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Showing 1 to 20 of 434 for “"Family, Life Course, and Society"”.
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The Empirical Development of a Preparation for Marriage Curriculum for Twelfth-Grade Students
… enrich the student's knowledge about dating and marriage, and teach specific relational skills.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> A systematic procedure was undertaken in the development and validation of the product. First, the content of a pre-marriage course was identified through an examination of …
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Perceived Family Emotional Relationships, Person Orientations, and Expected-Job-Satisfaction Among Teachers in Training in Mexico : a Test of Anne Roe's Theory of Vocational Interest and Choice with the General Culture Group
… Anne Roe claims that occupational interests and person orientation develop to a significant extent from the complex interaction of family emotional relationships in the formative years. She describes three basic family patters (Accepting, Concentrating, and Avoiding) of needs satisfaction as …
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The Employed Versus the Nonemployed Mother: the Effects on the Seventh-day Adventist Family in Southwestern Michigan
… effects that the employed mother has on the family. The purpose of this study was to research the effects that the nonemployed and employed Seventh-day Adventist mother, in southwestern Michigan, has on the family.</p> <p>The broad hypothesis for this study is that nonemployed mothers have a …
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The Meaning of Marriage to the Voluntarily Childless Couple
… to show that childlessness is a contemporary and growing trend. However, no known study has been done to explore what marriage means to the couple who chooses childlessness. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the meaning of marriage to the voluntarily childless couple.</p> …
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The Experience of Growing Up in a Minister's Home and the Religious Commitment of the Adult Child of a Minister
… between the unique aspects of the pastoral family, the relationships of the PK, and his or her adult religious commitment.</p> <p>Method. The population included Seventh-day Adventist pastors' children (PKs) who were age 25 or older and whose fathers were ministers for at least 10 years …
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Theoretical Orientations to Reading and Reading Instructional Practices of Selected Home-Education Parents in Southwest Michigan
… <br />(2) their reading instructional practices, and <br />(3) the consistency between parents' beliefs and practice.</p> <p>Method. This study used multiple sources of data. Demographic information was collected from 78 active home educators in southwest Michigan. DeFord's (1985) Theoretical …
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An Assessment of Marital Satisfaction in Stepfamilies Toward an Integration of Three Conceptual Models of Relationship Satisfaction
… marriages than remarriages. Although the stepfamily is a dominant and unique family type, it lacks its own theoretical framework from which to investigate factors that contribute to marital satisfaction and stepfamily success.</p> <p>Method. This study evaluated marital satisfaction in …
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A Study of the Self-Esteem of Delinquent Male Adolescents and the Perceived Degree of their Parents' Child-Rearing Practices
… blacks, 4 American Indians, 3 Spanish Americans, and 4 others. One hundred six males came from two-parent homes.</p> <p>Two instruments were used to collect data on the self-esteem of delinquent male adolescents and the perceived degree of their parents' child-rearing practices. The Coopersmith …
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Relationship Between Child Temperament, Parental Knowledge of Child Development, and Parental Stress
… has been related to parental frustration and lack of child developmental knowledge has led to unrealistic expectations and parental stress, definitive information is needed regarding the relationship between (1) child temperament, (2) parental knowledge of child development, and (3) …
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Self Concept and Family Relations of American-Lebanese Children: a Descriptive and Comparative Study
… There is a great current need to assist and understand American children, especially minorities, through their familial and cultural backgrounds. The purpose of the study was to examine the Kinetic Family Drawings of American-Lebanese children to gain information about their relationship …
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