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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.
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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.
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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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September 29, 2024

Divergence and Convergence across Presumed and Actual Stereotypes

Trenton Mize

Stereotypes are foundational to social life, with warmth and competence key to views of social groups. Sometheoretical and empirical work on stereotypes focuses on personal “first-order” beliefs about social groups.
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September 27, 2024

“We are on the outside but it’s okay”: A grounded theory of cooperation between parents, coaches, and administrators in professional youth soccer academies

Travis Dorsch

Parents need to cooperate with professional organizations to support their children’s development and health. In sports, knowledge on how parents, coaches, and organizations can successfully coordinate their behavior and work together for a common cause is lacking.
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September 20, 2024

What Is the Effect of an Inferred Mental Illness Label on Stigma? Theoretical and Empirical Challenges

Trenton Mize

One of the strengths of vignette-based experimental research is that it captures the mental illness labeling process in the way it often occurs—inference without full information.
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September 17, 2024

Personality profiles of women in relationships involving men with pathological personality features

Susan South

Relationships involving people with personality disorders are known to be distressing to partners. There is a relative dearth of research, however, into the personalities of their partners. The current study examines the personality profiles of women in relationships with men...
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September 17, 2024

Emotional Labor, Worker Solidarity, and Safety Concerns Among Police and Nurses

Elizabeth Hoffman

To understand the connections among emotional labor, solidarity, and safety, this study interviewed 19 police officers and 20 nurses. Data analysis with words as the unit of analysis engaged both deductive and inductive processes.
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September 14, 2024

How Collection of Racial Demographics Highlights or Hides Participants’ Multiraciality: An Illustrative Example and Warning for Social Scientists

Annabelle Atkin

Social scientists frequently rely on a single item to assess a participant's race, but this common practice can be misleading by obscuring the number of Multiracial participants in one’s sample.
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September 12, 2024

“If I Stay Silent, It Doesn’t Help Anyone”: Understanding How People Use TikTok to Talk About Sexual Violence

Laura Schwab-Reese

TikTok is the second most popular social media platform among American teenagers, suggesting it may be a way to reach young people with sexual violence-related messages.
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