Psy. D., Antioch University, 2019, Antioch Santa Barbara: Clinical Psychology

When an actor plays a character in a film, they try to connect with the emotions and behavioral patterns of the scripted character. There is an absence of literature regarding how a role influences an actor's life before, during, and after film production. This study examined how acting roles might influence an actor during times on set shooting a movie or television series as well as their personal life after the filming is finished. Additionally the study considered the psychological impact of embodying a role, and whether or not an actor ever has the feeling that the performed character has independent agency over the actor. Blurred lines between a fictitious acting role, character embodiment, and an actor's on and off-screen realities were explored during this investigation. Blurred lines were examined using a phenomenological paradigm, which encompassed interviews with six Screen Actors Guild (SAG) members about their own personal experiences living within a character. The outcome of this research suggested that actors are often emotionally and behaviorally influenced by roles affecting their daily lives and occasionally their romantic relationships. The participants also reported having experienced the effects of the illusion of a character's independent agency while playing particular roles. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA, http://aura.antioch.edu/ and OhioLINK ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/

Committee: Brett Kia-Keating Ed.D. (Committee Chair); Sharleen O'Brien Ph.D. (Committee Member); Thalia Goldstein Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Performing Arts; Psychology

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, 2016, Theatre

In this study, I combine my background in actor training with the athletics training methods of Scott Sonnon to consider ways to introduce psychophysical stress into the training of beginning acting students. I contend that the incremental introduction of stress into the learning process allows beginning acting students to better retain newly learned skills. To examine this contention I taught a section of the Acting Principles course in the Theatre department at Bowling Green State University in the fall of 2013. This course was designed using Sonnon's Three Dimensional Performance Pyramid, which is a pedagogical model for learning new skills and training attributes while stress testing those skills and attributes. I taught introductory elements of Stanislavskian acting, but combined it with specific stress management tools, and with regular stress testing throughout the semester. I then analyze the practical work through a mix of personal observation and data analysis. Students completed tests at three points during the semester. Some of these tests checked their understanding of the course content and their personal experience of the acting process. The other tests were personality tests. Each of these personality tests was intended to measure one of sport psychologist Roland Carlstedt's three Primary Higher Order factors for performance under stress: Absorption, Neuroticism, and Repressive Coping. I found much to recommend this approach. I discuss ways in which student's understanding and acting work improved over the course of the semester. I reflect on the range of student responses in detail. Further, I learned many lessons about this type of research and the application of scientific research in the acting classroom. I also spend significant time reflecting on this process and considering ways to best approach research that bridges the performing arts and the humanities.

Committee: Jonathan Chambers PhD (Committee Chair); Geoffrey Meek PhD (Other); Lesa Lockford PhD (Committee Member); Cynthia Baron PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Theater

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, 2007, Psychology-Industrial/Organizational

The goal of the current study was to test and extend Grandey's (2000) model of emotional labor by investigating the antecedents and outcomes of emotional labor. Specifically, the study presented and tested a model in which display rule perceptions were antecedents to emotional labor (i.e., surface and deep acting), which in turn led to emotional exhaustion, performance, and turnover. In addition, it was proposed that POS would moderate the relationship between display rules and emotional labor such that individuals that perceive they are supported by their organization would be more likely to conform to display rules via surface or deep acting. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that LMX would buffer the negative effects of surface acting on emotional exhaustion. Path analyses indicated that display rule perceptions to express positive emotions were positively related to deep acting and negatively related to surface acting. Conversely, display rule perceptions to suppress negative emotions were positively related to surface acting and not related to deep acting. In addition, surface acting was positively related to emotional exhaustion. However, contrary to the proposed hypotheses, LMX did not moderate the surface acting-emotional exhaustion relationship. Perceived organizational support was found to moderate several relationships between display rule perceptions and acting strategies, and contributes to the limited work on motivation to comply with display rules. Results also suggested that emotional labor was tied to actual turnover behaviors, such that surface acting was positively related to turnover intentions, which in turn led to actual turnover behaviors six months later. Implications, future research, and limitations are discussed.

Committee: Paul Levy (Advisor) Subjects: Psychology, Industrial

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 1971, Graduate School

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Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 1918, Graduate School

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Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 1972, Graduate School

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Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 2024, Theatre

This thesis addresses how many predominantly white institutions have few endeavors attempting to integrate playwrights and stories from marginalized communities. While Patricia Ybarra's anti-racist approach, coalitional casting in an academic institutional setting, advocates for the allyship of privileged student performers becoming visual place-holders to share these marginalized works, there is still a glaring question: How do student performers represent characters culturally different from themselves without employing stereotypes or turning to racial mimicry? In this thesis, I discuss my process and observations directing an elevated staged-reading of Roosters, by Milcha Sanchez-Scott utilizing the Enneagram, a psychology typology. I center this process within conversations of the Enneagram and the actor, coalitional casting as best practice, and the continuous need for inclusionary and anti-racist pedagogy practices in Higher Education theatre departments. Ultimately, I argue that the Enneagram, as a character-building tool in collaboration with culturally conscious dramaturgy, offers an approach towards the character-building practice which exchanges embodied stereotypes for ally-driven representations of previously marginalized performance pieces. By illuminating how the Enneagram's involvement better satisfies coalitional casting's goals of allyship, underscoring racial and ethnic inequality, and incorporating diversity into performance, I conclude that the Enneagram is worthy of inclusion in anti-racist theatre pedagogy at the institutional level. The implications of this suggest the Enneagram's contribution to coalitional casting in Higher Education encourages actors to properly steward responsible cultural representation on stage.

Committee: Jonathan Chambers Ph.D. (Committee Member); James Stover M.F.A. (Committee Chair) Subjects: Theater; Theater Studies

PHD, Kent State University, 2023, College of Public Health

Background: People with schizophrenia (PWS) face a substantial risk of criminal justice system (CJS) encounters. Understanding PWS's behavior that attracts CJS's attention, and the role substance use disorder (SUD) and long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotics treatment play on the risk is critical to prevent the vicious cycle of CJS encounters. Methods: PWS (N=976) who received services at the Community mental health centers in Summit County, Ohio, from 2010-2017, were included. Offenses from their first CJS encounters through 2018 were characterized. The role of SUD on the risk of CJS encounters was assessed using the time-to-event analysis. Rates of CJS encounters were compared between first-generation antipsychotics LAI (FGA-LAI) and second-generation antipsychotics LAI (SGA-LAI), across LAI antipsychotics, and treatment and non-treatment periods fitting Poisson regression models. For the former two comparisons, separate models were fitted for PWS with and without prior CJS encounters and PWS with and without SUD. Results: About 51% had > 1 encounter (median: 4.5) during 32.22 years of median follow-up. PWS were booked for an array of offenses and the most common were non-violent related to public disorder (23.28%), court order (17.45%), property (12.74%), and substance (11.07%). Two-fifth of the study sample had SUD (40%). Compared to the no SUD group, the hazards of getting CJS encounters were 1.88 and 1.83 for those with 1 (21.09%) and > 2 SUD (18.99%), respectively. Alcohol-alone (HR: 2.90), other single drug-alone (HR: 2.82), and polysubstance (HR: 1.91) use disorders had a significant negative effect on time-to-first CJS encounters. SGA-LAI vs. FGA-LAI treatment groups comparison showed no significant differences in the rates of CJS encounters. However, specific LAI comparison showed higher encounter rates among the risperidone treatment group compared to the PP1M group among those with prior CJS encounters (RR: 2.14) and SUD (RR: 1.95). PWS durin (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Madhav P. Bhatta (Committee Chair); Deric R. Kenne (Committee Member); Tianyuan Guan (Committee Member); Douglas A. Smith (Committee Member) Subjects: Epidemiology; Mental Health; Public Health

DNP, Kent State University, 2023, College of Nursing

Unintended pregnancies cost an estimated $12 billion annually in publicly funded benefits, contributes to intergenerational poverty, and results in lower educational attainment for mothers and their children. Several professional organizations recommend all health care providers counsel women regarding contraception at every visit regardless of the reason for the appointment. However, contraceptive services provided in any setting is considered inadequate overall (ACOG, 2022; CDC, 2016). This quality improvement project used the plan, do, check, act methodology to assess patient satisfaction with a provider assisted digital contraception education tool. Assessment was also done to ensure that it does not create any type of burden for the provider. Data collection included patient surveys regarding satisfaction with tool use at the conclusion of the visit. Provider perception of helpfulness of bedsider.org will be assessed using a survey at the end of the data collection period. Support staff perceptions of disruptions in office workflow will also be assessed via a one question survey at the end of the data collection period. The convenience sample included 100 patients scheduled for an appointment for the purposes of contraceptive counseling during the designated data collection periods. The provider sample was limited to the physician provider and the nurse practitioner in the office setting. Ancillary staff (medical assistants, secretaries, schedulers) were also be asked to complete a survey regarding the extent of office workflow disruption. The digital contraception educational tool was found to be satisfactory for patients, providers, and ancillary staff.

Committee: Eldora Lazaroff (Committee Chair); Constance Cottrell (Advisor); Karen Mascolo (Committee Member); Lynn Gaddis (Committee Member) Subjects: Nursing

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 1965, Theatre

Committee: Robert R. Findlay (Advisor) Subjects: Theater

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 2021, Sociology

Long-acting reversible contraceptives, LARCs, have been gaining popularity in the past two decades, but other methods, including sterilization, are still more frequently used. Different sociodemographic and societal factors influence contraceptive use among different groups of women. In particular, mothers and younger women have the highest rates of LARC use. In comparison, mothers and older women have the highest rates of those using sterilization. I analyze the relationship between motherhood status/parity and age on contraceptive method use using the 2015-2017 and 2017-2019 cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth. Mothers are more likely to use LARCs and sterilization relative to other methods compared to childless women. Higher parities increase the likelihood of using LARCs and sterilization relative to other methods, along with using sterilization relative to LARCs. Age increases the likelihood of using sterilization relative to LARCs and other methods. There is evidence that age moderates the relationship between motherhood and parity and contraception use, especially for sterilization use relative to LARCs and other methods. Younger mothers at parity three or more have a higher likelihood of being sterilized relative to using other methods than childless women and older mothers. Older women and women in the middle of their childbearing years are less likely to use LARCs and sterilization relative to other methods compared to their childless counterparts. Older mothers with higher parities are less likely to use sterilization relative to LARC compared to childless women. These findings suggest that mothers and childless women use contraception for different reasons across the childbearing years.

Committee: Karen Guzzo Ph.D. (Advisor); Kei Nomaguchi Ph.D. (Committee Member); Jenjira Yahirun Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Demographics; Demography; Families and Family Life; Health; Sociology

Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 2021, Pathology

Individuals with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with or without antiretroviral therapy (ART) -controlled HIV co-infection are commonly exposed to novel infections, and are at increased risk of poor vaccine responses and subsequent morbidity and mortality. These clinical events have been associated with naive CD4+ lymphopenia and cellular immune activation, and yet the underlying mechanisms are not clear. We investigated naive CD4+ T cell numbers and function in HCV infection and monocyte and T-cell immune activation in HCV/HIV co-infection over the course of direct-acting anti-viral (DAA) therapy. We observed lower naive CD4+ T cell numbers in chronic HCV infected persons when compared to controls and DAA-treated persons and these numbers partially normalized within 24 weeks of DAA therapy initiation, an indication that HCV clearance may in part reverse naive CD4+ lymphopenia. Further, greater direct ex vivo apoptosis and cell-cycling (activation) were observed in HCV infected persons compared to controls and DAA-treated persons particularly in the CD4+CD31+ T cell subset, identifying one potential mechanism contributing to naive CD4+ lymphopenia during HCV infection.   In HCV and ART-controlled HIV co-infected persons, monocyte subset activation (HLA-DR expression) correlated with CD4+ and CD8+T cell memory subset activation (CD38+HLA-DR+ co-expression), providing evidence of a mechanistic link between the activation of these cellular compartments and active HCV viremia. Following DAA initiation, CD4+ and CD8+ T cell activation declined within 12 weeks but was sustained up to 36 weeks for some T-cell parameters while monocyte activation remained unchanged, an indication that DAA therapy may not completely resolve cellular immune activation during HCV and ART-controlled HIV infection. Further, CD4+ T cell activation was positively correlated with plasma soluble CD14 levels after but not before DAA therapy, implicating possible mechanisms attributable to ART-c (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Donald Anthony MD PhD (Advisor); Carey Shive PhD (Committee Member); Henry Boom MD (Committee Chair); David Canaday MD (Committee Member); Pushpa Pandiyan PhD (Committee Member); Clive Hamlin PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Biomedical Research; Health; Immunology

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, 2021, English (Arts and Sciences)

“The self…” states Louise Gluck, “was the nineteenth century's discovery, an object for a time, of rich curiosity, its structure, its responses, endlessly absorbing. And as long as it was watched in this spirit of curiosity and openness, it functioned as an other; the art arising from such openness is an art of inquiry, not conclusion, dynamic rather than static.” In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, poetry's obsession with the “watched” self has only grown more acute. That it has remained “dynamic” should be attributed to the distance cultivated between the self, the speaker, and the beholder. The critical introduction to this dissertation contextualizes poetry with popular American culture, specifically in film, and the occupations of the poet and actor, focusing on tensions between the fictional and autobiographical selves. It argues that intertextuality, and approaches such as ekphrasis and persona, reinforce the notion of the self as an “other” in order to renew our absorption in contemporary American poetry in parallel to popular culture. The creative portion of the dissertation is a collection of poems that wrestles to gain knowledge of the self who is other, and therefore ineffable. It addresses Dean Young's crucial question: “Who doesn't sense an unbridgeable alienation between ourselves and the world…That our poems speak to no one, not even fully to ourselves?”

Committee: Mark Halliday (Committee Chair); Eric Lemay (Committee Member); Jill Allyn Rosser (Committee Member); Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf (Committee Member) Subjects: Literature

Ph.D., Antioch University, 2021, Leadership and Change

In the first quarter of 2020, societal upheavals related to the COVID-19 pandemic included employers' work-from-home mandates and an almost overnight adoption of video meetings to replace in-person meetings no longer possible due to contagion fears and social distancing requirements. This exploratory study aimed to address, in part, the scientific knowledge gap about video meetings as a source of emotional labor. The study used mixed methods to explore three hypotheses concerning how the contemporary use of video meetings related to emotional exhaustion, stressors, and coping. Data were gathered through an online survey questionnaire. Emotional exhaustion, the dependent variable in the study, was measured using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Schaufeli et al., 1996) General Survey emotional exhaustion subset of items. Stressors measured included surface acting, which was measured using items adapted from Grandey's (2005) scale. Coping was measured by perceptions about coping resources and cognitive coping. Socio-demographic characteristics served as control variables. Open-ended items produced data pertaining to emotional exhaustion, stressors, and coping related to video meetings. After data cleaning, the sample comprised 345 (n = 345) cross-sector professionals working for U.S.-based organizations. Findings based on a series of linear regression analyses and qualitative data thematic analysis showed video meeting hours and surface acting significantly related to a higher level of emotional exhaustion. Extrovertism, nonwork video gatherings, and social support from another adult in the home were nonsignificant in their relationships with emotional exhaustion. Perceptions that video meetings were too many for participants to accomplish their overall job responsibilities were significantly related to a higher emotional exhaustion level. Perceptions that video meetings were useful to the participant significantly related to a lower emotional exhaustion level. Perceptio (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Elizabeth Holloway PhD (Committee Chair); J. Beth Mabry PhD (Committee Member); Michael Valentine PhD (Committee Member); Emily Axelrod MSW (Other) Subjects: Behavioral Psychology; Behavioral Sciences; Business Community; Business Education; Cognitive Psychology; Communication; Management; Occupational Health; Occupational Psychology; Organizational Behavior; Personal Relationships; Social Psychology; Social Research; Social Structure; Sociology; Systems Design

BA, Oberlin College, 2020, Theater

Concept and process for a director's capstone in theatre on A Warsaw Melody by Leonid Zorin.

Committee: Paul Moser (Advisor); Justin Emeka (Committee Member); Tim Scholl (Committee Member) Subjects: Russian History; Slavic Studies; Theater

PHD, Kent State University, 2019, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences

Previous research indicates that the acting White accusation (AWA) is one of the most pertinent and detrimental accusations a Black adolescent can encounter. The AWA arises when a Black adolescent's ethnic/racial identity (ERI) is perceived as being not Black enough by another Black adolescent or group of adolescents. The AWA is one of the most harmful accusations a Black adolescent can hurl at another because it is an attack against one's ERI, and can occur during a time when identity development is most salient. Given that the AWA is embedded in ERI, it has implication for the psychological well-being of Black adolescents. Studies have shown that the AWA was positively associated with general anxiety, social anxiety, and bullying victimization. One group of individuals in particular who may be negatively impacted by the AWA are Black adolescent females in STEM disciplines, which is due to their double minority status. Several sociocultural factors related to ERI have been identified as contributing factors to the underperformance of Black students in STEM, including stereotype threat and low self-efficacy. Another potential factor affecting these students might be the AWA. This study investigates the relationship between the AWA, social anxiety, and bullying among Black female students who attend a STEM school, and compare this group to Black females who attend a non-STEM school.

Committee: Angela Neal-Barnett PhD (Committee Chair); Josefina Grau PhD (Committee Member); Clarissa Thompson PhD (Committee Member); Robert Stadulis EdD (Committee Member); I. Richmond Nettey PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Clinical Psychology

Master of Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 2019, Clinical Research

Many barriers to the most effective forms of postpartum contraception, sterilization and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), exist. Our goal was to assess fulfillment of sterilization and LARC requests, timing of request completion, and impact of non-fulfillment between those with Medicaid and private insurance while accounting for the complex interplay between insurance, clinical, and social factors. After analyzing a retrospective cohort involving 8,654 women delivered at or beyond 20 weeks of gestation from January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2014 at our urban, tertiary-care teaching hospital, we concluded that differences in fulfillment rates of postpartum sterilization or LARC and time to sterilization or LARC between women with Medicaid versus private insurance are not significant after adjusting for relevant clinical and demographic factors. However, adequacy of prenatal care remains an important factor to fulfillment of postpartum sterilization and LARC, confirming the importance of antenatal contraceptive counseling in reducing disparities in contraceptive care.

Committee: Brian Mercer MD (Committee Chair); Robert Kalayjian MD (Committee Member); James Spilsbury PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Medicine; Obstetrics; Public Health

MA, Kent State University, 2018, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences

It is during adolescence many youth are subject to close scrutiny by peers. This scrutiny sometimes results in negative evaluations. The acting White accusation, which is operationally defined here as an interpersonal indictment made against a Black adolescent, asserting that the adolescent is not Black enough, has been documented as early as elementary school. However, existing research indicates it is most salient and first likely to occur during early adolescence. “Acting White” is one of the most negative accusations a Black adolescent can hurl at or receive from another (Neal-Barnett, Stadulis, Singer, Murray, & Demmings, 2010). After nearly 30 years of sparse research, particularly in the area of quantitative research, we still know very little about the psychological impact of the accusation. As such, this study seeks to investigate the association between being accused of “acting White” and the experience of bother among a clinical sample of adolescents. Additionally, this study investigates potential relationships between the level of bother associated with the accusation, internalizing or bottling-up behaviors (e.g., anxiety and mood disorders) and externalizing or acting out behaviors (e.g., disruptive, impulse-control and conduct disorders). Lastly, the current study explores the potential for ethnic-racial identity and social support to act as protective or risk factors relative to this association. Data from a sample of Black adolescents are evaluated using paired t-tests to examine whether or not adolescents endorsed social items of the AWA more frequently and as more bothersome than academic items. Additionally, bivariate correlational and linear regression analyses are used to examine relationships between bother and psychopathology, ethnic/racial identity and social support.

Committee: Angela Neal-Barnett Ph.D. (Advisor); Robert Stadulis Ed.D. (Committee Member); Josefina Grau Ph.D. (Committee Member); John Dunlosky Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: African Americans; Clinical Psychology

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Ohio University, 2018, Film

The thesis documents the creation of a short film, Hell is a Game Show, and situates the project in the intellectual heritage of filmmaking. It also examines past artistic representations of Hell, demonstrating how a new and original representation was created for the film.

Committee: Steven Ross (Advisor) Subjects: Art History; Film Studies

Master of Arts, Miami University, 2017, Theatre

A psycho-physical approach to acting, the Michael Chekhov technique encourages the actor to engage in exercises that discover a body, mind and spirit connection while continuously remaining aware and affected by Atmosphere, the mood created in environment that in turn evokes emotion. The guiding principles of the Michael Chekhov technique generously lends itself as an advantageous tool for the musical theatre actor in creating three dimensional, and truthful characters as well as dynamic performances that compel audiences. On April 18, 2017 Miami University opened Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party in their 2017-2018 season. The role of Kate will serve as a laboratory of applied research for this creative work. A compilation of interviews with experts using the technique in a musical theatre context, rehearsal process methods and documentation, as well as performance photos and analysis, this creative work marries research interests of addiction and performance as well as the application of this rich technique in a musical theatre role.

Committee: Julia Guichard MFA (Advisor); Bekka Eaton MFA (Committee Member); Lewis Magruder MA,MFA (Committee Member) Subjects: Music; Theater