http://hdl.handle.net/1957/28635 2013-06-19T06:24:30Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/39484 A Microlongitudinal Study of the Linkages Among Personality Traits, Self-Regulation, and Stress in Older Adults Hooker, Karen; Choun, Soyoung; Mejίa, Shannon; Pham, Tuan; Metoyer, Ron Personality traits and daily self-regulation of health goals, social goals, and perceived stress were examined over 100 days to better understand how traits may influence self-regulation. This study was conducted with a sample of 99 older adults via web-based surveys. Results showed that, as predicted, traits of neuroticism, conscientiousness, and extraversion were significantly related to goal progress: those high in neuroticism made less social goal progress and those high in conscientiousness and extraversion made more health and social goal progress over the 100 day period. On days that were perceived as more stressful older adults made less goal progress overall. Health goal and social goal progress were related, although individuals did not always make progress on both goals simultaneously. Stress interacted with neuroticism and conscientiousness, uncovering relationships between goal progress and stressful days that were not evident when examining just direct effects. This study provides empirical evidence for linkages in the six-foci model of personality that are consistent with the idea that trait structures can shape processes. This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Taylor & Francis and can be found at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrhd20/current#.Ub-Js3d-7TE. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/39373 Assessment of motor behaviour among children and adolescents with ASD Staples, K. L.; MacDonald, M.; Zimmer, C. Social communicative deficits are the hallmark characteristic of autism, also referred to as autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Given the depth of these social communicative deficits, the role of movement skills in development has gone relatively underexplored, by comparison. However, children with ASD demonstrate impaired performance of fundamental movement skills early in life, which in turn impacts nearly every aspect of subsequent development. These performance differences are persistent and prevalent; ongoing debate exists whether these differences simply reflect delays or if development among children with autism follows a different developmental trajectory than their typically developing peers. These movement skill differences become more obvious with increasing age and children with autism appear to fall further behind -- these increasing differences may reflect the limited opportunities of children with autism to practice and improve their movement skills. However, teasing apart these developmental differences becomes a challenge, which necessitates the use of appropriate assessment measures. Understanding the impact of motor skills in development and how the role of movement changes over time is important. This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Elsevier and can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/books/book-series/international-review-of-research-in-developmental-disabilities#. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/35123 Assessing Disaster Preparedness among Latino Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers in Eastern North Carolina Burke, Sloane; Bethel, Jeffrey W.; Britt, Amber Foreman Natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and fires often involve substantial physical and mental impacts on affected populations and thus are public health priorities. Limited research shows that vulnerable populations such as the low-income, socially isolated migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFW) are particularly susceptible to the effects of natural disasters. This research project assessed the awareness, perceived risk, and practices regarding disaster preparedness and response resources and identified barriers to utilization of community and government services during or after a natural disaster among Latino MSFWs’ and their families. Qualitative (N = 21) focus groups (3) and quantitative (N = 57) survey methodology was implemented with Latino MSFWs temporarily residing in rural eastern North Carolina to assess perceived and actual risk for natural disasters. Hurricanes were a top concern among the sample population, many participants shared they lacked proper resources for an emergency (no emergency kit in the house, no evacuation plan, no home internet, a lack of knowledge of what should be included in an emergency kit, etc.). Transportation and language were found to be additional barriers. Emergency broadcasts in Spanish and text message alerts were identified by the population to be helpful for disaster alerts. FEMA, American Red Cross, local schools and the migrant clinic were trusted places for assistance and information. In summary, tailored materials, emergency alerts, text messages, and news coverage concerning disaster threats should be provided in the population’s native language and when feasible delivered in a culturally appropriate mechanism such as “charlas” (talks) and brochures. This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by MDPI AG (Basel, Switzerland) and can be found at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph. To the best of our knowledge, one or more authors of this paper were federal employees when contributing to this work. 2012-09-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/38611 Gender Differences in Behavioral Regulation in Four Societies: The U.S., Taiwan, South Korea, and China Shannon B. Wanless; Megan M. McClelland; Xuezhao Lan; Seung-Hee Son; Claire E. Cameron; Frederick J. Morrison; Fu-Mei Chen; Jo-Lin Chen; Su Li; Kangyi Lee; Miyoung Sung The current study investigates gender differences in behavioral regulation in four societies: the United States, Taiwan, South Korea, and China. Directly assessed individual behavioral regulation(Head–Toes–Knees–Shoulders, HTKS), teacher-rated classroom behavioral regulation (Child Behavior Rating Scale, CBRS) and a battery of school readiness assessments (mathematics, vocabulary, and early literacy) were used with 814 young children (ages 3–6 years). Results showed that girls in the United States had significantly higher individual behavioral regulation than boys, but there were no significant gender differences in any Asian societies. In contrast, teachers in Taiwan, South Korea, as well as the United States rated girls as significantly higher than boys on classroom behavioral regulation. In addition, for both genders, individual and classroom behavioral regulation were related to many aspects of school readiness in all societies for girls and boys. Universal and culturally specific findings and their implications are discussed. This is the author's peer-reviewed final manuscript. The version of record is copyrighted by Elsevier and can be found here: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/early-childhood-research-quarterly/ 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z