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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Family influences"”.
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Liberian Women and Political Resistance: Family Influences and Collective Organizing
… findings from this study attend to the role of family in activists’ stories of war and resistance. The study reveals that key relationships, multigenerational principles embraced, war-related impacts on their broader family systems, formal and informal supports, as well as family-level social …
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Mishpacha in the American Diaspora: An Exploratory Study of Highly-Involved Jewish Families
Both family and religion are important to a large majority of the population in the United States. In the last few decades, research on religious families has significantly increased. Empirical research on Jewish families, however, is scant. The purpose of this study is to explore contemporary …
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Risk Factors for Substance Use in the American Indian/Alaska Native Community
… used and our findings indicated that peer and family influences, as well as ease of access to alcohol and other drugs had the greatest overall impact on AI/AN substance use. We also found that religious service attendance was a risk factor for inhalant use, but a protective factor against …
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An IPA study of transgenerational trauma in the third generation of holocaust survivors
… Holocaust at the core of identity; Salience of family influences within life; internal conflict over sense of purpose: burden vs honour. Nine subordinate themes were also generated and discussed. Conclusion: Participants highlighted the importance of their grandparent’s trauma in their everyday …
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South Korean male adolescents' internal and external influences in academic achievement
… understand the relationship between adolescents’ family influences and adolescents’ academic achievements. I also used these data to achieve a reality-based understanding of how adolescents’ internal and external influences and motivations affect academic achievement. Although I could not …
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Family Background and Propensity to Engage in Infidelity: Exploring an Intergenerational Transmission of Infidelity
… positive messages about infidelity from their family-of-origin. These family communications were then positively associated with more permissive infidelity beliefs, which in turn were associated with higher levels of infidelity behavior. Similar patterns emerged for both males and females, …
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A Structural Equation Model of Contributing Factors to Adolescent Social Interest
… to test through SEM the relationships between family influences (FI) and school influences (SI) on factors hypothesized to be associated with adolescent social interest: school belonging (SB), extracurricular participation (EP), and peer/romantic involvement (PRI). The final model consisted of …
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A Case Study on the Life Trajectories of Women with Sensory and Mobility Disabilities in Stem Careers
… Through data analysis seven themes emerged: (1) Family Influences Matter, (2) Support was Critical to Overcome Barriers in STEM Educational Pathway, (3) STEM as a Meaningful and Practical Pathway, (4) Self-Advocacy and Trailblazing are Part of the Education and Workplace Environment, (5) …
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Electoral politics in Grimsby 1818-1835
… of influence as mediated. through property. Family influences too were significant, and it is clear that electors were calculating individuals. A detailed longitudinal study has been made possible by the nature of the available data (pollbooks, directories, corporation records, and a singular …
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A Qualitative Analysis of High Achieving African-American Females' Perceptions on Factors That Impact on Time High School Graduation in Southeastern Virginia
… school on time identified factors related to family, school, and community as essential in their success. Several underlying factors are within the three themes that studies show can be used as a way to pilot programs, deter drop-outs from leaving school early, and cohesively work in …
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Motivational Factors Contributing to the Choice of Agriculturally Related Careers
… Likert items were divided into five constructs: family influence, self-motivation, experience, use of skills, and career opportunities. Items within the five constructs were further analyzed to discover the top five motivational factors identified in each of the constructs. The top five "family …
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UNDERSTANDING THE COLLEGE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS FOR EAST ASIAN STUDENTS
… the college choice of EAS: (a) Cultural and Family Influences Driving Prestige-Oriented Decisions, (b) A Delicate Balancing of Academic Priorities and Practical Considerations, and (c) Financial Realities and Perceived Admission Factors Acting as Constraints or Enablers. Additionally, I …
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Teachers' Perceptions of First Nations, Metis and Inuit Students in Alberta Public School Classrooms
… the concepts or categories in the data: "family influences," "teacher as rescuer," "academics," "school expectations," and "student attitude." Next, a micro-analysis occurred using an axial coding procedure. This procedure related the categories to their subcategories, linking the …
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Teachers' Perceptions of First Nations, Metis and Inuit Students in Alberta Public School Classrooms
… the concepts or categories in the data: "family influences," "teacher as rescuer," "academics," "school expectations," and "student attitude." Next, a micro-analysis occurred using an axial coding procedure. This procedure related the categories to their subcategories, linking the …
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Mediating Contexts in Trans-Generational Faith Transmission : a Qualitative Study
… derived from the interview analysis: internal family influences; external environmental influences; exclusivism associated with Adventism; issues of differentiation regarding God, faith, and the church; faith nurture; and encouragement in open communication and decision making. These themes …
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Examining the ecological risk and protective factors of substance abuse and its effects on educational and behavioural outcomes among high school learners: implications for a school based intervention model
… by individual characteristics but also family, environmental and peer influences; ● Protective factors against adolescent substance use include strong familial bonds, positive peer influences and attachment to the schooling environment. ● Adolescent substance use has a negative effect on …
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College Women's Perceptions of Dairy Foods: A Qualitative Study
… perceptions of dairy foods, 2) external influences on dairy food consumption, 3) characteristics of dairy products, and 4) ideas for product improvements. Women in this study perceived the high calcium content of dairy foods to be a health benefit. Women thought calcium was important for …
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Investigating the Actions of Interleukin-6 Family Members on Post-Hatching Blastocyst Development in Cattle
… members of the interleukin 6 (IL6) cytokine family influences post-hatching in vitro produced (IVP) bovine blastocyst development. The first series of studies determined if adding human recombinant IL6 improved IVP blastocyst quality before and after cryopreservation. Adding IL6 at 25, 50, …
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