2020
Juan Estrada
Thesis: Moderating effects of school ethnic composition on the associations between cultural variables and academic outcomes among Latinx youth.
2019
Amanda Blume
Thesis: Examining the effects of aspects of resiliency and vulnerability on the relationship between experiences microaggressions and mental health among persons of color.
Dissertation: Diversity-related experiences and academic performance among ethnic minority college students.
Dissertation: Diversity-related experiences and academic performance among ethnic minority college students.
Ron Bean
Thesis: Romantic relationship quality and technological communication: Examining the roles of attachment representations and rejection sensitivity.
Dissertation: Relationship maintenance behaviors and marital stability in remarriage: The examination of stepfamily constellations and associated challenges.Tianyi Xie
Thesis: Acculturation and language use in intimate and sexual relationships among Chinese bilinguals.
Dissertation: Responding to microaggressions: Evaluation of bystander intervention strategies.2018
John Dehlin
Thesis: The intersection of multiple oppressed identities: Implications for identity development.
Dissertation: Contextual factors in the academic persistence of Native Americans and Latinxs in stem fields.Joshua Parmenter
Thesis: The culture of sexuality: Identification, conceptualization, and acculturation processes within sexual minority and heterosexual culture.
2017
Alexandra Reveles
Thesis: Diversity-related experiences among college students in the promotion of social justice orientation, multicultural openness, and community involvement.
2016
Merrill Jones
Thesis: Attitudinal and experiential factors of interethnic romantic relationships among Native American emerging adults.
Dissertation: Attitudes and experiences of close interethnic friendships among Native American emerging adults: A mixed methods investigation.
Jeisianne Rosario Colon
Thesis: The role of religious attitudes in marriage maintenance strategies and marital quality.
Dissertation: Attitudes and experiences of close interethnic friendships among Native American emerging adults: A mixed methods investigation.
Jeisianne Rosario Colon
Thesis: The role of religious attitudes in marriage maintenance strategies and marital quality.
2014
Annel Cordero
Thesis: Problem solving communication and interpersonal power among Latino adolescent couples.
Dissertation: Understanding experiences of female survivors of domestic violence: Stories of strength, resilience, and mechanisms that assist in leaving violent relationships.
2013
Katherine Crowell (Peterson)
Thesis: Bosom buddies: Factors associated with experiences of passionate friendship among men and women.
Dissertation: The mental health disparity among non-heterosexuals: Risk, resiliency, and new perspectives to consider in the context of Mormonism.2012
Brenna Wernersbach
Dissertation: Healthy sexuality: Evaluating a psychoeducational group promoting knowledge, communication, and positive experiences.
2011
Angie Dahl
Thesis: The religious experience of sexual minority youth: Identity integration, and minority stress.
Dissertation: Sexual and religious identity development among adolescent and emerging adult sexual minorities.
Dissertation: Sexual and religious identity development among adolescent and emerging adult sexual minorities.
Marsha Tafoya
Thesis: The relationship of acculturation and acculturative stress in Latino youth’s psychosocial functioning.
Kenli Urruty
Thesis: Factors associated with levels of physical activity in rural adolescents.
Dissertation: Effects of frontier environment on identity development among first generation college students.
2009
Charley Bentley
Thesis: Towards a more comprehensive view of the use of power between couple members in adolescent romantic relationships.
Dissertation: Does empathic accuracy mediate the relationships between individual psychological characteristics and adolescent romantic relationship outcomes?
Mark Jesinoski
Dissertation: Testing the mediating role of Young’s Early Maladaptive Schemas: Exploring links between negative childhood experiences and adult psychosocial functioning.
Audrey Oldham
Thesis: Latino collectivism and self-disclosure in intracultural and intercultural friendships.
Eri Suzuki Bentley
Dissertation: An evaluation of outcomes of a dialectical behavior therapy skills training group at a university counseling center.
2008
Crystal Lin
Dissertation: Adult romantic attachment style, global self-esteem, and specific self-views as predictors of feedback preference in potential romantic relationships.
Daniel Hatch
Thesis: The development and psychosocial correlates of adolescent sexuality.
Dissertation: Mediators of the association between adult attachment and marital satisfaction: Relationship expectations, pro-relationship behaviors, and empathy.
Dissertation: Mediators of the association between adult attachment and marital satisfaction: Relationship expectations, pro-relationship behaviors, and empathy.
Jenna Glover
Thesis: Identity development, identity disclosure, and identity exploration among adolescent sexual minorities.
Dissertation: The interpersonal lives of women: A study of passionate friendships among women.
Dissertation: The interpersonal lives of women: A study of passionate friendships among women.
Matt Jones
Thesis: Navajo ethnic identity and acculturation: Discovering connections between ethnic identity, acculturation and psychosocial outcomes.
Dissertation: Longitudinal and reciprocal effects of ethnic identity and experiences of discrimination on psychosocial adjustment of Navajo adolescents.
Dissertation: Longitudinal and reciprocal effects of ethnic identity and experiences of discrimination on psychosocial adjustment of Navajo adolescents.
Sara Hunt
Thesis: Associations between parent-daughter relationships, individual adolescent psychological functioning, and female adolescent self-defeating behaviors.
Dissertation: Patterns of psychosocial functioning and mental health service utilization in children and adolescents with chronic health conditions or physical disabilities.
Dissertation: Patterns of psychosocial functioning and mental health service utilization in children and adolescents with chronic health conditions or physical disabilities.
2005
Erica Chenoweth
Thesis: Factors that influence the college attendance decisions of Appalachian students.
Dissertation: Appalachian high school students’ possible selves as a mediator of continuing their education.
Dissertation: Appalachian high school students’ possible selves as a mediator of continuing their education.