• Tracking emergent religious groups in the US and adherence over time. 

  Foertsch, Steven, 1995-; 0000-0002-1957-1300 (2022-03-25)

  Emergent religious groups are an innovative but chronically understudied and misunderstood realm of contemporary religion. This may be due to notorious difficulties encountered when estimating the size of populations ...

• Political identity switching and change in religiosity among students at a conservative Christian university. 

  Brown, Brandon M., 1996-; 0000-0002-3889-7912 (2022-05-03)

  Research on university students’ religiosity concentrates on the effect of higher education on religious behavior and belief. Some of this effect may be due to higher education’s influence on political identity which – in ...

• Civic engagement : comparing the effect of political identity and socioeconomic status. 

  Johnson, Rachel E. M., 1993- (2022-05-06)

  It was noted this past midterm cycle that the Democratic Party was more politically active than their counterparts in the Republican Party. Expanding to civic engagement, will this trend continue? Furthermore, will ...

• Why feeling like we matter matters : mattering as a social resource for health, resilience, and emotional well-being. 

  Bonhag, Rebecca, 1994-; 0000-0003-1738-3020 (2022-03-16)

  The feeling that we matter to others is a core ingredient to people’s well-being and mental health. Despite its roots in early social theory and its crucial implications for well-being, the concept of “mattering” has ...

• Feminism, feminists, and faith : intersectional identities. 

  Hernandez, Amanda Dawn, 1989- (2022-04-11)

  This project explores the ways that feminism and Christianity have long been viewed as contradictory. The first section explores landmark feminist texts and argues that there has long been the assumption that Christianity ...

• 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 ...

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