A collection of published articles from members of the Department of Psychological Science at Kennesaw State University.
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Submissions from 2023
Religious Interpretations of Mental Illness and Help-Seeking Experiences Among Muslim Americans: Implications for Clinical Practice, Anisah Bagasra
Perceived Effectiveness of COVID-19 Preventive Practices and Behavioral Intention: Survey of a Representative Adult Sample in the United States, Anisah Bagasra, Christopher T. Allen, and Sara Doan
Functional Headings’ Effects on Selective Attention and Reading Processes, Hung Tao M. Chen, Megan S. Thomas, and Katelyn L. McClure
Differential relations among expectancy, task value, engagement, and academic performance: The role of generation status, Ordene V. Edwards and Ting Dai
Utility Value Intervention Fails to Boost Student Motivation and Performance in Psychology Courses, Ordene V. Edwards, Katherine R. White, Crystal Rainwater, and Emily Simmons
Does Felt Obligation or Gratitude Better Explain the Relationship Between Perceived Organizational Support and Outcomes?, Robert Eisenberger, Xueqi Wen, Dianhan Zheng, Jia Yu, Zihan Liu, Jing Zhang, Lei Wang, Tae Yeol Kim, Sara Krivacek, Thomas J. Zagenczyk, Min Kyu Joo, Salar Mesdaghinia, Deog Ro Lee, and Tae Hyun Kim
Psychological Flexibility Training to Enhance Resilience in Military Personnel, Wyatt R. Evans, Eric C. Meyer, Brian A. Moore, and Alan L. Peterson
Applied behavior analysis and the zoo: Forthman and Ogden (1992) thirty years later, Eduardo J. Fernandez and Allison L. Martin
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicidal ideation, and Stress: The Moderating Role of Dysfunctional and Recovery Cognitions, Kimberly D. Gomes, Tyler L. Collette, Michael Schlenk, Jason Judkins, Israel Sanchez-Cardona, Bianca Channer, Patricia Ross, George Fredrick, and Brian A. Moore
Using Virtual Reality to Bring Restorative Environments to Employees: An Online Pilot Study, Kristin A. Horan, Maria Harrington, Chelsea A. LeNoble, Matthew Mosher, and Thomas Pring
Do entrepreneurs mistreat probationary employees? The mediating role of perceived ethical climate and moderating roles of core job characteristics, Yongseok Jang, Jing Zhang, and Dianhan Zheng
Mild Cognitive Impairment in African Americans Is Associated with Differences in EEG Theta/Beta Ratio, Tim Martin, Katherine Kero, Rok Požar, Bruno Giordani, and Voyko Kavcic
Former dementia caregivers’ high and low point narratives: what is remembered, and how is it shared?, Tara D. Matta-Singh, Shubam Sharma, Talha Ali, Amanda Piechota, Anissa Abboud, Terri Fried, Joan K. Monin, and Emily L. Mroz
Social Norms Impact the Likelihood of Stalking Perpetration Among College Students, Corinne L. McNamara, Dorothy F. Marsil, Jennifer Willard, and Morgan Reinhart
Soldier Self-Regulation: Applying Self-Regulatory Concepts to the U.S. Army Context, Nicholas A. Moon, Mina Milosevic, Kauyer Lor, Allyson R. Clubb, Patrick D. Converse, Richard L. Griffith, Kenneth Pitts, Rhett Graves, Kimberly Gomes, Jacqueline Kirshenbaum, and Brian Moore
Nightmare disorder in active-duty US military personnel, Brian A. Moore, Allison Brager, Jason Judkins, and Vincent Mysliwiec
Self- and Team-Efficacy in Military Trainees: Development of Two Novel Military Trainee-Appropriate Assessments, Brian A. Moore, Paul A. Story, Jayne Allen, Jacqueline Kirshenbaum, Ashley Wittig, Kenneth Pitts, Jason L. Judkins, and Yuri Feito
Personal Health Planning in Adult-Child Former Caregivers of Parents Living With Dementia, Emily L. Mroz, Talha Ali, Amanda Piechota, Tara D. Matta-Singh, Anissa Abboud, Shubam Sharma, Joan K. Monin, and Terri R. Fried
“Been there, done that:” A grounded theory of future caregiver preparedness in former caregivers of parents living with dementia, Emily L. Mroz, Amanda Piechota, Talha Ali, Tara D. Matta-Singh, Anissa Abboud, Shubam Sharma, Marney A. White, Terri R. Fried, and Joan K. Monin
Sexual and gender identity and note-leaving among adult suicide decedents in the USA, Holly P. O'Rourke, Chanler D. Hilley, Emily Lowell, and Connor M. Sheehan
Task aftereffect reorganization of resting state functional brain networks in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment, Rok Požar, Katherine Kero, Tim Martin, Bruno Giordani, and Voyko Kavcic
An analysis of student bucket lists in death and dying courses: data from three U.S. Universities, Lacey J. Ritter, Anisah Bagasra, and Sharon Richards
Measuring engagement in daily life: validation of the spanish version of the utrecht general engagement scale (UGES), Israel Sánchez-Cardona, Weston Rowe, María Vera, Tyler Collete, and Sonia Cepeda-Hernández
Psychological Capital, Strength Use, and Subjective Health: The Mediating Role of General Engagement, Israel Sánchez-Cardona, María Vera, Sonia Cepeda-Hernández, Avery Britt, and Natalie Schindler
Potential use of endemic human coronaviruses to stimulate immunity against pathogenic SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, Narges S. Shamabadi, Anisah B. Bagasra, Shrikant Pawar, and Omar Bagasra
The intergroup sensitivity effect among racial groups in the United States, Katherine R.G. White, Jessica Bray, Jonathan C. Lang, Amilynne McLeroy, Scarlet Hernandez, and Chloe McLaughlin
Thinking of how you think of me: working cancer survivors' metaperceptions of competence and why they matter, Dianhan Zheng, Alexander R. Marbut, Jing Zhang, Avery Britt, and David Nwadike
Submissions from 2022
COVID-19 and Adverse Social Determinants of Health, Saul G. Alamilla and Miguel Ángel Cano
Religiosity as a mediating factor in alcohol use and alcohol related problems among students attending a historically black college (HBCU), Anisah Bagasra, Kurt Holzhausen, and Mitchell B. Mackinem
A Brief Primer on Enhancing Islamic Cultural Competency for Deploying Military Medical Providers, Anisah Bagasra, Brian A. Moore, Jason Judkins, and Geno Foral
Individual and School Correlates of DIT-2 Scores Using a Multilevel Modeling and Data Mining Analysis, Meghan Bankhead, Youn Jeng Choi, Yogendra Patil, and Stephen J. Thoma
Incidence rates of emotional, sexual, and physical abuse in active-duty military service members, 1997–2015, T. L. Collette, S. A. von Esenwein, K. E. Moore, and E. Sterling
A Retrospective, Epidemiological Review of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Military Population, Tyler L. Collette, Jason L. Judkins, Brian A. Moore, and Mari-Amanda Dyal
Social presence and teacher involvement: The link with expectancy, task value, and engagement, Ordene V. Edwards and Gita Taasoobshirazi
Perceptions of Risk, Work, and Lifestyle Changes on Mental Health of Healthcare Workers Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, Awatef Ergai, LeeAnna Spiva, Lin Li, Ryan Breshears, and Ginny Q. Zhan
Challenging Gendered Microaggressions in the Academy: A Social–Ecological Analysis of Bystander Action Among Faculty, Michelle C. Haynes-Baratz, Meg A. Bond, Christopher T. Allen, and Yun Ling Li
Unlocking SSM/V Success: Welcoming Student Service Members and Veterans and Supporting SSM/V Experiences, Thomas J. Hodges, Kimberly D. Gomes, Tyler L. Collette, and Brian A. Moore
Usability enhancement based on usability heuristics: An examination of the underlying mechanism utilizing the psychological-refractory-period paradigm, Kyung Hun Jung, Jack T. Labriola, Jack Krebs, and Tiara Sawyer
Impact of Visual Barrier Removal on the Behavior of Shelter-Housed Dogs, Allison L. Martin, Christina M. Walthers, Madison J. Pattillo, Jessica A. Catchpole, Lauren N. Mitchell, and Emily W. Dowling
EEG asymmetry and cognitive testing in MCI identification, Tim Martin, Bruno Giordani, and Voyko Kavcic
Development and validation of the recovery-dysfunction implicit association test in military personnel and civilians with posttraumatic stress disorder., Brian A. Moore, Willie J. Hale, and Alan L. Peterson
Behavioral and Occupational Health in Military Firefighters: An Understudied Population, Brian A. Moore, Jason L. Judkins, Mari-Amanda Dyal, Michael Schlenk, Eric Meyer, Casey L. Straud, Vincent Mysliwiec, Alan L. Peterson, and Monty T. Baker
Risk and protective factors predicting prescription drug misuse in a sample of Puerto Rican students, Maryse N. Rivera-Ríos, José J. Cabiya, and Israel Sánchez-Cardona
Translation, cultural adaptation, and psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Combat Exposure Scale (CES-S) with U.S. military Spanish speaking Latino veterans living in the Caribbean: A cross-sectional preliminary data study, Naiomi Rivera-Rivera, Coralee Pérez-Pedrogo, Myralys Calaf, and Israel Sánchez-Cardona
Vulnerabilities and academic outcomes among students in Puerto Rico, Israel Sánchez-Cardona, Coralee Pérez Pedrogo, Stephanie Lopez-Torres, and Marizaida Sánchez-Cesáreo
Older adults recall memories of life challenges: the role of sense of purpose in the life story, Shubam Sharma and Susan Bluck
Validation of the Spanish version of the multi-affect indicator questionnaire among Spanish employed and unemployed, María Vera, Israel Sánchez-Cardona, and Eva Cifre
Beyond Frontiers: An Examination of Ethical Leadership and Job Resources in Customs Officers’ Well-Being, María Vera, Israel Sánchez-Cardona, and Amapola Povedano
Perceived stress and salivary biomarkers in educators: comparison among three stress reduction activities, Doreen Wagner and Sharon M. Pearcey
Intuitive biological thinking in Chinese 8th graders, Yian Xu and John D. Coley
The Contribution of Psychological Resilience and Job Meaningfulness to Well-being of Working Cancer Survivors, Dianhan Zheng, Alexander R. Marbut, Jing Zhang, and Louise C. O’Keefe
Submissions from 2021
Racial differences in institutional trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and refusal, Anisah Bagasra, Sara Doan, and Christopher T. Allen
Rape myth acceptance among students attending a historically black college (HBCU): implications for intervention design, Anisah Bagasra, Alison Mc Letchie, and Deborah Laufersweiler-Dwyer
Psychosocial stress, bicultural identity integration, and bicultural self-efficacy among Hispanic emerging adults, Miguel Ángel Cano, Flavio F. Marsiglia, Alan Meca, Mario De La Rosa, Daisy Ramírez-Ortiz, Mariana Sánchez, José Félix Colón Burgos, Saul G. Alamilla, Gabriella Wuyke, Daniel Parras, Syed Zain Ali, Derrick J. Forney, Emil Varas-Rodríguez, Yanet Ruvalcaba, Andrea Contreras, Shyfuddin Ahmed, Beatriz Vega-Luna, Lucas G. Ochoa, Rebecca Cuadra, and Mario J. Domínguez García
The impact of the social context on value and expectancy beliefs in an online graduate program: The role of social presence, Ordene V. Edwards
Investigating the Impact of an Intervention to Promote Mastery Goal Orientation, Ordene V. Edwards, Herman G. Ray, and Marion Granger
Functional Analysis and Successful Treatment of a Captive Rhesus Macaque’s Disruptive Behavior, Andrea N. Franklin, A. L. Martin, J. E. Perlman, and M. A. Bloomsmith
Team Resilience: Practical Implications for Military Service Members, Kimberly D. Gomes, Israel Sánchez-Cardona, and Brian A. Moore
Perceived Stress, Work-Related Burnout, and Working From Home Before and During COVID-19: An Examination of Workers in the United States, Sherrill W. Hayes, Jennifer L. Priestley, Brian A. Moore, and Herman E. Ray
Examining student well-being: Development and initial validation of the perceived vulnerability and hardiness scale, Jason L. Judkins, Tyler Collette, Kimberly Gomes, and Brian A. Moore
Alcohol use disorder in active duty service members: Incidence rates over a 19-year period, Jason L. Judkins, Kendra Smith, Brian A. Moore, and Sandra B. Morissette
Pilot investigation of an activity-based approach to building hardiness, Jason Judkins, B Moore, E Stone, A Welsh, G Carbon, B Rendell, and A Peterson
Electrophysiological examination of response-related interference while dual-tasking: is it motoric or attentional?, Kyung Hun Jung, Tim Martin, and Eric Ruthruff
The Black Voices in Research curriculum to promote diversity and inclusive excellence in biomedical research, Yulia A. Levites Strekalova, Yufan Sunny Qin, Shubam Sharma, Justine Nicholas, Gailine P. McCaslin, Kristina E. Forman, Denise B. Long, Tiffany Danielle Pineda, Taylor K. Williams, and H. Robert Kolb
The curriculum to promote diversity and inclusive excellence in biomedical research, Yulia A. Levites Strekalova, Yufan Sunny Qin, Shubam Sharma, Justine Nicholas, Gailine P. McCaslin, Kristina E. Forman, Denise B. Long, Tiffany Danielle Pineda, Taylor K. Williams, and H Robert Kolb
Attitudes Toward Dog Relinquishment as Assessed Through a Survey of University Students, Allison L. Martin, Angela S. Kelling, and Suma Mallavarapu
Development and psychometric validation of the Dispositional Recovery and Dysfunction Inventory: a tool to assess for positive and negative cognitions following trauma exposure, Brian A. Moore, Willie J. Hale, Jason L. Judkins, and Alan L. Peterson
Post-9/11 service members: Associations between gender, marital status, and psychiatric aeromedical evacuations from combat zones, Brian A. Moore, Casey L. Straud, Willie J. Hale, Monty T. Baker, Cubby L. Gardner, Jason L. Judkins, Antoinette M. Shinn, Shelia W. Savell, Jeffery A. Cigrang, Jim Mintz, and Ashton Rouska
Post-9/11 service members: Associations between gender, marital status, and psychiatric aeromedical evacuations from combat zones, Brian A. Moore, Casey L. Straud, Willie J. Hale, Monty T. Baker, Cubby L. Gardner, Jason L. Judkins, Antoinette M. Shinn, Shelia W. Savell, Jeffery A. Cigrang, Jim Mintz, Ashton Rouska, Chelsea McMahon, Jose M. Lara-Ruiz, Stacey Young-Mccaughan, and Alan L. Peterson
Incidence of insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea in active duty United States military service members, Brian A. Moore, Lynn M. Tison, Javier G. Palacios, Alan L. Peterson, and Vincent Mysliwiec
The Military Service Sleep Assessment: an instrument to assess factors precipitating sleep disturbances in U.S. military personnel, Vincent Mysliwiec, Kristi E. Pruiksma, Matthew S. Brock, Casey Straud, Daniel J. Taylor, Shana Hansen, Shannon N. Foster, Kelsi Gerwell, Brian A. Moore, F. Alex Carrizales, Stacy Young-McCaughan, Robert Vanecek, Jim Mintz, and Alan L. Peterson
Incidence (2008-2015) of post-traumatic headaches in United States military personnel, Paul S. Nabity, Brian A. Moore, Alan L. Peterson, and Donald D. McGeary
Learning goal orientation and psychological capital among students: A pathway to academic satisfaction and performance, Israel Sánchez-Cardona, Alberto Ortega-Maldonado, Marisa Salanova, and Isabel M. Martínez
Job resources and employees' intention to stay: The mediating role of meaningful work and work engagement, Israel Sánchez-Cardona, María Vera, and Jesús Marrero-Centeno
Job resources and employees' intention to stay: The mediating role of meaningful work and work engagement, Israel Sánchez-Cardona, María Vera, and Jesús Marrero-Centeno
Group membership moderates the process of making trust judgments based on facial cues, Jie Shen, Shangfeng Han, Xinyi Shen, Katherine R. White, Zhibin Guo, Qiang Xu, Lin Zhang, and Yaping Yang
What do SoTL practitioners need to know about learning?, Hillary H. Steiner and Christopher M. Hakala
Patterns of Acute Stress Disorder in a Sample of Blast-Injured Military Service Members: A Latent Profile Analysis, Casey L. Straud, John C. Moring, Willie J. Hale, Chelsea McMahon, Brian A. Moore, Monty T. Baker, Richard A. Bryant, Stacey Young-McCaughan, William C. Isler, Jose Lara-Ruiz, and Cynthia L. Lancaster
Patterns of Acute Stress Disorder in a Sample of Blast-Injured Military Service Members: A Latent Profile Analysis, Casey L. Straud, John C. Moring, Willie J. Hale, Chelsea McMahon, Brian A. Moore, Monty T. Baker, Richard A. Bryant, Stacey Young-McCaughan, William C. Isler, Jose Lara-Ruiz, Cynthia L. Lancaster, Jim Mintz, and Alan L. Peterson
Predictors of Long-Term Social Compatibility in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) Housed in Research Settings, Melissa A. Truelove, Perrin O. Smith, Allison L. Martin, and Mollie A. Bloomsmith
Predictors of Long-Term Social Compatibility in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) Housed in Research Settings, Melissa A. Truelove, Perrin O. Smith, Allison L. Martin, and Mollie A. Bloomsmith
Predictors of Long-Term Social Compatibility in Rhesus Macaques () Housed in Research Settings, Melissa A. Truelove, Perrin O. Smith, Allison L. Martin, and Mollie A. Bloomsmith
Is it your engagement or mine? Linking supervisors’ work engagement and employee performance, María Vera and Israel Sánchez-Cardona
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, approach-affect and avoidance-affect, Peter B. Warr, Israel Sánchez-Cardona, Stanimira K. Taneva, Maria Vera, Uta K. Bindl, and Eva Cifre
A cross-cultural examination of college students’ knowledge of aging and their experiences with older adults: China, Japan, and the United States, Ginny Q. Zhan, Sharon pearcey, and Hiroko Tomioka
Submissions from 2020
What’s in a Name? A Synthesis of “Allyship” Elements from Academic and Activist Literature, Juliana Carlson, Cliff Leek, Erin Casey, Rich Tolman, and Christopher Allen
Unlocking the Potential of Estradiol in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Reduction: Is Habituation the Key?, Ebony M. Glover
Examination of the Factor Structure and Correlates of the Perceived Military Healthcare Stressors Scale, Willie J. Hale, Brian A. Moore, Casey L. Straud, Monty T. Baker, and Alan L. Peterson
The Challenge of Assessing Character: Measuring APA Goal 3 Student Learning Outcomes, Jane S. Halonen, Susan A. Nolan, Sue Frantz, Rebecca A. Hoss, Maureen A. McCarthy, Thomas Pusateri, and Katherine Wickes
Emotion provides feedback about thinking styles to influence natural hazard likelihood and perceived response preparedness, Elicia Lair, Lauren N. Jordan, Rubie M. Peters, and Tuong-Vy C. Nguyen
Examining Rates of Postpartum Depression in Active Duty U.S. Military Servicewomen, Juliann H. Nicholson, Brian A. Moore, Katherine Dondanville, Brigid Wheeler, and Ellen R. DeVoe
Consequences of childhood memories: Narcissism, malevolent, and benevolent childhood experiences, Aspen D. Starbird and Paul Story
Differences in explicit stereotype activation among social groups based on the stereotype content model: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence in Chinese sample, Yaping Yang, Katherine R.G. White, Xinfang Fan, Qiang Xu, and Qing Wei Chen
Submissions from 2019
Explaining the Immigrant Paradox: The Influence of Acculturation, Enculturation, and Acculturative Stress on Problematic Alcohol Consumption, Saul G. Alamilla, Bradley J. Barney, Robert Small, and Roxanne A. Donovan
Assessing Aspects of Acculturation in a Muslim American Sample: Development and Testing of the Acculturation Scale for Muslim Americans, Anisah Bagasra and Mitchell Mackinem
Randomized Trial of First-Line Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Need for Medication in Children with ADHD, Allison Garefino and Et al.
Grouping affects children’s interpretation of a label for an animal, but not for an artifact, Travis L. Hartin and William E. Merriman
Automaticity of Gender Categorization: A Test of the Efficiency Feature, Kyung Hun Jung, Katherine R. G. White, and Sarah J. Powanda
Gender influences the feedback anger and disgust provide about construal use in likelihood judgments, Elicia Lair
A Comparative Study of College Students’ Cultural Orientation, Aging Attitude, and Anxiety: Japan, China, and USA., Hiroko Tomioka, Ginny Q. Zhan, and Sharon M. Pearcey