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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Turning points"”.
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Turning points of closeness in the sibling relationship.
… family scholars to study relationships called "Turning Point Analysis" (Baxter & Bullis, 1986) was used to capture the critical moments that impacted closeness within the sibling relationship. Six primary turning points of closeness emerged in the analysis and are described and explained from a …
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Expanding the Impact of Peer Networks: Pathways to Turning Points
Scholars highlight the importance of both adolescent peers and prosocial life events in explanations of continuity and change in deviant behavior. Thus far, research has evaluated the pathway to desistance by focusing on what happens to one's trajectory after experiencing prosocial adult …
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Identifying and predicting turning points in Australian inbound tourism demand growth
… study identifies the importance of forecasting turning points in tourism demand. Recognising the limitations of the current linear models in use, and the lack of adequate research in turning point prediction in tourism, the objective of this study is to forecast turning points in tourism demand …
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Predicting the Bull Run: scientific evidence for turning points of markets
… provides scientific evidence of past research of turning points in markets, focusing on bull markets as evidence suggests that predictability of bull markets leads to superior returns for an asset manager. In addition, this study provides an analysis of macroeconomic variables that can be used for …
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Positive turning points? : young women's experiences of teenage pregnancy, motherhood and education
… problematic or as a positive and remarkable turning point<br/>are critically considered. Attention is paid to the value judgements that underlie these<br/>constructions of teenage pregnancy, problematising the kinds of agency that are<br/>positioned as appropriate for young …
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Turning points or dead ends? Identity, desistance and the experience of imprisonment
… and ‘redemptive’ agents had encountered ‘turning points’, in that they accepted responsibility, albeit in different ways. The analysis describes each group’s characteristic ways of describing the offence and their part in it. It also describes their attitudes to prison social life in …
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Study of the correlation of diet changes with life transitions and turning points
… Course Perspective: trajectories, transitions, turning points, cultural and contextual influences, timing in lives, linked lives, and adaptive strategies. Transitions and turning points are important factors for understanding how diet changes and other health habits occur during an individual's …
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Turning points of corporate manslaughter reform in England and Wales from 1912 to 1999
Since the first attempt to indict a corporation for gross negligence manslaughter in the 1920’s, legal reform surrounding corporate manslaughter has been discussed in political and legal arenas. This research answers the question of whether missed opportunities of corporate manslaughter reform in …
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Pathways to Turning Points: Exploring the Relationship between Self-Control and Thoughtfully Reflective Decision Making
The majority of empirical work on turning points has focused on if and how they facilitate desistance; comparatively little work has investigated the factors that facilitate or inhibit the likelihood of experiencing these turning points, however. This is disconcerting as extant literature has …
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African American Head Football Coaches at Division 1 FBS Schools: A Qualitative Study on Turning Points
… dissertation was centered on how the theory 'turning points' explained African American coaches ascension to Head Football Coach at a NCAA Division I FBS school. This work (1) identified traits and characteristics coaches felt they needed in order to become a head coach and (2) described the …
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"""Daddy's Girl"" and ""Big Man on Campus"": Turning Points in the Development of Parent-Adolescent Relationships"
These findings are discussed from a multiple goals perspective. A multiple goals 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 …
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"""Daddy's Girl"" and ""Big Man on Campus:"" Turning Points in the Development of Parent-Adolescent Relationships"
… used with 31 adolescents to explore the types of turning points they reported experiencing and the developmental trajectories of their relationships with their parents. Participants were also asked to describe how different turning points influenced changes in their autonomy with their parents and …
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Explicating the role of turning points and relationship satisfaction throughout mentoring relationships during medical residency: A communication perspective
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Of butter knives, juice boxes, and turning points : accounts of domestic violence on two sides of the Atlantic
This qualitative comparative analysis examines the experience of being in an abusive relationship as well as of leaving it from the perspective of domestic violence survivors and their service providers. This work demonstrates the inadequacies of analysing domestic violence as solely an individual …
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Turning points : meaning-making and its association with psychological well-being, academic achievement and parental relationship quality among adolescents
… and psychological well-being in the context of turning point events. Still, an important research question remains: whether individuals who report meaning-making and psychological well-being were already better adjusted psychologically, prior to the experience of their turning point. In …
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White Racial Awakenings: Understanding How Turning Point Narratives Create White Allies
… White racial awakenings, also referred to as turning points, when White allies transition into allyship; however, little is known about how these narratives affect White allies' definitions and practices of White allyship. By interviewing self-identifying White allies in college, I examine …
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Hotel occupancy rate volatility and its determinants
… it sufficient to be able to know in advance the turning points in occupancy rates, which are the periods in time when increasing occupancy rates change to decreasing occupancy rates and, subsequently, decreasing occupancy rates change to increasing occupancy rates. The present study aims to …
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The Influence of Sibling Support on Children's Post-Divorce Adjustment: A Turning Point Analysis
… Technique (RIT). Participants identified key turning points in their adjustment process and used those points as an interview guide to talk about support from and communication with their siblings. Numerical questionnaire data was also collected at three turning points. Findings revealed 12 …
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The Influence of Sibling Support on Children's Post-Divorce Adjustment: A Turning Point Analysis
… Technique (RIT). Participants identified key turning points in their adjustment process and used those points as an interview guide to talk about support from and communication with their siblings. Numerical questionnaire data was also collected at three turning points. Findings revealed 12 …
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