Theses and Dissertations
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Early adolescence is a pivotal stage of social and emotional development. Socialization traditionally occurs in person, but social interactions via technology (e.g., social media, video games) have grown in popularity. However, little research has been conducted on how early adolescents interact with technology and how these interactions relate to their socialization as well as other factors such as reading habits or academic achievement. Seventh and eighth grade students (n = 719) completed a survey that captured information about their technology use, their academic habits and performance, and extracurricular involvement. It was hypothesized that those involved in more extracurricular activities would use the internet more socially and that internet use would be negatively correlated to both academic performance and recreational reading. Responses indicated that a majority of students have access to technology (e.g. internet, computers, television, gaming consoles, and tablets) in their homes. Social media use differed drastically between platforms. Analyses indicated a relation between amount of extracurricular activities on social television watching and social internet use, but not on social gaming. A significant negative correlation was found between recreational reading and time spent socializing online, but there was no significant effect of these factors on academic performance. Thus, hypotheses were partially supported by the relation between amount of extracurriculars and social internet use and the negative correlation between time spent socializing online and recreational reading.
ContributorsHorner, Kate Elizabeth (Author) / McNamara, Danielle (Thesis director) / McCarthy, Kathryn (Committee member) / Davis, Mary (Committee member) / Division of Teacher Preparation (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2017-12
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In previous research, Luthar and Barkin (2012) found that across three different samples collected from three high-achieving schools, adolescents reported elevated rates of maladjustment behaviors, which include substance use, and internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Additionally, past research has also indicated that these maladjustment behaviors are related to parent relationships. A group of high-achieving adolescents that research has not yet focused on are those attending boarding schools, who may have higher-quality relationships with parents due to less daily strife. This study aimed to examine high-achieving adolescents across five samples from five high schools, two of which were boarding schools. This study hypothesized that the high-achieving adolescents attending both boarding schools would report lower rates of substance use, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and lower rates of perceived parent criticism and expectations in comparison to those attending the day schools. Substance use, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and parent relationships were measured using self-report measures that were completed by students attending these schools. Results showed that both boarding schools reported elevated rates of substance use in comparison to the three day schools and these rates measured above national norms. At the same time, both boarding schools reported lower rates of internalizing and externalizing symptoms when compared to rates reported by the day school students. This study also found that there were differences among parent relationship measures, such as criticism and expectations, among all school samples. Results of this study also showed that aspects of parent relationship, such as parent knowledge, were associated with rates of substance use among all school samples. In summary, boarding school students showed elevated substance use, similar parental relationship quality, and lower mental health symptoms compared to day school students. For all students, some aspects of the parental relationship were related to levels of substance use.
ContributorsTaracena, Emily Gabriella (Author) / Luthar, Suniya (Thesis director) / Infurna, Frank (Committee member) / Davis, Mary (Committee member) / Division of Teacher Preparation (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2017-12
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This thesis addresses the relationship between anti-Judaism and the emergence of the Spanish state in the late medieval period. It examines the way anti-Judaism shaped Spanish attitudes and institutions in the 15th century. In particular, it explains the development of anti-Jewish sentiment which led to the anti-Jewish riots of 1391, and the consequent mass conversions and large new population of conversos. These conversos posed a challenge for Spanish society, with the Inquisition being the principal way in which that challenge was met. New ideas of what it meant to be Spanish were developed as a result of the focus on converso communities and the attempt to reckon with the relationship between Old Christians and this large (and often affluent) community, with blood purity and racialism becoming important new elements in the Spanish identity. The obsession with purity of blood and orthodoxy of religion culminated in the expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and the continued investigation and persecution of conversos, even those who were several generations removed from conversion and from Judaism. As part of this analysis, the thesis formulates a new taxonomy for understanding anti-Judaism in Spain prior to the 15th century, dividing it into elitist and populist traditions. It was the wall between these two traditions, this thesis argues, which allowed the Spanish state to satisfy its desire to articulate and enforce a Christian identity while simultaneously finding both a conceptual and a real place in Christian Spanish life for Jews and Jewish communities. The thesis also considers the unique figures of Ferdinand and Isabella and the unique circumstances of their reign (i.e. the conquest of Granada and the completion of the Reconquista in Iberia) and how these immediate conditions led to the breakdown of the old policy of monarchical protection of Jews and the birth of a new and radically anti-Jewish (and, in some ways, even anti-Semitic) policy.
ContributorsBarker, Lawrence J. (Author) / Hava, Samuelson (Thesis director) / Gil-Osle, Juan (Committee member) / School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies (Contributor) / Division of Teacher Preparation (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2016-12