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84POSTER 51EFFECTS OF COMMUNITY PERCEPTIONS OF HEIS ON STUDENT BELONGING AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCEJAY N%u00da%u00d1EZ (CLARK UNIVERSITY), ANA K. MARCELO (CLARK UNIVERSITY) Different factors may affect students' college experiences. However, one understudied area in higher education is if and how community perceptions of the school relate to students' college experiences. Thus, this study examines how community perceptions of higher education institutions (HEIs) relate to student well-being, sense of belonging, and academic achievement. Results contribute to future research on how HEIs can support student populations and surrounding communities.POSTER 52EFFECTS OF NEWS MEDIA ON COLLEGE STUDENTSLOGAN HEHNER (HARTWICK COLLEGE), DYLAN DWYER (HARTWICK COLLEGE) Extreme media has become increasingly prevalent in recent years, and even more so within politics. Within this study, we researched the connection between extremist media and its effects on the mental health and state optimism of college students. We also examined the interactive effects of baseline optimism on these same outcomes.POSTER 53EFFECTS OF PARENTIFICATION ON SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS AND SELF-ESTEEM IN YOUNG ADULTHOODKIMBERLY ADOLFSEN (WASHINGTON COLLEGE) Sibling relationships are important social relationships as they have been seen to affect well-being. Part of these relationships is parentification, which is a child's pattern of parental responsibilities. This study looks at how parentification and perception of their family role affect a person's relationship with their sibling and their self-esteem in young adulthood. Surveying 143 undergraduate college students, this study found that parentification is positively linked to responsibility, sibling closeness, communication, and support.POSTER 54EFFECTS OF SLEEP QUALITY AND SHARED LAUGHTER ON ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP QUALITYAIZA ISHENOVA (BROOKLYN COLLEGE CUNY), CHERYL CARMICHAEL (BROOKLYN COLLEGE, CUNY) Our 10-day study of romantically partnered individuals (N = 115, Mage = 22.14) examined how good sleep enhances relationship quality (RQ) by fostering shared laughter, a positive relational process requiring cognitive and emotional resources facilitated by sleep. Daily reports of good sleep increased shared laughter, which improved RQ evaluations. Shared laughter mediated the link between sleep and RQ. These findings underscore the importance of both individual and shared experiences in promoting healthier relationships.POSTER 55EMPATHY IS STILL HARD WORK: REPLICATION OF CAMERON ET AL. (2019)TARA STOPPA (EASTERN UNIVERSITY), SOPHIA BUSHELLI (EASTERN UNIVERSITY), ZACCHAEUS EGER (EASTERN UNIVERSITY) We conducted a replication of Cameron et al.'s (2019) study on the role of cognitive costs in empathy. Participants (n = 65) completed an empathy selection task, along with measures of effort, aversiveness, and efficacy. Similar to original findings, results indicated that individuals tended to avoid empathy-related tasks and perceived them as more effortful than objective tasks. In contrast, participants did not tend to perceive empathy-related tasks as more aversive or themselves as less efficacious.POSTER 56EVOLVING RECIPROCAL DETERMINISM: INCREASING FOCUS ON PERSONAL FACTORS IN TEACHERS' MEANING-MAKINGSHERIA NEWSOME (TOURO COLLEGE), AMANDA VLACANCICH (TOURO COLLEGE), RENEE BARTONROSE (TOURO COLLEGE), JILL ORDYNANS (TOURO COLLEGE) Through interpretive phenomenological analysis, this longitudinal qualitative study investigated the ways in which teachers make meaning of their work. In line with Bandura's (1986) theory of triadic reciprocal causation, teacher interviews revealed a dynamic interplay of teacher self-efficacy (TSE), teacherstudent relationship building, and teaching context. The nature of any one of these variables influenced the others to inform teachers' perceptions of their work, with TSE taking a more prominent role than in prior years.84