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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Life Courses"”.
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Relationships Among Predictors of Collegiate Performance, Introduction to College Life Courses, and Measures of Academic Success
… percentile rank, Introduction to University Life (IDS 110) grades, and self-reported attitudes, behaviors, and efficacies obtained from the 1997 data for the Student Information Form. Data were collected for 418 Southwest Missouri State University students. Using regression analysis, a model …
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Social Markers of Maturation and the Transition to Young Adulthood: The Life Courses of Adolescent Substance Users After Treatment
"Findings did not support use of the Cumulative Stress Theory or the Precocious Development Theory for predicting outcomes in this clinical population. The ADP models offered significant improvement over the model with background characteristics only. Change in social environment was the leading …
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The Female Life Course at San Zeno: An Exploration of Women as the Makers and Keepers of Family Memory in Lombard Italy
… century). I explore various aspects of women's life courses, particularly fertility and reproductive loss. As documentary sources discussing Lombard women are scarce, generally hostile towards women and written by men, I rely on archaeological sources to explore the female life courses. I …
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Vaikeavammaisen nuoren aikuistuminen : Yksilöllinen ja erilainen elämänkulku
… disabled adolescents. Diversity in individual life courses. The focus of this study is to examine the transition to adulthood of severely disabled adolescents as part of their life course. The data for this study were gathered through interviews with nine severely disabled adolescents, who were …
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Old-age pensions and life course in rural China : the emergence of modern retirement?
… in this transformation process influencing the life chances of many peasants. This study deals with the relationship between social policy and individual life courses in the context of the Chinese reform process. By studying the rural pension policy, the study focuses on the power of social …
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Sociological Silhouettes: the Archaeology and Demography of Knowledge
… 3 employs a demographic approach to study the life-courses of cited works, cited authors, publishing authors, and title terminology across five social sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology). The aim is to advance the sociology of sociology and science …
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Discounted: Stories of formerly gang involved and incarcerated Latino males in Los Angeles County
… the elements needed to begin changing the life courses for the men in this community through collaborative partnerships.</p>
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Migration and Residential Mobility Into Impoverished Rural Illinois Communities
… of regional forces, community factors, and the life courses of migrants transforms rural communities from residentially stable to highly mobile, impoverished places. At the statewide level, this study used block group data from the 1990 Census to test a hypothesized model of migration into …
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The Residue of a Deep Past: Struggle over cultural transmission in southwest China
… existences, even through times when wellbeing in life is most at stake. I trace the nɑχɑ people’s struggles to reclaim the deep past across time through their multi-layered practices of place making, in the experience of the physical body, the domestic environment, the local landscape and beyond. …
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Ruptured Lives: Narrative Accounts of US American Adult Converts to Evangelical Christianity over the Life Course
… when examined in relation to participants’ life courses. When analyzed through the lens of temporality, linearity, spatial shifts, and continual growth into an evangelical belief system, participants’ evangelical conversion experiences had caused a disruption that led them to have distinct …
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Continuity and change in Chinese marriage
… and stability in others affects individual life courses. Each of the thesis's four substantive chapters addresses a specific knowledge gap in the existing literature on marriage and family formation in China. Please see the attached full abstract
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Continuity and change in Chinese marriage
… and stability in others affects individual life courses. Each of the thesis's four substantive chapters addresses a specific knowledge gap in the existing literature on marriage and family formation in China. Please see the attached full abstract
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US immigration policies: the lived experiences of international students with families
… students with family, in this study I employ life course theory (Elder, 1998) and hermeneutic phenomenology as an approach to explore the ways in which international students and their families make sense of US immigration policies related to their visa statuses and the effects of that …
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Engendering pensions: Gender assessment of pension system reforms in Mongolia
… design of pension systems given the distinctive life courses of women, the unequal distribution of unpaid work responsibilities in the family that influence access to participation in gendered labour markets, the greater likelihood of broken work practices, part-time work, and lower rates of pay. …
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Not quite the same: a personal ecology perspective on the enduring impact of growing up with the troubles
… of Troubles-related memories on the lives and life-courses of individuals who grew up in Northern Ireland during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Underpinned by theories of emotions, memory, trauma, and Nigel Rapport’s life-project approach, it employs the perspective of ‘personal ecology’ to …
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A cohort perspective of U.S. adult mortality
… from both “fundamental cause” theory and a life course perspective of mortality but couching them in a cohort framework to highlight the importance of historical changes in U.S. social and health contexts in both childhood and adulthood. This cohort perspective is then used to analyze three …
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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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Timing Fate: Build To Order Romances in Singapore
… and a system that incentivises particular life pathways. However, it also delves into the fragile precarity of normative life courses when set against fateful futures, and in so doing, explores the human ballast that sustains the operation of Singapore’s highly praised public housing …
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Leaving Home Sooner or Later: Co-residence and Parent-Adult Child Relations in Italy and Sweden
… less frequent interactions with parents in later life. The findings show that the longer the time adult children spent in their parents’ home, the higher the propensity to reside near, and maintain frequent interaction with parents in later life is. In addition, spending longer time in the …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… bottom-up study of how sailors’ meandering life courses influenced and reflected America’s physical, ideological, commercial and diplomatic development. These three men’s lives reflect the wide range of occupational and personal experiences of ordinary and extraordinary Americans of their …
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