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Showing 1 to 20 of 233 for “"Gender-Specific"”.
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Examining gender specific treatment programs in women's prisons
… about the development and implementation of gender-specific substance abuse treatment programs has been initiated. The purpose of this study is to discover if research recommendations proposed, have been taken to consideration and implemented. The qualitative data was derived from various …
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Gender-Specific Programs for Female Juvenile Offenders: Purpose, Practice, and Perceived Success
… psychological problems. Past research has led to gender-specific programming that is developed to meet the special needs of these young women. Gender-specific programming involves classes, groups, lessons, and settings that include only young women, with topics pertaining to them explicitly. This …
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A Gender -Specific Alcohol Use Disorders Screening Instrument: Validation of a Measure
… determined the sensitivity of WOMAN Screen, a gender-specific alcohol use disorders screening instrument proposed to more effectively identify problematic alcohol use among women. This study also tested the validity of the WOMAN Screen items. The sample consisted of 112 males and 75 females in …
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Gender-specific epidemiology of tuberculosis in a population with high HIV prevalence
… the 2009 Cape Town TB case population by gender, age, and HIV; explore associations between gender, clinical characteristics, and HIV in TB cases; and estimate age-specific TB notification rates by gender and HIV.
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A TEST OF GENERAL STRAIN THEORY: EXPLORING GENDER SPECIFIC EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL VARIATION
… With the universal recognition of the crime-gender gap, it is important to determine the applicability of these theories to female delinquency. This research uses the National Survey of Children (1981) to test propositions from general strain theory, specifically those outlined by Broidy and …
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A TEST OF GENERAL STRAIN THEORY: EXPLORING GENDER SPECIFIC EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL VARIATION
… With the universal recognition of the crime-gender gap, it is important to determine the applicability of these theories to female delinquency. This research uses the National Survey of Children (1981) to test propositions from general strain theory, specifically those outlined by Broidy and …
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Gender-Specific Parent-Child Relationship Factors and Substance Use among At-Risk Adolescents
… with parents. In this dissertation, I studied gender-specific relationships between parent and child that were associated with lower rates of substance use among at-risk adolescents. I investigated if this relationship mitigated the effects of negative peer association on substance use among …
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Gender-Specific Differences in Spatial Behavior of the Flesh Fly, <em>Sarcophaga crassipalpis</em>.
… of the same physical space) of same-sex conspecifics than did female flies. In circular arenas, male flies showed significantly higher levels of spatial separation among themselves (as determined from nearest neighbor analyses) than did females: males were distributed uniformly whereas …
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Addressing Relational Aggression: Assessing the Merits of Coeducational and Gender-Specific Bullying Prevention Programs
… a list of best practices for coeducational and gender-specific bullying prevention curricula, the purpose of the present thesis was to document the most positive contributions made by various approaches to bullying prevention programs to the overall field, and to highlight practices of programs …
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Gender-specific reading motivation : considering reading from the perspective of five ethnically diverse fifth grade boys
… of reading motivation from the perspectives of a specific group of individuals. Five participants, all African American fifth grade boys qualifying for meal subsidies, gathered in a local youth facility, where they regularly attended as members. The researcher interviewed and observed the boys …
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Culture, gender and patriarchy : a study of sixteen female teachers in gender specific schools of Lesotho
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-109).
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Quantitative evaluations of teaching quality in universities: the impact of students’ gender-specific expectations on teaching evaluations
… to rather than impede the manifestation of gender biases in students’ evaluations of their lecturers. These limitations include constraints in humans’ abilities to generate quantifications as well as potential variations in students’ interpretations and use of item statements and answer …
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Exploring the Gender-Specific Needs of Female Refugees During Resettlement and Integration: A Case Study in Pittsburgh
… this study attempts to better understand the gender-specific needs of female refugees who resettle and integrate into Pittsburgh. I used Ager and Strang's (2004) Indicators of Integration framework, with a focus on the indicators of "employment," "social bridges," "language and culture," and …
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Shared-component model with application to mapping gender specific pattern in HIV testing and condom use in Namibia
The main objective of the study was to examine gender-specific and shared spatial variation in HIV testing and condom use in Namibia for targeted health promotion interventions. The study used data from the Namibia Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) carried out between 2006 and 2007. Bayesian …
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"YOU BITCH! YOU SLUT! YOU WHORE!": GENDER-SPECIFIC SYSTEM JUSTIFICATION AS A MEDIATOR OF WOMEN'S SELF-SEXUALIZATION AND BENEVOLENT SEXISM, ENVIRONMENTAL MASTERY, AND GENERAL POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT
… outcomes of women's self-sexualization. Specifically, it was hypothesized that gender-specific system justification would mediate the relationships between women's intentions regarding and enjoyment of self-sexualization and (a) endorsement of benevolent sexist attitudes; (b) …
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Gender-specific care, fertility health, and family planning in the military health system : a case study exploring the barriers that impact retention of the female Navy Nurse Corps officer.
… Some of these challenges include sexism, gender inequality, and double standards. This qualitative case study provides an intimate understanding of the specific challenges that servicewomen experience while navigating reproductive health, family planning or prevention, and role conflict …
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Protective and risk models of adolescent initiation of substance use during the transition from middle school to high school
… use. Non-mediated as well as peer mediated non-gender specific and gender-specific structural equation models were tested for both risk and protective models. The risk models indicated consistent and developmentally persistent concurrent, prospective, and reciprocal associations among …
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