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Item Compassion Fatigue and Higher Education Faculty Mental Health: A Call to the Profession(2023-04) Cordaro, Millie; Howard, Krista; Perrotte, Jessica; Schmiedehaus, Evan; Dailey, StephanieBackground: Compassion fatigue (CF) describes the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of helping others. Little is known about the prevalence and impact of CF (i.e., secondary traumatic stress & burnout), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and Major Depression Disorder (MDD) in Higher Education faculty. Purpose: To examine key aspects of CF, secondary traumatic stress and burnout, and associations with psychosocial and occupational factors among faculty in higher education.Item Increasing Self-Efficacy to Support the Health and Resiliency of Texas Workers in Extreme Heat and Cold Environments(2024-03) Kisi, Krishna; Vasallo, Johnny; Pokharel, ManusheelaHeat stress and cold stress are two common forms of environmental stressors that can adversely affect workers' health and productivity. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services (2023), approximately 279 people died in 2022 due to Texas’ rising exposure to extreme heat. Heat stress can negatively affect cognitive performance, impairing decision-making, reducing attention span, and decreasing memory (Parsons 2014). To navigate the concerns of occupational safety in extreme temperatures, this study adopts Badura’s (1977) self-efficacy model, a theoretical framework that establishes the concept of self-efficacy as the central role when interpreting and analyzing changes derived from avoidant and fearful behaviors. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES: Determine how extreme temperature training influences workers' self-efficacy and proactive behaviors in responding to heat and cold stress conditions. Explore how incorporating multicultural messaging into training programs affects engagement, self-efficacy, and behavioral intentions among workers from diverse cultural backgrounds. Determine the effects of information sharing on enhancing workplace safety, reducing incidents, and fostering a culture of safety within organizations.Item Political Party Collective Norms, Perceived Norms, and Mask Wearing Behavior: A Test of the Theory of Normative Social Behavior(2023-04) Pokharel, Manusheela; Lillie, Helen; Jensen, Jakob D.; King, Andy J.; King, Andy J.; Ratcliff, Chelsea; Barbour, Joshua B.The theory of normative social behavior (TNSB; Rimal, 2008) postulates that people are influenced by others’ behaviors, which they glean from messages and experience. Recently, the TNSB was expanded to include collective norms, which represent what people actually do, rather than just behavioral perceptions (Rimal & Yilma, 2021). Testing this expanded theoretical model, the current study examines two types of collective norms—collective political norms and collective regional norms—as moderators of the relationship between descriptive norms and expectation related to pandemic mask wearing behavior among U.S. adults.Item Taking the Bi out of Invisibility: Advocating for the Bisexual Community Through Consciousness-Raising(2022-04) Field, MadeleineThis project highlights the importance of advocacy and the power of persuasion for social issues, specifically the bisexual identity. Many bisexual people experience harmful stereotypes, discrimination, and violence at alarmingly high rates. Bisexual people are often judged by queer and heterosexual people as they are seen as either too queer for straight spaces and too straight for queer spaces. Through a rhetorical analysis of Misty Gedlinske’s speech "Bisexuality: The invisible letter ‘b’", consciousness-raising emerged as a salient and vital tool to educate and bring together bisexual people and allies who all agree on a common goal: to eliminate the disparities experienced by bisexual people. Through consciousness-raising, queer and nonqueer individuals will be able to understand the bisexual identity, provide language and agency for bisexual people, and develop the tools needed to locate and dispel harmful, biphobic rhetoric. The more recognition that bisexuality receives as a legitimate sexual orientation and not merely as a half-way point for men “on their way to being gay” or as a strategy for women to gain the attention of straight men, the more likely bisexual individuals will feel comfortable disclosing their identity to family, friends, coworkers, and healthcare professionals. While it is the right of any individual to choose when, how, and to whom they disclose their sexual orientation to, the damaging effects of concealing one’s identity and living in secrecy cannot be ignored. Similarly, while choosing not to disclose one’s sexual identity to healthcare professionals is many times a strategy to avoid discrimination and disparaging comments, the impact this can have on human health, such as not knowing practices to prevent STIs, is extremely concerning. Furthermore, as bisexual people are continually underrepresented in medical research, bisexual people are less likely to feel empowered to disclose their identity and receive adequate care. Overall, by utilizing consciousness-raising in online formats such as TED talks and other free services that are similar can help eliminate some of these troubling statistics, while also providing support to bisexual people all over the world, including places that continue to censor this type of information and replace it with pseudoscientific research and religious doctrine that suggest bisexuality is a choice, unnatural, and sinful.Item The Effectiveness of Skin Cancer Visuals Targeting Minority Populations: Educating Hispanic and African American Participants about Acral Lentiginous Melanoma(2024-03) Pokharel, Manusheela; John, Kevin K.; Liao, Yi; Wu, Yelena; Jensen, Jakob D.Acral lentiginous melanoma is an aggressive type of melanoma that occurs equally among people of all skin types (i.e., race/ethnicity). The incidence of ALM is rising among Hispanic/Latino patients and the mortality rate for ethnic patients is more than double when compared to Caucasian patients. The current study engages on this issue by investigating whether ALM patient education materials (PEM) featuring models with one of the three skin types yield better results on knowledge, risk perception, and message perception among Hispanic and African American participants.Item Using COPEWELL to Build Community Resilience in Texas(2023-04) Long, Rex; Trevino, Britney; Eger, Elizabeth; Villagran, MelindaNo abstract prepared.