East Carolina University : Research and Creative Achievement Week 2011
The purpose of the research is to determine the relationship between adjustment, stress, coping skills, and knowledge of behavioral principles in undergraduate college students and their effectiveness as tutors for at-risk middle school students. The significance is aid in recruitment and training of future tutors or volunteers. There is no research on undergraduate college tutors with middle school tutees and this could add to the literature. My role in this project is to find the relationship of adjustment, stress, knowledge in undergraduate college students to succeed as a tutor of at-risk middle school students of the ECU-Greene County Partnership to Improve School-Based Mental Health Services. The methodology is first to receive consent, pretest with the independent variables, tutor training, participate in tutoring, and post test to gather data on the dependent variables and a knowledge test. The control group in this study is undergraduates who volunteered for a Family Gala in Greene County that provided relationship-building techniques for at-risk children and their families. Finally, to determine if there is correlation between the independent variables, which are stress, coping, adjustment, knowledge, and the change in dependent variables, the changes of the tutors stress, coping, adjustment, and knowledge. The findings of this research will help foresee possible issues with tutors or volunteers. The Association Between Big Five Personality Characteristics and Frequency of Obsessive Relational Intrusion Incidents, Mary Madrake, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858 Most of the past research on personality characteristics and stalking has focused on stalkers, not victims. Additionally, when research is on victims, relationships to victimology tend to bear on traits specific to individuals who have grown up in dysfunctional circumstances rather than the range of personality characteristics in the general population. There have been very few studies done on personality and demographic characteristics of stalking/obsessive relational intrusion (ORI) victims. ORI may be defined as an unwanted and repeated pursuit by a stranger or acquaintance, because he or she desires or sometimes assumes, an intimate relationship with the victim. There has been research showing a negative correlation between assertiveness and risk of victimization, but no one has investigated how the normal range of personality characteristics that occur in the general population could predict stalking/ORI. The purpose of this study is to determine what, if any, Big 5 personality traits and demographics are the best predictors of ORI/stalking reports on college campuses. Ninety-five participants, 21 males and 74 females, were given a demographic survey, leisure activities survey, Big 5 personality scale, and an obsessive relational intrusion scale. Data will be analyzed using a multiple linear regression analysis, with demographic and leisure activities controlled for.
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