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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Only child."”.
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The only child grows up: exploring adult only-child educators /
… study was to examine the experiences of adult only-child educators. The researcher explored the extent to which the experiences of growing up in a one-child family influenced the participants' professional experiences. This was a qualitative study. A narrative case study approach was used, and …
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Only An Only Child: Stories
Only An Only Child is a collection of eleven short stories that examines masculinity in predominantly rural settings, emphasizing complex familial and romantic relationships. These stories respond to – and in certain respects, challenge – twentieth century narratives of masculinity by …
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American family entertainment and the only child generation in contemporary urban China
… generally referred to as the post-80s or the only child generation, had emerged, grown up and become the main contributors to China’s media consumption. In this thesis, a study of the only child generation and the American family entertainment will be presented. The study sees the only child …
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On Becoming a Reflexive Practitioner
Research into the world of the only child has been dominated by the existence of the enduring stereotype of the spoilt and lonely child. This has resulted in a wide range of studies that vary in opinion and have tended to polarise the experience from a negative and damaging one, moving to a more …
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The Relationship Between Birth Order and Standardized Reading Test Scores
<p>The study was undertaken to determine If the only child and the eldest child in a family would score significantly higher on a standardized reading test than siblings occupying other positions in the birth order. Eleventh grade students at a public high school in a southwestern county in Georgia …
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Caregivers’ Understanding Of Early Literature Expectations For Firstborn Children Entering Kindergarten
… literacy expectations for their firstborn or only child as they begin their kindergarten schooling. This study consisted of seven participants and six interviews with caregivers that enrolled their children in the Archdiocese of Detroit Catholic Schools in Southeast, MI. With the findings of …
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Birth and After Birth and Painting Churches: Tina Howe's Examination of Love and Savagery in the American Family
… three-member families (a set of parents and an only child) and take place at a time of significant change. The main focus is Painting Churches and the abuse that lies at the heart of the play. Mags Church (short for Margaret) has come home to help her parents, Fanny and Gardner, pack their …
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The relationship between locus of control and birth order in college students' academic success
… the study based on the fact that they were the only child. A demographics survey was designed to determine the academic success based on grade point average. The Rotter's Locus of Control survey was used to determine the locus of control of the college students. Neither hypothesis investigated …
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Close, A Family Memoir
… illness, when my brothers were young. I am his only child with my mother, who was twenty-six when she married my dad and took on the role of parenting the boys. The second narrative traces my fixation, as a young, single woman, on romantic love: I write a blog about relationships, and have long …
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Does birth order affect intelligence?
… broken down into four levels; firstborn, middle child, youngest and only child. The different levels of birth order and SAT scores were compared to see if significant difference existed between the two variables. The Kruskal-Wallis test, a non-parametric one-way analysis of variance, was used to …
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A magic prison
… and how she should help to find him. As a child, she knew him only through their two weeks together each December; as a young adult, she had to deal with the consequences of his alcoholism and her stepsister’s accusation that he molested her. Now Megan is fortyone, married to Steven and the …
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Psychological Birth Order and Career Adaptability in an At-Risk College Population
… outlined four birth order positions: firstborn child, middle born child, youngest child, and only child (White, Campbell, Stewart, & Davies, 1997). The psychological birth order of each participant was assessed using the Psychological Birth Order Inventory (PBOI) (Campbell, White, & Stewart, …
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Support for bereaved parents following the death of a child from cancer
One in 600 children develops cancer before the age of 15 (Cancer-UK 2004). Thefocus on providing supportive care throughout the course of a child's treatment isrightly prioritised. However, the provision of effective bereavement care must not beneglected. Although there are differences between …
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Touchy-Feely, Gross Stuff
… growing up. To me this very normal, and as an only child, I did not have much to compare it to until I started school. It was there that I saw children and adults convey emotion not just with words but also with a physical display. Though the idea of outwardly expressing emotion was not foreign …
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Learning for a Lifetime: Motivations for Lifelong Learning in the Life of Evelyn McQueen Cook.
… and a sense of isolation, gender and being an only child, and age all emerged as distracters or barriers to learning.</p><p>Recommendations included the need to provide adults more opportunities that allowed them to reflect upon their educational experiences, both formal and informal. Specific …
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Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics
… 1, I investigate what effect growing up as an only-child has on social and risk preferences, trust, and behaviour in strategic interaction. To do that, I use data from a laboratory experiment in which university students participated in three different games (a public goods game, a response …
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The Public Perceptions and Personal Experiences of Only Children Growing Up in Britain, c. 1850-1950
This thesis argues that only-childhood was never the sole, and only ever a minor, determinant of only children’s experiences. It analyses autobiographies and oral history interviews of only children who grew up between 1850 and 1950 to show how personal inclinations, parental attitudes, domestic …
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An examination of the development of delinquency in middle childhood.
… examining precursors of delinquency evident in childhood. Two theoretical perspectives were used to examine the influences of childhood behaviors and experiences on the incidence of adolescent delinquency and childhood deviance. Social control theory and social interactional theory were tested …
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Women's Athletics and the Athletic Patriarchy
… with older brothers. The fifth woman was an only child. Questions about early athletic experiences, Title IX experiences, and experiences with the athletic patriarchy were asked of each woman. Interviews were conducted in a variety of settings, office of the participant, the home of one …
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Parent-child mutuality in the early school years
… of the nature and development of parent-child dyadic mutuality during children’s transition to school. Results are presented from two multi-method, multi-informant research projects. The first two studies in this thesis draw on an ESRC-funded longitudinal project, which involved a sample …
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