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Showing 1 to 20 of 199 for “"Sociology, Individual and Family Studies"”.
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A critical analysis of some of the methods employed to solve the problem of contraception
Abstract not available.
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Enrichissement conjugal: La contribution de seize variables de processus à un nouveau programme
Abstract not available.
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Mapping the link between female sexual desires and behaviors in heterosexual dating relationships
… the links between females' sexual desires and sexual behaviors over a period of 14 days. A method of using quantitative data to produce qualitative narratives was used on a subsample of these women to identify three distinct pathways to frequent correspondence between young women's desires …
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Relational Aggression, Overt Aggression, and Family Relationships
Many researchers have sought to increase understanding of childhood aggression through the study of the relation between characteristics of family relationships and children's (mainly boys') use of physical aggression in the peer group. This study is a first step toward examining processes in the …
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Shared Understanding of Parental Differential Treatment in Families
… has revealed that children's perceptions and attributions about parental differential treatment (PDT) moderates the established association between PDT and sibling relationship quality. The present study extended this line of research by examining whether associations between perceptions …
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Effects of Parental Attitudes Toward Intergenerational Support on Net Worth: Examinations by Race and Ethnicity
… with change in financial saving net worth and change in housing net worth in all three racial/ethnic groups. Out of eight variables, four variables for Whites, five variables for Blacks, and two variables for Hispanics supported the hypothesized relationship with change in financial saving …
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Adult Leader Qualities as Predictors of Adolescent Social Competence
… should promote social competence in youth, and very little research has examined the ways that adults can be more effective as they work with adolescents. This study investigated links between the quality of adult leaders of SLA's and adolescent social competence in rural White/Anglo and …
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Child Care Supply and Demand: Parental Choice at the Area and Family Levels
"To better understand the child care options available to families in East Central Illinois, this study assessed a new measure of parental choice of child care using---supply-demand congruence (SDC)---which compared the number of child care slots requested by parents with the number of vacant slots …
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Motivating Children to Learn: The Role of Mothers' Beliefs About Ability and Effort
… to learn is their beliefs about ability and effort in their school performance. Research indicates that children who hold the belief that hard work will increase knowledge and lead to successful outcomes in school tend to be motivated to learn, whereas children who emphasize the …
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Achieving Reunification for Children in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence: Perspectives of Battered Women and Child Welfare Professionals
Findings revealed that battered mothers and professionals in the child welfare system agreed on many of the same child welfare practices and characteristics of child welfare professionals as facilitating reunification process. However, there were a number of practices and characteristics of the …
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Success Oriented Strategies Employed by Middle-Class African American Families: A Focus on Positive Racial Identity Development and Socialization
… study was to identify the parenting practices and child-rearing strategies employed by African American families that facilitate the development and socialization of children in ways that promote achievement and success outcomes, with a primary focus on those strategies that foster positive …
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Parenting Among Mothers With Bipolar Disorder
… groups. The families might benefit from a family psycho-education program. Future research could explore the causes of problems in disciplining and the ways to handle it.
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Adolescent Mothers' Relationships With Their Mothers: Communication, Support and Shared Caregiving
… pairs of cohabitating adolescent mothers and their mothers, referred to as grandmothers. Mothers and grandmothers reported increased communication, with a focus on the grandchildren and parenting after the mother's initiation of parenting. Grandmothers also wanted to prepare mothers for …
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Parent Participation in Policy Development: An Analysis of Parent Representation on Illinois Local Interagency Coordinating Councils
… coordinating councils (LICs) represent the needs and interests of families within their local service area. Current LIC parent voting members were surveyed regarding the nature of family representation on these councils. Demographic information from each survey respondent was compared with known …
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Psychological Adjustment of Korean-Born Adolescents Adopted by American Families
… stress the transaction between adoptive parents and children in terms of sharing experiences of children's ethnic socialization and establishes that positive relationship is the fundamental factor for children to develop a unique process of identity development. The outcomes of the study suggest …
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An Exploration Into the Child Welfare Experience of Parents With Mental Retardation in Illinois
… the unique learning needs of this population, and the relationship between the degree of mental retardation and family outcomes for parents who are involved with the Department of Children and Family Services. Caseworkers reported that parents with mental retardation present a higher risk of …
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The Effects of Work -Family Human Resource Decisions on Shareholder Return
… of women in the work force has increased and a drastic change in family structure has also taken place. Accordingly, firms' attention to work-family human resource decisions has increased. However, a shortage of research linking work-family human resource decisions to bottom line outcomes …
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Spousal Caregivers: Caregiving in Their Own Words
… social support, coping with uncertainty, and sharing their stories with a specialized audience. The study also incorporated the researcher's knowledge of the social service community from 15 years of social work experience, a survey given to caregivers receiving services from the county …
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"""Daddy's Girl"" and ""Big Man on Campus"": Turning Points in the Development of Parent-Adolescent Relationships"
… perspective highlights the idea that as parents and adolescents move towards more autonomy, that task is made challenging by other salient identity and relationship goals. From a normative perspective, it is useful to know about the likelihood for identity and relational goals to conflict with …
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Life Stories in Everyday Practice: A Feminist Communication Study of Life Stories at the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College
… active role in the development of ""community"" and in the ability of fellows to engage in effective cross-disciplinary dialogue. Stories-on-the-fly grounded academic subject matter in the lives of the fellows, and often provided a way into the intellectual heart of the matter. In addition, these …
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