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Playing with Gender: A Narrative Inquiry into Two Gender Diverse Peoples’ Stories of Exploring Gender in Tabletop Roleplaying Games
DownloadFall 2024
Tabletop roleplaying games allow players to creatively explore their identities in an enjoyable, social context. Identity exploration may be an especially important task for gender diverse people, who may experience difficulties in creating a positive gender identity due to stigma. In this study...
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The Function of Aesthetics in Art Therapy: How Art Therapists Perceive the Role of Aesthetics in Art Therapy Interventions with Adolescents and Young Adults
Download2022
This research was fuelled by observations of aesthetic subscriptions in adolescents and young adults. Combining a curiosity with this phenomenon with graduate studies, an intrigue developed considering the nuanced differences between how each of these sectors define, utilize, and approach...
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Fall 2018
Currently, men are under-represented in many careers and fields of study, including foreign-language study. In seven studies, I examined social psychological correlates and causes of the gender gap in enrolment and interest in language-related fields. After reviewing research on gender...
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The Hidden Resilience of Street-Involved and Homeless Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults Who Engage in Sex Work
DownloadFall 2020
This dissertation explores innovative and nuanced conceptions of resilience useful to understanding this construct, process, and outcome in a diverse population of street-involved and homeless sexual and gender minority (SGM) young adults. These young persons deal with significant adversity and...
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Fall 2024
To be in flow is typically described as a state where one becomes enmeshed with the performance of a task. Flow has been extensively investigated and pioneered by the late Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi in the field of positive psychology to optimize focus, presence, and pleasure. Explorations of...