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October 10, 2024

Animal-Assisted Interventions for Military Families: A Synthesis of the Current Evidence (Chapter 27, Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy)

Leanne Nieforth

Military families, including service members and their immediate family members, face unique stressors. As a consequence, these families are often at a higher risk for a variety of psychosocial challenges.

October 9, 2024

It depends: Platform dependence, schedule control, and satisfaction among gig workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform

Jeremy Reynolds

Understanding the risks and rewards of gig work requires examining how gig workers themselves feel about their work and how work satisfaction may vary even among workers on the same gig platform.

October 7, 2024

Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks

Breanya Hogue

Textbooks convey powerful messages to students about who can legitimately participate in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Using culturally relevant pedagogy as the guiding theoretical framework, this study sought to explore the extent to which secondary life science textbooks...

October 6, 2024

Fertility Desires and Contraceptive Transition

Christie Sennot

Fertility desires are fundamental to understanding contraceptive use, yet the relationship between the two remains unclear and is the subject of much debate in demography.

October 5, 2024

3 Deadly Health Hazards Of An Unhappy Marriage—By A Psychologist

Rosie Shrout

Marriage is meant to be a lifelong commitment, but when it turns into a cycle of resentment and unresolved conflicts, it can have devastating effects on your health. Even relationships that start with love and hope can become harmful if...

October 5, 2024

Sibling and best friend conflict resolution strategies among Mexican-origin youth

Kimberly Updegraff

Sibling relationships evolve into a more egalitarian relationship dynamic resembling friendships during adolescence, potentially facilitating the transfer of interpersonal skills across relationships.

October 5, 2024

Network Analysis to Visualize Qualitative Results: Example From a Qualitative Content Analysis of The National Child Abuse Hotline

Laura Schwab-Reese

Data visualization, such as figures created through network analysis, may be one way to present more complete information from qualitative analysis. Segments of qualitatively coded data can be treated as objects in network analysis, thus creating visual representations of the...

October 4, 2024

“There’s no good, it’s just satisfactory”: perfectionism, performance, and perfectionistic reactivity in NCAA student-athletes

Travis Dorsch

Perfectionistic reactivity is a characteristic style of responding to adversity that elicits a bio-psychosocial response. Those with elevated levels of perfectionistic tendencies are thought to react disproportionately in the face of successes or failures.

October 1, 2024

Two CFF Faculty Partners to receive American Academy of Nursing Fellow Honors

Libby Richards, Vicki Simpson

Purdue announced that two CFF Faculty Partners, Libby Richards and Vicki Simpson, were selected to become American Academy of Nursing Fellow Honors.

September 30, 2024

Daily sibling interactions among latino children in middle childhood: An examination of familism values and sibling roles

Kimberly Updegraff

Siblings are children’s most frequent daily companions in middle childhood and these relationships are theorized to be dynamic in nature but are rarely studied in a way that captures their day-to-day variation.

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