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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"family identity"”.
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Stability and change of family identity in financial crisis
… belief structures, a major component of family identity. The theory of constructivism and specific theorists such as Reiss (1981), Steinglass, Bennett, Wolin and Reiss (1987) were used to classify the changes. The conclusion summarizes the reciprocal influences of the external stressor, …
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The Materiality of Family Identity: Archaeological Investigations of 19th Century Jewish Merchant Households
The study of family identity seeks to demonstrate the connections between material culture, individual and group identities, and social norms and beliefs from the Victorian Era. Identities are fluid and ever changing, as is material culture and the values and meanings assigned to them. …
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The Impact of Shared Musical Identity, Shared Family Identity, and Accommodation on Satisfaction in Parent/Young Adult Relationships
… to communicative and relational aspects of family, in order to determine whether musical tastes of individuals impact family relationships. In this research study, 196 college students reported on their perceptions of shared musical identity with their parents, shared family identity, …
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Maternal Experiences of Self-Identity and Family Identity after a Child acquires an Acquired Brain Injury: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Analysis
… (ABI) can have lasting effects on the self-identity of the injured individual, but also on the self-identity of other family members. Using Contextual Family Stress Theory as a guiding theoretical framework, this qualitative study investigated how mothers experience changes and alterations …
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Evolving ethnic identity and recognizing relatedness: An examination of ethnic and family identity development among African Americans reuniting with extra-extended relatives from Africa
… challenges our understanding of families and identity. African Americans engage in genetic genealogy for African ancestry, genealogical research, and formation of ties with African ancestral homelands. Ethnic identity develops through ethnic socialization and periods of ethnic identity …
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My Family, My Identity: An Ethnohistorical Exploration of a Multiethnic Family
This thesis focuses on family identity in a time when multiethnic couples are increasing in population. How will this populace choose to define who they are? The purpose of this thesis is to focus on a multiethnic family, specifically one with different tribal heritages, and explore how their …
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Climate Change Disclosures in Family Firms
… This research explores the effects of family control as an important determinant of CCR disclosure strategies. Family firms are the world’s most common form of economic organizations, dominating the global economy. The socioemotional wealth (SEW) theoretical perspective argues that …
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It’s All About “We”: Negotiating Accounts of We-Building Therapy Interactions and Preferred “We” Identities with Families in Therapy
… or preferred sense of who they are together. Family identity research often privileges individuals and neglects the responsive interactions through which families negotiate “we” identity claims. Similarly, researchers tend to define we-ness as a stable relationship orientation, without regard …
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The Social Construction of Loss and Grief: Experiences of Coastal Louisiana Residents
… broken into the six dimensions (Community, Work, Family, Identity, Faith in the Systems, and Future), then compared to their post-Katrina realties to discover loss. This thesis relates the loss, and the associated grief, to existing literature on loss and grief. It also examines how the loss of …
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Black Lesbian Families and Their Relationships With Their Families of Origin
… and examine the intersection of individual and family processes that African American lesbian couples engage in as a family with members of their families of origin. A qualitative research design based on grounded theory methods was used. Data were interpreted using an integrative framework of …
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Challenges Caused by Socioemotional Wealth and Their Management During the Internationalization of Family Firms
… (SEW) influences the internationalization of family firms, and how this process is connected to entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and innovation. SEW ensures continuity, the preservation of family identity, and transgenerational succession; however, its protective logic may often restrict …
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Now Watch This
… a deconstruction of self, masculinity, language, family, identity, sex, class, body image, and some other stuff too. But most importantly, it's a document of healing, an example of one man's honest attempt to heal himself with the instruments of memory and language.
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An Examination of the Meaning of Family Recreational Storytelling among Parents and their Adult Children
… study was to determine the role and function of family recreational storytelling across the lifespan from the perspective of parents and their adult children. Twelve adults, (six pairs of adult children and their parents) were interviewed. Questions focused on ascertaining the meaning of …
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Shifting selves : identity quests and innovation in the novels of Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano, and Marie Darrieussecq
This thesis examines the prevalence of the identity quest in contemporary French fiction through detailed analysis of the novels of Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano and Marie Darrieussecq. I establish how, for these three writers from successive generations, the preoccupation with selthood entails …
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The lived experience of haemophilia and impact of gene therapy on the haemophilia patient community and their families : the Exigency programme
… medication and treatment durability. Identity also emerged as a key factor, with some considering their haemophilia an essential part of their sense of self, leading to complex responses to the idea of a "cure." Expectations varied widely; some saw gene therapy as transformative, while …
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Adolescent development and parental alcohol use patterns
… has been directed toward alcoholism as a family system problem. Recent publications have identified characteristics of the "alcoholic family" system and a model of psychosocial development specific to children of alcoholics. Both theoretical frameworks proposed that family and individual …
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Acculturation and its influence on the social relationships, identity, and sense of well-being in middle school immigrant adolescents : a descriptive single case study.
… as it influences the social relationships, identity, and sense of well-being of newly arrived immigrant adolescents. Although there is literature that discusses acculturation, few studies explore how it influences Hispanic immigrant adolescents' social relationships with their peers and …
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Why Two Swords Were Enough: Israelite Tradition History Behind Luke 22:35-38
… HB tradition that informed and shaped the identity of Luke's community. While this project employs an eclectic mix of standard historical critical methods, tradition and literary criticism serve as the two principal methodological strategies.</p> <p>Chapter two examines the provenance of …
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A Corpus-based analysis of the Construction of Identities in the BBC Sitcom Citizen Khan
… sitcom Citizen Khan, which is centred around a family living in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham. In order to carry out this analysis a 40,000 word corpus was created, consisting of transcripts of the thirteen episodes from the first two seasons of the sitcom. The analysis utilised an array of …
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From Tiervlei to Ravensmead: Tracing heritage in a place of continuity and dispossession - a place of both in-situ and ex-situ displacement during apartheid
… academic exercise, it is a project of memory and identity amid a fast-moving, changing society. It does not only concern safeguarding the marginalised community's heritage but also how we record, acknowledge and transfer it to future generations before it withers away. The preamble to the National …
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