Brock Theses: Recent submissions
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Parent Training in Multicomponent Behavioural Interventions to Reduce Challenging Behaviours in Children with ASD: A Scoping Review
Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate challenging behaviours including aggression, noncompliance, and self-injury. Applied behaviour analysis (ABA) has been shown to be effective for reducing these ... -
Devaluation of Sucrose Caused by Social Instability Stress in Adolescent Male Long-Evans Rats in the Presence of an Unfamiliar Peer
Rats that undergo the Social Instability Stress procedure during adolescence (SS: daily 1-hour isolation + re-pairing with an unfamiliar cage partner for 16 days) display changes in reward-related behaviour. Specifically, ... -
The Maple Leaf’s Public Pedagogical Interaction with the Sexualized and Masculine Cultural Discourses of the Canadian Armed Forces
This qualitative research presents a feminist critical discourse analysis of The Maple Leaf’s (TML) depiction of women in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and sexual misconduct before and after the release of Operation ... -
Electrophysiological measures of flexible attentional control and visual working memory maintenance
Top-down attentional control can be used to both guide attention toward and away from items according to their goal relevance. When given a feature-based cue, such as the colour of an upcoming target, individuals can ... -
Distress Effects in Stock Returns
This thesis addresses a fundamental topic in financial economics: the effects of distress risk in the cross section of equities returns. Initial results show that both raw and risk-adjusted excess returns are rising in ... -
Epidemic Simulation and Mitigation via Evolutionary Computation
A global pandemic remains a public health event that presents a unique and unpredictable challenge for those making health related decisions and the populations who experience the virus. Though a pandemic also provides ... -
A Mixed-Methods Efficacy Study of Teaching Adolescents to Think and Act Responsibly–The EQUIP Approach: A Narrative Filmmaking Pedagogy
Ontario’s Ministry of Education requires Character Development to be integrated into regular subject curricula (OME, 2008), yet the initiative is devoid of clearly defined research-based strategies for implementation ... -
An examination of self-compassion among Canadian youth with and without a caregiving role
Self-compassion occurs when people apply the same compassion towards themselves as they would towards others (Neff, 2003a, 2003b). Self-compassion has been shown to relate to positive mental health outcomes, such as reduced ... -
Environmental Justice Activism in Context: A Case Study of the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment in Kern County, California
Kern County, California is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions in the United States and to one of the oldest and most active chapters of the environmental justice movement (EJM) in the country, known ... -
The Impact of Teachers' Trust in Principal on Teacher Burnout
This explanatory mixed methods study explored the relationship between teachers’ perceived trust in their principal and teacher burnout. This study also explores novice teachers’ lived experience of trust in their ... -
An Examination of Stakeholder Perceptions in Conventional and Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of Environmental Management
Effective environmental management is integrally linked to well-designed monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. Within the need for M&E to manage our environments in the most effective ways, there is an emerging trend ... -
Management Perspectives: Implications of Plastics Free Sport Facilities’ Beverage Service
Water is vital in supporting all life on Earth, and without it, all living things would cease to exist. Despite this vitality, water resources are steadily polluted and mismanaged. The challenge of pre-eminence, however, ... -
Assessing the Effect of Functional Electrical Stimulation Training with the Xcite on Hand and Arm Function in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis
The purpose of this study was to assess the effects functional electrical stimulation (FES) training of the hand and arm in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS). This is a case series of four individuals with MS with varying ... -
Just be There! Athlete Motivation and Parental Support: A Phenomenological Study
The purpose of the study was to gather and understand the lived experiences of athletes of a young adult age, who lacked parental support during their athletic careers. Furthermore, the purpose included understanding the ... -
Evaluating the Outcomes of a Quit and Win Contest Among Young Adults Enrolled in Post-Secondary Schools and Not in Post-Secondary Schools
Abstract Objective: This study compares Quit and Win contest outcomes for young adults enrolled in post-secondary schools and young adults not enrolled in post-secondary schools. Participants: Of the 4,299 18-to-29-year-olds ... -
The Mentor's Role: Exploring mentorship in a working-class neighbourhood's after-school program
Public schools in Ontario may be inadequate to deal with the needs of children and youth from working-class families, especially those who do not have available caretakers to guide them through the educational system or ... -
Investigating the Value of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Nintendo Wii Physical Activity for Older Adults
There has been much debate on best practices for limiting negative outcomes associated with relocation, sedentary lifestyle, and social isolation after older adults relocate to a residential care facility. This thesis is ... -
Gladiator Gear: The unintended consequences of protective equipment in gridiron football compared to rugby union
Sports equipment has evolved over time to both enhance performance and reduce the injury risk. Protective equipment is particularly important in contact sports where injuries are frequent. In American and Canadian football, ... -
The Nature, Nurture and Networks of Mean Girls: Considering Evolutionary, Social Learning and Social Network Perspectives on Girls' Intrasexual Relational Bullying
Prevailing research suggests that girls frequently engage in relational bullying directed towards other girls. The research also suggests that rates of bullying behaviors peak and intensify across the transition from ... -
An Examination of ‘Choice’ on Mental Health among Informal Caregivers to Persons with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities
Introduction: To examine the effects of ‘choice’ on the mental health outcomes of informal intellectual developmental disability (IDD) caregivers, which has been examined in previous literature in alternate caregiving ...