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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Financial Security"”.
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AN EXAMINATION OF STUDENT FINANCIAL SECURITY AND STUDENT PERSISTENCE DECISION-MAKING IN COLLEGE
… is to ascertain whether a student’s sense of financial security can increase the degree of predictability of retention over and above the more traditional predictors typically found in the literature, and to get a better sense for how student financial security impacts student persistence …
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What Impacts Life Satisfaction Of Aging Adults Following Stressful Life Events?: An Examination Of The Buffering Effect Of Personal Resources
… satisfaction, but social support, autonomy, and financial security. What the literature is lacking, is examination of the buffering effect of social support, autonomy, and financial security on the relationship between stressful life events and life satisfaction. This study hypothesizes that …
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Financial (In)Security is Tied to Personal Well-Being for Men and Relationship Well-Being for Women When Women Endorse Sexist Attitudes
… as warm caregivers and men as protectors and financial providers. The appeal of these beliefs for women lay in the security and financial provision that men provide. However, if partners do not live up to these ideals (i.e., men violate the expectations of providing financial security), both …
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The mining legacy in South Africa - a superfund sized problem or a trust fund baby? a critical analysis of the market-based instruments applicable to mining, with specific focus on financial security mechanisms and suggestions for a new approach
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Relational religiosity and communal coping in African American romantic relationships
… between stressors (racial discrimination and financial strain/low financial security) and relationship satisfaction; and (b) communal coping and relational religiosity mediated between the stressors and relationship satisfaction. Two conceptual models predicting relationship satisfaction, …
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Transition from institutional care to community care for residents of community care units in Greece: construction of the notion of “asylum” in community care units
… provided a “temporary asylum” based on: 1) financial security; 2) stress-free daily routine; 3) segregation from the pressures of the outside world; 4) good or neutral relationships with staff; and 5) trust in their treatment. But most felt that the hospital had never become their actual …
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The spoilt blood that needs nourishment : managing TB in the context of HIV/AIDS, food insecurity and social inequalities in Mbekweni, Paarl.
… the converging impact of TB, HIV/AIDS and food insecurity. The emerging themes in the conversations of many people; 'the food that nourishes the blood' and 'if there was no grant we would die of hunger' indicates that financial security and adequate nutrition are pivotally important for …
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Wise, well off and tired: a qualitative study of over-35 mothers raising their teens
… due to life experience, emotional maturity and financial security. Drawbacks include fatigue and reduced fertility that limited family size, as well as competing life stages such as retirement and college. Older mothers felt in the mainstream. Clinical implications are discussed.
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Complications of ileostomy closure and their risk factors
… variability, access to health care facilities, financial security, varying levels of social security and differences in sociocultural health seeking behaviour patterns. It would therefore be interesting to evaluate whether the type of complications seen at a tertiary teaching hospital in South …
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HOW DOES INCREASING THE FULL BENEFIT AGE OF SOCIAL SECURITY AFFECT FACTORY WORKERS’ PLANS TO RETIRE?
The Social Security full benefit age has increased from 65 to 67 for those born after 1960. Increased life expectancy has been the main argument for why it is thought that people should work longer. However, research indicates that low income workers have seen little increase in life expectancy. …
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A Study of the Individual Pension Funds Allocation Strategy in China
… pension funds, China can not only improve the financial security of its citizens, but also contribute to the long-term viability of its social security system as a whole. The study investigates individual pension funds in developed markets, with a particular emphasis on the development of …
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Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
… way; for him, motherhood is secondary to financial security, and this opinion is reflected in the lives and actions of his characters. In spite of the absence of a maternal influence, Austen's characters do not experience true hardship in the way that Haywood's and Defoe's do. However, …
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An exploration of control in schools : a discourse analysis of secondary school mission statements in the greater Cape Town region
… person-power needs, and of ensuring later financial security for the individual. Finally, it was found that at well resourced schools, there is a resistance to transformation and in particular social equality, accompanied by support for a liberal capitalist system. In comparison, at less …
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Academic and Non-academic factors that lead students to be successful at University
… factors are in the first group: motivation, financial security, learning environment, methodology and assessment. On the other hand, previous academic background, time management and good counseling have been placed in the second. This classification was made in order to highlight that the …
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Insuring the African future
… but also globally, in the face of increasing financial, political and natural-catastrophe risk. In this world of tremendous risk and tremendous opportunity, the insurance industry can provide post-disaster financing, financial security, institutional investment and innovative risk management …
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Building community assets through individual development accounts : growing a strategic network in Lawrence, Massachusetts
… strategy that gives Lawrence residents the financial, human and social capital to revitalize this historic mill city. Asset-building, through IDAs, has emerged as a tool by which individuals and families in Lawrence have been able to overcome challenges of divestment and immigration, to …
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Psychological empowerment of female victims of spousal abuse through philophonetics
… emotional/ psychological abuse, sexual abuse, or financial abuse. Women often remain in abusive relationships for financial security, fear of further harm, and because of socials stigmatization. This study focuses on the psychological empowerment of female victims of spousal abuse through …
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Local capacity to implement a source water protection plan in the South Saskatchewan River watershed
… areas for SWP: technical, institutional, financial, and social capacity. The results of this study show that capacity areas in need of improvement include access to data, training and educational opportunities for non-governmental organizations, greater enforcement of government …
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Military courts in a democratic South Africa: in search of their judicial independence
… for judicial independence. Military judges lack security of tenure; financial security; institutional independence on important administrative aspects; and their institutional impartiality is questionable. I further investigate a suitable model of judicial independence for South African military …
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