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Achivement Motivation and Intervention Impacts in Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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This dissertation consists of three separate papers that contribute to an increased understanding of achievement motivation and discuss how it can guide interventions for adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). The first paper is a concept review of important topics in this...
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Fall 2018
Students training for people-oriented careers, such as medicine and teaching, experience disproportionately high levels of burnout before entering the workforce. This is problematic because burnout is associated with negative outcomes such as unprofessionalism, low self-efficacy, and early career...
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Exploring the Relative Contributions of Training Patterns and Training Contexts to Burnout and Dropout in Swimming
DownloadSpring 2019
Millions of children participate in youth sport, which has been associated with both potential benefits and harms. The promotion of positive, beneficial experiences in youth sport and the reduction of harmful, negative experiences requires discerning those factors which could be decisive in a...
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Finding an Appetite for Reducing Food Waste: Determinants of Commercial Food Waste Management and Diversion in Alberta
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Considerable quantities of food waste have been observed globally and minimizing it has the potential to generate significant reductions in the environmental burden of the agri-food sector. The commercial food sector contributes substantially to food waste generation, so understanding the...
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Spring 2019
Motivation is essential to achieve success in therapy, and as such, a lack of motivation is a significant problem for clients as they work to meet their goals. In this dissertation, I describe two studies that sought to understand better the factors that affect client motivation in order to...
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Parental Empowerment via Instructional Technology in the Context of Learning Arabic as a Second Language
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Parents often show disempowerment in relation to supporting their children with schoolwork (Hoover-Dempsey et al., 2005; Hornby & Lafaele, 2011; Peña, 2000; Thomsen, 2011). In the case of Arabic learning, parents typically cannot involve themselves in their children’s Arabic learning due to...
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Reactive Risk-taking: Anxiety Regulation via Approach Motivation Increases Risk-taking Behavior
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Experimental research and real-world events demonstrate a puzzling phenomenon—anxiety, which primarily inspires caution, sometimes increases risk-taking. The goal of the present research was to test whether this phenomenon is due to the regulation of anxiety via reactive approach motivation...