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Item Childhood Adversity and Affective Practice Among Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes(2018-01-01) Roth, Erin G; Eckert, J. K.; Language, Literacy & Culture; Language Literacy and CultureThe link between adversity early in life and chronic diseases of aging, such as type 2 diabetes is well established in the literature. The landmark Adverse Childhood Experiences study provided further evidence that childhood adversity and poor health and well-being cuts across all racial, gender, and economic groups, sparking a self-advocacy movement and push for trauma-informed care. Understanding the ways people who have suffered childhood adversity feel about their past and how it affects their health behaviors is critical to prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes. Negative health behaviors such as lack of exercise, poor diet, and lack of medication adherence should be viewed with a trauma lens when appropriate. Findings from this study confirm the literature’s established link between childhood adversity and increased risk of poor health and well-being in later life. Borrowing the term affective practice from social psychologist Margaret Wetherell (2012, 2015), this study examines the combination of emotion and behavior that influence the health and well-being of older adults with type 2 diabetes. Guilt, blame, and shame figure prominently in how people make sense of their past and the health behavior choices they have made over a lifetime. This study addresses the affective and behavioral responses in a retrospective, narrative analysis of lightly-structured interviews with Baltimore City residents (n=15; 53-70 years old; 11 females, 4 males; 80% non-Hispanic Whites, 20% African American) with diabetes. Exploring how affect influences behavior allows us to understand the contextual and confounding factors that often go unmeasured in quantitative, correlational studies. While much of the focus in existing studies and applied work is upon children and prevention, this area of research has the potential to positively impact mid-life and older adults’ well-being and health outcomes. Discovering that one’s failed relationships and health problems may have an emotional and physiological explanation that was outside of one’s control may be liberating and may positively impact well-being and health outcomes. For healthcare providers, greater understanding and appreciation of patients’ childhood experiences and its effect upon health behaviors may improve communication and patient adherence.Item The Effects of a Pandemic on High School Students Enrolled in a Foreign Language Class(2021-05) Carr, Emmanuelle; Rhoades, Thomas; Brennan, Sarah; Masters of EducationThe purpose of this study was to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and online instruction on students, and the struggles they had in their foreign language classes. The measurement tool was an online questionnaire. This study involved the use of a descriptive study designed to understand how high school foreign language teachers could address the needs of their students and the tools needed to help them progress better. The participants were 29 high school students ranging from freshmen to juniors of the same French level 3 class. Findings showed that students acknowledged their issues with online instruction and the pandemic, specifically with learning a foreign language virtually.Item Empathy and Adverse Childhood Experiences' Role in Choice of Major(2022-04-25) Lutz, Rylan; Gricus, Michelle; Social Work; Hood College Departmental HonorsPrior research suggests that those pursuing college majors with the intent of helping others may be more likely to have higher levels of empathy, and a higher average of adverse childhood experiences. In turn, these experiences may be a motivational factor for a person to select a certain type of major. This study evaluates the number of adverse childhood experiences that undergraduate students majoring in social work, nursing, and psychology have endured in their lifetime. In addition, empathy is quantified as a variable using an Emotional Intelligence Index to analyze a possible relationship with adverse childhood experiences. Analysis suggests that those who have a college major focused on helping others may have elevated levels of emotional intelligence and may have a higher average of adverse childhood experiences.Item Supporting Students with Adverse Childhood Experiences Within the Classroom(2021-04-26) Jody Eccard; Hood College Education; Hood College Departmental HonorsACEs have the potential to cause lifelong negative impacts on the person who has experienced. These effects include but are not limited to: 1. Health Issues a. Obesity b. Diabetes c. Depressions d. Suicide Attempts 2. Behavior a. Smoking b. Alcoholism c. Drug Use 3. Graduation Rates 4. Academic Achievement 5. Lost Time for Work (CDC, 2020) These effects have the potential to impact the classroom by causing impaired relationships, additional pressure on the stress system, and impacted brain development. However, there are research-based interventions that can support and help to negate the effects of these ACEs. Through personal interviews it became apparent that the following research validated approaches should be implemented when working with students who have experienced ACEs: 1. Starting with Yourself 2. Education on Trauma Informed Practices 3. A Team Approach 4. Understanding the Why Behind Behaviors 5. Building Positive and Trusting Relationships 6. Developing the positive attributes, the student already possesses Therefore, all stakeholders involved in a child’s education should work in a collaborative manner to ensure implementation of these strategies.Item The Impact of Protective Factors on the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Facial Affect Recognition(2024) Guinevere Schipper; Dr. Megan Shaine; Dr. Michelle Gricus; Dr. Stephanie Masters; Hood College Department of Psychology and Counseling; Hood College Departmental HonorsThe amount of research focusing on the relationship between facial affect recognition (FAR) and adverse childhood experience (ACEs) is growing. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between ACEs and FAR with protective factors as a potential moderator. Convenience sampling yielded 1058 responses to the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire - Short Form (CTQ – SF), Protective Factors for Resilience Scale (PFRS), and the Japanese and Caucasian Facial Expressions of Emotions (JACFEE). It was hypothesized that ACEs would be associated with higher misclassifications of emotions and protective factors would be negatively associated with misclassifications. Additionally, it was hypothesized that protective factors would moderate the relationship between ACEs and FAR, and that certain types of ACEs would correlate more strongly with certain types of misclassifications. Results indicated that the number of ACEs significantly predicted increased misclassifications of emotions and protective factors significantly predicted decreased misclassifications of emotions. Protective factors moderated the relationship between ACEs and misclassifications of emotions. The Sexual Abuse ACE had a significant and positive moderate relationship with misclassifications of emotions. The subsequent ACEs (Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse, Emotional Neglect, Physical Neglect) had a significant, but weak relationship with misclassifications of emotion.