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The Search for Undergraduate Women's Activist Identity during the College Experience: A Narrative Inquiry Study
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Frick, Audra J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
College students have long engaged in various forms of protest and dissent about both structural and human oppression appearing in the form of racial and social injustice, gender inequity, laws, war, and politics. Situating student activism in the context of student learning and identity development is key to fulfilling the role of higher…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Student Experience, Activism
Estimating and Predicting the Course of Callous-Unemotional Traits in First-Time Adolescent Offenders
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Ray, James V.; Frick, Paul J.; Thornton, Laura C.; Wall Myers, Tina D.; Steinberg, Laurence; Cauffman, Elizabeth – Developmental Psychology, 2019
The stability of callous-unemotional (CU) traits and both individual and contextual factors that influence this stability have been studied in community adolescent samples but not to great extent in adolescents who have been arrested. We estimated the developmental changes in CU traits measured over the course of 36 months (6-month intervals)…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Context Effect, Individual Characteristics, Law Enforcement
Redressing the Balance of Community Schooling and Religion in the USA
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Frick, William C. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2006
The varying definitions and conceptions of secularism are explored in terms of government interpretation and legal response. It is argued that issues of state neutrality towards religion can be balanced with religious expression within the context of community schooling in the USA. Examining a more balanced approach of effects of government action…
Descriptors: Religion, Philosophy, Public Education, State Church Separation
Exploring the Cognitive and Emotional Correlates to Proactive and Reactive Aggression in a Sample of Detained Girls
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Marsee, Monica A.; Frick, Paul J. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
The current study examined the distinction between reactive and proactive aggression in a sample of detained girls (N = 58) aged 12 to 18. This study employed a self-report measure of aggression that was designed explicitly to assess both the forms that aggression takes (i.e., relational and overt), as well as the functions that aggression serves…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Females, Aggression, Self Control
Can a Laboratory Measure of Emotional Processing Enhance the Statistical Prediction of Aggression and Delinquency in Detained Adolescents with Callous-Unemotional Traits?
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Kimonis, Eva R.; Frick, Paul J.; Munoz, Luna C.; Aucoin, Katherine J. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
In this cross-sectional study, we investigated whether the combination of the presence of callous-unemotional (CU) traits and emotional deficits to distressing stimuli, assessed by a computerized dot-probe task, enhanced the statistical prediction of aggression and delinquency in a sample of 88 detained and predominantly African-American (68%)…
Descriptors: Prediction, Adolescents, Delinquency, Cognitive Processes
Church and College: A Vital Partnership. Volume 3: Accountability--Keeping Faith With One Another.
National Congress on Church-Related Colleges and Universities, Sherman, TX. – 1980
During the two-year period 1979-80, the National Congress on Church-Related Colleges and Universities operated as a cooperative effort of 23 denominations to examine the issues facing their institutions of higher education. The significant papers and a record of events appear in this and three other volumes. In this volume the contents include…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Church Role, College Administration, Constitutional Law