Graduate Student Research
A collection of Graduate Student Research by students in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
A 30-Year Time Series Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on Corn Yield in Iowa Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model – 1992 to 2022, Tesleem Ajisafe Open Access Thesis
How Rural Identity, Self-Reliance, and Stoicism Relate to Attitudes Toward Mental Health Help-Seeking Among Iowans, Taylor Brown Open Access Thesis
Adverse Childhood Experiences Increasing the Likelihood of Substance Use Disorder, Kelsey L. Cain Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Modeling Phosphorus Loading Dynamics in Milford Creek Watershed: With Comparison to a Consent Decree TMDL, Olivia Calvin Open Access Thesis
Desert or Mirage? An Examination of Food Deserts in Iowa Cities, Andrew Creasey Open Access Graduate Research Paper
The Impact of Alcohol Use on Dating Violence among Adolescents, Kaygen Kay Deitrick Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Alcohol Use in Adulthood, Callie Franzen Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Traumatic Brain Injury and Public Stigma: The Effect of Perceived Responsibility, MacKenzie Grenko Open Access Thesis
The Spatial and Temporal Impacts of Land Use and Climate on Avian Abundance in Iowa From 2001 to 2019, Lucas Kaufmann Open Access Thesis
Perceived Parental Acceptance and Minority Stress as Predictors of Mental Health Outcomes Among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Emerging Adults, Kieran R. Luedke Thesis (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Impact of Bullying on Depression in Sexual Minority Adolescents, Ian Neff Graduate Research Paper (UNI Access Only)
The Impact of Sexual Assault and the Influence of Leadership within the Military, Holly Rigel Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Suspected vs. Diagnosed Mental Illness, Race, and the NGRI Plea, Alexa Roudabush Open Access Thesis
Predictors of Attitudes Towards Transgender People in India, Rishika Sheetal Singh Open Access Thesis
The Role of Parental Divorce in Childhood on Depression Among Adults, Amy Stoermer Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Indigenous Economic Institutions Building: A Case Study of the Yerv Reindeer Herding Cooperative, Polina Syadeyskaya Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Yoga and Mental Health among Young Adult Women, Coryssa Tucke Graduate Research Paper (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Boundary Lines Crossed? Seeking Honor After the Vietnam War Took Their Sons, Hannah Ackerman Open Access Thesis
Do We Want Them to Understand Each Other? Perceptions of Political Perspective-Takers, Ian Beatty Open Access Thesis
Monitoring and Modeling Urban Heat Patterns in the State of Iowa, USA Utilizing Mobile Sensors and Geospatial Data, Clemir Abbeg Coproski Open Access Thesis 2024 Award
Intimate Partner Violence Stigma: The Intersection of Race and Socioeconomic Status, Antoinette Fleming Open Access Thesis
Mapping for Impact: Actionable Spatial Literacy through Counter-Mapping, Rachel Hansen Open Access Thesis
“Fitting in and Doing Well”: Assessing First-Generation College Students’ Motives, Belongingness, and Academic Behaviors, Lacie K. Hines Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Disordered Eating, Anxiety, and Perfectionism Among Emerging Adult Men and Women, Karissa Jensen Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Can White Nationalist Rhetoric Increase Prejudice Toward Mexican Immigrants?, Nathan Lewey Open Access Thesis
The Relationship Between Mindful Eating, Physical Health, and General Well-Being in the U.S., Yuan Ling Looi Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The Impact of Imagined Interactions and Mindfulness on Anxiety in Romantic Relationships, Alyssa R. McCoy Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The Relationship between Spirituality and Resilience: The Mediating Role of Self-Compassion, Tenzin Nyima Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Dual identity, self-esteem, and well-being in Tibetan refugees, Tenzin Urgyen Open Access Thesis
Intervening for a Depressed Peer: The Effects of Resilience Empathy, and History of Depression, Brendan Weed Open Access Thesis 2024 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Feminist qualitative study of victim blaming of sexually assaulted women in India, Alia Afzal Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Psychopathy and emotion regulation: The mediating role of motives and goals, Morning S. Baker Open Access Thesis
You can't live off pride: Welfare and farm aid in the Reagan era, Jeremiah David Brockman Open Access Thesis
Mental illness stigma toward Black and White elite male athletes, Nicholas William Clark Thesis (UNI Access Only) 2023 Award
The association between parent and adult child severe mental illness stigma: The effects of gender, relationship quality, and contact, Taylor Joyce Courier Open Access Thesis
"Land of the Silver Birch": Environmental attitudes and place-making in a Northern Minnesota Boy Scout camp, 1960-1975, John Mark Fretham Open Access Thesis
Not our problem: Ingroup glorification facilitates moral disengagement and exclusion, Matthew Gunderson Open Access Thesis
The path from paramilitary to politics: Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin, and the Good Friday Agreement: 1986-1998, Brenann Hamilton Open Access Thesis
The medieval ideal: Utopian medievalism in the life, thought, and works of William Morris, Benjamin Michael Kimball Open Access Thesis
Changes in reproductive behavior and birth patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sakartvelo (The Republic Georgia) [რეპროდუქციული ქცევასა და შობადობის ცვლილებები კოვიდ-19 პანდემიის დროს საქართველოში], Nino Mateshvili Open Access Thesis
Frank Capra's America: The fall of political ambiguity, 1930-1950, Lydia Lennice Pakala Open Access Thesis
Women Provos: Women in the Provisional IRA and their impact on Irish republicanism and Northern Irish society during the 1970s, Sean Alexander Riley Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Effects of perceived reach on ratings of media bias, quality, and agreement, Matthew Sedlacek Open Access Thesis
Grit, sense of belonging, and student involvement: keys to mental health for LGBTQ students in higher education, Emma Welch Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Fashioning the new arctic: A perspective on indigenous cultural economy in the Russian north, Varvara Korkina Williams Thesis (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Public perception of adults with ADHD in the United States: Stigma vs. strengths, Peyton S. Barton Open Access Thesis
Quantifying carbon sequestration for riparian-zone restoration in Ecuador, Paula Carvalho de Castro Open Access Thesis
Geospatially-intelligent three-dimensional multivariate methods for multiscale dasymetric mapping of urban population: Application and performance in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, Nikolay Golosov Open Access Thesis
Hedonic and eudaimonic happiness: Their associations with well-being and the influence of age and culture, Hiroki Hirano Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Examining individual differences in attitudes toward the insanity defense, Dominique M. Kornely Open Access Thesis
Agrochemicals and rural women's health in the Volta Region of Ghana, Sedomda Kpikpitse Open Access Thesis
Analyzing perceptions of citizen science as part of an international learning experience, Katelyn Marie Miner Open Access Thesis
Quality and quantity of social support in college students with ADHD symptomatology, Chloe J. Reeble Open Access Thesis 2022 Award
Redefining what's manly: Using masculine attributes to describe counseling services for men, Riley Nicholas Rodemaker Open Access Thesis
Associations between insecure attachment style and borderline personality disorder: The role of sleep disruptions, Elijah Schaefer Thesis (UNI Access Only)
How HPA stress response relates to anxiety: Sex differences and estradiol, Carrie Shea Open Access Thesis
Effects of exposure to video games on sexual harassment, Chelsea Renee Washburn Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Negative halo effects in parent ratings of ADHD and conduct problems, Helena Frances Alacha Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The Presentation of Race at Mark Twain Historical Sites in Hannibal, Missouri, Anthony Wayne Birch Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Labor's unsettled vagrancy: The rise and fall of the hobo labor movement, 1865-1929, Laura Kathryn Carpenter Open Access Thesis
Advertising patriotism: Gender and sacrifice in Ladies' Home Journal, 1942-1945, Travis John Carrier Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Utilization of machine learning algorithms to support retail chain store location decisions, Petr Grin Open Access Thesis
Richard Walther Darré, National Socialism, and Bauernpolitik, Andrew P. Harnois Open Access Thesis
Self-stigma and disclosure of depression in the workplace, Bailey Rose Holm Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Step twin cities? : Exploring uneven spaces in Waterloo-Cedar Falls business landscapes, Natalia Khortseva Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Alaska national parks and indigenous peoples: Collaboration for a protected future, Siobhan McTiernan Open Access Thesis
Festivals as a sustainable development tool: Case study of Teriberka, Russia, Maria Monakhova Open Access Thesis
Doctoral psychology students' attitudes toward evidenced-based practice, Jordan Ashley Newburg Open Access Thesis
Challenging social systems under the threat of pollution: Replication and extension of Eadeh and Chang (2019), Dylan J. Pieper Open Access Thesis
A ground based investigation of snow metamorphism using an energy flux model and hyperspectral imaging across cropland, grassland and barren surface in northeast Iowa, Ayan Sasmal Open Access Thesis
Pluralistic ignorance of campus norms, Evan Stilgenbauer Open Access Thesis
Vietnam: A soldier's story, Ryan Charles Villarreal Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Women's occupational health and safety in the informal economy: Maternal market traders in Accra, Ghana, Joyceline Amoako Open Access Thesis
Are the deaf stigmatized?, Christina M. Fortuna Thesis (UNI Access Only)
ADHD symptoms and non-suicidal self-injury in the college transition, Anna Marie Garner Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Analysis of a paleoglacier reconstruction model for valley glaciers of the Wind River Range, Wyoming, Taylor Rae Garton Open Access Thesis
"Half-breeds," squatters, land speculators, and settler colonialism in the Des Moines-Mississippi confluence, Matthew Hill Open Access Thesis
Empowering children's social ecology: Reenvisioning postconflict reconstruction and education in rural Liberia, Kristen N. McNutt Open Access Thesis
Therapist self-doubt when facing severe psychopathology in adolescent males, Zachary Mark Meehan Open Access Thesis 2019 Award
Beyond "Born This Way": Reconsidering trans narratives, Ashley Elizabeth Meyers Open Access Thesis
The price of progress: American agricultural innovations in relation to economic and social change, 1920-1989, Zachary Cass Moye Open Access Thesis
Separability of maize varieties using an unmanned aircraft and hyperspectral sensor in Iowa, Daniel Murphy Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Tangled twilight. Destiny, horror, and transformation in nature: American culture of progress during the Vietnam War 1965-1975, Alexander Newkirk Open Access Thesis
High-resolution satellite imagery analysis of coastal tundra vegetation disturbances caused by all-terrain vehicles (ATVs): A case study in Teriberka, Russia, Md Atiqur Rahman Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The impact of sexual assault on sexual risk-taking, Melanie Alison Reyes Open Access Thesis
The erosion of democracy: Gerrymandering in the United States, Matthew P. Ruiz Open Access Thesis
The legality of aerial bombing during World War II in Europe, Robert I. Umsted Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Evaluating livelihood vulnerability of farming communities to winter storms in Iowa, Yiyi Zhang Open Access Thesis 2020 Award
Motivation to call police: The exploration of racial and risk averse motivation, Alivia Lauren Zubrod Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Affective risk perception in automotive environments, Dane Atkins Open Access Thesis
Barriers to seeking psychological help among Iowa's registered sex offenders, Sage Comstock Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The moral motivations of negative attitudes toward transgender people, Hailey Annette Hatch Open Access Thesis 2019 Award
Resilience in undergraduate students: The relation between personality, social support, and cortisol levels, Elisheva Joy Havlik Open Access Thesis
Spatial disparities and socio-economic conditions : A food desert analysis of greater Des Moines, Iowa, David Jensen Open Access Thesis
Women in STEM: does role congruence affect major choice and retention?, Alba Karuni Thesis (UNI Access Only)
From Bosnia to Waterloo, Iowa: Bosnian refugee and immigrant experiences, 1996-2017, Zijad Mahmutovic Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Landscape and climate drivers of harmful algal blooms in Iowa, Aaron Padilla Open Access Thesis
Integration of refugees from Burma in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas in Iowa, Christopher J. Pierce Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Gender differences in perceived stigma among sexual minorities and their related health practices, Sara Kay Richardson Open Access Thesis
Spatiotemporal assessment of condition, seasonal trends, and determinants of agriculturally derived nutrients in the upper Cedar River watershed, Iowa, Sushil Tuladhar Thesis (UNI Access Only)
