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Showing 1 to 20 of 306 for “"number of children"”.
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Examining perceptions of the growing number of children dying by suicide in the United States : an explanatory sequential mixed-method study.
Far too many children die from suicide each year. Children dying by suicide is not only a world-wide crisis but one that is also specific to the United States of America. Despite the growing number of suicides in the United States, there is a lack of proactive solutions to help children and youth. …
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Conditional influences on children and the quality of family life
The purpose of this inquiry was to determine if specific situational factors influence the manner in which number of children affect family life quality. Situational factors examined were: congruence between ideal number of children and actual; and secondly, expressed differences in family life …
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A classe média no Brasil: condições do consumo e a influência no número de filhos por domicílio
… importance, it is observed how the new patterns of consumption adopted by this class, labor and per capita income, influence the lower number of children by Woman by several factors. The present study analyzes the relation of the number of children in the households according to their social …
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Probability theory on Galton-Watson trees
… with one node and where each node has a random number of children independently of the rest of the tree. In the first chapter of this thesis, we prove a conjecture made in [7] for Galton-Watson trees where vertices have bounded number of children not equal to 1. The conjecture states that the …
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The reservation adolescents' self-concept
The self-concept of 271 reservation Indian and white adolescents was measured by a ten-item seIf-esteem scaIe developed by Rosenberg in 1965, and compared with respect to age, sex, grade, ordinal position, number of children in the family, family communication and socio-economic status of the …
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Child poverty in Canada : some contributing factors and issues
… to the problems in definition and measurement of poverty, both theoretically and empirically. Another objective is to identify some of the important factors related to child poverty in Canada. Poverty and inequality are examined from three theoretical perspectives: functionalist, conflict and …
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Things That Go Bump in the Night: An Examination of Magical Thinking in Young Children
<p>Past research has shown that children as young as age 3 years are able to distinguish the difference between mental entities and real objects (Estes, Wellman, & Woolley, 1989). Yet, many children still display persistent fears of imaginary creatures, which they claim are not real. In the present …
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Sibship in Low Fertility Settings: A Microsimulation Approach
… populations. Demographic transition has had profound effects on family structure, shrinking kin networks while extending the duration of kin ties. Siblings are unique among these ties in their duration, degree of shared contexts, and salience for various outcomes (such as support of aging …
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Aetiology of pleural effusions diagnosed by routine culture and molecular techniques in children living in a high tuberculosis-endemic setting
BACKGROUND: Confirming aetiology of pleural effusion in children may be difficult in tuberculosis (TB)-endemic settings. We investigated the role of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and routine biochemical tests in discriminating pleural effusion caused by bacteria from other aetiologies. METHODS: …
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Wife abuse in Thailand
The objective of this study is to assess the effects of several variables, identified by research on Western, industrialized countries, on the occurrence of wife abuse in a developing Asian society, Thailand. The following variables are organized in two path analysis models: social isolation of the …
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Perceived social supports and the relationship between self-efficacy, depression, anxiety, and stress for mothers enrolled in psychology doctoral programs
… duties while competing with peers without children. Those with greater social support manifest lower levels of anxiety, depression, and stress. The purpose of this mixed method study was to explore if, and to what degree, social supports impact self-efficacy, anxiety, depression, and stress …
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Prenatal anxiety and depression : the effects of social support during Covid-19 in Iceland
… be a vulnerable time for an increased likelihood of common mental health problems. Previous studies indicate that social support is an important factor for prenatal mental health. The aim of this study was twofold; firstly, to examine the prevalence of prenatal anxiety and depression in Icelandic …
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Determinants of Food Insecurity Among Vulnerable White and Latino Households: Contextualizing the Impact of Sociodemographic and Household-Level Factors
… Three household characteristics (marital status, number of children in the household and number of workers in the household) were examined in this analysis. A total of 808 surveys were collected, 69% in English and 31% in Spanish. Through ethnicity-stratified sequentially adjusted logistic …
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Gender Impacts of Molecular-Assisted Breeding: The Case of Insect and Disease Resistant Cassava in Nigeria
… Nigeria, the study assessed the gender impacts of improved cassava varieties. Comparative statistical analysis reveals that total female labor is higher than total male in cassava production, processing and marketing. Women spend more labor days than males for planting, weeding, harvesting, …
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Factors related to role strain among husbands and wives in dual- career families
The purpose of this study was to identify variables associated with role strain in a sample of 69 dual-career couples. Role strain was defined as the experienced difficulty in meeting role or role-set expectations. The significant contributors to role strain among husbands were age of the youngest …
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Do adverse childhood experiences predict family and social functioning? : findings from SAGA cohort.
… outcomes. This study examined how three types of ACEs – non-sexual abuse, neglect and household dysfunction – are related to perceived social support, relationship status and number of children. Data were drawn from the population-based SAGA cohort, which reflects the broader Icelandic female …
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Fertility differentials of the rural and urban Wa-Sukuma in Mwanza region-Tanzania
… data which was collected by Dr. C.L.Kamuzora of Department of Statistics, University of Dar-es-Salaam. The study had three objectives. The first, to examine whether the fertility of the Wa-Sukuma differs according to their demographic and socio-economic backgrounds. The second, to examine the …
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Fertility differentials of the rural and urban Wa-Sukuma in Mwanza region-Tanzania
… data which was collected by Dr. C.L.Kamuzora of Department of Statistics, University of Dar-es-Salaam. The study had three objectives. The first, to examine whether the fertility of the Wa-Sukuma differs according to their demographic and socio-economic backgrounds. The second, to examine the …
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Prevalence and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption in pregnant Ugandan women
… condition that results in reduced quality of life. We examined the prevalence and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption in a population of pregnant Ugandan women. Methods: This mini dissertation comprises of two sections: a research protocol (Section A) and a manuscript (Section …
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Social support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC): A beneficiary case study of the Ministry of Gender equality and child welfare initiative programme in the Oshana Region
The phenomenon of the increasing number of orphans and vulnerable children is not overlooked by Namibia. In fact, the situation is aggravated by the deaths of young adults as a result of the Human Immuno Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Subsequently, a huge number of …
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