understand the relationship of metacognitive a… more

Date: May 2022

Creator: Doshier, Kirby

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Beyond Traits and States: Interpersonal Decentering Is Also Activated Social Information Processing

Article drawing on a process-focused model of interpersonal decentering's causal validity, the authors manipulated activation experimentally, comparing decentering scores from expressive writing essays under standard instructions (activation condition) versus control instructions, then correlated decentering scores with use of activated language. With condition controlled, both decentering scores correlated significantly with greater proportions of present-tense verbs, positive emotion words, a… more

Date: October 22, 2021

Creator: Jenkins, Sharon Rae; Shamji, Jabeen F.; Straup, Madison L. & Boals, Adriel

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

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Construct Validity of the I-SIP and Its Clinical Utility in Differentiating between Factitious Psychological Presentations (FPPs) and Malingering

Forensic researchers and practitioners continue to face challenges when attempting to differentiate deceptive response styles, notably when comparing malingering and factitious disorder. However, due to the great disparities in research available, forensic examiners may not be adequately informed for considering factitious presentations as a competing hypothesis to malingering. De-emphasis of factitious disorders may also be attributed to the lack of empirical research and poor conceptual under… more

Date: August 2021

Creator: Velsor, Sarah Frances

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

Development of a Scale to Measure Victim Reliance on a Perpetrator

Betrayal trauma theory (BTT) explains the relationship between a victim and perpetrator to be an especially critical factor for predicting adverse trauma outcomes; however, to date, there is no adequate measure to assess this relationship. We aimed to create a measure of reliance, here defined as dependence on another for food, clothing, finances, emotional support, and more. We utilized a new scale, the Reliance on Perpetrator Scale, to measure this construct. 397 participants completed a batt… more

Date: August 2021

Creator: Griffith, Elizabeth

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Relationship of Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Social Support to Psychological Well-being in NCAA Female Athletes during COVID-19

When COVID-19 hit the United States in spring of 2020, collegiate student-athletes, who had sport seasons canceled and were forced to move off-campus, were uniquely and significantly impacted. Psychosocial resources, such as social support, self-compassion, and resilience, may have been used to help athletes cope with the stress of COVID-19. I used structural equation modeling to analyze the relationship of resilience, self-compassion, and social support to collegiate female athlete's (n = 3,9… more

Date: August 2021

Creator: Mikesell, Matthew

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Effectiveness of the SASSI-4 in Classifying Substance Use Disorders and Detecting Response Styles

The current study explored the effects of simulated adjustment domains (i.e., partial denial and social desirability) on specialized substance abuse measures in a sample of 104 inpatient offenders with substance use disorders. Results indicated nearly two thirds (57.9%) of offenders successfully escaped detection on the SASSI-4 and InDUC-2R. Further, subtle approaches employed by the SASSI-4 failed to detect unacknowledged substance use by simulators, and the remaining decision rules were redun… more

Date: August 2020

Creator: Hartigan, Sara E

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

Multifactorial Determinants of Change in Mental Disorder and Happiness among Older Americans

Mental health is an intrinsic capability that constitute an essential component of healthy aging. Mental health is constituted by positive constructs such as happiness and negative constructs (mental disorders) such as depression. As people grow older, they become more prone to developing mental disorders which are linked to poorer quality of life, increased disability, increased utilization and cost of health services, and higher rates of suicide. This dissertation involved three studies that … more

Date: August 2020

Creator: Adaralegbe, Adeleye Ayinde

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The PICTS, Trauma, Experiential Avoidance, Criminal Thinking and Behavior in an Online Community Sample

This study sought to generalize the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) factor structure using the PICTS-Layperson (PICTS:L) in a community sample. The current study also sought to replicate previous findings that criminal thinking mediates the relationship between trauma and criminal behavior. Additionally, this study sought to explore if and/or how experiential avoidance (EA) contributes to the relationships between post-traumatic symptoms (PTS) and criminal thinking, … more

Date: August 2020

Creator: Hulsey, Teresa

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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An Alternative Operationalization of Betrayal Trauma using Perceived Betrayal

There are many identified factors that correlate with whether an individual experiences adverse symptoms following a traumatic event. Research indicates that betrayal, where the victim is betrayed by another individual, may be one of these factors. Betrayal Trauma Theory (BTT) posits that betrayal during trauma increases the likelihood of developing adverse psychological symptoms. BTT objectively dichotomizes traumas as high betrayal or low betrayal traumas based on details of the event. Though… more

Date: December 2019

Creator: Bedford, Lee

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Effects of Suggestibility, Compliance, and Situational Stress on Miranda Abilities, Waiver Decisions, and False Confessions

Miranda abilities, individual characteristics, and contextual factors are critical elements to evaluate in determining the validity of Miranda rights waivers and confessions. Research indicates that many individuals waive their Miranda rights without adequate comprehension or reasoning. In addition, personality characteristics of suggestibility and compliance are key factors influencing waiver decisions. Furthermore, scholars found that situational anxiety likewise impairs Miranda abilities and… more

Date: August 2019

Creator: Otal, Tanveer K.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Perceptions of Change after a Trauma and Perceived Posttraumatic Growth: A Prospective Examination

This article uses a prospective research design to measure both actual and perceived posttraumatic growth in an attempt to replicate and extend previous findings.

Date: January 15, 2019

Creator: Boals, Adriel; Bedford, Lee A. & Callahan, Jennifer L.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

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Keep Calm and Play On: The Effects of Grit, Mindfulness, and Goal Orientation on Sport Anxiety and Performance

Achievement motivation theory suggests there are two primary approaches to achievement tasks: to appear competent or to develop a skill. These two different approaches to performance yield different affective and behavioral responses. Athletes holding a performance goal orientation tend to respond to challenges with behaviors exemplifying learned helplessness and increased anxiety. Athletes holding a mastery goal orientation tend to respond to challenges with greater effort and experience less … more

Date: August 2018

Creator: Auerbach, Alex

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Psychosocial Predictors of Eating Disorder Classification: Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Analyses

There is growing concern for eating pathology and body dissatisfaction in sports; particularly, in sports that emphasize a lean body type. In 325 female collegiate swimmers/divers and gymnasts, we examined psychosocial well-being (i.e., perception of weight pressures, levels of internalization, body satisfaction, dietary intent, negative affect) at the beginning and end of an athletic season and predict their eating disorder classification at the end of their athletic season. Logistic regressio… more

Date: August 2018

Creator: Tackett, Bailey Price

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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The relationship between perseverative cognitions and mental health and physical health complaints among college students

This article examines whether perseverative cognitions represent a common risk factor for poor health in college students.

Date: May 24, 2018

Creator: Zawadzki, Matthew J.; Boals, Adriel; Mathews, Nick; Schuler, Keke; Southard-Dobbs, Shana & Smyth, Joshua M.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

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The Revised Stress-Related Growth Scale: Improving the Measurement of Posttraumatic Growth

This study evaluated a revised version of the Stress-Related Growth Scale (SRGS-R). The SRGS-R has two major differences from the Stress-Related Growth Scale (SRGS). It uses neutral wording of items instead of the original positively worded items, and it uses positive and negative scaling choices. This study included participants (N = 764) recruited through Amazon MTurk. There were three versions of the SRGS-R tested - the SRGS with neutral wording of items only (SRGS-R-N), the SRGS with positi… more

Date: May 2018

Creator: Bedford, Lee

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Examination of a Bi-Directional Relationship between Urgency and Alcohol Use

The proposed study examined whether negative urgency and positive urgency are dynamic traits that hold bi-directional relationships with binge and prolonged alcohol use across time. Individuals between the ages of 18-30 were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk; n = 179) and university student (n = 66) pools. Participants completed three batteries of self-report assessments approximately 30 days apart, each containing measures assessing negative and positive urgency, as well as drinking… more

Date: December 2017

Creator: Blackledge, Sabrina M.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries