To determine if and how social media abstinence relates to stress, this project will investigate the role of passion as a mediating variable. Stress will be measured using a combination of the salivary biomarkers cortisol and alpha amylase, with psychological scales. Ultimately, this study aims to...
Broad statement indicating the goals of the project. This was commonly called the “who gives a shit?” question in my grad program. Ask yourself that simple question and address it. If the answer is “no one,” rethink your study. In your answer be: Clear Relevant Logical Documented Objec...
As the proportion of older people in the population of China continues to increase, their status and needs have received extensive attention. On the one hand, especially in the context of COVID-19, the health status of older adults is vulnerable. Further, as older adults adapt to new technol...
Thus, HOUSES will enable us to address research questions using large administrative data sets when SES is an independent or mediating variable. Second, in practice, clinicians and health care systems may better define needs of patients in treatment planning and altering health care services as SES...
Apart from the time effect, the negative effect may point to undesirable behavioral consequences as another mediating variable and, thus, to a too-much-of-a-good-thing effect (Busse, Mahlendorf, & Bode, 2016). Indeed, a strong emphasis on boundary control might be costly because close ...
If mediation analysis attempts to explain ‘how’ or ‘why’ an effect occurs, moderation refers to the question of ‘when’ this effect holds, i.e., if the strength and/or direction of the relation between two variables is affected by the presence of a third variable, known as the moder...
mediating, or moderating, depending on how they are employed in a research study. Also each indicator may have several attributes (or levels) and each attribute represent a value . For instance, a “gender” variable may have two attributes: male or female. Likewise, a customer satisfaction s...
To explore this question, I will run a participatory design workshop where formerly incarcerated individuals and their support systems will design the elements of a mobile phone-based set of tools that can be used to learn digital literacy skills for job search. Next, I will develop a prototype...
we utilize social network methods to examine the recruiting networks of public and private universities. With respect to scale (research question 1), universities in our sample made a disproportionate number of visits to private high schools. With respect to overlap (RQ2), simple network analyses ...
It is possible therefore that PA represents a mediating variable between increased engagement in play and cognitive, social and emotional outcomes. It is also likely that intrinsic motivation and freedom to enjoy the challenges of play for its own sake have a role to play. For some children, ...