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Culture, Ideal Affect, and Ideal Affect-Actual Affect Discrepancies During Leisure and Non-Leisure Episodes
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Affect Valuation Theory (AVT), a relatively new cross-cultural psychological framework, underpins this study. AVT’s key concepts include: ideal affect (i.e., how one prefers to feel); actual affect (i.e., how one actually feels); ideal-actual affect discrepancies (i.e., difference between ideal...
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Fall 2013
To more fully understand the impact of stuttering on preschoolers’ self-concept, we need to know how to validly and reliably measure these constructs. The purpose of this study was to develop a parent version of the Self-Description Questionnaire for Preschoolers (SDQP-P). Participants were 104...
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Examining Factors That Contribute to Athletes’ Anxiety About Body Image During Sport Setbacks
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Parker, Patti C., Tulloch, Sierra L. P., Chazan, Devon J., Pelletier, Gabrielle N., Daniels, Lia M.
Setbacks in sport are common and particularly relevant to current athletes because of the sport interruptions that resulted from COVID-19. Given the prevalence of mental health and body image issues reported in athletes, we considered factors impacting athletes’ setback-related anxiety about body...
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2023-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: The purpose of the proposed research is to use ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods to explore how the dynamic, reciprocal relationships between the affective and cognitive subcomponents of subjective well-being (SWB) (i.e., satisfaction with life, incidental...
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Fall 2016
While it has become a generally accepted idea that humans have been endowed with authority over all that exists on this earth, this thesis will argue that, at times, this is not the case. Belief in this sort of authority proves to be problematic in a classroom environment as things assert...
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2023-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Many of us have been frustrated when trying to learn something that we feel is difficult. Some of us chose to quit when facing frustration and others chose to work more so that they can overcome these difficulties. While several theories detail the role of adults’ emotions...
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Spring 2013
Communicating risk information to promote adoption of protective behaviours was challenging during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. Focus group research in Alberta, Canada involving 65 seniors aged 65 and older suggests this population had difficulty comprehending risk information due to...
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Light therapy for managing cognitive, sleep, functional, behavioural, or psychiatric disturbances in dementia (Review)
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Forbes, D., Culum, I., Morgan, D.G., Forbes, J., Lischka, A.R., Forbes, S., Peacock, S.
Background Rest-activity and sleep-wake cycles are controlled by the endogenous circadian rhythmgenerated by the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus. Degenerative changes in the SCN appear to be a biological basis for circadian disturbances in people with dementia, and might be...