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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"family communication"”.
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Intra-Family Communication of Ethnicity
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Family communication patterns and children's self efficacy.
Family communication patterns influence the development of self-efficacy in children; learning how specific communication patterns impact various forms of self-efficacy may be helpful to inform interventions targeting self-efficacy. The current study is based in Family Communication Patterns Theory …
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Family Communication About End-of-Life Decisions
… for making critical end-of-life decisions to family. To date, research on end-of-life decision-making and communication has framed proxy decision-making as a role for a “key” individual, despite growing evidence that multiple relatives often make decisions together. Also, although the …
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Family Communication Patterns: Can They Impact Leadership Styles?
A plethora of studies has worked on family communication and leadership separately. Little research has combined these two components although they both relate to personality characteristics and communication styles. Therefore, this thesis investigated correlations between leadership styles and …
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Family Communication between Parents and AYAs in the Childhood Cancer Context
… healthy adjustment to the cancer diagnosis. Family communication allows family members to share thoughts and feelings openly and clearly with one another, particularly regarding stressful situations. Studies have shown the importance of family support and communication for maintaining …
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Physician - Jewish family communication about futile medical treatment : a qualitative approach
… physicians and Jewish families perceive their communication when further aggressive treatment of the patient is considered futile. Today's hospital physician has little time to get to know the patient and finds it easier to communicate with the family, especially in the medically futile …
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Family Communication of Social Support During Health-Related Crises: a Hispanic Perspective
… cultural patterns and pressures influencing family communication during health-related crises. A Hispanic perspective was taken as HIspanics represent a growing and important part of the United States' population. Social support was defined as a communicative phenomenon and is explored in …
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The Human-Canine Bond: Differential Effects of Pet Presence on Family Communication
… assess the effects of the human-canine bond on family communication, this thesis presents an analysis of 12 open-ended interviews with families from 4 stages of the family life cycle : newly married couples with no children, single parent families, traditional families with children in the home, …
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Grieving Between the Lines: Expanding Family Communication Patterns Theory Through Parental Bereavement
The literature connecting the Family Communication Patterns Theory (FCPT) to parental death is scarce. This thesis argues that FCPT is a viable theory to measure the uniqueness of parental death grief compared to other types of relational loss. The hypotheses and research questions of this study …
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Father-Son Family Communication Patterns and Gender Ideologies: A Modeling and Compensation Analysis
… to advance father-son research by investigating family communication and gender ideologies. Specifically, the study assessed the specific messages fathers transmit to sons regarding gender ideologies, relationships between family communication patterns and gender ideologies, and the utility of …
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Parented Emotion: A Study of Adult-Children's Emotion Socialization and Family Communication Patterns
<p>Using the General Theory of Family Communication Patterns (FCPT) and Emotion Regulation Theory (ERT) of Meta-emotion, Parenting, and Child Outcomes, this dissertation sought to investigate adults' emotion socialization in their family of origin through an examination of multiple family schemata. …
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The effects of family communication patterns during the middle phase of Alzheimer's disease
The relationships between family communication about the illness experience of middle phase Alzheimer's Disease and caregiver depression were examined in this study of 29 primary caregivers and their family members. Lag sequential analyses and repetitive sequence analyses were conducted on …
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A social exchange and power dependency theory perspective of Mexican immigrant family communication patterns
<p>This study aimed to identify the family communication patterns that were typical of Mexican immigrant'schildhood and parenthood, along with the influence that resources and the distribution of power and dependency have within the family structure. In doing so, this study demonstrated how a …
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The Development and Use of Non-Screen Based Interactive Textile Objects for Family Communication
… separation, work travel, and illness, current communication technologies do not fully support the needs of intimate family communication in families with young children, aged two to nine. <br/><br/>Prolonged separation, without intimate communication, can damage parent and child relationships, …
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Perceptions of Self-Disclosure and Family Communication: a Study of Gay Parents and Their Children
… the disclosure of the parent's sexuality and family reactions of the disclosure as perceived by the parent. Perceptions of the parent's disclosure and family reactions have not been discussed from the family point of view involving both parents and children. The following research questions …
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An Examination of Family Communication within the Core and Balance Model of Family Leisure Functioning
The purpose of this study was to examine family communication within the Core and Balance Model of Family Leisure Functioning. This was accomplished using path analysis, specifically using a mediator model. Family leisure was measured using the Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP), family …
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From Family to Friend: Family Communication Patterns and the Impact on Young Adults' Family Interaction via Facebook
… there has been a marked shift from face-to-face communication to computer-mediated communication. This shift has also led to changes in the way families communicate as, more often than ever, social media sites are becoming a primary means of communication for a number of groups. The relationship …
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The stories are burning inside of us: exploring daily violence, peacebuilding, and intercultural humility and resilience in interracial family communication
… marginalization as well as cross-cultural communication and socio-historical differences. It is challenging and sometimes impossible to have empathetic intersectional conversations about race and gender in the same breath within an interracial family in which family members hold both …
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An investigation into the level of genetic knowledge and family communication regarding genetic risk in parents of children with cystic fibrosis
… reproductive choices and to investigate family communication about genetic risk. A qualitative approach was selected as it aims to understand, attempts to make sense of and provides descriptions that portray the richness and complexity of ordinary events from the perspective of the …
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