Attending your graduate program will be challenging to my current knowledge I have achieved in my undergraduate career. Although challenging, I am eager to acquire and improve my current intellect and emotional growth sharpened and supported by the program’s faculty.
I grew up in a small oil field town surrounded by cultural diversity. This is an important aspect in my hometown; therefore, being immersed from a young age has instilled in me the importance diversity brings. Although I come from a Caucasian middle-income family, my heavily influenced Spanish environment has shaped my identity and behavior to cherish integration. This type of environment has strengthened my priorities to acculturate; as a result, cultural diversity has improved
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This was a tremendous honor in which I have held the position of Vice President from 2015 to present. Throughout my junior and senior undergraduate career, I have been offered many different invitations to participate in research conducted at Hardin-Simmons University. I am thankful that through this process I have been able to expand my knowledge in each research opportunity that relates to Psychology. I believe that it is important to have a versatile contribution in research. My research collaborations have ranged from analyzing an Active Social Life as determined by social and familial variables: sex, marital status, number of children, how often one attends a religious service. I have also contributed to research in the realm of sexual attitudes amongst students at Hardin-Simmons University, which includes discussion of trauma, consent, and abuse. Another aspect of my research conducted will observe the interaction between the Defensive Theology scale and Lewis Goldberg’s Big Five factors of personality. The last piece of research will be conducted over the differing types of marriage and how traditional marriage is now defined. Divorce is another influencing aspect of the research. It will answer the question, “Why do people get