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The role of online social support for individuals living with disabilities and chronic illness: Investigating stress, resilience and positive mental health
(2021)
This study investigated the role of online social support for individuals with disabilities and chronic illness and its impact on stress, resilience and positive mental health. Disability and chronic illness can severely ...
Diabetes technologies; An investigation into diabetes-related distress, satisfaction and perceived usability improvements
(2021)
Type one diabetes is characterised by the body’s inability to produce insulin. Individuals with type one diabetes use glucometers and insulin pumps to manage their blood sugar levels. With no prospect of a cure, it is ...
Where have all the good men gone? An exploration of misogyny and anti-feminist discourse in the ‘Mansophere’
(2021)
The Manosphere is a newly theorized online anti-feminist space that has been implicated in the execution of several violent attacks (Van Valkenburgh, 2018). This qualitative thematic analysis adds to conceptualizations of ...
Music’s interaction with virtual environments: Emotion and perception
(2021)
The emotional and perceptual impact of music on visuals has been widely researched. This study explored the opposite relationship and was designed to determine if different visual conditions would influence the perception ...
Exploring the role of experience in close relationships and online self-disclosure
(2020)
As a factor of interpersonal behaviour, self-disclosure is potentially informed by attachment orientation. This research examined the link between attachment and online self-disclosure (SD) in a between groups study design. ...
Comparing flow experiences between online and offline games
(2020)
This research compared flow experiences between online games and offline games. The reason for this research is to find out how difference flow state if Independent variable difference. The Flow State Scale (FSS) is a ...
The effects of online media consumption and age on attention: An online survey in Ireland
(2020)
The aim of this study was to investigate whether consuming short-form online media, such as Twitter, more frequently than long-form online media, such as online newspaper articles, is related to attention in everyday life. ...
Personality traits in relation to marathon media consumption
(2020)
The present study used to the Uses and Gratifications theory to examine the relationship between the Big Five and the practice of binge-watching and explored the relationship between media consumption and personality traits ...
Levels of empathy when reading fiction versus listening to fiction
(2020)
Empathy and reading are both in decline (Lanzoni, 2018), but empathy is more important now than ever before (Manny, 2008). Reading fiction correlates to higher measures of empathy (Kidd & Castano, 2013) but reading print ...
Food versus faces: #plant-based #vegetarian #vegan Irish influencers engagement, sentiment and digital food culture on Instagram
(2021)
The purpose of this thesis was to examine digital food culture in relation to Irish #plant-based #vegetarian and #vegan food influencers on Instagram. The mixed method study sought to explore factors of engagement and ...