Government and History Faculty Working Papers

The Influence of Exposure to Violent Living Condition, Knowledge, and Personal Motivation on HIV Prevention Behavior Among Historically Black College Students

Maurice Mongkuo — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:23:51 PDT

This study assesses the effects of prevention education, prevention personal motivation, prevention knowledge, and past exposure to violent living conditions on HIV prevention behavioral skills among historically black college and University (HBCU) students. Survey data of indicators of the four Information-Motivation-Behavioral skills (IMB) model’s latent constructs prevention information or knowledge, prevention motivation, and prevention behavioral skills, and past exposure to violent living conditions (PEVLC) prevention was collected from students attending an HBCU. Exploratory principal component factor analysis and Cronbach’s alpha test were performed to identify the factorial structure of the PEVLC questionnaire and reliability of the violent exposure subscales, respectively. Structural equation modeling analysis was performed to estimate the overall model fit indices and the magnitude of effects of prevention motivation, PEVLC prevention and prevention information or knowledge on the prevention behavior of the students. The analysis found that personal motivation to prevent HIV infection had a large positive and significant effect on HIV prevention behavior. Witnessing violence with weapons prevention and sexual violence prevention had a moderate, but insignificant effect on HIV prevention behavior. HIV prevention knowledge, witnessing violence prevention, and violence victimization prevention had no meaningful effect on prevention behavior of HBCU students. These findings suggest that to be effective, the focus of HIV prevention programs in HBCUs may be on promoting personal motivation, and identifying and treating students who have been exposed to past weapon and sexual violent living conditions for post-traumatic stress disorder, rather than promoting HIV education.

Internet Use Among Racial/ Ethnic Groups In The United States

Ngozi C. Kamalu — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:49:31 PDT

The purpose of this study is to determine whether race and/or ethnicity makers) a difference in internet use among groups in the United States. The researcher found that even though the rate and intensity of internet use appears to increase among all racial groups in the United States, minorities, especially, Blacks and Hispanic are significantly less likely than Whites to subscribe, and use the internet frequently and intensely. In other words, "digital divide" indeed does exist based on race/ ethnicity, regardless of the increase in computer and internet usage among all demographic groups in the United States. The gap however, appears to be widening along the fault-lines of race, geography, education, age, urban vs. rural and more especially, gender. Targeted government initiatives are necessary at least in the short-run to get all the disadvantaged groups hooked up to the computers and the internet as well as support and expand the computer and internet (online) services already provided by libraries, colleges and other community access centers.

The Issue of Slavery in Thomas Aquinas’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics Book I

Greg Sadler — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:28:25 PDT

Plato’s Dialogues and Active Learning: building and scaffolding underprepared college students’ lower-order Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Skills

Gregory B. Sadler — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:35:12 PST

Teaching Philosophy to Inmates Part II: Moral Development and Teaching Ethics in Prisons

Gregory B. Sadler — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:56:18 PDT

The Virtuous Person as Norm in Aristotle’s Moral Theory

Gregory B. Sadler — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:46:01 PDT

Fides Quaerens Rectitudinis Intellectum: Christian Faith and Practical Rationality in Anselm

Gregory B. Sadler — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:05:46 PDT

The States of Nature in Hobbes’ Leviathan

Gregory B. Sadler — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:05:45 PDT

Alain Locke: A Paradigm for Transformative Education- Addressing the Relationship of Knowledge

Blanche Radford-Curry — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:05:13 PDT

Mothers Confronting Racism

Blanche Radford-Curry — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:00:09 PDT

Racism and Sexism Twenty-First-Century Challenges for Feminists

Blanche Radford-Curry — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:57:06 PDT

Notorious Philosopher: The Transformative Life and Work of Angela Davis

Judith M. Green et al. — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:46:42 PDT

Whiteness and Feminism: Deja Vu Discourses- Whats Next ?

Blanche Radford-Curry — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:40:40 PDT

Institutional Inertia to Achieving Diversity: Transforming Resistance into Celebration

Nancy P Greenman et al. — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:21:55 PDT

On The Social Construction of a Women's and Gender Studies Major

Blanche Radford-Curry et al. — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:14:52 PDT