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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Family process"”.
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Navigating incarceration: Family process related to maternal incarceration and family stress
… to explore factors from the Double ABCX Model of Family Stress consistent with transcendental phenomenological data analysis. The findings of this study indicate that participants experienced a family stress process consistent with the Double ABCX Model. Participants reported improved relationship …
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Implicit Family Process and Couples Rules: A Comparison of American and Hungarian Families
Family life is organized by rules, and most of them are unspokenly agreed-upon by family members and may be even out of awareness. Implicit family process and couple rules may facilitate or constrain family relationship and intimate couple relationship growth. Prevalence of family rules may be …
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The Relationship of Implicit Family Process Rules to Adolescent Presentation of Psychological Systems
Implicit family process rules refer to unspoken rules about family beliefs and expectations about communication, closeness, and organization and are an important dimension of family functioning that may have a powerful influence over adolescent psychological well being. This study focused on the …
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The Family Process Model: Predicting Youth Behavior Problems in Mexican American, African American, and European American Families
… indirectly via its negative impact on several family processes. Specifically, parents' mental well-being, family relations, and ultimately parenting, can be adversely affected by the strain of economic hardship and can lead to deleterious consequences on adolescent well-being. While …
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Adolescent Leisure Activities as a Moderator of the Negative Effects of Family Process on Adolescent Emotional Health
… moderate the negative effects of dysfunctional family process on an adolescent's emotional health. A model was tested that hypothesized that leisure experienced as achievement or social by adolescents would buffer the negative effects of a dysfunctional family. A sample of 243 clinical and …
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The Effects of Family Structure and Family Process on the Psychological Well-Being of Children: From the Children's Point of View
The impact of family structure on children’s outcomes is a highly debated topic in literature on the family. This research made an attempt to engage in this debate by testing the family process perspective. Theorists who favor this perspective believe that the effects of family structure on …
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Mothers' adaptation to childhood cancer: an analysis of family process stressors, family system resources, parental coping patterns, and parental adaptation among mothers of children with cancer
Family process stressors, family system resources, parental coping patterns, and parental adaptation were assessed for 58 mothers who had a child with cancer who was being seen at selected pediatric hematology-oncology centers in two Southeastern states. The respondents completed a self-report …
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Familial and Self Systems as Contributors to Sexual Decision-making Patterns of Young African American Women
… messages do women recall receiving from their family members about sexual opportunities, intercourse, consequences of sex, love, marriage and premarital sex? Data analysis revealed partner-based expectations that included expectations of trust/honesty, respect from partners, stability of …
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Influences of stress, individual and family processes on rural low-income children’s internalizing and externalizing behaviors
… using rural samples to understand the stress processes at the individual and family levels have been predominantly dyadic in focus. Given family members are interdependent, it is interesting to explore whether family variables of particular interest on the family process as a whole can help …
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Adolescent alcohol use and misuse : the influence of perceived family socialization factors
… of adolescent drinking behaviour an emphasis on family environment from recent studies into problem drinking. The aim of this study, therefore, was to increase understanding of the formation of early drinking patterns by investigating perceived family socialization factors associated with …
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Out of the Blue: A Mother's Memoir of Our Family's Transgender Experience
<p>OUT OF THE BLUE: A MOTHER'S MEMOIR OF OUR FAMILY'S TRANSGENDER EXPERIENCE is a memoir about what it has been like to discover that the baby girl I gave birth to almost forty years ago, now identifies as a female to male transgender person. He began his transformation both physically and legally …
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Coming Out: One Family's Story
This case study elicits the process of coming out of a 6 member family-of-choice of an adult gay man in rural New Hampshire. 27.5 hours of face-to-face interviews were conducted with the family individually and collectively. Reflexivity, as a technique, was used extensively. Four themes were …
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Competency-based therapy: a case study
… to therapy with a female-headed single-parent family with three young-adult daughters. The theory of competency-based therapy encompasses five major concepts which taken together distinguish it from other approaches to therapy. (1) Human behavior must be understood in its social context and the …
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The Transition to Adulthood and Prisoner Reentry: Investigating the Experiences of Young Adult Men and their Caregivers
… reentry needs, perceptions about reliance on family and the implications of a young adult child "returning home" within the context of release from incarcerative sentencing. This goal was achieved through conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews with formerly incarcerated men between the …
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Psychosocial factors affecting adaptation of patients and spouses to myocardial infarction
… mailed self-report questionnaire containing the Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes, the Coping and Health Inventory For Parents, three scales developed For this study measuring family process variables and demographic questions. Dependent measures were the Spielberger trait anxiety and …
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Is Your Parenting Style Hindering Your Child’s Chances At Succeeding In Their Post-Seconday Education? A Pilot Study Of Parent Gender And Parenting Style Effects On College Student Adjustment
Research was conducted on parent gender and parenting style effects on college student adjustment. Literature suggest that an authoritative parenting style is most optimal for adolescent outcomes contributing to adjustment in the following ways: social, attachment, personal emotional and academic. …
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A content analysis of eleven scholarly journals: What has been written about adolescents' interpersonal relationship in stepfamilies
… in stepfamilies in eleven scholarly journals: Family Process, Family Relations, Journal of Marriage and Family, American Journal of Family Therapy, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Research on Adolescence, …
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A family affair: African immigrant families conceptualizing and navigating college choice
… conceptualize and navigate the college choice process. The primary framework utilized for this study was Hossler and Gallagher's (1987) combined model of college choice, with funds of knowledge (Moll, Amanti, Neff & Gonzalez, 2005) and ecocultural theory (Weisner, 1997) serving as supplemental …
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Socializing race: Parental beliefs and practices in two African American families
Racial socialization is a complex family process associated with important child outcomes such as positive identity development, healthy self-esteem, academic achievement, and overall adjustment (Coard, Wallace, Stevenson, & Brotman, 2004). Despite the importance of racial socialization in the …
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Ecological Influences on Adolescent Behavior
… scales used to assess the ecological domains of Family Process, Peers, Community (school climate), Personal Characteristics, and the criterion measures of Drug and Alcohol Use, School Performance and Gang and Criminal Activity.</p> <p>Principal axis factor extraction with oblique rotation was …
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