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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Family Composition"”.
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The Relationship Between Family Composition and Social Behavior for Students with Mild Disabilities in Schools
… in children's problem behavior across various family structures, particularly noting more challenging behaviors in children from single parent families. Utilizing a pre-existing data set of Behavioral Objective Sequence (BOS) scores, this study investigated teacher ratings of social behavioral …
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At-Risk Indicators: The Impact on School Success.
… disability status, early grade retention, and family composition gives insight into struggles students face.</p><p>Looking at 6 research questions, an independent sample <em>t</em> test was used to determine the difference in students who had excessive absences and discipline referrals in …
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A study of sibling rivalry in fifty pre-school children
… on sibling rivalry of maternal attitudes, family composition and the child's perceptions of family relations. Maternal attitudes and the child's attitude towards parents were not related to sibling rivalry. Rivalry was significantly higher following displacement and at the closer spacings. …
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Perceptions of social support among male and female students with specific learning disabilities and in general education
… to ratings of perceived social support include family composition and extracurricular group membership. The present study collected data from male and female middle and high school students from one school system in the Southeastern United States. All statistical analyses were conducted using N …
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Evaluation of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) in selected areas of Virginia: extent and retention of dietary improvement and related family factors
… Benefits received from participating in EFNEP. Family factors were explored which were believed to be related to dietary change - Family Composition, Family Resource Assistance, Household Roles and Responsibilities, Family Support, and Family Diet Control. Diet Scores increased significantly …
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Towards developing a parent support programme for single parents who have children in need of care
… of the child within the biological family composition. Certain perceived reasons for child removals were also highlighted by single parents. In respect of a parent support programme single parents felt a sense of solidarity within the focus group session.
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Civic engagement among emerging adults : evidence from the panel survey of income dynamics.
… society as they transition from the original family unit they grew up in. While largely independent, emerging adults are still engaging with their original family unit through economic and social means. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Transition to Adulthood Supplement, I seek …
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Resilience in bereaved Zulu families
… in thirty bereaved Zulu families who lost a family member between one and four years prior to the study. The researcher used self-report questionnaires to access an array of information that could not be accessed through direct observations. In each family, one adolescent (n=30) and one …
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Utilization of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire across Family Structures: Do the Same Constructs Apply?
… has experienced a marked increase in non-nuclear family structures over the last five decades. The evolution of more diverse family systems has led some researchers to eschew a “one size fits all” approach to parenting assessment, as these measures may neglect or misconstrue parent-child dynamics …
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Housing and social change in Saudi Arabia : a community study of Hwylan village in Al Qassim region
This study examines housing, family and community in Hwylan, a small village on the outskirts of Buraidah, a prosperous city in Al Qassim region of Saudi Arabia. The wealth brought to the country by oil exploitation has made possible extensive development and modernisation which are often thought …
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Resilience in Xhosa families where there is a juvenile delinquent
… transition is normally very difficult for the family. It may indicate a need for change in order to find harmony. The study examined resilience in 50 Xhosa speaking families who have a juvenile delinquent that has been sentenced for a period of not less than 1 year. In each family one parent …
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Intellectual, educational and demographic characteristics of students with learning disabilities and serious emotional disturbances
… the WISC-III, reading, math and selected family and demographic characteristics of 301 learning disabled students (LD) and 99 emotionally disturbed students (ED). Specifically, this study sought to determine which variables can successfully discriminate between LD and ED students and which …
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Educationally At-risk College Students From Single-parent and Two-parent Households: an Analysis of Differences Employing Cooperative Institutional Research Program Data.
… of low income, parents' levels of education, and family composition as determinants of educationally at-risk status, study investigated differences between first generation, undergraduate college students from families in lowest quintile of income in the U.S, One group consisted of students from …
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Essays in Economics of Child Development
… consists of two chapters and examines how the family and place of residence in which a child is raised are crucial to their human capital formation. The first chapter investigates how family-school-neighborhood combinations influence human capital accumulation, measured by test score gains. I …
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The Influence of Sibling Support on Children's Post-Divorce Adjustment: A Turning Point Analysis
… of turning points, of which “Move,” “Change in family composition,” “Change in contact with non-residential parent,” “Intrapsychic change,” and “Change in parent relationship status” were the most frequently reported. Five trajectories of adjustment were also found, namely “Steady,” …
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The Influence of Sibling Support on Children's Post-Divorce Adjustment: A Turning Point Analysis
… of turning points, of which “Move,” “Change in family composition,” “Change in contact with non-residential parent,” “Intrapsychic change,” and “Change in parent relationship status” were the most frequently reported. Five trajectories of adjustment were also found, namely “Steady,” …
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Over smaken, voorkeuren en participatie: een sociologische analyse van de Vlaamse leefstijlruimte, met bijzondere aandacht voor attitudinale leefstijlindicatoren
… social network size, degree of urbanization, family composition and job category. The main conclusions put forward in the disseration are : a) that differences in the amount of cultural capital explain an important fraction of lifestyle differentiation, despite the importance of other, …
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The fraudulent family: humanitarianism, security, and kinship in refugee resettlement from Kenya
… to mobility. More centrally, I argue that “the family”—as symbol, organizing principle, and network of moral obligations—lies at the heart of these contestations. In 2008, over 80% of refugees—largely located in Kenya—“failed” DNA tests performed by the US government in an initiative designed to …
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Children and kinship terms
… the children's parents belonged to, their family composition, their frequency of interaction with particular relatives, and the leisure activities (if any) the investigated children participated in. The data was accumulated using a quantitative approach, and the children were selected …
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A study to identify family factors that contribute to academic success in a group of children from single-parent families
… The study also was designed to access what family factors including race, gender, income level, education level, employment status, and family composition contribute to the academic success of the child. Sixty-seven single-parent families and their oldest elementary school-age child …
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