Ball State University

The Northern Star and Its Readers: Intense Listeners, Warm Discussions, and the Making of Democratic Politics, 1838–1848

Abstract In the late 1830s, the Northern Star emerged, for a time, as the most widely circulated of all provincial newspapers in Britain. In recent years, historians and literary scholars have begun to explore an important question: how did Chartist readers read the Northern Star...

Family economic security after the COVID-19 outbreak: unions, work-life balance policies and employment outcomes

Unionization has been associated with benefits to workers, including higher wages compared to non-unionized workers and greater access to family-friendly work arrangements. In this paper, we consider another potential benefit of union representation by examining whether and how u...

Examining Cyberbullying Perpetration Within a Labeling Context

This study applies principles from labeling theory to explain cyberbullying perpetration among a sample of college students (N = 826). Specifically, it tests if deviant labels relate to secondary deviance in the form of cyberbullying perpetration, and if mechanisms relating to la...

Females with Normal-Weight Obesity Display Evidence of Postprandial Dyslipidemia and Basal Intestinal Permeability

Females with a normal body mass index (BMI) and high body fat percent (i.e., normal-weight obesity or NWO) are at increased risk for cardiometabolic diseases compared to normal-weight lean (NWL) counterparts. However, underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we examined postpr...

Emerging Adult College Students’ Ideal Marriage Age Gap: Linear and Nonlinear Associations

Guided by Marital Horizon Theory and Marital Paradigms Theory, this study examined how personal characteristics, relationship experiences and perspectives, romantic beliefs, and relationship intentions relate to the gap between college students’ current age and their perceived id...

“It Brought a Lot of Underlying Insecurity to the Foreground”: An Exploratory Investigation into the Challenges of Polyamory

Previous research has demonstrated that people in polyamorous relationships report equivalent or better relationship quality compared to people in monogamous relationships. Yet, like any relationship, polyamorous relationships are accompanied by challenges, which may be compounde...

From Home to Campus: How Parental Maltreatment Shapes Bullying Victimization through Social Integration and Mental Health

Prior research consistently demonstrates that victimization increases the risk of subsequent victimization across the life course. Parental maltreatment has rarely been examined as an early risk factor for bullying victimization in emerging adulthood. The current study uses surve...