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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"parental beliefs"”.
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Parent involvement in Migrant Head Start : parental beliefs and teacher practices
… Under investigation were parent and teacher beliefs and practices pertaining to involvement in the child's early schooling context. An ethnography approach and modified grounded theory approach was chosen which involved in-depth interviews, observations, and focus groups for member checking. …
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Socializing race: Parental beliefs and practices in two African American families
… the racial socialization process through parental beliefs and practices in their everyday lives. In this study, two African American families participated in a total of 11 interviews and 63 home observations over the course of a six year period, beginning when the focal child in each …
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Parental Beliefs and Behaviors Related to Food Safety in Zambia: Educational Implications
… primary, and secondary were asked about their beliefs and other factors that influence their food safety behaviors and how these behaviors in turn impact their children. Qualitative interviews with 20 participants were recorded and coded. The analysis showed that parents were well informed on …
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Parental beliefs and expectations concerning the academic competence of learning disabled and nondisabled children
… present study investigated the relation between parental beliefs, estimations and expectations and children's competencies with low-SES parents of learning disabled and nondisabled children. Forty-eight mothers who had boys in the third- through the fifth-grade were interviewed in their home: …
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Maternal Reflective Functioning, Parental Beliefs, and Parenting Stress of Mothers in a Residential Treatment Program
Maternal Reflective Functioning, Parental Beliefs, and Parenting Stress of Mothers in a Residential Treatment Program Kathleen Pitts, PhD The University of Texas Medical Branch, 2017 Mothers with a history of substance-use are at risk for maladaptive parenting. This population of women living with …
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Dynamic Parenting: A Study of Mothers' and Fathers' Changing Beliefs About Childrearing
… cultural contexts and the developing child on parental beliefs. Findings also point to the importance of considering both mothers and fathers' beliefs, particularly the utility of giving each voice to their affective parenting experiences.
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Trajectories of substance use and substance use problems in adolescents and young adults
… studies. The first investigates the effects of parental beliefs about their adolescent children’s smoking and drinking on adolescents’ actual engagement in these behaviours. Previous literature has shown a strong association between parental beliefs and adolescent substance use, but has not …
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Parents' Value of Play in Early Childhood: A Comparative Study of Spousal Play Beliefs
… children to play. The current study investigated parental beliefs on play. The sample consisted of 34 middle-class couples (34 mothers, 34 fathers) co-parenting a preschool-aged child (3-5 years) attending the laboratory school of a large mid-Atlantic university. Participants were surveyed about …
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Mothers' beliefs about emotions, mother-child emotion discourse, and children's emotion understanding in Latino families
… understand associations between acculturation, parental beliefs, mother-child emotion talk, and emotion understanding in Latino preschool-aged children. Research on Latino families may prove to be important given the little research that has focused on emotion understanding strictly in Latino …
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Targeting Parental Overcontrol in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxious Youth
… family CBT, and parent interventions addressing parental anxiety or overcontrol have an added benefit over youth-focused CBT. The present study compared (a) a parent group intervention targeting autonomy granting, (b) a parent CBT skills group, and (c) a parent support control group, all provided …
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Do Parents' Literacy Beliefs and Home Literacy Experiences Relate to Children's Literacy Skills?
… the relationship among parents' literacy beliefs, home literacy experiences, and children's literacy skills. Forty-three children, who attended a university preschool, and their parents participated in the study. Parents' literacy beliefs and the home literacy experience, namely shared …
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Evaluation of anxiety treatment for children through online education (ACE)
… is important, little is known at this time about parental experiences with the program and the extent to which the program has been effectively implemented. The Updated DeLone and McLean Model of Information Systems Success (D&M Model; DeLone et al., 2003) offers a model for examining …
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INVESTIGATING THE ASSOCIATION OF PARENTAL INFLUENCE AND CHILDREN'S SCHOOL READINESS AND EARLY ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: AN ANALYSIS USING EARLY CHILDHOOD LONGITUDINAL STUDY - KINDERGARTEN (ECLS-K)
… study was to examine the associations between parental and social factors, parents' academic belief systems and parenting practices, and its influence on children's school readiness and early academic achievement. Efforts to do so involved utilizing the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - …
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Sex talk: Factors that influence parent-child communication about sex
… about sex is influenced by parents’ own beliefs, experiences, and comfort level discussing sexual topics. It is important to evaluate factors that increase communication because research has shown that increased parental communication about sex is correlated with more consistent condom …
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“We’re gonna’ do it together!”: a qualitative study of school readiness beliefs and practices among low-income Latina mothers and teachers in a suburban head start
… and preschool teachers often hold different beliefs about the skills that children should possess and the type of activities they engage in to promote school readiness. However, little is known about parental beliefs and involvement practices before school entry, especially for low-income …
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"""Am I Korean American?"": beliefs and practices of parents and children living in two languages and two cultures"
… analyzed according to themes such as daily life, parental beliefs about two languages, practices in two languages, children's attitudes toward two languages, and challenges and needs. Despite individual families' different immigration histories, the three families faced some common challenges. …
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Needling doubts: A sociological examination of parental resistance to childhood immunizations
… attention within medicine and public health, parental questioning of and resistance to childhood immunization is a trend that has yet to be examined within sociology. This dissertation explores the role of parental characteristics, beliefs, and attitudes on resistance to pediatric …
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Latino parents' perceptions of, and response to, child Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder: An ecological perspective
… primary aims for the study were: (1) To examine parental understanding and perceptions of DSM-IV ADHD and ODD symptoms; (2) To explore and describe self-reported parenting and help-seeking responses to clinical levels of child ADHD and ODD behaviors, as depicted in hypothetical behavioral …
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Chinese Language Family Literacy Program: Impact on Young Children's Literacy Development in Chinese and English
… cultural backgrounds also have differences in parental beliefs, parental roles in supporting educational achievement and communicating with the school. All these differences make the provision of family literacy programs which target minority families as one group a challenging endeavor, both …
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Context Clues: Determinants of Parental Sensitivity and Early Childhood Development
Parental sensitivity is a vital foundation for infant attachment, but cognitive stimulation brings additional benefits as children enter toddlerhood and the preschool years. Integrating these two constructs, Prime et al. (2015) have called for research into parents’ Cognitive Sensitivity (CS), …
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