• Rural/urban health disparity of the oldest old in China. 

  Liu, Yingling, 1986- (2021-10-26)

  China is the fastest aging country in the post-industrial world. The oldest old, aged 80 and above, in China are an extremely selective group, as they are the survivors of brutal historical events which decimated the birth ...

• #AsiansforBlackLives? : Interracial coupling and Black Lives Matter support. 

  Chang, Joyce C., 1993- (2021-08-10)

  This study examines the relationship between racialized marital selection and support for Black Lives Matter. Nearly a third of Asian American newlyweds are interracially married. Previous research reports that interracial ...

• Emerging adult private prayer : a habit developed across time. 

  Jones, Rory C., 1990-; 0000-0001-7325-0981 (2021-08-09)

  Private prayer frequency is a measure that helps researchers assess a spiritual habit that is developed across time. Using longitudinal data collected from the National Study of Youth and Religion, I analyze the extent to ...

• The interaction of friendship difficulty and foster status and its association with mental health. 

  Clifton, Tristen Erica, 1997- (2021-08-02)

  Children in foster care are disproportionately affected by mental health conditions. Similarly, children in foster care are more likely to have difficulty with friendships. However, it is unclear how these experiences ...

• Angry conservatives? : levels of incivility across conservative ideology. 

  Ryan, Michael John Paul, 1992-; 0000-0002-1040-1217 (2021-08-09)

  Past research examining incivility within media discourse has consistently found conservative discourse to have elevated levels of incivility in comparison to liberals. The present study provides more nuance on this ...

• Punitive women? : gender differences in dissatisfaction with criminal courts. 

  Neill, Kyra N., 1997-; 0000-0003-4382-7932 (2021-05-01)

  Past research examining punitive attitudes has largely ignored gender or relegated it to the periphery of most analysis. Prevailing assumptions posit that women should be less harsh than their male counterparts in their ...

• Age differences in links between social media use and mental health : results from a national sample of U.S. adults. 

  Zhu, Xi, 1992- (2021-04-21)

  Now more than ever, American adults are using social networking sites (SNS). While many studies have examined associations between SNS use and mental health among children and adolescents, few studies have considered ...

• Three manuscripts on the role of entrepreneurial ecosystems in supporting the resiliency and growth of military veteran-owned firms in the rural United States. 

  Lotspeich-Yadao, Michael C., II, 1994-; 0000-0001-5537-3654 (2021-04-13)

  Entrepreneurship can be a pathway of opportunity for military veterans, as well as provide economic growth for rural communities. However, because of public data limitations, there is no research on the relationship between ...

• A comprehensive understanding of racial attitudes for Muslims among whites. 

  Li, Ruiqian, 1990- (2020-07-10)

  How do white racial attitudes shape anti-Muslim opinion in a racially diversifying American society where many whites are anxious about their race’s self-interest? Using ANES 2016, this study examines if the white anxiety ...

• Intersected inequalities : how full funding for low-income students impacted class and gender disparities in undergraduate university programs. 

  Aravena Mendez, Alonso Octavio, 1985-; 0000-0002-0847-6631 (2020-06-19)

  This thesis provides support on how measures to decrease income inequality can affect class and gender disparities in access and retention within higher education by studying effects of the Chilean 2015 National Education ...

• Stressing in : a sociological examination of discrimination and health of racial and ethnic minority groups. 

  Davidson, James Clark, 1978- (2020-04-21)

  The significance of the perceived discrimination and its association with health and has been receiving more and more attention over the years. Existing literature suggests discriminatory events can affect the health in a ...

• The long arm of childhood bereavement : parental death and pathways to adult health and educational inequalities. 

  Wilkinson, Renae Michelle, 1989- (2020-03-23)

  The death of a parent is generally considered to be among the most devastating kinds of losses that children can experience. While research has examined the associations between childhood parental death and health and ...

• Educational outcomes during the Great Recession : effects of community, homeownership, and race. 

  Smith, Bethany, 1987-; 0000-0002-3187-2675 (2020-04-08)

  The 2007 Great Recession had a considerable impact on the economic status of many Americans. However, this crisis did not affect all households equally, with members of disadvantaged populations often experiencing the most ...

• Better than I deserve : evangelical Protestantism's effect on subjective social status. 

  DeDeyne, Jesse L., 1981-; 0000-0003-3400-2533 (2020-03-26)

  Subjective social status (SSS), a measure of a person’s self-perceived social ranking compared to a reference group on socioeconomic variables (income, occupation, and education), is an effective indicator of a person’s ...

• Racism in the hands of an angry God : how image of God can activate or resist colorblind racism narrative frames regarding police treatment of African Americans. 

  Lauve-Moon, Timothy A., 1982-; 0000-0002-0653-0569 (2020-04-09)

  Previous research suggests an angry God image is a narrative framework predicting punitive views regarding criminal justice. However, no research examines the correlation of God image to racial attitudes nor how God image ...

• Individualized religious styles : a latent class analysis of religion and its implications for political attitudes and family formation outcomes. 

  Andercheck, Brita Jean, 1984-; 0000-0003-0794-6352 (2019-10-02)

  This dissertation proposes a new way to measure and analyze religiosity. It focuses on capturing the unique ways individuals express and encounter religion. In the American religious context, religious pluralism and declining ...

• Restructuring of economics : automation and gender in the work force. 

  Trevino, Kimberly Anne, 1986-; 0000-0002-0814-8486 (2019-07-18)

  Technology has reached a point where robotics and computerization can do many of the tasks that humans completed in the past. Occupations with the least amount of routine task are less vulnerable to being automated (Frey ...

• Understanding iaddiction : a sociological analysis of technological device addiction and attachment in the digital age. 

  Nelson, Justin J., 1981- (2019-05-15)

  Technological device addiction is a phenomenon widely described anecdotally but little understood empirically across the broad landscape of American life. In this dissertation, I analyze a nationally-representative sample ...

• Positive, negative, and ambivalent attitudes toward one's spouse : longitudinal associations with health and well-being. 

  Liu, Yingling, 1986- (2019-04-23)

  Incompatible feelings are inevitable in social relationships, and individuals can simultaneously hold both positive and negative attitudes toward others. This finding has led to the emergence of research on the causes and ...

• Religion, anti-immigrant sentiment, and attitudes toward democracy : an evaluation of a changing Europe. 

  Vaughan, Kenneth Ray, 1987- (2019-04-22)

  Currently, Europe struggles to negotiate the challenges of a changing society and its historical commitment to liberal values. Nativist backlashes against mostly Muslim immigrants challenge the European project’s dedication ...

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