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Psychosocial Mechanism of Adolescents’ Depression: A Dose-Response Relation with Physical Activity (open access)

Psychosocial Mechanism of Adolescents’ Depression: A Dose-Response Relation with Physical Activity

The article highlights a study aimed (1) to examine the relations between different doses of physical activity (PA), light PA (LPA), moderate PA (MPA), and vigorous PA (VPA), academic self-efficacy, and depression among adolescents, and (2) to investigate the direct and indirect relations of various doses of PA to depression through academic self-efficacy among middle school adolescents. Findings of this study indicated that academic self-efficacy regulates adolescents’ depression. Tailoring different intensities of PA benefits adolescents’ academic self-efficacy by framing the positive and supportive environment in schools, which can potentially reduce the prevalence of depression during adolescence.
Date: April 24, 2020
Creator: Xiang, Man; Gu, Xiangli; Zhang, Xiaoxia; Moss, Samantha; Huang, Chaoqun; Nelson, Larry Paul et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reforming Our School Systems Around a Humanizing Curriculum: Schooling During and After COVID-19 (open access)

Reforming Our School Systems Around a Humanizing Curriculum: Schooling During and After COVID-19

This article is a commentary examining the state of education during the global pandemic with an emphasis on curriculum and families.
Date: December 28, 2020
Creator: Wong, Lok-Sze & Mishra, Punya
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship between Perceived Training Load, Well-Being Indices, Recovery State and Physical Enjoyment during Judo-Specific Training (open access)

Relationship between Perceived Training Load, Well-Being Indices, Recovery State and Physical Enjoyment during Judo-Specific Training

Article investigating the relationship between well-being indices and the session rating of perceived exertion (session-RPE), recovery (TQR), and physical enjoyment (PE) during intensified, tapering phases of judo training. Sleep, recovery state, pre-fatigue states, and HI are signals contributing to the enjoyment and internal intensity variability during training. Coaches can use these simple tools to monitor judo training.
Date: September 15, 2020
Creator: Ouergui, Ibrahim; Franchini, Emerson; Selmi, Okba; Levitt, Danielle E.; Chtourou, Hamdi; Bouhlel, Ezdine et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Gamification mindset (open access)

Review of Gamification mindset

This article is a review of the book "Gamification Mindset" by Ole Goethe.
Date: October 15, 2020
Creator: Ham, Chris D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
School-Based Sedentary Behavior, Physical Activity, and Health-Related Outcomes among Hispanic Children in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study (open access)

School-Based Sedentary Behavior, Physical Activity, and Health-Related Outcomes among Hispanic Children in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study

The article highlights a study meant to examine the relationships between school-based sedentary behavior, physical activity, and health-related outcomes, including cardiorespiratory fitness, weight status, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among Hispanic children. Sedentary behavior was negatively correlated with cardiorespiratory fitness and HRQOL but positively associated with weight status. MVPA was positively correlated with cardiorespiratory fitness and HRQOL, but negatively associated with weight status and sedentary behavior. Multiple regressions demonstrated that sedentary behavior significantly predicted cardiorespiratory fitness and weight status, whereas MVPA significantly predicted HRQOL.
Date: February 13, 2020
Creator: Gu, Xiangli; Zhang, Tao; Chen, Senlin; Keller, M. Jean & Zhang, Xiaoxia
System: The UNT Digital Library
School counseling prevention programming to address social determinants of mental health (open access)

School counseling prevention programming to address social determinants of mental health

Article describes how school counselors can utilize the Advocating Student-within-Environment (ASE) theoretical lens as a liberation approach to strengthening students' capacity to overcome persistent adversity while addressing root causes of systemic oppression through policy change and advocacy at the school, community, and national levels. This study provides school counselors with an overview of ASE as a theoretical foundation for addressing social determinants of mental health in schools.
Date: May 13, 2023
Creator: Johnson, Kaprea F.; Kim, Hyunhee; Molina, Citlali E.; Thompson, Kaleb A.; Henry, Sarah & Zyromski, Brett
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sex-specific mitochondrial dynamics and mitophagy response to muscle damage (open access)

Sex-specific mitochondrial dynamics and mitophagy response to muscle damage

Article presents a study examining the effect of sex-specific resistance exercise (RE)-induced hormonal response on mitochondrial dynamics and mitophagy after muscle damage in untrained men and women.
Date: May 25, 2022
Creator: Luk, Hui-Ying; Jiwan, Nigel C.; Appell, Casey R.; Levitt, Danielle E. & Vingren, Jakob L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social-Ecological Factors Predict College Students’ Physical Activities and Sedentary Behavior (open access)

Social-Ecological Factors Predict College Students’ Physical Activities and Sedentary Behavior

Article investigates the predictive strengths of individual, social, and physical environmental factors toward different intensities of physical activity and sedentary behavior among college students. Correlation and hierarchical regression analyses were performed to examine the associations and the relative contributions of those individual, social, and physical environmental factors to physical activity and sedentary behavior, respectively.
Date: October 9, 2022
Creator: Zhang, Tao; Lee, Joonyoung; Zhang, Xiaoxia & Gu, Xiangli
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Emotional Learning Competencies in Belize Children: Psychometric Validation Through Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (open access)

Social Emotional Learning Competencies in Belize Children: Psychometric Validation Through Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling

Article presents a study that demonstrates the application of Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling to existing measures through the investigation of structural validity and generalizability of the Social-Emotional and Character Development Scale with a large sample of children from schools in Belize. Using this newer factor analytic procedure, original factors are reconceptualized to better situate the Social Emotional Character Development Scales into the larger body of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies literature.
Date: September 3, 2021
Creator: Hinerman, Krystal M.; Hull, Darrell M.; Näslund-Hadley, Emma I. & Rafe, Mehri Mirzaei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher-Principal Ethnoracial Matching, Geography, and Novice Teacher Career Outcomes (open access)

Teacher-Principal Ethnoracial Matching, Geography, and Novice Teacher Career Outcomes

Article describes how, nationally, many school districts are facing a teacher workforce sustainability crisis, and job retention for novice teachers of color is a key area of focus for educational leaders and policymakers. In this study, the authors draw on nine years of administrative data from Texas K-12 public schools to better understand how teacher-principal ethnoracial matching is associated with patterns of teacher retention and system-exit.
Date: December 5, 2023
Creator: Edwards, Wesley L. & Anderson, Cornelius Q.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Makes the Heart Grow Fonder? A Test of Media Multiplexity Theory for Family Closeness (open access)

Technology Makes the Heart Grow Fonder? A Test of Media Multiplexity Theory for Family Closeness

This article examines the impact of online and offline interactions for the quality of family relationships.
Date: January 15, 2021
Creator: Balayar, Bhoj & Langlais, Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
To entrepreneur or not to entrepreneur? How identity discrepancies influence enthusiasm for academic entrepreneurship (open access)

To entrepreneur or not to entrepreneur? How identity discrepancies influence enthusiasm for academic entrepreneurship

Article discusses how recognizing the commercial potential of university-based inventions and discoveries, legislators and administrators have called upon academic scientists to become academic entrepreneurs. Few academic scientists are enthusiastic about taking on entrepreneurial activities, yet the intrinsic reasons for lack of enthusiasm are poorly understood. The authors extend the research by applying self-discrepancy theory to explore the role of future-oriented self and other guides on enthusiasm for academic entrepreneurship.
Date: February 17, 2023
Creator: Pattnaik, Shashwatashish; Mmbaga, Nick; White, Daniel T. & Reger, Rhonda K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
TPACK’s pedagogy and the gradual release of responsibility model coalesce: integrating technology into literacy teacher preparation (open access)

TPACK’s pedagogy and the gradual release of responsibility model coalesce: integrating technology into literacy teacher preparation

Article exploring how the pedagogical knowledge construct of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and a scaffolded use of the gradual release of responsibility framework helped preservice teachers design literacy instruction with the iPad.
Date: January 19, 2021
Creator: Eutsler, Lauren
System: The UNT Digital Library
Training, psychometric status, biological markers and neuromuscular fatigue in soccer (open access)

Training, psychometric status, biological markers and neuromuscular fatigue in soccer

This article presents a study that examined the relationship between psychometric status, neuromuscular, and biochemical markers of fatigue in response to an intensified training (IT) period in soccer.
Date: April 9, 2021
Creator: Selmi, Okba; Ouergui, Ibrahim; Levitt, Danielle E.; Marzouki, Hamza; Knechtle, Beat; Nikolaidis, Pantelis T. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uncovering whiteness as discourse: A critical discourse analysis of the in-state resident tuition debate for undocumented students in Texas (open access)

Uncovering whiteness as discourse: A critical discourse analysis of the in-state resident tuition debate for undocumented students in Texas

This article addresses the in-state resident tuition (ISRT) debate for undocumented college students in Texas and analyzes the implicit and explicit messages communicated in the policy and surrounding policy discourse. It uses a conceptual framework grounded in three constructs of critical whiteness studies including ontological expansiveness, color evasiveness, and individualization.
Date: April 19, 2021
Creator: Tapia-Fuselier, Nick; Jones, Veronica A. & Harbour, Clifford P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
What kind of questions do creative people ask? (open access)

What kind of questions do creative people ask?

Article explains that asking questions is a key characteristic of creativity and an important component of the creative process. In this study, the authors investigated the relation between creativity indicators and three types of questions: open vs. closed ended questions, possibility thinking, and temporal thinking.
Date: August 12, 2023
Creator: Acar, Selcuk; Berthiaume, Kelly & Johnson, Rebecca
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Makes Children's Responses to Creativity Assessments Difficult to Judge Reliably? (open access)

What Makes Children's Responses to Creativity Assessments Difficult to Judge Reliably?

Article describes how open-ended verbal creativity assessments are commonly administered in psychological research and in educational practice to elementary-aged children. Authors modeled the predictors of inter-rater disagreement in a large (i.e., 387 elementary school students and 10,449 individual item responses) dataset of children's creativity assessment responses.
Date: May 26, 2023
Creator: Dumas, Denis; Acar, Selcuk; Berthiaume, Kelly; Organisciak, Peter; Eby, David; Grajzel, Katalin et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Work-Family Conflict and its Sustainability Implications among Married Immigrants Working in the USA (open access)

Work-Family Conflict and its Sustainability Implications among Married Immigrants Working in the USA

Article describes how there is a paucity of research on the work and family dynamics of immigrants who arrive in the U.S. on visas. This study examined work-family conflicts and work-life support among married immigrants born abroad but currently holding permanent resident status in the U.S.
Date: October 8, 2023
Creator: Gopalan, Neena; Beutell, Nicholas J.; Grzywacz, Joseph G.; Middlemiss, Wendy; Manchiraju, Srikant & Srivastava, Sapna
System: The UNT Digital Library