Submissions from 2023
Reasons Clinical Education Directors Intend to Leave Their Jobs, Alicia Klein, Katrina M. Schrode, Lucy W. Kibe, and Gerald Kayingo
Objectives
The goals of this study were to characterize clinical coordinators compared to other Physician Assistant (PA) faculty, and investigate factors associated with intent to leave their position, institution, and academia in the U.S...
Assessing Career Development Curriculum Within a Business Capstone, Molly Wickam
This study sought to assess how career development curriculum embedded in business capstones provides learning experiences that bridge college to career. Experiential learning theory, andragogy, and Social Cognitive Career Theory were used ...
Education and Innovation Requirements for Design Thinking Jobs, Molly Wickam
Abstract Design thinking is a problem-solving approach based on design theory, design-cognition, social constructivism, and reflection. Since business and industry are seeking employees with design thinking knowledge and skills in order to ...
Submissions from 2022
Development and Evaluation of the Clinician-Rated Humility Scale, Chance A. Bell, Nicolae Dumitrascu, Steven J. Sandage, Eugene L. Hall, Peter J. Jankowski, and Miriam Waldheter
Humility is a key virtue in most religious traditions, and empirical evidence links it with healthy religious leader development. Psychological evaluation often forms part of the vocational discernment process for religious leaders. We eval...
A practice-based study of cultural humility and well-being among psychotherapy clients, Elise J.Y. Choe, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, Sarah A. Crabtree, and Laura E. Captari
One trend in psychotherapy research involves examining client factors to better understand change. Some have framed client factors as virtues. Humility is one virtue that has gained attention with evidence that suggests humility may help fa...
Christian Higher Education as Sacred Liminal Space, Jessica Daniels
Theoretically and practically applied in his ministry, Jesus embodied sacred liminal space. From this “betwixt and between” position, he transformed individuals and the world. This incarnational conceptualization is the underpinning for fai...
The Influence of Experiential Avoidance, Humility and Patience on the Association Between Religious/Spiritual Exploration and Well-Being, Peter J. Jankowski, Sam Murphy, Jaclyn Johnson, Steven J. Sandage, David C. Wang, and James Tomlinson
Prior research on the religiousness/spirituality—well-being association has largely neglected the dimension of religious/spiritual exploration, and the recent trend examining virtues, religiousness/spirituality, and well-being has predomina...
The Moderating Influence of Religiousness/Spirituality on COVID-19 Impact and Change in Psychotherapy, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, and Sarah A. Crabtree
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a global surge in empirical research examining the influence of the pandemic on individuals’ mental health symptoms and well-being. Within this larger literature is a rapidly growing literature on the assoc...
The Psychometric Challenges of Implementing Wellbeing Assessment Into Clinical Research and Practice: A Commentary on “Assessing Mental Wellbeing Using the Mental Health Continuum–Short Form: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling”, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, and Sarah A. Crabtree
Iasiello et al. (2022) offered a useful meta-analytic summary of the construct validity evidence for the internal structure of the Mental Health Continuum–Short Form (MHC-SF), with the aim of encouraging the assessment of “wellbeing in clin...
Longitudinal associations for right-wing authoritarianism, social justice, and compassion among seminary students, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, Daniel J. Hauge, Choi Hee An, and David C. Wang
Religious/spiritual communities in the United States hold significant differences in the relative valuing of social order and progress toward social justice, and religious/spiritual leaders play an influential role in fostering those values...
Virtues as Mediators of the associations between Religious/Spiritual Commitment and Well-being, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, David C. Wang, and Sarah A. Crabtree
Religious/spiritual commitment tends to show positive associations with well-being, and yet, questions remain about the mechanisms for the association. Some have recently proposed that virtues may mediate the religious/spiritual commitment ...
Academic leadership in physician assistant/associate medical education: a cross-sectional analysis of the association with doctoral degree, gender, and minority status, Lucy W. Kibe, Gerald Kayingo, Katrina M. Schrode, and Alicia Klein
Background
There is a critical need for a diverse pool of academic leaders to increase the number and diversity of the medical workforce. Physician Assistant/Associate (PA) is a growing medical profession. Although the master’s degree is t...
Religious diversity and well-being in positive psychology: implications for clinical practice, James Tomlinson, Steven J. Sandage, Peter J. Jankowski, and Laura E. Captari
Positive psychology, as a subdiscipline oriented to promoting human well-being, has grown significantly as a field over the past thirty years. To date, clinical applications in positive psychology have tended to advance more generalized, un...
Conscious Capitalism: An Emerging Economic Philosophy for Higher Purpose in Business, Molly Wickam
An enhanced economic philosophy, conscious capitalism, is ascending in the United States and gaining traction in helping corporations redefine their approach to business. This article analyzes and evaluates conscious capitalism, integrates ...
Advancing the Mindset of Design Thinking in Secondary and Post-Secondary Business Education, Molly Wickam, Lacey Finley, and Karla Saeger
Little is known about the use of design thinking in business education. This descriptive, quantitative study was situated in a theoretical framework of social constructivism and experiential learning, and sought to discover to what extent s...
Virtual Visits in Prenatal Care: An Integrative Review, Katrina Wu, Christina Lopez, and Michelle Nichols
Introduction: Addressing gaps in access to prenatal care is an important step to reversing rising rates of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality and invites the exploration of innovative care models. This integrative review of publi...
Submissions from 2021
Mental health symptoms, well-being and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods practice-based study, Sarah A. Crabtree, Laura E. Captari, Eugene L. Hall, Steven J. Sandage, and Peter J. Jankowski
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated abrupt and substantial changes in daily life, and public health strategies intended to protect physical health can negatively affect mental health and well-being, especially for individuals with pre-existi...
The Value of Adapting Counseling to Client’s Spirituality and Religion: Evidence-Based Relationship Factors, Amelia L. Evans and Jennifer Koenig Nelson
There is a strong tradition of attention to relationship factors in the field of counseling. The research on the importance of the relationship and adapting to client factors continues to grow, supporting the importance of professional mult...
An Investigation of How the Partnership for 21st Century Framework Reflects Innovation in MBA Programs, Lacey Finley, Karla Saeger, and Molly Wickam
There is lack of understanding about effective teaching methods for innovation education in business schools and programs. A non-experimental, descriptive study of American ACBSP-accredited business schools and programs was designed to surv...
Proposing a Higher Model: Stewardly Leadership, Leslie J Sam Helgerson
This paper introduces Stewardly Leadership and provides an overview of Democratic, Collaborative, and Servant Leadership, and then argues that the lack of ultimate accountability is a key vulnerability in those models. It goes on to demonst...
Exploring virtue ethics in psychodynamic psychotherapy: latent changes in humility, affect regulation, symptoms and well-being, Peter J. Jankowski, Laura E. Captari, and Steven J. Sandage
A rising interest in virtues in psychotherapy has spurred empirical exploration of their influence on both mental health symptoms and well-being. As such, we explored the virtue ethics premise that growth in the virtue of humility may ameli...
Risk, Symptoms, and Well-Being: Emerging Adult Latent Profiles During Treatment, Peter J. Jankowski, Eugene Hall, Sarah A. Crabtree, Steven J. Sandage, Miriam Bronstein, and Danielle Sandage
Emerging adulthood seems to be a period of not only heightened risk for mental health symptoms, but also growth toward greater well-being. Mental health disorders are highest among adults ages 18 to 29 years, yet emerging adults are unlikel...
Religious Leaders’ Well-Being: Protective Influences for Humility and Differentiation Against Narcissism, Peter J. Jankowski, Eugene L. Hall, Steven J. Sandage, and Nicolae Dumitrascu
The virtue of humility and the construct of differentiation have shown protective influences against narcissism among religious leaders. Our cross-sectional study tested a moderated mediation model of these protective influences on a hypoth...
A Mixed-Method Intervention Study on Relational Spirituality and Humility Among Religious Leaders, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, Elizabeth G. Ruffing, Sarah A. Crabtree, Chance A. Bell, and Seong Hyun Park
Existing humility intervention studies have yielded inconsistent findings, despite prior findings that suggest a salutary influence for general humility, including on religious leaders’ religiousness/spirituality (R/S). We tested a relation...
Relational spirituality profiles and flourishing among emerging religious leaders, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, David C. Wang, and Peter Hill
We advanced an integrative trend examining religiousness/spirituality (R/S) and flourishing using person-centered data analyses. Specifically, we tested a relational spirituality model (RSM) proposition that a latent profile comprised balan...
The Lived Experience of College Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Mary Lindell, Jessica Daniels, and Mary Schulze Michener
Within a private university in the United States, BUILD is a two-year program for individuals with intellectual disabilities. BUILD provides inclusive opportunities in coursework, employment, residential, and social activities with traditio...
An Investigation into the Use of an Herbal Labor Induction Tincture Containing Black Cohosh, Cramp Bark, Partridgeberry, And Motherwort on Contractile Responses Produced from Isolated Strips of Mouse Uterine Tissues, Clayton Neuenschwander, Katrina Wu, and Teresa F. DeGolier
Introduction: Alternative solutions in the form of herbal remedies meant to ease or expedite the process of labor have often been pursued and administered but have seldom been quantitatively tested for efficacy. Published research has shown...
Comparing Entrepreneurial Spirit in Job Descriptions Seeking Business Undergraduates and Graduates, Karla Saeger, Molly Wickam, and Lacey Finley
Employers hiring candidates with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) indicate that the Entrepreneurial Spirit (ES) concepts of teamwork, creativity, innovation and adaptability are important. This replication study examined the ES con...
Submissions from 2020
Echoes of a Student’s Voice: Education in an Emerging Country, Tracy Lynn Reimer
This fall I had the privilege to partake on an adventure in Southeast Asia to learn more about education systems in emerging countries. To be transparent, it was the call to move further along the cultural responsiveness continuum that insp...
Henry Ford’s Dishonest Business Practices during the Holocaust: A Two-Day Lesson for High School Business Students, Molly J. Wickam
Secondary business education has a unique opportunity to complement social studies education with business-specific teaching about the Holocaust. Opportunities exist to teach students how business leaders such as Henry Ford collaborated wit...
Assessing alignment of entrepreneurial spirit to job descriptions seeking business administration or management undergraduates, Molly J. Wickam, Lacey R. Finley, and Karla Saeger
This study assessed alignment between concepts included in current definitions of Entrepreneurial Spirit and job descriptions written by employers seeking undergraduate business administration or management degrees. In addition, a research-...
Books from 2019
Concepts of Chemical Dependency, (10th ed.), Harold E. Doweiko and Amelia L. Evans
CONCEPTS OF CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY, 10th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage and the latest information on a spectrum of substance use disorders and the compounds commonly misused. Author Harold Doweiko also covers topics not usually disc...
Preparing Equitable and Culturally Responsive School Leaders, Kimberly Hartung and Tracy Lynn Reimer
Equitable school leadership is intentional; it requires learning, listening, action, and reflection. This study explored how two school administrator preparation programs, focused on culturally responsive instructional leadership and critic...
Submissions from 2017
Speaking Out: When to Lead, When to Learn, Tracy Lynn Reimer
The premise that great schools have great leaders can lead to a vision of the principal as a heroic leader working alone to save the day. Yet, the notion of a principal leading in isolation is outdated, and the need for effective leaders ha...
High-Impact Educational Practices and the Development of College Students' Pluralistic Outcomes, Krista M. Soria and Matthew Johnson
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between college students' participation in high-impact educational practices and their self-reported development of leadership skills and multicultural competence. Analyses of data ...
Employability Skills with Purpose: Service Learning in Graduate Business Education, Molly J. Wickam
Problem: This non-experimental, mixed-methods, comparative, descriptive studyexamined outcomes of students’ development of employability skills through service learning participation in capstones embedded in MBA programs and assessed whethe...
Submissions from 2016
Aqueous extracts of castor seed (Ricinus communis) increase the contractile activities of mouse uterine tissues in vivo, Nick Quam, Katrina Wu, and Teresa F. DeGolier
Administration of castor oil from seeds of Ricinus communis is a commonly cited herbal preparation used to induce labor. The ricinoleic acid found in castor oil is more polar than most fats and activates uterine EP3 prostanoid receptors. Th...
Submissions from 2010
A Study on the Principal’s Role in the Development of Professional Learning Communities in Elementary Schools that “Beat the Odds” in Reading, Tracy Lynn Reimer
Current federal legislation, such as No Child Left Behind and The Race to the Top, have elicited high levels of accountability for increasing student reading achievement. Professional organizations and researchers encourage educators to org...
Submissions from 2005
CYBER Classrooms: Building Christian Community, Kimberly R. Meyer and Joann P. Wessman
With electronic learning and distance education on the rise, nurse educators and students face unique challenges in the learning environment. What happens to the interactive, energetic community of learners when you lose the visual, verbal ...