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Fall 2014
This longitudinal study explored intraindividual change across four years in 190 Canadian university students’ (M age = 18.36; 60% female) subjective maturity, as indicated by their comparative subjective age (CSA; how old one feels relative to his or her chronological age). Students completed...
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Fall 2009
Researchers have noted that the level of contact respondents have with people who have a mental illness and how they attribute responsibility for these conditions contribute to their desire for social distance. Given that the literature suggests that increased contact is associated with reduced...
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Bringing the Body Back: Adults with Developmental Disabilities, Resistance, and Independence
DownloadSpring 2015
In this thesis, I engage with the following research problem: how the body can practically, theoretically, and comprehensively be brought back into conversations of disability, while simultaneously acknowledging the agency (vis-à-vis independence) of individuals with disabilities as well as...
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Deconstructing heterogeneity in adolescent sexual behaviour: a person-centered, developmental systems approach
DownloadFall 2010
This study examined heterogeneity in adolescents’ experimentation with partnered sexual behaviours. Participants were 88 high school students in Edmonton, Alberta (M age = 16.59, SD = .95). Students completed surveys online once per two months from December, 2008 through December, 2009. Surveys...
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Fall 2015
Based in a life course approach, this study examined the relationship between childhood asthma and high school completion by age 20 using a longitudinal cohort of 6,393 respondents from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Parental resources, parental behaviours, and critical...
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Fall 2012
This study explored and identified six romantic relationship patterns (long-term relationship, intermittent relationships, emergent relationship, breakup, primarily sexual relationships, and single) across the first year of university in 186 Canadian students assessed at four points. Associations...
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Trajectories of parent-child contact, affection, and conflict during the transition to adulthood
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The parent-child relationship is one of the most influential and long-lasting social ties for many people. Much research on this relationship focuses on childhood, adolescence, and old age, while parent-child relations during the transition to adulthood remains a relatively understudied area....
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Work Values-Work Rewards Fit Across Ten Years and Work and Well-Being Outcomes in Young Adulthood
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Guided by the person-environment fit theory, this study identified the latent profiles for work values-work rewards fit within time, transition patterns for fit profiles across time, and the effect of fit profile transitions on work-related and well-being outcomes in young adulthood. A total of...