Annual Undergraduate Student Research Forum
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6038
2024-03-28T08:54:10ZMaternal Neural and Parasympathetic Regulation and Parenting Stress
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6399
Maternal Neural and Parasympathetic Regulation and Parenting Stress
Miller, Samantha; Phelps, Randi
We examined the relation between maternal neural (delta-beta coupling [coupling]) and autonomic (respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA]) regulatory processes and mothers’ parenting stress longitudinally. It was expected that maternal neural regulation would negatively predict parenting stress while autonomic regulation would positively predict parenting stress.
A subsample of mother-child dyads (N=51) from a larger longitudinal study in Dr. Elizabeth Kiel’s lab was used. Dyads participated in a lab visit at child age 2. Mothers provided consent and participated in episodes designed to elicit a range of reactions to novel situations (i.e., gentle arm restraint, snack delay, spider) with their child. RSA was collected during each of these emotion eliciting paradigms. Two weeks later, coupling was measured when mothers returned to the lab for an electroencephalography (EEG) visit during which time mothers watched videos of their children in the emotion eliciting paradigms. At child age 4, mothers completed the Parenting Stress Index.
Results suggested that, in this sample, maternal coupling and RSA did not significantly predict maternal parenting stress longitudinally. It is possible that the episodes used were not emotion eliciting for mothers as the episodes have been designed as emotion eliciting for toddlers. It is also possible that these measures of coupling and RSA simply do not relate to perceived parenting stress.
Investigating a Ketogenic Diet as a Potential Adjunctive Therapy for Colon Cancer Treatment
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6393
Investigating a Ketogenic Diet as a Potential Adjunctive Therapy for Colon Cancer Treatment
Allaire, Danielle; Parnell, Ryan; Zhu, Qi
Undergraduate Student Motivation for Social Science Research Methods
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6392
Undergraduate Student Motivation for Social Science Research Methods
Schroeder, Matthew; Edwards, Tristan; Smith, Morgan; Cornett, Maranda; Maples, Emily; Greene, Garry
The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between the students’ reasons for taking an undergraduate research methods course (USRMC) and their course motivation regarding whether they are an applied social research (ASO) major.
Seeking Sustainable Urban Renewal: an anthropological study of neighborhood change
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6391
Seeking Sustainable Urban Renewal: an anthropological study of neighborhood change
Burrell, Blake
Urban restructuring in Cincinnati has primarily been enacted as corporate-led gentrification, widening socio-economic disparities and displacing lower-income populations. One Cincinnati community is challenging this process by asking, ‘how can we practice community-based urban renewal?’ The Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage (ERUEV) is a grassroots organization focused on
integrating household and community practices of environmental sustainability into their urban neighborhood. Their goal is to engage and educate the neighborhood about sustainability issues in innovative ways. In summer 2018, I began a collaborative ethnographic project designed to understand how the ERUEV organizes and executes sustainable projects, and how their efforts work toward structural change in the neighborhood. I have conducted participant observation with ERUEV committees responsible for community engagement and public relations. I have also been actively involved in their recent project focused on redeveloping a vacant property into a space that might facilitate neighborhood social relations through urban gardening, local music, and their community-sustained agriculture program. With this project, the community aims to use sustainable practices as a response to issues of structural violence, and ideally improve community relations between ERUEV and the surrounding neighborhood. I aim to understand ERUEV’s decision-making around this project, this paper will integrate frameworks from urban, applied, and organizational anthropology to analyze the tensions and mutuality that arise from the community’s commitment to consensus-based decision structures.