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Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# overview
My research focuses on the trans-disease processes of cognitive and emotional dysregulation and how these factors affect health-risk behaviors in adolescents. Identifying trans-disease processes that contribute to the development or maintenance of multiple diagnostic categories -- that underlie both substance use and obesity -- can enhance the development of interventions that target the underlying process rather than specific symptoms of a single disorder. This not only provides a more efficient approach to treatment, it is particularly relevant to health disparities. I am especially interested in how these trans-disease processes interact with family, social, and psychological factors to increase engagement in health-related risk behaviors, and the development of appropriate prevention and intervention tools that can be used to improve health outcomes in youth. I conceptualize these processes in the context of physical and mental health disparities as they relate to stress, minority status (race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender) and socioeconomic factors (food insecurity).

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Outcome And Process Assessment, Health Care

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Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity

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Clinical Trials And Supportive Activities

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3214 Pharmacology And Pharmaceutical Sciences

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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3.1 Primary Prevention Interventions To Modify Behaviours Or Promote Wellbeing

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2.3 Psychological, Social And Economic Factors

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3 Prevention Of Disease And Conditions, And Promotion Of Well-being

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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3214 Pharmacology And Pharmaceutical Sciences

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2.3 Psychological, Social And Economic Factors

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University of South Florida - (Tampa, Florida, United States)

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Duke University - (Durham, North Carolina, United States)

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Duke University - (Durham, North Carolina, United States)

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University of South Florida - (Tampa, Florida, United States)

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Is it Too Soon to Meet? Examining Differences in Geosocial Networking App Use and Sexual Risk Behavior of Emerging Adults

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Dimensions of impulsive behavior in adolescent smokers and nonsmokers.

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THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL THERAPY IN THE FAMILY AND ADOLESCENTS' EMOTIONAL/BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS

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REAL-TIME CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING AS A BEHAVIOR CHANGE TOOL IN TYPE 2 DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

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Disordered eating and substance use: Findings from a national sample of adolescents

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Adolescent and emerging adult marijuana triers and non-users: The difference in potential HIV risk

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The Use of Telehealth Technology to Support Health Coaching for Older Adults: Literature Review.

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Validation of the Sexual Discounting Task for Use in Adolescents.

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Race/ethnicity and self-esteem in families of adolescents

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USING PUBLICLY-AVAILABLE DATASETS TO ANSWER INNOVATIVE HEALTH BEHAVIOR RESEARCH QUESTIONS

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Group differences in binge eating, impulsivity, and intuitive and mindful eating among intermittent fasters and non-fasters.

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A Rapid and Formative Response by the Engineering Education Faculty to Support the Engineering Faculty and Students Throughout the Extreme Classroom Changes Resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic

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American Society for Engineering Education

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An investigation on using serious gaming to study human decision-making in engineering contexts

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Fathers' and Mothers' Involvement with Their Adolescents

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Advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP): advances, challenges, and opportunities to accelerate progress.

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ADHD, IMPULSIVITY, AND EMERGING ADULT ALCOHOL ABUSE

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Delay discounting by adolescents experimenting with cigarette smoking.

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DOES MINDFULNESS MITIGATE RISK FACTORS FOR SMART-PHONE ADDICTION?

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Serious Gaming for Design and Systems Engineering Research

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Studying the Sunk Cost Effect in Engineering Decision Making with Serious Gaming

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If only I wasn't so impulsive: Counterfactual thinking and delay-discounting

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Positive Urgency, Drinking Preoccupation, and Alcohol Problems in College Students.

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Relations Between Adolescent Sensation Seeking and Risky Sexual Behaviors Across Sex, Race, and Age: A Meta-Analysis.

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Reply to Drs. Hart and Cadet: we agree-the challenges of increasing equity, diversity and inclusion include societal issues and actions now are vital.

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Dimensions of impulsive behavior in obese, overweight, and healthy-weight adolescents.

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The Use of Telehealth Technology to Support Health Coaching for Older Adults: Literature Review (Preprint)

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The role of parental smoking in adolescent impulsivity

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Sensation seeking, sexual orientation, and drug abuse symptoms in a community sample of emerging adults.

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Mothers and fathers roles in normal child development

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RELATIONS BETWEEN ADOLESCENT SENSATION SEEKING AND RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIORS ACROSS SEX, RACE, AND AGE: A META-ANALYSIS

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Examining the psychometric properties of the Smartphone Addiction Scale and its short version for use with emerging adults in the U.S

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Development and Validation of a Validity Scale for Use with the UPPS-P and Short UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scales.

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Problematic Mobile Phone and Smartphone Use Scales: A Systematic Review.

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Real-Time Continuous Glucose Monitoring as a Behavioral Intervention Tool for T2D: A Systematic Review

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Prompts to regulate emotions improve the impact of health messages on eating intentions and behavior

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Linking Normative and Descriptive Research with Serious Gaming

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Gender Differences in Positive and Negative Feelings Between Adolescents and Their Fathers and Mothers

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Effects of emotion on prospection during decision-making.

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Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Abuse, and Cigarette Smoking Risk in Adolescents

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Iron Deficiency and Internalizing Symptoms Among Adolescents in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

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Emerging adult gender differences in sexual discounting and HIV risk behavior

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Does mindfulness reduce the effects of risk factors for problematic smartphone use? Comparing frequency of use versus self-reported addiction.

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Behavioral impulsivity as a predictor of success in a smoking cessation in adolescents

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Contextualizing Gender and Acculturative Influences on Sexual Initiation of Asian Indian Emerging Adults

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Maternal impulsivity as a predictor of adolescent smoking status

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SERIOUS GAMING FOR DESIGN AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING RESEARCH

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Drug Use Status in Youth: The Role of Gender and Delay Discounting.

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Predicting Student Intention to Wear a Mask to Avoid Contracting COVID-19

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Examining weight concern and delay discounting in adolescent females.

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The relationship between stress and delay discounting: a meta-analytic review.

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Are relationships between impulsivity and depressive symptoms in adolescents sex-dependent?

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From if-then to here and now: Using personalized counterfactuals from past negative experiences to reduce future alcohol consequences.

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Are fathers involved in pediatric psychology research and treatment?

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The Role of Impulsivity in Major Depression: A Systematic Review

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Ethnicity, age, and education influence perceptions of vegetable healthiness and macronutrient content.

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Heavy drinking, impulsivity and attentional narrowing following alcohol cue exposure.

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Web-Based Contingency Management for Adolescent Tobacco Smokers: A Clinical Trial.

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Delay discounting, but not disinhibition or inattention, partially mediates the effects of neuroticism on disordered eating in adolescents.

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The Role of the Therapeutic Relationship in Psychopharmacological Treatment Outcomes: A Meta-analytic Review.

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The Role of Counterfactual Thinking on Attitudes Toward ADHD Medication Use.

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ADHD, IMPULSIVITY, AND EMERGING ADULT ALCOHOL ABUSE

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Narrowing of attention following food cue exposure in emerging adults: Does impulsivity matter?

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Getting fathers involved in child-related therapy

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Relationship between weight status and delay discounting in a sample of adolescent cigarette smokers.

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Comparison Between the 2020 CPDD Membership Survey and Meeting Attendance: Transition From Meeting Attendance to Membership

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Depressive symptoms, hostility, and hopelessness in inner-city adolescent health clinic patients: factor structure and demographic correlates.

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A mixed-method analysis of counterfactual thinking, negative event themes, and the transtheoretical model in a community sample of smokers.

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Acute pain decreases impulsive decision-making in individuals with high perceived stress

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A Survey to Measure the Effects of Forced Transition to 100% Online Learning on Community Sharing, Feelings of Social Isolation, Equity, Resilience, and Learning Content During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Effects of gender and weight on errors of omission during an inattention task

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The effects of the interaction between body weight and depression on adolescent and emerging adult alcohol use

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THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR (TPB) PREDICTS VACCINATION STATUS AMONG HISPANIC/LATINX ADULTS WITH DIABETES

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The relationship between weight and smoking in a national sample of adolescents: Role of gender.

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Meta-analysis of therapeutic relationship variables in youth and family therapy: the evidence for different relationship variables in the child and adolescent treatment outcome literature.

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1491-PUB: Demographic and Psychosocial Predictors of Diabetes Risk and Glycemic Control in Hispanic/Latino Adults

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Investigating the Efficacy of Behavioral Models to Predict Use of Health Technology: A Scoping Review

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Marijuana use and its relationship to impulsivity measured via delay discounting

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Game type as a moderator of the relationship between pathological video game use, impulsivity, aggression, and general psychopathology

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Does Pain Affect Preference? The Effect of Tonic Laboratory Pain on Discounting of Delayed Rewards.

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Delay discounting as a mediator of the relationship between perceived stress and cigarette smoking status in adolescents.

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ETHNIC AND GROUP DIFFERENCES IN HEALTHY EATING AND COUNTERFACTUAL INTENTIONS FOLLOWING A SINGLE-SESSION INTERVENTION

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Examining the psychometric properties of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-Brief Form in justice-involved samples.

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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A commentary from the CPDD Underrepresented Populations Committee: New CPDD member survey to accelerate progress in equity, inclusion and diversity

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The role of impulsivity in pediatric obesity and weight status: a meta-analytic review.

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Using a counterfactual-based intervention to change eating intentions: Results from Hispanic and non-Hispanic undergraduate and community samples.

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An examination of sexual risk behaviors in adolescent substance users

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The relation between pain-related fear and disability: a meta-analysis.

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The relationship between impulsivity and shame and guilt proneness on the prediction of internalizing and externalizing behaviors.

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Chapter 3 Digital technologies to support behavior change: challenges and opportunities

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Characteristics of psychopathy in adolescent nonsmokers and smokers: Relations to delay discounting and self reported impulsivity.

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How to design equitable digital health tools: A narrative review of design tactics, case studies, and opportunities.

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Effects of weight and gender on a task of inattention.

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VALIDATION OF THE SEXUAL DISCOUNTING TASK FOR USE IN AN ONLINE SETTING WITH FEMALE ADOLESCENTS

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Frequency of alcohol use and reported engagement in risky behaviors

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ACCESSING RESTRICTED DATA THROUGH RESEARCH DATA CENTERS: ONE EXAMPLE USING NHANES DATASETS

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Delay discounting and health risk behaviors: the potential role of stress

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Relationship Processes in Youth Psychotherapy Measuring Alliance, Alliance-Building Behaviors, and Client Involvement

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HEALTHCARE PROVIDER PERCEPTION OF DIABETIC PATIENT DISEASE MANAGEMENT AND USE OF REMOTE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

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A theoretical model of common process factors in youth and family therapy.

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EAGER: Foundations for Combining Normative and Behavioral Research Methodologies to Study Systems Engineering

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Engineering Research Center for Precise Advanced Technologies and Health Systems for Underserved Populations (PATHS-UP)

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Impulsive Behavior in Adolescent Healthy Weight and Obese Smokers and Nonsmokers

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disorders

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A Survey to Measure the Effects of Forced Transition to 100% Online Learning on Community Sharing, Feelings of Social Isolation, Equity, Resilience, and Learning Content During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Texas A&M University; Psychology; 4235 TAMU

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Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Ramos, Ashley Marie (2017-07). The Impact of Family Functioning and Treatment Burden on Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Cystic Fibrosis. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Sferra, Michale S. (2016-12). Game Type as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Pathological Video Game Use, Impulsivity, Aggression, and General Psychopathology. Master's Thesis.

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Lange, Krista Leigh (2013-11). The Role of Impulsivity in the Relationship of Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating. Master's Thesis.

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Wager, Sneha (2016-07). STI Vulnerability in Youth: A Behavioral Economic Approach. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Sferra, Michale S (2019-11). Interaction Effect of Gaming Status and Experience of Ostracism on Fundamental Needs. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Ramos, Ashley M (2014-08). Adolescent Impulsivity: A Mediator between Parental Monitoring and Adolescent Psychosocial Outcomes. Master's Thesis.

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Lange, Krista Leigh (2016-07). The Role of Video Games in Self-Objectification: Does That Avatar Become You, Too?. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Center for Remote Health Technologies & Systems