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Fall 2023

Walker, Meghan A

This dissertation contains three studies that contribute to the existing research by exploring the associations between child temperament, parenting, and early childhood social-emotional and behavioural development. The first study explores associations between child temperament, mothers’ and...

Fall 2023

Herceg, Luciana

Viewing inspirational content such as Thinspiration and Fitspiration has been found to increase body dissatisfaction, appearance comparisons (Dignard & Jarry, 2020), and negative affect (Griffiths et al., 2019). 85.7% of young social media users use health and fitness-related social media...

Fall 2023

Gower, Heather K.

Foundational to professional psychology, the scientist-practitioner model encourages a scientific approach to practice, strengthening clinical work with the best available research evidence. However, troubling research shows inadequate training in research and science, and low engagement with...

Spring 2023

González Esparza, Lydia

Affect detection is increasingly viewed as an essential component of computer-based learning systems because it aims to improve learner outcomes by adapting to the learner’s affect. However, most computer-based learning environments used across formal and informal educational contexts do not...

Fall 2023

Schatz, Talia

Often, one may think of assessments, assignments, and tests as purely extrinsic motivators and that students have no intrinsic interest or drive to engage with them. However, there may be instances where students are intrinsically motivated by assessment. It is important to illuminate the various...

Spring 2023

Clelland, Ashley D.

The Covid-19 pandemic was a period of intense stress for hospital-based healthcare providers (HCPs). Education was frequently proposed as a solution to support HCPs with pandemic-related distress, but little is known about what pandemic training and/or education looked like for hospital-based...

Spring 2023

Volk, Brittany Elena

Background: The clinical supervisory relationship (SR) between counsellors-in-training and established psychologists has been considered by counsellor trainees, researchers, and the profession to be one of the most crucial and influential aspects of the training process. Accordingly, more...

Fall 2023

Wells, Kendra L

Teaching became harder during the pandemic. More specifically, elementary teachers were expected to monitor student health on top of teaching curriculum, they were required to find creative ways to maintain relationships with students, and they needed to coach parents on implementing daily...

Fall 2023

Jelly, Kathryn

Twice-exceptional (2e) is a term used to identify students who are identified with dual diagnoses of giftedness and some type of learning challenge which qualifies them for special education programs, such as attention deficits and learning disabilities. 2e students are often overlooked in...

Spring 2023

Gao, Yizhu

Adaptive learning systems (ALSs) serve as a way to personalize learning experiences for students to improve their learning outcomes. Many studies have been conducted to develop and examine ALSs in terms of their effects on student learning outcomes compared to the traditional classroom settings....