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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"parent-child relations"”.
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Parent-Child Relations, Sleep, and Externalizing Problems in Clinical Youth
… is correlated with mental health problems, while parent-child relationships are associated with externalizing behaviors. The aim of this study was to (1) replicate these findings; (2) extend on previous research on the relationships between sleep, parent-child relationships, and externalizing …
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Kinship and Narrative in Old Norse Literature: Parent-Child Relations in Mythic-Heroic Texts
The thesis explores the imaginative depiction of parent-child relations in the Poetic Edda, Snorra Edda and the fornaldarsaga corpus, with the aim of illuminating both the role of kinship in shaping Old Norse narrative and the complementary role of narrative in aiding the conceptualisation and …
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A Study of the Self-Esteem of Delinquent Male Adolescents and the Perceived Degree of their Parents' Child-Rearing Practices
… psychologists are concerned about how parents' child-rearing practices influence adolescents' self-esteem, for self-esteem provides one of the foundations for the development of personality. Is it possible that parents' child-rearing practices contribute to the development of a low self-esteem …
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Waiting for Paternity: Interpersonal and Contextual Implications of the Timing of Fatherhood
Previous research suggests that children born to parents at different points in the life-span will be raised in differing contexts, and that timing of first birth has implications for parent-child relations distinct from those of simple parental chronological age. This study examined the effects of …
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A socialization model of children's perceived purchase influence: family type, hierarchy, and parenting practices
… this dissertation was to investigate how and why children’s influence in purchase decisions might vary under different types of families. It was conceptualized that children in different types of families are socialized into different status roles and that these differences in socialization, in …
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Perceptions of Childhood Relation with Parents Related to Current Functioning
<p>This study investigated the relationships between perceptions of childhood relationships with parents, certain current self-conscious emotions, current religious orientation, and current risk-taking behaviors. The study also sought to develop models that would predict risk-taking behavior based …
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Social and spatial mobility along the Kuiseb River in the Namib Desert, Namibia
… of a general state of flexibility of personal relationships, which subsequently affects household composition. An explanation for this flexibility is suggested in terms of one strategy of survival pursued by relatively poor individuals, which involves the sporadic attachment by poorer …
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An Ethical Analysis of Alternatives in Childbirth
… of infants. It focuses on the moral claims of childbearing women and fetuses and the roles of health care providers and society at large during the brief, but significant, transitional period between the state of pregnancy and the state of separate parent-child relations. The author's thesis is …
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NEW ALGORITHMS FOR COMPRESSED SENSING OF MRI: WTWTS, DWTS, WDWTS
… Recent work in this approach considers parent-child relations in the wavelet levels.</p> <p> This paper further extends the prior approach by utilizing the entire wavelet tree structure as an argument for coefficient correlation and also considers the directionality of wavelet …
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Ancient Childhood: Perspectives from Iraq and Syria in the Early Second Millennium BC
… legal history have tended not to consider how children fit into them. In part, this is because scholars’ opinion was that syntheses at this level required the publication of the remaining unpublished sources. But this thesis will argue that, due to the more than 30,000 texts published by now, …
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Men and Masculinities in the Changing Japanese Family
… a significant reorientation of men’s family relations. However, exactly how Japanese men are adapting to these broad-based trends, including parent-child relations, demographics, marriage norms, care provision, residential choices, and gender roles, as well as in the decline of Confucian …
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THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL DISABILITY ON CHILDREN: AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION OF THE ADULT CHILDREN OF SPINAL CORD INJURED FATHERS
… on the development and adjustment of their children. There is little empirically based information about the influence of physical characteristics of parents on children, but speculative articles have described many deleterious effects of being raised by a physically handicapped parent. …
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Assaulting childhood : an ethnographic study of children resident in a Western Cape migrant hostel complex
This study documents the lives of children between the ages of 10 and 15 years who reside in migrant worker hostels in the Hottentots-Holland region of the Western Cape. It focuses on three particular aspects of the children's lives: their domestic circumstances and relationships prior to their …
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The Relationship Between Maternal Psychopathology and Acute Treatment Outcomes of Children and Adolescents Diagnosed With Anorexia Nervosa
… influences the psychiatric status of children. However, there is a lack of research in the eating disorder literature pertaining to the impact of maternal psychopathology, specifically related to depression and eating disordered cognitions, on a child or adolescent diagnosed with …
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A Cross-Cultural Examination of Parenting Style and Feeding Practices
Childhood obesity is an issue of great concern to health professionals in the United States. Past research has emphasized the role parenting styles (e.g., the global parenting environment) and parents? practices (e.g., specific parent behaviors) play in shaping childhood weight status. This study …
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The Use of an Observational Measure to Examine Family Characteristics in Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders
This study evaluated families who had a child diagnosed with an eating disorder compared to those with a child diagnosed with depression. Both groups were assessed at entry to a treatment regime: the ED group was assessed upon admission to inpatient treatment for an eating disorder, and the MDD …
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Parental Divorce, Attachment, and Self-Other Conceptualization
The formation of strong attachment bonds in childhood and adolescence has a significant effect on adult self and other concepts operationalized here as self-esteem and hostility. These self-other conceptualizations are posited to facilitate the formation of successful relationships and well-being …
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The Role of Multisensory Information in Infants' Recognition of their Fathers
The present study was designed to investigate the development of infants' recognition of their fathers, specifically examining the role of multisensory information (visual and auditory cues). All infants were 4-months-old and were tested in a visual-fixation preference procedure. The two measures …
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Parent and Friend Emotion Socialization in Adolescence: Associations with Emotion Regulation and Internalizing Symptoms
Both parents and close friends are central figures in adolescents' emotional and psychological adjustment. However, little is known about how close friends socialize adolescents' emotions or how friends' socialization messages compare to those from parents in adolescence. The present study will …
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The Role of Acculturation in Parent-Child Relationships for Adolescent and Young Adult Patients' Adjustment to Cancer
… exists on the role of acculturation in AYAs and parent-child relationships when coping with cancer. Research exists on conflicts in parent-child relationships due to differences in acculturation known as the acculturative gap. Understanding the role of the acculturative gap as well as overall …
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