Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 300 for “"family studies"”.
-
Family Studies of Sensorimotor Disturbances in Autism Spectrum Disorder
… these deficits remain poorly understood. Family studies are one approach to better understand these pathophysiological mechanisms by identifying sensorimotor impairments that are present in both individuals with ASD (probands) and their unaffected biological family members. Previous …
-
Emerging adults views about couple and personal satisfaction in various gGender role relationships
Human development and Family studies
-
A reflexive understanding of woman/woman marriages among the Gikuyu of Kenya
… a space for these practices in the feminist and family studies literatures, while questioning the absence of woman/woman marriages from both arenas of discourse. I argue that the exclusion of woman/woman marriages from feminist discourse and the family studies literatures is not an accident, as …
-
MELTING INTO THE MARGINS: THE DIS-APPEARANCE OF NORMALITY
… media debate about normality: the white nuclear family and white middle class men. This thesis traces the emergence of the contemporary discourse which suggests that the normal is being displaced into the margins, away from the centre, 'disproved' as a lived condition and shown to be ‘untrue’ as …
-
Family functioning and adolescent leisure patterns
The relationship between leisure and the family is one that has been studied by both family scholars and leisure scholars. However, due to definitional and methodological limitations of the research, the understanding of this relationship still remains unclear. Moreover, this relationship is …
-
University students' perceptions of their parents' childrearing styles associated with their inclinations to become parents
… (APAQ) completed by Child Development and Family Studies majors in 2007. The purpose was to determine patterns of perceptions in guardians' parenting styles, then compare the participants' inclinations to become parents and their rankings of importance (low, medium, or high; low and high) …
-
Navigating Multiple Roles: Physicians Married to Non-Physician Professionals
… for a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Family Studies. The study will look specifically at how these couples manage the role expectations and demands from the home front as well as from the work front. The study will also investigate how these couples create time for the dyad considering …
-
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 …
-
Instructor strategies for facilitating the development of a positive group culture in Outward Bound
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
-
Matthew's Gift: Teaching Parents of Children With Disabilities To Deal Effectively With Their Child's Problem Behavior
… Psychology and Special Education (CPSE) and the Family Studies Center. Families with children with disabilities and problem behaviors may spend 5 to 10 years on the Utah DSPD Family Support waiting list before receiving support services. Families with children with disabilities and problem …
-
In whom we trust: factors that influence university student
This paper explores the sources of parenting help and child growth and development information for parents who are also college students. Student parents' levels of hope in relationship to their likelihood to accept help and information from a variety of sources is also examined. The …
-
Making Coffee
Making Coffee is a fiction film shot in Toronto during the spring of 2014. It is a social drama that explores the fatherson relationship within a contemporary Canadian society. The story also touches upon issues of immigration and the importance of friendship in coping with loneliness in a foreign …
-
Fzd6, Matn2 and Slc25A32, Possible Candidate Genes In Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and Palate
… study (GWAS) of a large NSCLP African American family with seven affected individuals across three generations found evidence for linkage at 8q21.3-24.12 (LOD = 2.98). This region contained three biologically relevant candidate genes: <em>Frizzled-6 (FZD6) </em>(LOD = 2.8), <em>Matrilin-2 …
-
Role conflict, uncertainty in illness, and illness-related communication avoidance: College students facing familial chronic illness
… students) and illness status (i.e., having a family member with a chronic illness vs. not having a family member with a chronic illness). The study also examined the associations between overall college student adjustment and the family and illness-related factors of role conflict, uncertainty …
-
Audience Engagement with Mother-Daughter Relationships in Prime-Time Television of the 21st Century: A Qualitative Analysis of Interpretation, Sensemaking, and Perceived Effects
… in fields such as psychology, sociology, women's studies and family studies by bringing popular culture into the discussion.</p>
-
Verbal aggression in sibling relationships
The major focus of this study was to further investigate the area of sibling verbal aggression. In order to research this area, students at West Virginia University and their siblings were asked to complete a questionnaire about verbal aggression. The results showed that self-reports of verbal …
-
Parents living within the paradoxes of infant death from life-limiting anomaly: A grounded theory study
BACKGROUND: Life-limiting congenital anomalies are the leading cause of death of infants in the United States. Most of these infants die in intensive care units with limited access to adequate palliative/end-of-life care. There is an extensive knowledge gap about the experience of the parent of …
-
A content analysis of eighteen scholarly journals: What has been written about online family therapy?
… to ascertain what has been written about online family therapy in selected scholarly journals focused on marriage and family issues. Technology is impacting the way individuals communicate and has changed the face of how therapy can be provided to clients. Online therapy has multiple definitions …
Page 1 of 15