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What Do Girls Learn from Dolls? Sexualized Stimuli and Girls’ Body Esteem and Academic Performance

Creator:: Lundeberg, Pamela J.
Abstract:: Although a significant amount of research has investigated the effect of sexualization on women's body esteem and cognitive performance, few researchers have examined the effect of sexualization on girls. Additionally, research that has been conducted regarding girls' experiences of sexualization has primarily focused on media influences. The effect of dolls...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Fredrickson et al., 1998), the exposure to sexualization causes adult women to engage in self-objectifying

Strengthening school readiness for children at risk : evaluating self-regulation measures and an intervention using classroom games

Creator:: Schmitt, Sara A.
Abstract:: In recent years, self-regulation has emerged as a foundational skill for academic success and well-being. Unfortunately, many children enter kindergarten without the self-regulation skills necessary to succeed. Children from high-risk backgrounds (e.g., low-income) are particularly vulnerable for difficulties in self-regulation development. Given these documented gaps in self-regulation, it has become...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: example, early self-regulation is a key predictor of academic success in early childhood, adolescence

Mark Fuhrman's Murder In Brentwood : A Rhetorical Criticism of Apologia as Masculine Facework

Creator:: Kearney, Melva J.
Abstract:: Apologia is a rhetorical genre of self-defense. As such, apologetic discourse involves a response to an attack upon an individual's character or worth as a human being. Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman encountered such a attack during the 0.J. Simpson murder trial. The purpose of this analysis is to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: mortification depicts an act of confession, rather than self- defense." Human beings inevitably engage in

Effects of an outdoor orientation program on self-efficacy relative to first-year student success

Creator:: Seifert, Tricia Anne Dailey
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate what effect, if any, an outdoor orientation program conducted at a comprehensive public institution in the Northwest school had on first-year students' self-efficacy relative to success in their first year of college, measured as academic and social integration. A random sample of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -year students' self-efficacy relative to success in their first year of college, measured as academic

Parenting style and practice : predictors of behavioral regulation in preschool

Creator:: Pritchard, Megan E.
Abstract:: Increasing numbers of children are entering kindergarten without the behavioral skills needed to cope with the demands of the classroom environment. Moreover, a number of studies have documented that young children's behavioral regulation (including attention, working memory, and inhibitory control skills) plays an important role in later academic achievement (McClelland,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Moving Towards Academic Success and Life Long Learning

Creator:: Becker, Derek R.
Abstract:: Early learning skills, such as executive function (EF), are a key component of healthy development and predict long-term academic success. Yet many children are entering kindergarten without the necessary skills (including EF) that are needed to set them on a successful learning trajectory. Early prekindergarten classrooms that encourage a high...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: demonstrate self-regulatory behaviors in both social and classroom-based settings. Measures of EF taken at

Developing self-efficacy and self-regulated learning in academic planning : applying social cognitive theory in academic advising to assess student learning outcomes

Creator:: Erlich, Richard J.
Abstract:: This dissertation demonstrates how Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986, 1997) can be successfully applied to Counselor academic advising interventions, in order to increase students' self-efficacy and self-regulated learning (Zimmerman, 2000) in academic planning as learned outcomes. This was accomplished by (a) reviewing the academic advising literature and showing the current...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Developing Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulated Learning in Academic Planning: Applying Social Cognitive Theory

An analysis of Maria Montessori’s theory of normalization in light of emerging research in self-regulation

Creator:: Lloyd, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: The regulation of behavior is a major issue in early childhood development, with important implications for children’s adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes. Emerging research suggests that the degree of successful self-regulation depends upon the efficiency of the child’s attentional system and that the ability to focus and sustain attention supports...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Maria Montessori’s Theory of Normalization In Light of Emerging Research in Self-Regulation

Preschooler's perceptions of a patio garden

Creator:: Upington, Deborah A.
Abstract:: This study sought to fill a void in research literature supporting Attention Restoration Theory (ART) and the beneficial effects of exposure to natural, green spaces. The literature predominantly discusses studies with adult and older child participants, finding that exposure to natural environments often produces an attention-restoring effect. ART has been...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: developing self-control behaviors, they may need guidance in finding ways to calm themselves and re-engage

Postpartum self-compassion : an investigation of the physical self

Creator:: Woekel, Erica Dawn
Abstract:: During the transition to motherhood, postpartum women undergo immense changes in all areas of life. Of particular interest are the changes at the cognitive and emotional level with regards to one's physical self. After giving birth, postpartum women would benefit from a caring perspective in how they relate to their...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: self. After giving birth, postpartum women would benefit from a caring perspective in how they

ScholarsArchive@OSU

What Do Girls Learn from Dolls? Sexualized Stimuli and Girls’ Body Esteem and Academic Performance

Strengthening school readiness for children at risk : evaluating self-regulation measures and an intervention using classroom games

Mark Fuhrman's Murder In Brentwood : A Rhetorical Criticism of Apologia as Masculine Facework

Effects of an outdoor orientation program on self-efficacy relative to first-year student success

Parenting style and practice : predictors of behavioral regulation in preschool

Moving Towards Academic Success and Life Long Learning

Developing self-efficacy and self-regulated learning in academic planning : applying social cognitive theory in academic advising to assess student learning outcomes

An analysis of Maria Montessori’s theory of normalization in light of emerging research in self-regulation

Preschooler's perceptions of a patio garden

Postpartum self-compassion : an investigation of the physical self

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