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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Gender and family"”.
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The impact of job insecurity on mental health over time across gender and family responsibility
… prior studies have not investigated how gender and parental responsibilities may exacerbate this relationship. Since gender and parental responsibilities may interact with job insecurity to produce unique stressors, examining their contribution as potential effect modifiers may provide …
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Ecuadorian Remittances, Gender, and Family Relations: A study of the transnational ties between Ecuadorian migrants in England and their families in Ecuador
… the meaning, management (including usage and transformation), and implication of international economic remittances for transnational gender and family relations for an under-researched diaspora - Ecuadorian migrants in England, and their families (non-migrants and return migrants) in …
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Shivers
… an intergenerational story that involves class, gender, and family.</p>
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The Natural Mother of the Child
… birth parent. These essays use text and images to explore parenting on the margins of both motherhood and fatherhood. They also examine the ways in which legal and identity documents are limiting in their ability to describe gender and family. Topics explored include pregnancy, birth, …
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Across Water
… coming-of-age in terms of religion, race, gender, and family. Using a combination of personal experience, reflection on this experience, and outside research, these essays employ creative nonfiction strategies to find meaning and sense in the complex terrain of human existence. The …
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Constructing Parents: The Heteronormative Recruitment of Sperm and Egg Donors in the Reproductive Market
This thesis explores how medical and organization procedures surrounding gamete donation are shaped by cultural understandings of family and gender. Through a qualitative content analysis of the sperm banks, egg banks, and egg donation agencies in the United States, I investigate how the …
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Strain, coping, and adaptation in early adolescence
Role strain, coping, and adaptational outcomes were examined for a sample of 205 eighth grade adolescents. Differences by gender and family type on amount of role strain, use of coping strategies, and levels of emotional stress and well-being in family and peer roles were identified. Results …
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Work and non-work stress among solicitors: Modelling the work-home interface
… solicitors working in private law firms in England and Wales, the study investigates the interrelationships between domain-specific and work-home interference factors and their predictive value in relation to different categories of strain symptomatology and satisfaction outcomes. The research …
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Prevalence of Hypertension Among Low-Income Individuals in Muscogee County Columbus, Georgia
<p>This study investigates the prevalence and predictors of elevated blood pressure (BP) among 409 low-income adults in Muscogee County, Columbus, Georgia—a population disproportionately burdened by hypertension. The findings reveal that elevated BP is significantly more prevalent among African …
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Creating a 'black film industry' : state intervention and films for African audiences in South Africa, 1956-1990.
… construction of a 'black film industry' and the development of a 'black' cinema viewing audience. It does so by focusing on films produced specifically for an African audience using a state subsidy. This subsidy was introduced in 1972 and was separate from the general or A-Scheme subsidy …
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Media Hegemony: The Portrayal of Rohingya Refugees in the Canadian Print Media
… minority after their displacement from Myanmar and resettlement in Canada. The primary objective is to analyze how different news outlets depict the Rohingya community, with a secondary goal of contrasting media narratives with the actual experiences of Rohingya migrants in Canada. My research …
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Shifting selves : identity quests and innovation in the novels of Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano, and Marie Darrieussecq
… the novels of Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano and Marie Darrieussecq. I establish how, for these three writers from successive generations, the preoccupation with selthood entails a retreat to the margins, where the shifting nature of identity can be better explored. By considering topics such …
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A multimodal analysis of the rhetorical devices used for meaning-making and humour in Saudi media cartoons
… an attempt to push forward research on cartoons and humour in the Saudi context which has little scholarly attention. It is further a contribution to the growing multimodal research on non-interactional humour in the media that benefits from the traditional theories of verbal humour. The study …
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National gender policy for Rwanda: a case study of institutional response to policy recommendations on women in science and technology
… of poor representation of women in science and technology in two academic institutions of Rwanda. Those are the National University of Rwanda (UNR) and Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). By exploring institutional factors underlying the said question, the study has …
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The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia
… dissertation critically examines the political and social significance of colonial portraiture by focusing on domestic portraits commissioned for Virginians between the mid-seventeenth century and 1775. Portraiture was a site where colonial and imperial identity was negotiated and expressed. …
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Parenting Styles, Parental Involvement and Kindergarten Children's Readiness for Elementary School in Shanghai, China
… parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive) and parental involvement (home-based involvement, school-based involvement, and home-school conferencing) in relationship to children’s overall school readiness among third-year kindergarten children (5-6 years olds). In addition, …
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Motinų pogimdyvinės depresijos sąsajos su kūdikio raida: išplėstinė literatūros apžvalga /
… Institute Department of Rehabilitation, Physical and Sports Medicine Bachelor’s Degree of Physiotherapy Associations Between Maternal Postpartum Depression and Infant Development: Extended Literature Review Physiotherapy Bachelor's Thesis The Author: Karolina Ptak Academic supervisor: Lekt. …
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Motherhood, Family, and Inequality in Contemporary Japan
… dissertation explores how particular models of family and motherhood are reinforced in contemporary Japan, and give rise to significant social distinctions between families and mothers. Based on documentary research and forty life history interviews with single mothers conducted in Tokyo, I …
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The Influence of Parental Monitoring and Peer Deviance on Substance Use Among Middle School Students
… of negative outcomes including long-term use and abuse. Both parenting and peer variables exert strong influences on children's decisions to use or abstain from substances. As children age, peers begin to exert a stronger influence, but parenting practices can significantly reduce peers' …
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Layoff Characteristics and Layoff Agents' Cognitions: An Experimental Study
… the relationship between downsizing strategies and organizational performance and/or profitability. Other researchers have focused upon the responses and behaviors of layoff victims, survivors, and managers as a result of downsizing. Relatively few studies however, have investigated the impacts …
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