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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Confidant"”.
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The Confidant of High School Youth
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Social Support and Post-Divorce Adjustment in Highly Educated Women
… women discussing a personal problem with a confidant. Three measures of psychological adjustment were employed: (a) the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale; (b) the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; and (c) the Profile of Mood States.
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Burnout in two-year college counselors
… influence that social support variables (spouse/confidant, friends, co-workers, and supervisors) had on burnout in two-year college counselors. In addition, several job-related and demographic variables, found to be related to burnout in previous studies, were also used for this study. A randomly …
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Moments of Trust: Sibling Responses to the Disclosure of a Sister's Lesbian Identity
… Siblings were also found to take on the role of confidant and counselor for their parents as they negotiated their daughters' newly-disclosed sexual orientation.
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Community Connections Factors Related to Army Wives' Adaptation
… predictors were volunteering and having a close confidant, whereas among wives of enlisted military members most important factors were participating with the Family Readiness Group and employment status.
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Improving children's reading comprehension skills through parental involvement
… of reading and the parents have become more confidant in providing reading support to their children due to the parent training and involvement in their child's reading activities at home.</p>
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Speech Behavior in Othello: The Conversations of Roderigo and Iago
… important to the entire play, not only as Iago's confidant, but also as an analog of Othello; he is a lesser tragic figure who also loves the fair Desdemona. In addition, the analysis exposes Iago's methods of manipulation: he exploits the politeness strategies to gain and maintain control. Thus, …
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Political Roles of Presidential Children: FDR Through Clinton
… place on the campaign trail. Informal advisors/confidant(e)s provide opinions and advice to the president. Lastly, skeletons tend to embarrass the president. If an individual presidential child performs several of these roles equally, they have been labeled as hybrids. Each of the 32 children …
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The thief and the beauty queen
… The reader becomes Landon’s and Cora’s confidant, as each narrator shares their fears and dreams. Ultimately, The Thief and the Beauty Queen addresses the contemporary issues that resonate with today's youth.
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The Effect of Imagined Interactions on Secret Revelation and Health
… imagining a negative reaction on the part of a confidant would result in more illness in the future. Two separate questionnaires, separated by two months, were used to assess these hypotheses. Participants first described a secret they were keeping from an individual and how they imagined …
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The Effect of Imagined Interactions on Secret Revelation and Health
… imagining a negative reaction on the part of a confidant would result in more illness in the future. Two separate questionnaires, separated by two months, were used to assess these hypotheses. Participants first described a secret they were keeping from an individual and how they imagined …
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Blinking Icons: Letters to Saint Augustine
… narrator projects on him various roles: lover, confidant, confessor, muse, judge, scapegoat. To paraphrase Foucault, she uses Augustine to think with, in order to untwist the patriarchal legacy of Catholic misogyny from spiritual matters in the Confessions. The narrator's intellectual and …
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The self-presentation of poets: modern poets and their online personae.
… Nostalgic, Activist, Educator, Promoter, and Confidant. As the data collection occurred during the COVID-19 Lockdown, this data also serves as a time capsule of poets during this worldwide event. This research enhanced an understanding of poets and how they interpret the contribution of social …
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Sir Walter Lawrence and India 1879-1918
… policies. His second function was to act as confidant and adviser to Curzon. This chapter highlights these differing roles and reviews Curzon's style of administration from the perspective of his subordinates. The management of the Prince and Princess of Wales' Tour of India in 1905-06 …
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Proteomics of Oxidative Stress Using Inducible CYP2E1 Expressing HepG2 Cells and 3T3-L1 Adipocytes as Model Systems
… in the isolation procedure is required for a confidant determination.
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Establishing Persistent and Positive Behaviors Among Military Veterans in Distress: Factors contributing to successful change in the face of challenges.
… knowledge related to military veterans and their confidants, and to peer-volunteer programs generally, by contributing to a better understanding of key factors underlying successful outcomes involving positive behavior change. A strengths based approach coupled with a social work perspective …
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Secret Servants: Household Domestics and Courtship in Eliza Haywood’s Fiction
… group: domestic servants. Sometimes acting as confidants and other times as active players in the scheming, these servants are privy to the inner secrets of the households in which they live. In Haywood's Love in Excess (1719), Lasselia (1723), Fantomina (1725), and The History of Miss Betsy …
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Negotiating Boyhood and Victimisation in the Adolescent Male Rape Novel
… rape myths through its employment of an adult confidant and, in contrast to *Althea & Oliver*, depicts the date rape as sexual exploitation. In Chapter 2, the investigated novels depicting boys’ statutory rape by female teachers—primarily Robert Westall’s *Falling into Glory* (1993), Melvin …
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"""I feel impelled to write"": male intimacy, epistolary privacy, and the culture of letter writing during the American Civil War"
… home front played key roles as the epistolary confidants of soldiers. After the war, these women, as well as veterans themselves, sought to maintain the public façade of masculine heroism by silencing the wartime admissions of fear, doubt, and desertion.