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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Residential status"”.
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Internal migrants and labour market discrimination in Shanghai’s manufacturing sector
… where economy booms. Without local permanent residential status (local hukou), migrants are subject to social and economic constraints. This thesis examines the extent to which migrants are disadvantaged and discriminated in Shanghai’s manufacturing sector. The thesis further explains the …
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Dads matter: Examining paternal involvement as a predictive factor in healthy birth outcomes in African American families
… healthy birth outcomes and explore the role of residential status on paternal involvement. The analyses are based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study and focus groups with recent and expectant fathers from the Champaign-Urbana community in the state of Illinois. The …
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Father-son relationship quality and associated adolescent risks
… relationship quality across groupings of father residential status; and third, that the quality of the fatherson relationship is a stronger predictor of risk behaviour than father’s residential status (whether the adolescent lived with the father or not), or whether the “father” is a biological …
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The freshman experience
… traits in combination with on-campus backspace residential status was not predictive of greater change in engagement in sexual risk-taking behavior. Implications for future research and prevention efforts are discussed.
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Social norms: actual versus perceived alcohol consumption of college freshmen
… of college freshmen (n = 84) and the students residential status. The participants consisted of fifty-six resident students and twenty-eight commuter students. The frequency of alcohol consumption by students in general as perceived by the participants was also analyzed. The secondary purpose …
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Health Literacy and Psychiatric Hospital Readmissions
… (social support, gender, ethnicity, residential status, insurance status, employment status, marital status, education, in-patient length of stay, age, and health literacy). The prospective, exploratory, descriptive research design used a health literacy questionnaire at or near …
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Perceived familial socialization and ethnic identity: factors associated with physical activity, eating behavior patterns, and social physique anxiety in african american middle adolescents
… adolescents. Differences based on socioeconomic status (SES), gender, and residential status provided the context for the analysis. </p> <p>Theoretical Framework: The social ecological approach was used to guide the study in the exploration of parental influences on body image and body change as …
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"""Am I Korean American?"": beliefs and practices of parents and children living in two languages and two cultures"
… different depending on the respondents' residential status. In comparison to the sojourners, immigrants tended to give more priority to their children's oral language development and Korean identity construction. I also conducted case studies of three Korean immigrant families with 3- to …
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A Study of Religious Attitudes and Problems as Perceived by Current and Former Seventh-day Adventist Students at Seventh-day Adventist Mission Secondary Schools in Hong Kong
… background of parents, parents' marital status, church attendance, and residential status, whether dormitory or community students.</p> <p>Method. The subjects of this study were 165 current students from Form/Middle One to Five and 199 alumni who had left the Adventist secondary schools, …
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To bry or not to bry: the social meanings of Afrikaans rhotic variation in the South Cape
… Africa's colonial era and declared a Coloured residential area during apartheid. In South Africa, place has been politicised due to colonialism and apartheid. I argue that the racialisation of places contributes to Houtiniquadorpers' sense of locality and belonging. The linguistic form I focus …
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Natural Disaster Preparedness In College Students: Implications For Institutions Of Higher Learning
… variables were found in gender and the residential status of students. Age was not found to be a significant predictor of preparedness while Total Experience was found to be a significant predictor of both Actual and Perceived Preparedness. Mixed results were found regarding the …
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Patterns of international migration in the Santiago Metropolitan Area - Characterization of the immigrants' social space and contributions to the national policy debate
… of migrants, the SMA shows less evidence of residential segregation than many European and US cities. The highest segregation indexes are associated with European and US immigrants with a high socioeconomic status (“voluntary ghettos”). Factor and cluster analyses show major patterns of the …
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The Influence of Black African American Fathers’ Parenting Styles on Young Adult Children’s Attachment Styles: the Roles of Gender and Fathers’ Residence
… attachment dimensions differed based on fathers’ residential status (living with or away from their children) and participant gender. The analysis was intended to evaluate group-level mean differences across the dependent variables rather than to assess predictive or causal relationships among the …