AUS Spring 2014 Undergraduate Research - Symposium Booklet Apr. 2014 | Page 11

ABSTRACTS
Perceptions of Father Involvement on Adult Children’s Psychological Well-Being
Shakeria Burney1, Olivia Lane2, Dr. Hema Mason
Psychology, Albany State University, Albany, GA
The aim of this study is to examine whether statistical relations exist between perceptions of
father involvement and psychological well-being, depressive symptoms and physical health.
From a health disparities perspective, this study also seeks to examine the differences in mental
and physical health outcomes among the racial and socioeconomic groups under
investigation. Finally, this study will explore whether these differences can be attributed to
differences in father involvement. Psychological well-being was thought to comprise
autonomy, mastery, growth, purpose in life, acceptance and depressive symptoms. There were
251 participants enrolled into the study, with 49 males (19.5%) and 202 females (80.5%).
Results revealed that father involvement is not predictive of adult children’s psychological
well-being, but participants with little to no father bonding have a strong desire for their
father’s involvement.

Cyber Attack Predictive Analysis
Minta Cliett1, Teretha Taylor2, Dr. Robert S. Owor
Mathematics and Computer Science, Albany State University, Albany, GA
Is it possible to use a combination of parameters such as virus and malware trends, social
engineering attempts or phishing scams for instance to generate likely future cyber-attacks? In
this paper we propose a predictive Analytics Model that takes certain cyber security
parameters and uses them to generate likely future cyber-attack trends for a given domain. The
paper uses some sample data from a number of reputable cyber defense organizations to study
the predictive analytics of cyber-attacks.