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Spring 2024
Background: Ongoing faculty shortages in nursing education has illuminated the need to better understand the experiences of PhD prepared new tenure track faculty. In the limited research available when I began this study, the initial tenure-track experience was reported to be an extremely...
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Adolescents' Experiences of Self-Compassion when Navigating Difficult Friendship Dissolutions
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Among adolescents, the ending of a close friendship may be a source of significant psychological distress. Considering the potentially adverse sequalae of friendship dissolutions, it is crucial to gain an understanding of strategies and practices that adolescents can employ to cope with such...
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Fall 2019
Research has highlighted the mental health benefits of self-compassion, particularly as it serves an adaptive function in managing personal suffering and rebounding from adversity (Neff, 2003b). For athletes coping with setbacks in sport, self-compassion has proven effective as an intervention...
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Fall 2021
Dispersal is one of the most important life-history events facing an individual, but how and why individuals arrive at the decision to leave home is largely unknown. This decision has immediate and lifelong fitness consequences. Therefore, understanding how individuals make dispersal decisions is...
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Disentangling root system responses to neighbours: identification of novel root behavioural strategies
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Plants live in a social environment, with interactions among neighbours a ubiquitous aspect of life.Though many of these interactions occur in the soil, our understanding of how plants alter root growth and the patterns of soil occupancy in response to neighbours is limited. This is in contrast...
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Fall 2021
The social interactions that we engage in with those around us are crucial to our successful navigation of daily life, and the presence of others can largely influence our attentional allocation. However, less is known regarding social presence and interactions as they occur online; as the recent...
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Fall 2023
Despite accounting for a significant proportion of the transgender population, non-binary individuals are often neglected within research. Studies that do include non-binary participants are often focused on deficit, stigma, and mental health disparities, resulting in a narrow and one-sided...
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How Women Varsity Athletes High in Self-Compassion Experience Unexpected Stressors Surrounding Competition
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Athletes appraise unexpected stressors as more threatening than expected stressors (Dugdale et al., 2002) and women varsity athletes have reported experiencing a high proportion of unexpected competition-related stressors (Holt et al., 2007). Self-compassion appears to promote adaptive appraisals...
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2021-01-01
Plants encompass every aspect of humanity; from maize to cassava, rice to canola, we have cultivated crops for 23,000 years. Yet, despite how vast our understanding of plants is, there exist misconceptions that they are inactive, insensitive, and incapable of perceiving and responding to...
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Journeying Through Sport with Self-Compassion: Athlete Narratives of Navigating Pressure and Struggle
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In high-level sport, there is often an overemphasis on performance which can lead to a decline in athletes’ physical health, mental well-being, and quality of life (Douglas & Carless, 2009; Smith, 2010). Development of adaptive coping resources, such as self-compassion, may help mitigate threats...