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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"Mother-Daughter"”.
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Side By Side: Reinventing Mother/Daughter Relationships
Beginning with mother/daughter film classics such as Stella Dallas (1937) and Mildred Pierce (1945), and moving to consider recent mother/daughter texts, Anywhere But Here (1999) and "Gilmore Girls" (2000 -), this thesis, in both its written and visual components, examines the multiple and often …
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Matrilineaology: Mother-daughter relationships in contemporary fiction
… attempt to answer questions such as, "How do a mother's experiences prior to the birth of her daughter affect the way that she raises that daughter?" and "How does a mother's history affect her attitude(s) toward her daughter?" These questions are important because they lay the groundwork for …
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Interpersonal Emotion Dynamics in Mother-Daughter Dyads during Adolescence
… dissertation was to examine emotion dynamics in mother-daughter interactions across different positive and negative contexts, and their associations with psychosocial adjustment—relationship quality and internalizing symptoms. This dissertation was informed by theoretical approaches that assert …
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Mother-daughter selection of seventh grade girl's clothing store
… with agreement or disagreement of middle class mothers and their seventh grade daughters in selection of stores for purchasing the daughters' clothing. Data were obtained from 48 matched mother-daughter pairs in Chester, Virginia, in the spring of 1970. Aspects of retail selection studied …
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USING ATTACHMENT THEORY TO STUDY MOTHER-DAUGHTER COMMUNICATION ABOUT SEX
… styles and breadth and depth of communication on mother-daughter communication about sex. Daughters (N = 75) ages 19 to 68 completed an online questionnaire asking about their previous conversations about sex with their mothers. The results showed that daughters with a secure attachment style …
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The mother-daughter conflict in selected works by Doris Lessing
… man than with another woman. This woman is the mother. The younger woman's task is to resist the compulsion to become like her mother and so lead a narrow, entirely domesticated life. The theme of the mother-daughter conflict is given its first extensive examination in this study. Three of …
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Analyzing Communication in Mother-Daughter Dyads Following the Mother's Cancer Diagnosis
… and caregiver stress (Beach, 2001). The mother-daughter dyad represents one of the most significant relationships to analyze with respect to the impact cancer has within the family since mothers are typically the primary role models for their daughters (Miller, 1995). Using interviews …
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Influences of the Mother-Daughter Relationship on Motivations for Sexual Behavior
… were operationalized as child attachment to mother, parental support of each other, parental conflict strategies, and parental monitoring. Emotional motivations were operationalized as attachment and affiliation needs. The sample consisted of 40 single females ages 18 to22 recruited from a …
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Stage(d) mothers: mother-daughter tropes in Twentieth-Century American drama
The relationship between mother and daughter is an important one for many women. In learning how to best become a successful member of society, daughters look to their mothers to demonstrate the behaviors and beliefs appropriate to a female. Such explicit and implicit instruction makes the …
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Perceptions of Mother-Daughter Relationships in the Art of Adult Incest Survivors
The notion of the collusive mother is pervasive in the psychological literature on incest. This notion has been further examined in this thesis which entails a critical study of the literature supporting the idea of the colluding mother in incestuous families. In addition, a field study was …
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Studying the Hyphen: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Selected Works by Amy Tan
… is best exemplified using the theme of mother-daughter relations. Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club explores the relationships between four generations of women: the grandmothers, the mothers, the daughters and the grand-daughters. Each generation considers Chinese-American life …
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Nopalitos Mean Something: Communicating Identity in Mother-Daughter Relationships through Food and Recipe
… in relationships among women—specifically within mother-daughter relationships. The text highlights how food and recipes can become emotionally entwined in our life stories and in our relationships. Using cluster analysis, the analytical research of this thesis creates conversations about food and …
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The mother of all dissatisfaction: Consequences of mother-daughter relationships on body dissatisfaction
… investigation further extrapolated how the mother-daughter dyad informs the internalization or deconstruction of sociocultural beliefs and attitudes crucial for body dissatisfaction maintenance. This mixed methods study utilized two separate samples of women during respective quantitative …
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Exploring the intergenerational risk for intimate partner violence among Latina mother-daughter pairs
… & Koss, 1995) to examine the roles of the mother’s abuse history (physical and psychological) and the mother-daughter relationship on the daughter’s risk for dating violence among a sample of 50 Latina mother-daughter pairs. Results indicated the mothers’ experience with psychological abuse …
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Long-distance mother-daughter communication: Identifying changes and maintenance behaviors when daughters leave home
The mother-daughter relationship goes through many transitions and changes as the daughter grows up. In particular, when the daughter transitions out of the home and geographical distance is increased between mother and daughter. How a mother and daughter dyad adapt to the changes that happen in …
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Perceptions of Body Size and Desire to Be Thinner among Hispanice Mother-Daughter Dyads
… about their own body size and that of their daughters may play an important role in the development of daughters’ body image (Duchin et al., 2016). Yet, few studies have investigated the relationship between Hispanic mothers perceived-ideal body size including the moderation effect of …
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The Translation From Memory to Postmemory: The Mother-Daughter Dialogue in Post-Holocaust Literature
… process between the generations. The daughters help their mothers unlock and vocalize the past, and in a second step often attempt to adopt and integrate their mother's stories into their own cultural-political framework of references and speech. Lena Einhorn's and Lydie Salvayre's …
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Bone Mineral Density, Preventative Behaviors And Risk Factors In African American And Caucasian Mother-Daughter Pairs
… average age for discussion initiation between mothers and daughters about osteoporosis does not occur until after peak bone mass is reached (2011). Purpose: this research project aimed to investigate the relationship between osteoporosis knowledge, bone mineral density (bmd), risk factors of …
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