Texas Christian University Research Articles

The relationship between four indicators of future time orientation, criminal thinking style, and illegal behaviors.

Individuals who commit criminal behaviors are often thought to prioritize short-term goals rather than long-term goals (i.e., a present vs. a future time orientation). Though previous theories of crime and empirical research support a relationship among future time orientation, criminal thinking, and illegal behaviors, there is disagreement in the literature about how to operationalize the multidimensional construct of future time orientation. The primary aim of this pre-registered survey study was to measure multiple components of future time orientation to better understand the relationship with criminality-related outcomes. Participants were 248 undergraduate college students. Survey materials included a measure of impulsivity (Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11), self-control (Brief Self-Control Scale), delay discounting (Monetary Choice Questionnaire), and Carstensen's Future Time Perspective Scale. Participants also completed two measures of criminal thinking style (the Texas Christian University Criminal Thinking Scale, the Criminogenic Cognitions Scale) and an illegal behaviors checklist. Bivariate results demonstrated a negative relationship between future time orientation (i.e., low impulsivity, high self-control, high future time perspective) and criminal thinking style. The relationship between delay discounting and criminal thinking was in the hypothesized direction but failed to reach statistical significance. Multiple regression analyses indicated that the measure of self-control had the most consistent and incrementally significant relationship with both criminal thinking style and illegal behaviors. Theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed along with study limitations and future directions.

Short Venture into Protest: Anti-War Protests at TCU, 1960-1973

Past historians have analyzed the 1960s American student antiwar movement mainly through a northern or western lens, focusing on particular hotspots and violent confrontations like Berkely and Columbia. This paper will add to the literature by analyzing antiwar protests on a relatively small, lesser-known college on the edges of the South, Texas Christian University. For despite its small size and failure to achieve tangible results, the TCU peace movement consisted of passionate organizers who utilized uniquely Southern styles of activism to raise awareness for their cause. Constantly attacked by administrative systems, fellow students, and biased publications, student organizations like Students For Peace, the Vietnam Moratorium, and Spunk Magazine brought the war to TCU, eventually pulled the student body out of years of political apathy, slowly changed public opinion, and inspired liberal reforms in school policy.

Design and construction of the Texas Christian University impedance tube

The two-microphone impedance tube test method is a well-established and widely used technique for determining the acoustic absorption coefficient and impedance ratio of materials. This method uses two closely spaced microphones to simultaneously measure the incident and reflected sound waves. A two-microphone impedance tube measurement system made of 6061-T6 Aluminum with a diameter of 3 inches, a 0.5 inch wall thickness, and microphones spaced 2.7 inches apart has been constructed for undergraduate research at Texas Christian University (TCU). These geometrical values suggest a usable frequency range of 50 Hz to 2637.77 Hz as referenced in ASTM Standard E1050-19. Validation of the system was achieved by taking measurements on Owen Corning Type 705 pressed fiberglass board with a 1-inch thickness and comparing them to absorption data provided by the manufacturer. Additional validation measurements were taken without a test sample in place. All validation tests suggest that the TCU impedance tube is an accurate measurement system.

Development and Validation of the Criminal Thinking Scale (CTS)

This study aimed the development and validation of the Criminal Thinking Scale (CTS), an assessment tool for measuring criminal thinking patterns. Two hundred and seventy institutionalised inmates participated in the study by responding to a survey comprising items of the Criminal Thinking Scale developed in this study. Additionally, the Texas Christian University Criminal Thinking Scale (Cronbach’s α = .84), Early Trauma Inventory Self-Report (Cronbach’s α = .89), Parenting Style Inventory-II (Cronbach’s α = .75) were administered as well for construct validity purposes. The result of the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) confirmed the presence of three components of criminal thinking among items of the Criminal Thinking Scale which were labelled as morality averseness, rationalisation, and retaliatory reasoning with reliability Cronbach’s alpha of .87, .78, .76 respectively. The overall reliability yielded Cronbach’s alpha of .92. In addition, the Criminal Thinking Scale demonstrated concurrent validity with similar measures, that is, Texas Christian University Criminal Thinking Scale [r = .31, p < .01] and showed discriminant validity with Parenting Style Inventory-II [r = -.06, p > .05] and the Early Trauma Inventory Self-Report [r = .07, p > .05]. The study concluded that CTS is a valid and reliable measure of criminal thinking.

Further Validation of the Religious Surrender and Attendance Scale-3 (RSAS-3)

Background: The Religious Surrender and Attendance Scale −3 (RSAS-3) is a very brief measure used to quantify religious commitment as a protective health factor. Methods: To provide evidence of criterion-related validity of the RSAS-3, 440 community members and undergraduate students completed a survey containing three religiosity measures: the RSAS-3, the Intrinsic/Extrinsic Orientation scale, and the Belief into Action scale (BIAC), and a measure of problematic substance use, Texas Christian University Drug Screen-5. It was hypothesized all religiosity measures would be positively interrelated, the measure of problematic use would be negatively related to all religiosity measures, and that the RSAS-3 would be strongly predictive of absence of problematic substance use. After data filtering and imputation, bivariate correlations were calculated to establish convergent validity. Results: All relationships were in the predicted directions. Specifically, BIAC had the strongest relationship with the RSAS-3, r (440) = .906, p < .001, followed by intrinsic religiosity, r (440) =.814, p < .001, and extrinsic religiosity, r (440) = .694, p < .001. The RSAS-3 was the strongest predictor of problematic use among the religiosity measures, r (440) = −0.230, p <.001. Criterion-related validity of the RSAS-3 was supported using logistic regression to explore intrinsic religiosity, extrinsic religiosity, BIAC, and RSAS-3 as predictors of the presence/absence of problematic substance use. The RSAS-3 was the only significant predictor (OR = .858 [95% CI .757 − .973], p = .017). Conclusion: All results provide further evidence for the validity of the RSAS-3 as a very brief measure of religious commitment useful in health settings.

Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars by Jillian C. Rogers

Reviewed by: Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars by Jillian C. Rogers Sharon L. Fairchild Rogers, Jillian C. Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars. Oxford UP, 2021. ISBN 978-0190658298. Pp. 364. Resonant Recoveries makes valuable contributions to the fields of musicology and music therapy by examining how French musicians during and after World War I used music to cope with the traumas they experienced. Rogers intentionally focuses on the emotional lives of composers and performers. She analyzes how music functioned in musicians' lives not only in coping with trauma, but also by supporting recovery and healing, by memorializing lost loved ones, and providing release via humor. In addition to music research, the book includes investigations in the fields of the history of psychology, medicine, and literature. It is a cultural history of French musical modernism that contrasts with previous representations of the period as les années folles dominated by jazz, dance music, musical theater, and surrealism. Through imagining what musicians must have been experiencing emotionally, Rogers provides an intimate understanding of famous musicians and artists of the period such as Ravel, Satie, Debussy, Stravinsky, Cocteau, and Boulanger. Rogers' overarching premise is that the trauma musicians experienced during the war led them to feel music as an embodied, therapeutic means of coping, and she analyzes how this manifested itself in four ways. Rogers first examines the subject of trauma and how it was viewed in the past. In an era that did not recognize post-traumatic stress disorder, society privileged a heroic self-sacrificing version of masculinity, while the expression of trauma and emotion was suppressed. Yet, while early musical pieces reflected these values, musician-soldiers found that performing or listening to music during the war provided a means to express their repressed trauma. Secondly, the author examines the late 19th century development of the field of music therapy during which psychologists discovered that trauma could be treated by vibratory sounds and music. Musical rhythm became recognized as being beneficial for physical and mental health. Through a study of musician-soldiers' letters, diaries, and other documents, Rogers shows that French musicians were aware of these theories; they frequently described their musical experiences during the war as a consolatory, vibrational therapeutic medium that impacted them physically. Another way that modernist composers found solace was through a particular style that Rogers examines in several music scores. This is the style dépouillé, found in works by Ravel, Satie, Poulenc, Stravinsky, and others. Rogers characterizes their compositions as having a repetitive, ostinato, rhythmic style, which helped mourning musicians process grief and satisfied their need for stability, regularity, and comfort. Artists also found that performing and composing music enabled them to memorialize and sense the presence of lost loved ones. Lastly, modernist composers and playwrights created spaces for healing laughter in musical-theatrical performances. Starting with Dada and Surrealism, Rogers examines collaborative projects of [End Page 219] artists such as Stravinsky and Cocteau whose humorous and absurd musical productions provided places in which to process wartime trauma. The innovative approach of this book is especially notable for its compassionate portrayal of the formerly overlooked emotional struggles of this generation of musicians. [End Page 220] Sharon L. Fairchild Texas Christian University, emerita Copyright © 2023 American Association of Teachers of French

Judge rules in favor of accused student

Case name: Doe v. Texas Christian University, et al., No. 4:22‐cv‐00297 (N.D. Tex. 04/29/22).

Does Criminal Thinking Predict Prison Misconduct? An Evaluation of TCU’s Criminal Thinking Scales

To date, only one published study has tested the predictive validity of the Texas Christian University–Criminal Thinking Scales (TCU-CTS), and no studies have tested whether these scales are predictive of prison misconduct. Using a sample of more than 2,000 people incarcerated in Minnesota’s prison system, this study examined the predictive validity of the TCU-CTS with multiple measures of prison misconduct. The results showed the overall TCU-CTS score significantly predicted misconduct, although the strength of this association was relatively modest (AUC = 0.62). Among the six scales on the TCU-CTS, Cold-Heartedness significantly predicted both measures of misconduct, whereas Power Orientation and Criminal Rationalization were each significantly associated with one misconduct measure.

Judge rules in favor of accused student

Case name: Doe v. Texas Christian University, et al., No. 4:22‐cv‐00297 (N.D. Tex. 04/29/22).

Why Has America Produced so Few Eloquent Orators in Recent Years? The Ancient Roman Marcus Tullius Cicero Gives Us the Answer and the Remedy

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsRichard Leo EnosRichard Leo Enos, Emeritus Piper Professor (State of Texas) Quondam Holder of the Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric and Composition, Texas Christian University.

Special Issue on the 2022 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting

The ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering (JFE) and the ASME Fluids Engineering Division (FED) present a Special Issue of papers that were presented at the 2022 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (FEDSM). The FED conference organizers were Professor Philipp Epple (chair) and Professor Kamran Siddiqui (co-chair), whose efforts helped the community assemble in the first in-person FED meeting since the pandemic. The conference was successful due to the hard work and dedication of the conference chairs, technical committee chairs, symposia organizers and other FED volunteers. The 2022 FEDSM was held August 3–5, 2022 at the Intercontinental Toronto Center, Toronto, ON, Canada and included three plenary speakers plus technical presentations and 145 attendees.The Special Issue is pleased to include the review paper by Professor Efstathios (Stathis) Michaelides (Texas Christian University) and Professor Zhigang Feng (University of Texas at San Antonio) titled “Drag Coefficients of Non-spherical and Irregularly-Shaped Particles.” The other paper topics include cardiovascular flow in the aorta, boundary layer response to plasma actuators, thermally stratified turbulent boundary layer flows, flapping foils, and unsteady propulsion.The Special Issue also presents the winners of the Flow Visualization competition, organized by Prof. Philipp Epple. The competition is an initiative that begin in 2017 and was expanded to include both still images and videos. The 2022 FEDSM winners in the video category were:In closing, my sincerest gratitude is extended to JFE Associate Editors, Professor Costanza Aricò, Professor Arindam Banerjee, Professor Luigi P. M. Colombo, Professor Philipp Epple, Professor Pierre Sullivan, and Professor Qianhong Wu, who shared in the responsibilities. I would also like to thank the JFE Editorial Assistant, Ms. Colette Montague, who helped ensure timely processing, and the support of the ASME staff, especially Ms. Beth Darchi, Ms. Erica Hodge, Ms. Tamiko Fung, and Ms. Jenna Seyer. Finally, thank you to our colleagues who served as reviewers and of course the authors.

Dirty pictures

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJeff FerrellJeff Ferrell is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Texas Christian University, USA.

Publisher Note: Welcoming SIG 20 to Perspectives

You have accessSIG 20 CounselingPublisher Note14 Mar 2023Publisher Note: Welcoming SIG 20 to Perspectives The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_PERSP-23-00024 SectionsAboutAbstractPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Last April, the ASHA Board of Directors approved the establishment of SIG 20: Counseling, which officially launched January 1, 2023. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups is thus pleased to welcome SIG 20: Counseling to the journal. SIG 20 is dedicated to building knowledge and awareness of the counseling-related issues and needs that exist throughout the discipline. Researchers and practicing professionals in all areas of speech, language, and hearing are dedicated to improving the effectiveness of communication, and that takes a “whole person” approach for both the clients/patients and the families, caregivers, educators, and others who are part of each person's life. Optimizing treatment outcomes in this regard requires a focus that spans education, research, training, and clinical practice, and SIG 20 looks forward to serving as a nexus for resources supporting these aims. For more information on how SIG 20 came to be, we encourage you to read the introductory announcement article by Jerry K. Hoepner (2022). Authors are invited to consider publishing their manuscripts specific to counseling in Perspectives. Papers of all types are welcome, including review articles, reports of new findings, clinical focus articles, tutorials, and viewpoints. More information about the range of article types considered and guidance on publishing in Perspectives is available on the ASHA Journals Academy. Anthony DiLollo, PhD, Professor and Director of the Davies School of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Texas Christian University, will be serving as the inaugural editor for SIG 20. Dr. DiLollo and the members of the SIG 20 Coordinating Committee welcome your input and suggestions on how SIG 20 can best serve the counseling community and the discipline of communication sciences and disorders at large. Stay tuned! More updates will be coming your way throughout the year. Editor-in-Chief: Celeste Domsch SIG 20 Editor: Anthony DiLollo SIG 20 Professional Development Manager: Christopher D. Constantino SIG 20 2023 Coordinating Committee: Ying-Chiao Tsao, SIG Coordinator · Jerry K. Hoepner, Associate Coordinator · Anthony DiLollo, Perspectives Editor · Christopher D. Constantino, Professional Development Manager · Rebecca Crowell · Laura W. Plexico · Monica Sampson, ASHA SIG 20 Ex Officio ASHA Board of Directors Board Liaisons: Janice R. Trent, Vice President for Audiology Practice · Linda I. Rosa-Lugo, Vice President for Speech-Language Pathology Practice ASHA Advertising Sales: Pamela J. Leppin Reference Hoepner, J. K. (2022, August 16). Introducing a new ASHA Special Interest Group on counseling.The ASHA LeaderLive. https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2022-0815-news-sig-counseling-career/full/ Google Scholar Additional Resources FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Newly PublishedePub Ahead of IssuePages: 1-1 History Published online: Mar 14, 2023 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library Metrics Topicsasha-sigsasha-article-typesCopyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2023 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationPDF downloadLoading ...

Review: The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification, by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Book Review| February 01 2023 Review: The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification, by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli Pascale Joassart-Marcelli. The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, and tables. Paperback $30.00. Sean M. Crotty Sean M. Crotty SEAN M. CROTTY is an associate professor of geography and affiliated faculty, Center for Urban Studies, Texas Christian University. He lived in San Diego for nine years while completing an MA and PhD in geography at San Diego State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines the spatial dimensions of a variety of messy urban phenomena, from the locational strategies of informal day-laborers to the adaptive reuse of abandoned grain silos. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (1): 96–98. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.96 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sean M. Crotty; Review: The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification, by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli. California History 1 February 2023; 100 (1): 96–98. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.96 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search If you are looking for a simple, apolitical book to talk about at your next big family meal or book club meeting, The $16 Taco probably will not fit the bill. However, if you are interested in understanding the ways that food and power intersect to create landscapes of hunger and plenty in U.S. cities, then order The $16 Taco immediately. Joassart-Marcelli uses the lens of the foodscape, “the social, political, economic, and cultural setting in which food acquires meaning and value” (6–7), to frame a compelling argument for the centrality of food in much broader structural issues of social, political, cultural inequalities made material in cities across the United States. The book is interdisciplinary in nature, and readers with expertise in history, economics, urban planning/studies, critical race theory, food studies, and geography will all find sections that speak directly to their particular areas of interest. The $16 Taco reflects... You do not currently have access to this content.

The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23–July 4, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith

Reviewed by: The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23–July 4, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith Steven E. Woodworth The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23–July 4, 1863. By Timothy B. Smith. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021. Pp. xxviii, 724. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-7006-3225-1.) Timothy B. Smith, a prolific author of high-quality Civil War campaign and battle histories, has produced this massive and very impressive history of the culminating phase of the yearlong struggle for Vicksburg, Mississippi, and with it control of the Mississippi River. The book begins with a brief overview of the preceding phase of the contest for the river, including Ulysses S. Grant’s maneuver campaign through the interior of Mississippi, and his two assaults against Vicksburg’s landward-facing fortifications. After the failure of those attacks, Grant and his Army of the Tennessee settled down to the methodical process of besieging the Confederate stronghold, and so Smith’s narrative settles down for a detailed account of the six-week investment of the city. Each chapter of the book is devoted to a chronological period of two to five days, and in thirty to thirty-five pages Smith covers every aspect of the siege during that period. These include sharpshooting, artillery bombardment, the digging of saps, the lot of the Confederate soldiers within the fortifications, and the plight of the Vicksburg civilians behind them, as well as the experience of the Union soldiers in their own trenches and steadily advancing siege works. Smith deals with developments within the high command of each side. Confederate Vicksburg commander Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton and his superior in the interior of Mississippi, General Joseph E. Johnston, [End Page 153] enacted an almost farcical comedy of errors. Pemberton passively depended on Johnston for aid, while Johnston, apparently believing all hope was lost from the outset, appeared to be merely going through the motions of trying to relieve Vicksburg. On the Union side, it was Thirteenth Corps commander Major General John A. McClernand, a Democratic politician from Illinois, who provided the drama. Smith is generous in assessing McClernand’s fighting skills but notes the general’s propensity for blunders, posturing, and occasional acts of insubordination. It was a combination of these that finally brought McClernand’s downfall, when he leaked, contrary to standing orders, a grandiose account of his corps’ activities prior to the siege, worded to imply that the rest of the army had contributed very little to the success of the campaign. This move prompted Grant to relieve McClernand of command, but Smith believes that Grant had already made up his mind to do so, and that the publication of the boastful report merely provided the needed pretext. With detail and verve, Smith tells the story of how Union soldiers emplaced and detonated a massive mine under a section of the Confederate fortifications and of the prolonged and bitter struggle to try to break through the rebel lines in the gap the mine had blown. Thereafter the siege continued, until at last, on July 4, 1863, Pemberton formally surrendered the city and its garrison to Grant. Smith’s voluminous research is evident throughout the book. He has consulted a vast array of diaries, letters, and reminiscences by soldiers in both armies and of all ranks, and with those sources he tells the story from the perspective and often in the words of a cloud of witnesses from both sides of the lines, lending it life and authenticity. Those with an interest in Civil War military history will find the book easy to read and hard to put down. It is also hard to imagine that a more thorough and insightful account of the Vicksburg siege will emerge for a generation at least. Steven E. Woodworth Texas Christian University Copyright © 2023 The Southern Historical Association

Parenthood during residency: How acts of kindness supported my journey.

JHN received consulting fees from ViforMedical and received honorarium for faculty development talks at Texas Christian University. JHN is also the founder of Published MD Consulting LLC.

Judge rules against university

Case name: Doe v. Texas Christian University, et al., No. 4:22‐cv‐00297 (N.D. Tex. 04/29/22).

Development and Testing of the Texas Christian University Criminal Thinking Scales 3.0

Criminal thinking patterns—attitudes, beliefs, or values supportive of criminal behavior—represent modifiable clinical targets that can be influenced during treatment as a way of decreasing clients’ risk for recidivism. This study developed a revised measure of criminal thinking based on the Texas Christian University Criminal Thinking Scales (TCU CTS). Using a sample of 797 people, results showed the revised instrument (TCU CTS 3.0) measured criminal thinking in five key areas: (1) Power Orientation, (2) Justification, (3) Insensitivity to Impact of Crime, (4) Grandiosity, and (5) Response Disinhibition. Confirmatory factor analysis showed the 5-factor solution reasonably fit the data and measurement invariance was achieved for assigned sex at birth and race. Implications and future directions are discussed.

Analyses of the TCU drug screen 5: using an item response theory model with a sample of juvenile justice youth

It is important to identify substance use disorders among youth who enter the juvenile justice system using a validated screener, such as the Texas Christian University Drug Screen 5 (TCU DS 5), so that necessary services can be provided to youth in need of treatment. While the TCU DS 5 is a valid, evidence-based screener, the use of an Item Response Theory model may better differentiate between mild, moderate, and severe forms of substance use disorders. The current study analyzed the feasibility and incremental value gained in using an Item Response Theory model to compute drug use severity scores as compared to its current scoring methodology. Results showed that while Item Response Theory may not be worthwhile as the standard method of scoring, item level analyses revealed there are benefits to using Item Response Theory to determine which items on a screener are most suggestive of severe substance use problems.

Debt Financing and Capital Structure Influencing the Firm’s Financial Performance: A Bibliometric Analysis

Debt financing plays a prominent role in deciding future growth and the earning capacity of any company. Debt financing is a part of capital structure; hence both terms are interlinked with each other. The main aim of this study is to provide widespread view of previous studies associated with debt financing and capital structure. For this purpose, a Bibliometric analysis is performed with the aid of Bibliometrix Library along with BiblioShiny tools in R Studio software. Web of Science is elected as main database consisting data of 21 years from 2002-2022, gathered by using keywords “debt financing”, “capital structure”, “financial leverage”, “financial performance” and “profitability”. USA and China has been found as top contributing countries. Most of the authors belong to the USA, China, Canada, UK etc. Texas Christian University from United Statusis discovered as most active institute in writing documents/articles related to this field.