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123emotional and behavioral responses, and health outcomes. Themes identified may help bridge gaps in understanding lay beliefs, informing larger-scale studies and interventions to improve stress management and well-being.POSTER 59IS IT THE HOPE THAT KILLS? HOPE, POLITICS, AND MENTAL HEALTHEMMA COHEN (HARTWICK COLLEGE), DYLAN DWYER (HARTWICK COLLEGE), MALLORY E. CARMAN (HARTWICK COLLEGE), JAMES PAYNTER (HARTWICK COLLEGE), LIAM M. BROWN (HARTWICK COLLEGE), GIOVANNA M. WALL (HARTWICK COLLEGE), MADISON M. FELTER (HARTWICK COLLEGE), LAWSON T. WILLIAMS (HARTWICK COLLEGE), COLLEEN A. MARSH (HARTWICK COLLEGE), URUSLA A. SANBORN-OVERBY (SUNY ONEONTA), WILLIAM J. KOWALCZYK (HARTWICK COLLEGE) Exposure to politics is a chronic stressor in people's lives leading to negative effects on mental health but also increases in political action. Hope may moderate this relationship by helping people cope while not taking away their motivation for political action. Hope was associated with decreases in action in bivariate analyses, yet at high levels of political exposure hope for the country was associated with increases in action. This provides evidence of a moderating effect.POSTER 60HOW PRIOR EXPERIENCE AFFECTS EMPATHY AND BELIEFS DURING A PERSEPCTIVE-TAKING TASKVIVIAN ZHANG (INDEPENDENT), JOSEPH EISMAN (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY), BENJAMIN TORSNEY (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY), AVI KAPLAN (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY), TIMOTHY PATTERSON (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY) This exploratory mixed-methods study used an online survey battery to investigate readers' empathy and beliefs towards homelessness following a perspectivetaking task describing a person experiencing housing insecurity. Results suggested prior experiences with homelessness may have more influence on a person's beliefs and empathy than the perspective-taking task. This work has implications for efforts to change prejudice against unhoused people.POSTER 61LESSONS FROM A PILOT EVALUATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL SEX EDUCATION CURRICULUMMICHELLE SULLIVAN (WELLESLEY COLLEGE), JENNIFER GROSSMAN (WELLESLEY COLLEGE), AMANDA RICHER (WELLESLEY COLLEGE) This poster presents lessons learned from a first-year pilot of a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) designed to evaluate a high school sex education curriculum in a midwestern school district. It highlights challenges encountered during recruitment and implementation and adjustments made to address them. The aim of this poster is to offer practical recommendations to overcome barriers in the implementation of large-scale RCT projects involving schools.POSTER 62MAKING THEM VISIBLE: IDENTIFYING OBJECTIFYING EXPERIENCES FOR MIDDLE-AGED WOMENLINDSEY LAPLANT (NAZARETH UNIVERSITY) Middle-aged women are neglected in research on body dissatisfaction and appreciation. Self-objectification is often induced before an intervention is tested and examples used with young women may not be applicable to middle-aged women. Study 1 was conducted to obtain accounts from middle-aged women of instances that elicited self-objectification. Those were assessed for commonality. Study 2 tested which of those examples were rated highest for future intervention research with middle-aged women.POSTER 63MANAGERIAL AND EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING IN AN OFFICE SETTINGMICHAEL RODRIGUEZ (ADELPHI UNIVERSITY), CAROLYN SPRINGER (ADELPHI UNIVERSITY) More companies have become hybrid, especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over seventy adults completed a 96-item questionnaire hosted on Qualtrics which assessed respondents' personality, work setting and experiences, health, organizationalclimate and their adaptations to the workplace environment. Findings showed that changes at work were a major stressor which impacted health and productivity but over a third were not taking any actions to reduce stress. Recommendations for human resource departments are discussed.POSTER 64MUSIC PREFERENCES AND POLITICAL ORIENTATION123Saturday, March 8