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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"community factors"”.
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Community Factors in Differential Responses of Child Protective Services
… relationships and significance of county-level community variables in the investigative and non-investigative response paths of the Differential Response Model. Secondary data analysis used retrospective child maltreatment data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. County-level …
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Institutional and Community Factors Affecting Intergovernmental Cooperation: Implementing the Regionalization Policy in Water Pollution Control
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We Gotta Work with What We Got: School and Community Factors That Contribute to Educational Resilience Among African American Students
… and deploy agency and resiliency in a rural community context entrenched in a legacy of oppression. Black, low-income communities are implicitly labeled non-resilient when macro-level community capitals and resiliency literature are applied. However, I find that resiliency is culturally …
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The Effects of Individual, Family, and Community Factors on Adult Resilience: A Study on the Tsunami Survivors of 12/26/2004
<p>This study examined the various factors at the individual, family, and community level that helped the adult individuals survive the trans-oceanic tsunami which hit the coastal areas of India on December 26, 2004.The study made use of a concurrent mixed methods design to achieve the above …
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The Effect of Community and Individual Differences on College Students' Attitudes and Behaviors towards Transgender Individuals
… to investigate the impact of individual and community factors on cisgender college students’ attitudes and behaviors towards transgender individuals. Using a sample of 302 cisgender college students from across the United States, multiple and negative binomial regression models were used to …
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Wellness Programming For Adults With Disabilities: A Qualitative Inquiry Of Stakeholders’ Perspectives
… for adults with disabilities in the regional community. In alignment with best practice guidelines, and as a first step in the development of a program in the regional community, qualitative methodology was utilized to explore the views of key community stakeholders to gain an in-depth …
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The Relationship of Selected Organizational and Work Related Stress Factors to Indices of Job Satisfaction Among Rural Public Child Welfare Workers
… between job satisfaction and work environment factors among child welfare workers. The association of organization, workload and rural community factors to general, external and internal job satisfaction was correlated on a sample of one hundred fifteen line protective service caseworkers from …
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Recipe for Resilience: Factors Contributing to Urban African American Males' Post-Secondary Academic Achievement
… successful African American males from an urban community adds valuable information about the community factors (family, church, schools and community organizations) that contribute to the development of resiliency among African American males. Additionally, the research sought to provide a …
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The socioeconomic correlates of HIV/AIDS knowledge and condom use in Madagascar
… transmission, and more likely to use condoms. Community factors such as availability of health centers and access to roads also lead to greater HIV knowledge. However, most of the large rural-urban difference in mean knowledge is due not to location per se but to differences in schooling and …
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Factors associated with late antenatal care attendance
… of antenatal care. The study aimedat identifying factors associated with late initiation of antenatal care. Methods: Cross sectional survey data collected for a FAS prevention programme in rural and urban South Africa were used. The primary study made use of face-to-face interviews with female …
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Factors that affect the employability of transition–age individuals with severe intellectual disabilities: rehabilitation providers’ perspectives
… providers’ perspectives on how other factors affected their decisions about whether to provide employment services to a student with severe intellectual disabilities. Qualitative interviews with rehabilitation providers were used to explore these two areas. The most important skills …
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Investigating Sense of Community and Academic Success in First Year College Students in the Department of Natural Resources Management
… study explored the relationship between sense of community, factors that influence sense of community, and the effect of academic success of first year students in the Natural Resources Management Department at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo. An adapted version of the sense of …
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Hate Managers and Where They Target: An Analysis of Hate Crime as Hate Group Self-Help
… the relationships between hate group activity, community factors, and the likelihood of hate crime occurrence within a county area. I integrate considerations raised by Routine Activity and Social Control theorists as well as current hate crime literature to frame my concept of the hate manager, …
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Colonization and succession of phytoplankton species in upwelling plumes off the Cape Peninsula
… of a fast-developing mixed phytoplankton community with Chaetoceros compressus Laud. and Skeletonema costatum (Grev.) Cleve the dominant species. Monthly transect studies, however, revealed the presence of another community consistently dominated by Nitzschia spp. Species succession did …
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Religion and Academic Achievement Among Adolescents
… some studies show that this is due to family and community factors; for example, variation in levels of family capital among religious affiliates may explain this association. Yet, whether religious factors affect academic achievement among adolescents may also be due to the concordance or …
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Relationships between Household Economic Distress and Child Mental Health: Determinants, Mechanisms, and Interventions
… including individual, family, school, and community factors in the United States. This dissertation includes three interconnected components. The first part used machine learning models to identify factors that predict household income and asset poverty across different levels. The second …
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Assessment of Success factors for Academic Performance Amongst Non-Government Secondary Schools in Tanzania: A Case of Selected Schools in Dar es salaam, Morogoro and Coast Regions
… to a number of schools’ internal and external factors. The problem statement addressed by this study was scant literature on success factors for performance among non-government secondary schools operate. The study was conducted in Dar es Salaam, Morogoro and Coast where 50 schools were taken. …
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Migration and Residential Mobility Into Impoverished Rural Illinois Communities
… how the interplay of regional forces, community factors, and the life courses of migrants transforms rural communities from residentially stable to highly mobile, impoverished places. At the statewide level, this study used block group data from the 1990 Census to test a hypothesized …
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Women's empowerment: fertility intentions and family planning practices in Mozambique
… determinants. Overall, contextual and community factors such as living in the south region or having access to media, was negatively associated with being empowered for “Beliefs about violence against women”. In addition to contextual and community factors, women's characteristics such …
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Resilience and protective factors in a Midwestern community : a participatory action approach
… consensus on specific definitions of resilience factors (Ungar et al., 2005). Therefore, it is recommended that research prioritize specific resilience variables (Luthar & Zelazo, 2003) while attending to contextual and systemic factors (Ungar, 2005). The study took place in a community center in …
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