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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Relationships Among White Supervisor Cultural Humility and Cultural Missed Opportunities and Minority Supervisee Self-Efficacy, Supervisory Working Alliance, and Racial Identity
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)The purpose of the present study is to examine how perceived supervisor cultural humility and cultural missed opportunities relate to supervisory working alliance and counselor self-efficacy in clinical supervision ... -
Improving the Evaluation of Summer Interventions: How Testing Intervals Affect Summer Learning Loss Measurements
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)This study considered how the timing of assessments affects summer learning loss estimates and the evaluation of interventions designed to reduce summer learning loss. By utilizing an efficient assessment called reading ... -
Exploring Pathways of Western and East Asian Students’ Persistence in Learning: The Role of Learning Beliefs, Choice, and Internationalization of Learning Motivation
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Abstract This dissertation examines the widely spread assumption that East Asian students are more persistent than their American counterparts because they are more likely to believe that success results from efforts rather ... -
Student Perceptions Towards Mandated Assessments
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This study examined student perceptions towards testing mandates. The specific purpose was to gain an understanding into the perceptions students have towards testing mandates and determine their perceived value in the ... -
Observing racial socialization: How do White parent-child dyads talk about race?
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)This paper explores the relationship among White parents’ racial socialization behaviors, their perceived socialization practices, and their children’s perceptions of those behaviors. In contrast with previous studies which ... -
Exploring student-athlete support services at two NCAA Division I universities
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)The purpose of this study was to utilize an exploratory research design to help identify current student-athlete support services educational programs at two NCAA Division I institutions. The researcher considered the ... -
Three Essays on Computational Approaches to Economics
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)The three essays included in this dissertation are on three di?erent popular computational approaches that are widely applicable in economics. In Chapter 1, a state-space model is constructed which is linear in state ... -
When Jesus Takes the Wheel: An Investigation of Distraction in Autonomous Vehicles
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Autonomous vehicles have been suggested to be a solution to the problem of distracted driving. However, because autonomous vehicles are still developing, little is known about how drivers interact with them. Today’s ... -
Essays on the Impact of Presidential Elections on the U.S. Stock Market
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)This dissertation consists of two essays that are organized as chapters. In the first chapter, I examine the effect of presidential elections on the timing of turning points of stock market cycles in the United States. The ... -
THE BACKSTORY: THE POWER OF PAST LIVED EXPERIENCES AND COMMUNICATION WITHIN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)ABSTRACT Research on the public’s stigmatizing attitudes toward individuals with alcohol- and substance-use disorders is well-documented, but researchers are increasingly focused on how those public attitudes are constructed ... -
WHITE LIBERALISM IN BLACK COMICS: METAPHORICAL MARGINALIZATION AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF AMERICA
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)In the wake of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Marvel and DC Comics introduced black superheroes into their comic book series. While the comic book editors wanted to reach black audiences, they scrupulously avoided ... -
En La Sombra: Cinema Culture and Modern Women in Mexico City, 1917-1931
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)This dissertation is about cinema culture, modern femininity, and Mexico City between 1917 and 1931. It is a story about movie makers, movie spectators, and the movie texts that mediated between them. It is a study of ... -
Making Mandingo: Racial Archetypes, Pornography, and Black Male Subjectivity
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Mandingo is a reference to a longstanding myth in American culture, that black men have an unquenchable desire for white woman. I will argue that Mandingo is an example of a racial archetype. Racial archetypes are specific ... -
Delayed Childbearing, Relational Influences, and Workplace Outcomes
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Guided by the Circumplex Model of Family Functioning (Olson, Sprenkle, & Russell, 1979), this study examined women’s perceptions of their decision to delay childbearing as well as perceptions of personal fulfillment through ... -
Auto-Regressive Latent Variable Modeling: A General Framework for Bayesian Spatial Structural Equation Models
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Spatial analytic approaches are classical models in econometric literature (LeSage & Pace, 2009). Recently, the behavioral sciences have seen an increase in their application, but spatial effects are generally still ignored ... -
The Tea Party Movement and Entelechy: an Inductive Study of Tea Party Rhetoric
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)On February 19, 2009, CNBC journalist Rick Santelli’s fiery outburst against the Obama Administration on national television gave the Tea Party Movement (TPM) its namesake. Soon after rallies were organized across the U.S. ... -
Mitotic SUMOylation: Unraveling the role of DNA Topoisomerase IIα SUMOylation and PIASy SUMO E3 ligase in mitosis
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)A post-translational modification with SUMO (SUMOylation) can regulate various cellular events such as DNA replication, repair, transcription and cell cycle regulation. Many studies have indicated that SUMOylation is crucial ... -
Divisia Monetary Aggregates and Exchange Rate Forecasting
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Divisia monetary aggregates have been shown to be an improvement on the simple-sum monetary aggregates used by policy makers in the great majority of central banks in the world. Since Barnett (1978, 1980) derived the User ... -
Stages of Whiteness: Marking Power and Privilege in U.S. and German Popular Performance
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Stages of Whiteness: Marking Power and Privilege in U.S. and German Popular Performance examines white, male playwrights, television evangelists, and game show hosts and producers on what I am defining as three “performance ... -
Synaesthetic Dress: Episodes of Sensational Objects in Performance Art, 1955-1975
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)This study examines the significance of clothing-like sculptural forms in the performance practices of three international postwar and contemporary artists: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese, 1932-2005), Hélio Oiticica (Brazilian, ...