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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"financial stress"”.
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Influence of generational status and financial stress on academic and career self-efficacy
… of college. College students with limited financial resources and those who do not have a family member in an older generation who graduated from college may not experience the same degree of efficacy as those students with greater financial resources or a college graduate role model in …
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Sources of financial stress and its impact on undergraduate international student experience and retention process
… phenomenological study sought to explore how financial stress shaped the experiences and retention intentions of undergraduate international students in a large, public research university in the United States. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to describe financial …
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Depression and Help-Seeking Behavior of North Dakota Farmers: The Impact of the Farm Crisis
… was to determine the relationship of economic stress, as well as demographic variables, with levels of depression and help-seeking behavior.</p><p>A sample of 500 North Dakota farm operators was randomly selected from Prairie Grains Magazine mailing list and asked to participate in a mail …
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Over-indebtedness and consequences for well-being
Financial stress is often caused by unexpected circumstances beyond our control for example shocks or changes in the wider political, economic and social environments or at the household level. Households, even those that are income rich or liquidity unconstrained, can be disrupted by unexpected …
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The Psychological cost of Indebtedness in South Africa - Evidence from NIDS Wave 2 and 4
… health shows that being highly indebted is stressful and it leads to psychological problems. This paper explores the relationship between psychological well-being and debt in South Africa. We rely on Wave 2 and 4 of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), a nationally representative …
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Topics in health economics
… socially optimal use of the CS procedure. In ""Financial Distress, Maternal Stress, and Infant Health,"" I investigate the effect of financial stress caused by the mortgage crisis, a large and negative exogenous financial shock, on infant health. I use all births in counties with over 100,000 …
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The impact of farm women's external employment on farm and family functioning: a case study of Virginia
Many American farmers have faced financial stress in the early 1980s unprecedented since the Depression. Simultaneously, farm wives have joined the off-farm labor market at rates exceeding urban women. Since prior research has found different correlates of family functioning and of external …
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Three essays on asset pricing studies
… heterogeneous beliefs among wealth classes, and financial stress risks. A new market systematic risk dimension is uncovered in each model and then tested using U.S. stock market data. This thesis firstly incorporates the elevated stockholder consumption volatility into the long-run risk framework …
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Personal Financial Wellness and Worker Job Productivity
… that describes the relationship between personal financial wellness and worker job productivity. The research questions were (1) what is the personal financial wellness profile?; (2) how does the personal financial wellness profile differ by the demographic characteristics?; (3) what is the …
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Racial/Ethnic Heterogeneity, Religion, and Mental Health: Examining the Influence of Religiosity on African American and Afro-Caribbean Subjective Well-Being
… whether religiosity buffers the influence of stressors on subjective well-being is limited. To address these concerns this three-part study examined the relationship among race/ethnicity, dimensions of religiosity, psychological and social resources, stressors, and subjective well-being for …
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Navigating transitions out of post-secondary education: a mixed methods study of emerging adult mental health and access to support pre-and post-graduation
… gender and sexuality and current and childhood financial stress. Second, qualitative interviews were conducted among 18 of the surveyed students about one-year post-graduation, to explore their mental health experiences over the transition out of their undergraduate programs. Finally, a …
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Chamber music as a factor in public school music
… music program. We have seen evidences that the financial stress of the moment has somewhat curbed advance in this direction as it has in many other instances, but everyone seems to be looking forward to resuming the practice as soon as possible.</p><p>In conclusion let us say that chamber music …
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Out-of-pocket payment for assisted reproductive techniques in the public health sector in South Africa - how do households cope?
… This can create treatment barriers or high financial burdens for households, with unknown consequences of the latter. This is the first study from South and sub-saharan Africa which explores the impact of ART-related OPP on households. The study was undertaken at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape …
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Perceived Stress, Coping, And Adequacy Of Social Support: Implications For Subjective Well-being In College Students
Stress is a widespread concept commonly associated with psychological and medical problems that may impair an individual's functioning and incur costs on society. Alarming rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and other stress-related problems have been found among college students. This …
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Farmer survivability in Virginia
A study focusing on farm financial stress in Virginia was conducted to provide information to educators. The financial situation of Virginia farmers during the 1980's was reviewed. The years 1983, 1984, and 1985 were determined to be the time during the 1980s when farmers' financial situations were …
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Impact of Financial Literacy and Financial Capability on Students' Self-Efficacy
… pursuits of a college degree. One of the biggest stressors that exist within this population is financial stress which has led to money being the number one reason students do not persist to graduation. Despite this being one of their biggest stressors, many higher education institutions do not …
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A critical assessment of the South African bond market
… bond market. Whilst South Africa had the deepest financial market in Sub‐Saharan Africa it also had one of the shallowest domestic bond markets, until 2009. This changed with the rapid bond issuances by the national government as a means to fund its expanding government expenditure. The paper …
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The influence of stress and child factors on families with educable mentally retarded children: the mother's viewpoint
… Scale, the Questionnaire on Resources and Stress Short-Form, the Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes, and a demographic questionnaire. The families were not on welfare. Reliability estimates and intercorrelations among the 11 factors on the QRS supported elimination of Terminal …
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