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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Life Course Perspective"”.
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Educational outcomes of emancipated foster youth: A life course perspective
The present study examined the educational attainments of young adults who have been emancipated from the foster care system. Data for this study were taken from a sub-set of youth who participated in the Foster Youth Project at the University of Illinois. Findings from the study suggest that the …
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A Life Course Perspective on the Social Determinants of Multiracial American Health
… and health related to racial stability over the life course. Although some investigations report the health service use of children and adolescents, almost no studies report the health service use of multiracial young adults. Most studies on multiracial groups are cross-sectional and thus focus …
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The Context of Changing Schools: A Life Course Perspective on Elementary School Mobility
Also, a student who moves from a low-resourced school to a high-resourced school is predicted to improve on later math and reading tests, while an accompanying change in the home situation (increase in income and parent education, and/or an increase in student and parent ties with others in the …
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Australian men's intentions for children: A life course perspective on factors influencing their formation and revision.
… theories of goal adjustment to examine the life course events most strongly associated with the revision of men’s intentions for children over time. This research finds that most men intend two children, confirming the two-child norm in Australia. The findings also demonstrate that partnered …
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Australian men's intentions for children: A life course perspective on factors influencing their formation and revision.
… theories of goal adjustment to examine the life course events most strongly associated with the revision of men’s intentions for children over time. This research finds that most men intend two children, confirming the two-child norm in Australia. The findings also demonstrate that partnered …
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Being 50: A psycho-social study of a cohort of women in contemporary society from a life course perspective
… the experience of individuals now at 'midlife'. Arguably the impact of these changes has been more profound for women; specifically in the UK for those educated to be the wives, mothers and carers of industrial Britain (Newsom, 1963). Now around 50 years old this group of women are likely …
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Study of the correlation of diet changes with life transitions and turning points
<p><strong>Background</strong>: The Life Course Perspective is a framework that helps one organize and study the effects on overall health, illness, and mortality. It also assists in understanding the relationships of these areas to nutritional habits and overall health, especially how food choices …
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Exploring Post-Secondary Autistic Young Adults’ Perceptions and Experiences of Coresidence with their Parents
… with their parents while enrolled. By adopting a life course perspective (Elder, 1998; Elder et al., 2015), this research scrutinized participants’: (1) experiences in navigating and/or completing their university programs as a part of achieving or affirming their adulthood; and (2) views on how …
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The Impact of Employment on Canadian Caregivers’ Mental Well-being
… if caregivers’ mental health or stress varies by life-stage. The study used the life-course perspective and logistic regression to analyze the mental health and stress of employed Canadian caregivers ages 25 to 64 using data from the Canadian General Social Survey (GSS) cycle 32. Results indicated …
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A phenomenological study of the experiences of voluntarily childless married couples: a lifetime decision
… couples within the framework of Elder’s (1998) life course perspective. The researcher conducted interviews using semi-structured questions and prompts to obtain participants’ experiences regarding the decision to remain voluntarily childless and how they were treated because of their decision. …
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Coresidence At the Crash: The Effect of Employment, Marital Status, and Disability On Living With Your Parents
… situation is termed coresidence. Based on the life course perspective, I hypothesize that those experiencing an unstable employment status, marital status, or disability status have higher odds of coresiding. I use data from the 2006, 2007, and 2008 American Community Surveys to evaluate these …
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The impact of early life adversity on later life health
<p>The preponderance of the literature on early life adversity suggests that adversity has negative effects on later life health; however, an emerging body of literature suggests that early life adversity may develop a sense of resilience in individuals. Drawing from life course perspective, the …
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The Young Single Adult Male Experience of Being
… by the age of 25 is emphasized. Guided by the Life Course Perspective, a qualitative study was designed that surveyed 43 single men in the greater Washington DC area between the ages of 25-31. The survey was administered electronically and consisted of 20 demographic and open-ended questions. …
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Young Mothers in Appalachia: Meanings of Help from Family
… Informed by symbolic interactionism, the life course perspective, and the kinscripts framework, the present study sought to uncover the meanings attributed to help from family for young mothers. Nine women (ages 18-28; M= 23.33) who had children between the ages of 15 and 19 were …
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"It's complicated" : the lived experience of female sexual desire : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Health Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand
… were interpreted and analysed using a life course perspective to highlight how both positive and negative experiences, as well as the acceptance or resistance of cultural scripts and double standards, contribute over time to a woman’s sense of her own access to sexual desire, agency …
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Envisioning an intercultural gerontology curriculum for undergraduate gerontology programs in Canada: attributes and resources
… theories in combination with gerontology’s life course perspective, social construction theory, and cultural gerontology’s emphasis on narratives provided the theoretical lenses for the analysis and integration of the findings. The results of the study included ten attributes of an …
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"Rethinking ""success"" of second generation immigrants: the role of families and communities in the transition to young adulthood"
… second generation immigrants. Drawing from the life course perspective and resiliency theory, this study utilizes data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY: 1997) to examine how socio-economic and contextual factors within the family and community during adolescence impact the …
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The Role of Social Networks in Memory Formation and the Social Reintegration of Ex-combatants
… six discusses the importance of incorporating a life course perspective in the social reintegration of ex-combatants. The process of reintegration presents an opportunity to examine how collective memories transform through new forms of interactions. These chapters show how a civilian's …
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"It wasn't the end that I was so much interested in, it was the journey": Stories of women who pursued a PhD later in life
… and who graduated between 2010 and 2018. Using a life course perspective framed within a feminist theory and research, political economy standpoint, I examined the socio-cultural, economic and ageing factors that pulled these women back into university. I looked at how their pursuit of a PhD …
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