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Showing 1 to 20 of 392 for “"Spouses"”.
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Undergraduate experiences of military spouses
… educational experiences of active duty military spouses pursuing an undergraduate degree, with a focus on the perceived opportunities and challenges related to degree completion. Data were collected from nine participants who identified as an active duty military spouse enrolled in an …
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The role of spouses in entrepreneurship
… This journey can have a two-fold impact on the spouses. The spouses of entrepreneurs may be themselves in need of attention, time, and guidance from the other spouse in family matters and meeting the needs of growing children. However, many spouses find themselves in a situation where they …
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Service Utilization among Bereaved Spouses and Family Caregivers
For family caregivers, response to the death of the care recipient is marked by a high degree of variability. In recognition of this variability, a range of services and interventions is available to assist individuals in the adjustment to bereavement. The present dissertation, consisting of three …
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Facebook, Resilience and Army Spouses Coping With Combat Deployment
The United States Army has experienced an extremely high operation tempo in the past nine years supporting ongoing combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ongoing combat operations have placed an enormous toll on equipment, soldiers and families. Focusing on the imperative of sustaining …
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The ties that bind: relationship attachment between former spouses
… coparental relationships with their former spouses. The degree of hostility surrounding the divorce, current conflict between the former spouses, the custody arrangement, and the mother's satisfaction with financial support all had an indirect effect on attachment through their effects on …
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Evaluating psychosocial support groups for spouses of aphasic people
… into the psychological problens experienced by spouses of aphasic adults. The indication is that spouses experience severe psychological and social problens which require intervention (Muller and Code, 1983). Studies in the field of social support suggest that structured group intervention is an …
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An Untraditional Life: Male Spouses of Female Military Personnel
… continue to represent the majority of military spouses and as a result, most research on military spouses has focused exclusively on them. Utilizing data from the 1999 Survey of Active Duty Spouses, one goal of this study was to address this gap in the literature by examining how male and female …
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Multiple Role Women and their Spouses: Variables Effecting Family Functioning
… as experienced by multiple role women and their spouses. The family has long been recognized as the most important contextual influence in human growth and development. Nurses have been working with families for generations, especially in community and mental health nursing. It is only in the …
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A narrative study of the spouses of traumatized Canadian soldiers
… inclusive portrait of the experience of female spouses living with traumatized male Canadian soldiers healing from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). By facilitating the articulation of the spouses' stories this research gives a voice to and fosters appreciation for this neglected …
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Using mindful mandala making to ground and center military spouses
… provide an art intervention that allows military spouses a chance to be mindful and present in the moment resulting in grounding and centering. This Internet based research design used subjective units of distress (SUDS) scale to measure self-reported levels of distress before making the mandala, …
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The lived experience of migrating women spouses : a phenomenological study
Migration has become more common as globalisation has required more and more people to be transferred to countries other than their own for short or long term placements. Numerous women experience migration due to their husbands being transferred, yet the literature does not reveal much about how …
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Referent communication skills in marriage: spouses as speakers and listeners
… groups attempted to communicate with their spouses and with other married persons. Each subject (S) served as either a speaker or a listener but not as both. A bipolar adjective checklist was administered to each ~ under eight different response sets (self, ideal self, spouse, ideal spouse, …
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Psychosocial factors affecting adaptation of patients and spouses to myocardial infarction
Former heart attack patients and spouses in 140 Families completed a mailed self-report questionnaire containing the Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes, the Coping and Health Inventory For Parents, three scales developed For this study measuring family process variables and demographic …
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Spouses’ experience of a shared alcohol rehabilitation involvement : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
The focus of this research is the spouses’ lived experience of a shared alcohol rehabilitation involvement. This research sets out to gain more knowledge through the subjective experience of how the spouse of an alcohol-dependent person experienced the feedback session they attended as a couple. …
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Determinants of success in international assignments for Quebec expatriates and their spouses
… study, conducted with 104 expatriates and 74 spouses currently on assignment abroad assesses the impact of cross-cultural training, social support, and culture novelty on expatriates' and spouses' adjustment, satisfaction and stress. Their intention to stay and willingness to return overseas …
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