This correlational study examined the predictive roles of decisional and emotional forgiveness on levels of relationship satisfaction among college students in committed, monogamous romantic relationships for at least 6 months. From an initial pool of 120 Biola University undergraduate students, data from a final sample of 90 participants were…

Although students from Africa are among the least represented groups among international students in U.S. higher education, the number of enrollments in U.S. schools has significantly increased (Institute of International Education, 2020). The steady rise in African international students suggests a compelling need to qualitatively examine these…

Doctoral student-mothers face barriers and obstacles that impact their ability to persist and are less likely to achieve program completion than other students. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to discover the reasons student-mothers considered withdrawing from doctoral programs, the obstacles and challenges doctoral…

The experience of a traumatic event can often result in posttraumatic stress symptoms such as an impaired ability to recognize facial expressions of emotion. Impairments in facial emotion recognition can lead to reduced interpersonal functioning and a subsequent difficulty maintaining supportive relationships. Such interpersonal challenges can be…

This interpretive phenomenological inquiry was an exploration of how a woman executive in higher education made sense of her leadership identity. As a single participant case, this study was a deep inquiry into how the participant made sense of her (a) leadership experiences in relationship to her identity, (b) the accounts she created and shared…

This study examined how female educators with AD/HD experience teaching, specifically managing their classroom, interacting with colleagues, administrators, and parents, and interact socially with colleagues. Brock (2008) is the only study that specifically researching teachers with AD/HD, but her study does not investigate how female educators…

Youth who are exposed to more adversities in life and at-risk for engaging in delinquent behaviors have been found to be less likely to have a caring adult in their life. Mentoring is among one of the most evidence-based preventative interventions/supports applied to at-risk youth in order to promote resilience/protective factors. Youth mentoring…

Teachers, administrators, counselors and other school staff may experience secondary traumatic stress (STS), also known as compassion fatigue (CF), stemming from their work with students impacted by trauma. However, there is limited research to describe the effect of these experiences on adults in schools. This qualitative, phenomenological study…

Twice-exceptional students are dually identified as academically gifted and talented and learning or medically disabled. These students face greater challenges to success in school and often have social and emotional issues that require accommodations and supports beyond those available in the general classroom. These students may not be receiving…

This qualitative study analyzed the perceptions of recent college graduates of the influence of Snapchat use on their interpersonal relationships while enrolled in college. 10 recent college graduates between the ages of 21 and 24 were interviewed. Data was analyzed by hand, and several themes emerged regarding how Snapchat both positively and…

The current dissertation is made up of four parts. Parts I and II are based on a single one year, three-wave longitudinal study, but data was separated into two data sets. Students who completed only one or two of the three-wave study (i.e. "non-completes) were analyzed in Part I, whereas students who completed all three waves of the study…

The COVID-19 shutdown in March of 2020 moved teachers into emergency remote teaching. Emergency remote teaching (ERT), which is a temporary shift of instructional to an alternative delivery mode due to crisis (Hodges et al., 2020, p. 6), caused teachers to deal with a pedagogy they had never anticipated (Yildirim, K., & Elverici, S. E., 2021),…

Although Black women are the fastest growing degree-granting recipients of higher education, academia is still a hostile environment for this population (Bell, Berry, Leopold, & Nkomo, 2021). Employing a sequential explanatory mixed methods research design and grounded in a transformative philosophical framework and Black feminist theory, this…

This phenomenological qualitative research aimed to examine transformational leadership practices that cultivate an affirmative school culture amid post-traumatic events such as COVID-19. The study explored the extent to which crisis management was incorporated within the school safety plan. This research was grounded in two theoretical…

This phenomenological study examined how students at a large, urban community college experienced being an artist, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also investigated the ways these students made meaning of their arts experiences. The research design was based upon the model outlined in "Interpretative Phenomenological…