James Daugherty, ph 1xbet online games login.D. (2011)

Major Professor:

Dr. Gary Brase

Title and Institution:

Research Psychologist at the Army Research Institute, Fort Leavenworth, KS

Dissertation:

1xbet online games login 's effect on individual differences and behavior: The mediating role of impulsivity on the relationship between 1xbet online games login and intertemporal health behaviors

Abstract:

This research tested a general mediation model which proposes that individual differences (e.g., impulsivity, delay discounting, and time orientation) mediate the relationship between 1xbet online games login (one's subjective experience of the passage of time relative to actual time) and intertemporal behavior (decision-making involving tradeoffs between costs and rewards in both the present and the future). Study I did not find evidence to support the general mediation model and found that 1xbet online games login was only weakly correlated with individual differences and intertemporal behavior ( r ̀„ = .06). Study II found tentative support for the proposed mediation model: individual differences in impulsivity fully mediated the relationship between 1xbet online games login and intertemporal behavior in 4 separate mediation models. Three additional mediation models met the assumptions of mediation, demonstrating indirect effects significantly different from zero, but did not fully mediate the relationship between 1xbet online games login and intertemporal behavior. In general, the mediation models explored in Study II (both fully and partially mediated) suggest that self-report impulsivity mediates the relationship between 1xbet online games login and intertemporal health behaviors, like hours of sleep slept per night, sociosexual orientation, and frequency of eating breakfast. The findings from Study II suggest that how time is perceived influences intertemporal behavior indirectly by influencing impulsivity. Guidelines to aid future research linking 1xbet online games login to individual differences and intertemporal behavior are provided.