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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Stepmother"”.
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An Exploratory Investigation of Adults’ and Children’s Perceptions of their Experiences Living in a Stepmother Family
… and challenging experiences of living in a stepmother family, from the perspectives of stepmothers, fathers and stepchildren. Grounded in family systems theory and guided by a qualitative methodology, data are obtained from individual, face-to-face semi-structured interviews with members of …
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The difficulties of stepmotherhood : a comparison between stepmothers who have no children of their own and stepmothers who have their own children
… studies have examined the difficulties of the stepmother, but research suggests that compared to other stepparents, stepmothers without their own children have the most difficult task. This preliminary study describes the difficulties of the stepmother by comparing two groups of stepmothers; …
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Stepmothering and Identity: A Synthetic Narrative-Discursive Analysis
… cross household boundaries. This has meant that stepmother families, who are often non-residential, are rarely included in research and there is a very limited literature which considers the perspectives of stepmothers themselves. However, there have been research findings suggesting greater …
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Pola relasi anak dengan ibu tiri dan implikasinya terhadap upaya mewujudkan keluarga sakinah: Studi di Kelurahan Dampit Kabupaten Malang
… his children. The story about the unkindness of stepmothers may have sticked a strong impression to the children, resulted unfair opinion, that stepmothers always do torture and cruelty. But unfortunately, many good stepmothers figure were never aired on television. This research is conducted to …
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How Parenting Stress and Discouragement Impact Functioning Within Stepfamilies
… or stepparent, whether the stepparent was a stepmother or stepfather, or whether the marriage had been formed more or less than two years was also considered. One assumption made was that increased parenting stress and discouragement will lead to decreased family functioning. Other …
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Caregiving: An exploration of African American male caregiver roles in Texas
… age who provide care for their mother, father, stepmother, sister, aunt, companion, brother, and fictive kin. Study participants self-identified as caregivers who provided formal or informal caregiver assistance to the elderly with activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily …
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A magic prison
… Jess; but she is her father’s only child and her stepmother needs her help. As Megan returns to Maui she recalls her Christmases with her father. Both good and bad memories are evoked as she searches for him: from the delights of snorkelling, the horrors of a cock fight, and the stories of the …
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Intersecting Axes: Narrative and Culture in Versions of the Lizzie Borden Story (A Performative Approach)
… Borden, famously accused of axe-murdering her stepmother Abby and father Andrew in 1892. Informed by narrative and feminist theories, INTERSECTING AXES draws upon interdisciplinary, contemporary re-workings of Judith Butler’s concept of “performativity” to explore the ways in which versions of …
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Parental Socialization Of Emotion and Anxiety Among Latinx Youth: The Role of Emotion Dysregulation and Familismo
… SD = 7.80; 75.5% mothers, 23.4% fathers, 1.1% stepmother) completed a battery of questionnaries assessing parental emotion socialization, child emotion dysregulation, child anxiety symptoms, and familismo. Results: Greater parental supportive emotion socialization was associated with lower …
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Navigating Emotional Transitions: A Study of Self-Perception and Emotion in Bio-Childfree Women Entering a Blended Family
… and emotional adjustment of bio-childfree stepmothers change when they become members of their new family. With a phenomenological approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 female participants who were bio-childfree, in a committed relationship with a partner with …
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An Assessment of Marital Satisfaction in Stepfamilies Toward an Integration of Three Conceptual Models of Relationship Satisfaction
… women in stepfamilies, and for respondents in stepmother and complex stepfamilies.</p> <p>Contextual model variables of social support were more useful in predicting marital satisfaction in stepfamiliesthan were demographic or spiritual support variables. The contextual model was the best …
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"An Outsider in my Own Home": Women's Perceptions of the Markers of Attachment Injury in Stepcouple Relationships
… with five women who were both biological and stepmothers in a stepcouple relationship. The pattern matching method of data analysis was used to explore for markers of attachment injury in the stepcouple relationships. The context of the women's stories, as well as direct questions, enabled …