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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Life-Course Theory"”.
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Economic and Parent-Adolescent Relationship Capital Predicting Educational Outcomes
Using the perspectives of social capital theory (Coleman, 1988) and life course theory (Elder et al., 2003), this study examined how economic capital and particular dimensions of the parent-adolescent relationship predicted educational outcomes. The economic capital variables were family income, …
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Death on the Horizon: Osteoethnography of the People of Akhetaten
… of its practioners. Osteoethnography employs life course theory, and the concepts of embodiment and agency. To present a recreation of a culture from the past I utilized skeletal and archaeological data, primary sources from the culture being studied, and secondary sources from scholars who …
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Predicting Socioeconomic Success and Mental Health Outcomes for Young Adults who Dropped out of College
… of young adults who dropped out of college. Life course theory and the theory of emerging adulthood were used to create the theoretical foundation for the studies. The first study explored how students who dropped out of college were faring during young adulthood on multiple measures of …
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Community Characteristics and Trajectories of Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: The Cumulative Advantage/Disadvantage and Subjective Appraisals of Social Support as Mechanisms
… across adolescence is limited. Using family life course theory and the cumulative advantage/disadvantage perspective, this study examined how community disadvantages in early adolescence accumulate over time to influence later internalizing and externalizing behaviors and the protective …
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Examining cohabitation in emerging adulthood
… adulthood in the same studies. Supported by life course theory, inertia theory, and selection effects theory, the current study examined cohabitation specifically within the years of 18-25 to explore how demographic variables might be linked to the tempo of relationship transitions and the …
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Health Insurance Experiences of Gay Father Families: Perceptions, Disclosure, and Roles
… health insurance. Using symbolic interactionism, life course theory, and grounded theory methodology, I conducted a qualitative pilot study to investigate gay fathers\' health insurance experiences. I collected responses from 10 White, gay fathers across the United States and asked questions about …
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When a second sibling comes out as LGBT: Examining sibling relationships and family experiences
… coming out process. Guided by an integration of life course theory and symbolic interactionism, 15 young adults participated in intensive interviews involving their personal coming out experiences, self-identification processes, and family relationships. A constructivist grounded theory approach …
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Making Transnational Adults From Youth: Mexican Immigrant Youth in Pursuit of the Mexican Dream
… this dissertation employs transnational theory, cultural and social reproduction theory, and life course theory to explain how even prior to immigration, youth are already forming ideas about work and school-going in the United States. Subject both to the social and economic conditions of …
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“If You Can Do This Job, You Can Do Anything”: An Exploration of the Lived Experiences of Early Career Social Workers Engaged with People Living with HIV/AIDS
… modified socioecological model, complemented by life course theory, provides the conceptual framework informing the research process. Findings are organized along the five domains of the socioecological model—individual; interpersonal; organizational; community; and policy and societal. Three …
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Constitution and negotiation of rural student identities at an urban South African university
… The theoretical framework of this study was the life course theory of development. Data collection comprised a mix of semi-structured questionnaires and focus group interviews. Data was analysed by means of content analysis. The findings were threefold: first, in constituting their identities, …
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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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Intimate Partners in Crime: Utilizing Life Course to Examine Female Criminality
<p>Employing a life-course framework, this research examines how various relationship typologies expands Sampson and Laub’s (2003) discussion of ‘marriage’ as a crucial mechanism involved in desistence. Moreover, recent contributions to life-course theory has identified a void in the literature in …
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Parental Involvement during the College Transition: Trajectories and Associations with Academic Success, Well-Being, and Individuation
Guided by the developmental theory of emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2004) and life course theory (Elder, 1984), the goals of the current study were to investigate changes in parent involvement, changes in student outcomes, and links between changes in involvement and student outcomes across the first …
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Predictors Of Psychosocial Adaptation To Pregnancy Among Urban African-American Primiparas
… among urban African-American primiparas using life course theory and Lederman's model of psychosocial adaptation to pregnancy as the framework.</p> <p>One hundred and nine women participated in this descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational study. Participants were recruited from three …
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Nurses With Substance Use Disorder: A Narrative Inquiry
… nurses. Stories were written and analyzed using life course theory. Five key themes emerged through the narrative analysis process. Results: Nurses reported feeling a great deal of shame related to their SUD and did not initially disclose because they were afraid of losing their job and/or …
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Ethnic Minorities and Family Health History: An Autoethnography of Guyanese Americans and Kidney Disease
… and experiences, which could inform better lifestyle choices to prevent or delay the onset of diseases. Exploring family health histories focuses on an individual’s genetic makeup and considers differences in lifestyle and environment. Despite national campaigns, it is an underutilized tool …
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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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Later-Life Filipino Immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area: A Case Study of Health Status and Utilization of Services
… it shapes health and age identities among later-life Filipino immigrants. In total 37 semi-structured interviews (22 key informants and 15 later-life Filipinos) and a survey of 138 questionnaires were collected for analysis. Results from key informant interviews support current literature which …
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The lived worlds and life experiences of residents in university linked retirement communities: A qualitative approach
… develop post-retirement identities. Utilizing life course theory as the theoretical framework, the dissertation explores residents‘ attraction to and experiences in ULRCs. One of the innovative ways that learning in retirement is being addressed is through the practice of ULRCs. ULRCs are …
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Ordinary men: extraordinary times. An exploration of the impact of combat experience on World War Two Royal New Zealand Air Force aircrew across the life course from the perspectives of the veterans, their spouse/ partner, siblings, children and grandchildren
… analysis, using the framework of Elder‘s Life Course theory. The study was conducted in two phases, in Phase One, six veterans and one wife were interviewed. The results were analysed and the interview schedule modified. In Phase II, a further 41 interviews were conducted and analysed. …
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