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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Bowen Theory"”.
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Differentiation of self and marital satisfaction : an exploratory analysis based on the Bowen theory
… significance.Findings1. Contrary to the Bowen theory, there was not a significant relationship between spouses' levels of differentiation of self.2. Consistent with the Bowen theory, there was a statistically significant relationship between levels of DOS and marital satisfaction for …
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A psychoanalytic approach to organizational decline: Bowen theory as a tool for organizational analysis
… with a psychoanalytic model of human behavior, Bowen Theory, which explains how individuals function within relationship systems such as families and organizations. The theory also examines how dysfunction is created within those systems when the relationship process becomes ineffective or …
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Exploring the implicate order in public organizations: the complementarity of Bowen theory and chaos theory
Chaos theory, a philosophical viewpoint from physics, is being adopted by some public organization theorists as a new standpoint for understanding and managing organizations besieged by instability and turbulence. A basic tenet of chaos theory, known as mutual causality, denies that an entity …
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Levels of personal disclosure and engagement in communication of later-life couples coping with chronic illness
… patients and their spouse caregivers. Guided by Bowen Theory, lag sequential analyses and sequence repetition analyses were conducted on observational data to determine the effects of open communication, closed communication, and pursuer-distancer communication on caregiver depression and marital …
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Emotional Cutoff In Women Who Abuse Substances
This exploratory study was based upon Bowen Family Systems theory and investigated emotional cutoff in women (n = 168) who entered a substance abuse treatment program. Three questions were explored: First, the degree of emotional cutoff in this sample was compared to a non-clinical sample of women. …
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The creation and validation of the differentiation of self questionnaire
… of Self Questionnaire (DSQ), a measure of Bowen’s construct Differentiation of Self (DoS), through three-studies. In Study One, Creation the DSQ is created with nine-items selected for inclusion, three-items per subscale, willingness to take an “I” position, emotional reactivity, and …
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The Examination of Cutoff and Self-Functioning in Three Generations of Families with a Substance-Abusing Teenager
Sixty families who came to a county mental health center for a substance abuse evaluation for a teenager were interviewed. The parent(s) and teenager were administered the Emotional Cutoff Scale, a paper-and-pencil measure. The functioning of each parent was assessed by the researcher through the …
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Exploring the relationship among marital satisfaction, level of faith development, and differentiation of self
… of self. The study looks at marriages using Bowen family systems theory and Fowler's faith development theory. This quantitative study collected data through a convenient, snowball method. The sample consisted of 124 individuals married from 1 to 59 years. Four assessment inventories and a …