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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"parents & parenting"”.
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The Effects of Brief Psychoeducation on Adolescents' Depressive Symptoms and Perceptions of Parenting
… in overly negative ways, including their parents' parental styles and behaviors. One avenue that has been shown to be effective in helping individuals increase their awareness of their depressive symptoms and improve their perceptions is psychoeducation. The present study sought to examine …
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The Effects of Brief Psychoeducation on Adolescents' Depressive Symptoms and Perceptions of Parenting
… in overly negative ways, including their parents' parental styles and behaviors. One avenue that has been shown to be effective in helping individuals increase their awareness of their depressive symptoms and improve their perceptions is psychoeducation. The present study sought to examine …
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Knowledge is Power: Examining the Association Between Parents’ Knowledge of Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Parenting Stress, and Symptoms of Child Anxiety
This study investigated the roles of parents’ knowledge of ADHD and parenting stress on symptoms of anxiety in children with and without ADHD aged 8 to 12 years. Thirty-nine parent-child dyads from Calgary and Toronto were studied, with 21 dyads in an ADHD group and 18 dyads in a non-ADHD group. …
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Relationships among Retrospective Perceptions of Parents and Current Perceptions of Partner to Psychological Distress of Middle-Age Adults
… investigated the relationships between recalled parents' parenting styles and perceptions of reciprocity with their parents in adolescence, as well as current perceptions of spousal/partner reciprocity to their current psychological distress as middle-age adults. The operational definition of …
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Assessing the Efficacy of Pre-Service Trainings for Treatment Foster Parents
… trainings: Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting (MAPP, n = 81) and Pressley Ridge's Treatment Foster Care pre-service training (PR-TFC, n = 71) on treatment foster parents' parenting attitudes, readiness to provide treatment foster care, and attitudes toward providing treatment foster …
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Korean American Students' Language and Literacy Practices at a Korean Language School
… which might have been influenced by their parents parenting at home and their Korean ethnic heritage. Not every student constructed meaning in the same way, therefore they revealed different attitudes toward learning Korean language and literacy. They were surrounded by the Korean academic …
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Temperament, parenting, and the development of childhood obesity
… trajectories and children’s temperaments, their parents’ parenting practices and their interactions. Potentially important familial characteristics (i.e., the parents’ or surrogates’ age, income level, and educational attainment) were considered in the models. The sample for this study was drawn …
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Outcome evaluation of the family affairs parenting programme
… evaluation of the Family Affairs programme, a parenting programme offered by Life Choices, a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa. Life Choices focuses on parenting skills development through workshops, psychosocial counselling, and job-search counselling services for …
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Chinese parenting and children's compliance to adults: a cross-cultural comparative study
The current study examined the parenting beliefs and practices of Taiwanese, Chinese immigrant (all first-generation immigrants in the UK) and English mothers, and the compliance of their young children (aged 5–7), in order to elucidate the effects of child temperament, culture and acculturation …
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Is Parenting Style Related to Overweight in Mexican or Mexican-American Preschoolers?
… as they form their early eating habits. Certain parenting styles have been associated with improved health outcomes in children. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship of parenting styles and feeding practices to the Mexican or Mexican-American preschool child's risk of …
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Enter the Water Carriers: Embracing Parenting Experience in Work Teams
Parenting experience is rarely valued or integrated with the work of a competitive society such as that of the United States. Despite the implementation of family-friendly workplace policies, institutional structures and practices continue to preclude the substantive acknowledgment of how parenting …
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Homeless Mothers' Perceptions of Parenting in Shelters
Descriptions of parenting in a homeless shelter were obtained from nine single mothers housed in one of two shelters in a major southwestern border metroplex. Case study methodology was used to obtain their perspectives on parenting in this unique context. Content analysis was used to organize and …
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Managing Stigma in Planned Lesbian-Parent Families
… The purpose of this study was to identify how parents and children in planned lesbian-parent families live in a homophobic society where they face social prejudice on a daily basis. Data were obtained from interviews with 12 planned lesbian-parent families. Data analysis included interviews …
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Obesity Risk Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Physical Activity in Families of Adolescents
… significant negative correlation between parents who describe their physical activity as "vigorous" and adolescent physical activity level. There was also a statistically significant negative correlation between parents' obesity risk knowledge and "sitting time" for parents. The results of …
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Case Study of Parents Caring for a Child Having Type-1 Diabetes With Optimal HgA1c
… of this research study was to understand how parents achieve optimal HgA1c for their school age children with type-1 diabetes. Currently, there is very little research documenting how parents achieve this goal. Understanding this phenomenon more clearly can be used to inform future research, …
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The Involvement of Parents of Educable Mentally Retarded in their Children's Educational Programs in Saudi Arabia
… study were to identify the involvement level of parents in their EMR children's education in Saudi Arabia, and to investigate the effect of selected demographic variables on the parents' level of involvement. Subjects were (N=338) male parents of EMR boys and (N=252) female parents of EMR girls …
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The Impact of the Father/Daughter Relationship on Women in Educational Administrative Leadership Positions
… the commonalities and/or differences of paternal parenting styles between the ten selected subjects? 2. What are the identifying behavior patterns/interactions the father demonstrated that assisted his daughter with and through the developmental tasks and psychosocial crisis during her middle …
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Determinants of Physical Activity in Arab American Children
… Participants with greater social support from parents (β = .145; p = .017) and friends (β = .321; p = .000) are expected to have higher level of physical activity. The level of physical activity decreased as participant age increased (β = -.076; p = .001). Finally, physical environment was not …
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Children with HIV: How they Feel About What Parents Say
… life-threatening nature of their illness. Many parents desire to protect them from this knowledge by avoiding an open dialogue about their disease, even though pediatric professionals advocate disclosure. Research-based guidelines about the risks and benefits of telling, however, have not been …
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Associations among Perceived Benefits, Barriers, Cues, and Physical Activity in Thai Primary Students
… had a mean age of 9.87 years, had friends or parents that exercise, and received encouragement to exercise from parents. The mean score on the levels of physical activity questionnaire indicated a moderate level of physical activity; boys more often engaged in physical activity than girls. The …
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