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Showing 1 to 20 of 246 for “"family structure"”.
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Alcoholism and family structure
… to written questionnaires including The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES III), the Madanes Family Hierarchy Test (MFHT), and a Demographic Questionnaire. Adult participants also completed the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) to ensure that control …
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Income distribution and family structure
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Modernisation and changing family structure in Korea.
… have been both causes and consequence of the family changes of the modernisation process of the last few decades. Part II comprising four chapters examines the result of the socio-economic change or modernisation of the last four decades in the family field : a review of the traditional family …
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Beauty Pageant Mothers: Demographics, Motivations, and Family Structure
… information concerning the contestant's family. Attitudinal statements concerning the role of women in society and the importance of beauty in society were investigated. A comparison was made between the attitudes of the pageant mother and a sample of mothers taken from the 1993 General …
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The Effects of Family Structure on Juvenile Delinquency
<p>Studies show that family structure is an important factor in explaining delinquency among adolescents (Price & Kunz, 2003). There is a lack of research, however, pertaining to cohabitation. The main goals of this study are to determine if there are variations in delinquency between cohabitating …
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Family Structure and Human Capital Formation in Jamaica
In the last 30 years the Jamaican government has invested substantially in education at the primary and secondary levels by providing a large number of inputs, including trained teachers. Still, many children are illiterate after completing primary school, and a large number of teenagers leave …
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Family Structure And Women’s Experiences Of Intimate Partner Violence
… and dating couples – but do not assess how family structure (polygynous marriage, unions with children, and extended family members in the home) may influence these experiences. Family structures vary across societies, and not all family forms are equally available to all people. Polygyny, …
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Recent changes in family structure and fertility in Jordan
… to do this by investigating the role of the family and its structure in explaining fertility attitudes and behaviour in Jordan. Some of the causes - at the level of intermediate variables - of regional variations in fertility levels and fertility preferences in Jordan are examined. The study …
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Family Structure and Child Malnutrition in China: Three Essays
… As the primary institution for a child, family is an opportune place for child malnutrition intervention. By advancing a framework that addresses the contextual factors which shape the heterogeneity of socioeconomic gradients of child overweight/obesity, this dissertation has sought to …
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Boundaries: The Relationships among Family Structure, Identity Style, and Psychopathology
Research has long held that family of origin plays a significant, if not critical, role in mental health. The purpose of the present study was to provide theoretical evidence to support the feasibility of a new target for clinical intervention by demonstrating that identity style, the way …
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An exploratory investigation of family structure and adult attachment orientation
… of this study was to examine the possible role family structure plays on adult attachment orientation. Eighty-six students enrolled in introductory level psychology courses at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, participated in this study. Indicated in previous studies as valid to measure …
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Family Structure and the Criminal Behavior of Juveniles in Tennessee.
… study was to investigate the association between family type and criminal behavior of juveniles in Tennessee who were referred to Juvenile Court in 2006. The population used in the study comprised the juveniles who were referred to the Tennessee Juvenile Courts as reported by the Tennessee Council …
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Three essays on family structure and school dropout among adolescents
… question of the inherent endogeneity by using family fixed effects models on these pairs, and also by implementing instrumental variables technique. I exploit the older sibling’s specific characteristics as an instrumental variable for his outcome in the younger sibling's equation. The sibling …
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Change in Family Structure and Rates of Violent Juvenile Delinquency
… addresses the question: Have the changes in family structure in the U.S. become a catalyst for juvenile delinquency? For this research, I use existing statistics for my three independent variables: divorce rates, rate of working mothers with children under age 18, percent female-headed …
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Relationships of Parenting Practices, Independent Learning, Achievement, and Family Structure
… the relationships among parents' actions, family structure, independent learning, and academic achievement. Using a national sample of 10th grade students from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, several statistical analyses were performed in order to answer these research questions: …
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The Relationship Between Family Structure Instability and Depression in Emerging Adults
This study examined how family structure instability relates to depressive symptoms in emerging adults, considering family functioning and race as additional factors. Using retrospective reports of family structure disruptions during childhood and adolescence, data from 399 emerging adults were …
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Women's Time Poverty: Differences by Family Structure, Employment, and Gender Ideology
… the ways in which women organize their work and family lives. The most dramatic change has been women's increased commitment to paid work which, as a result, has influenced women's time in household activities and childcare time. Population aging means working adults are more likely to care for …
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