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Examining Emerging Adults’ Motivations for Sexting, Subjective Well-being, and Relationship Quality: A Self-Determination Perspective
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Researchers have documented many reasons why young people participate in sexting and a range of positive and negative outcomes associated with the activity. However, almost no research links outcomes with specific reasons, and the few instances where they are linked (e.g., Drouin et al., 2015;...
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Spring 2012
Evaluation use is an area of research with important implications for evaluation theory and practice. A review of the evaluation use literature reveals the factors that affect evaluation use provide important implications for evaluation practice (Burr, 2009; Cousins & Leithwood, 1986). Using a...
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Examining Intra-Personal and External Support Factors Supporting Academic Success in Post-Secondary Students with ADHD
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Young adults with ADHD are less likely to graduate from high school and pursue post-secondary education than young adults without ADHD (Barbaresi et al., 2007; Barkley, 2006; Molina et al., 2009). University students with ADHD, given their enrollment in postsecondary education, have likely...
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Examining Mothers', Fathers' and Preschool Aged Children's Use of Internal State Language Within Emotion-Focused Conversations
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This study examined mothers’ and fathers’ use of internal state language (ISL) within the context of an emotion-focused task with their preschool aged children. Parental differences in ISL were analyzed, as well as whether or not mothers and fathers differentiated their use of ISL depending on...
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Examining Practicing Teachers’ Cognitions and Emotions Towards Students with FASD Using Attribution Theory
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The importance of teachers’ emotions has been well-established in educational research, particularly when confronted with challenging student behaviour. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) impact many Canadian children, and these students are likely to experience difficulty in the classroom....
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Fall 2020
A widely held, stereotyped belief is that students with autism tend to be mathematically gifted. This stereotype has some support in the annals of autism research, but more recently, researchers have revealed that the rates of both math giftedness and math weakness and/or disability among...
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Examining Resilience among University Students with Reading Difficulties Using Internal and External Protective Factors
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This dissertation consists of three papers investigating the impact of intrapersonal and interpersonal factors on life satisfaction and academic achievement of adults with reading difficulty (RD). Participants were university students or recent graduates. The first paper examines the impact of...
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Examining the Effects of Home- and School-Based Early Reading Intervention During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Struggling Readers
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This dissertation includes two studies that examine the effects of home- and school-based reading intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic in a group of Grade 1 to 3 struggling readers. The first study examined whether different parent- and teacher-related factors had an effect on at-risk...
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Examining the Moderating Effects of Adolescent Self-Compassion on the Relationship Between Social Rank and Depression
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Depression among today’s youth is associated with detrimental risk factors, including suicide. The social rank theory of depression suggests that humans naturally engage in social competition to achieve status and when perceptions of inferiority arise, depression may be triggered. The current...