Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"racial background"”.
-
Ethno-Racial Background and Risk for Parkinson’s Disease
… to evaluate and assess the inclusion of ethno-racial factors in the context of PD risk, diagnosis, and epidemiology, and found that only 21 of 410 (5.1%) reviewed articles accounted for ethno-racial factors as an integral part of analysis. Next, we used the Fox Insight dataset to compare the …
-
Culture, attributional style, and anticipations about counseling
… major area, age, SES, religious orientation, and racial background) related to attributional style in American and Korean cultures? and (d) How are a person's characteristics (sex, college class, academic major area, age SES, religious orientation, previous counseling experience at the college, …
-
Gangs, Race, and ‘the Street’ in Prison: An Inductive Analysis
… gang affiliation, analysing how a gang member’s racial background and area of origin may relate to his gang. The results show the strong influence of gangs at the sample prisons, and how gangs affect the ways in which prisoners negotiate the carceral space: violent practices, gang allegiances and …
-
Identity Congruence: Associations with Ethnic-Racial Centrality and Critical Agency
… moments are embedded in systems that reinforce racial categories and shape youth development through policies that erase or marginalize identities. Using self-reported data from 226 Black and Latinx youth (Mage = 14.92; SD = 1.45, 57% female) across two time points, this study examined whether …
-
The "unique" experiences of domestic violence of immigrant Sikh women through films.
… research. Current literature, regardless of racial background, tends to homogenize the multiple experiences, perceptions and understanding of domestic violence survivors. With South Asians, specifically those of Sikh descent, being one of the largest growing minority groups in Canada, it …
-
Investor Risk Tolerance: Testing The Efficacy Of Demographics As Differentiating and Classifying Factors
… status, income, White, Black, and Hispanic racial background, and educational level), while three demographic characteristics were found to be statistically insignificant (i.e., age, Asian racial background, and never married). Multiple discriminant analysis also revealed that the …
-
Racial and socioeconomic differences in special education students returning to general education
… between the cases of socioeconomic status and racial background. Special education has been identified for decades as containing an overrepresentation of minorities classified. This study has analyzed retrospective data from the New Jersey Department of Special Education public website to …
-
Making Parental Involvement a Key Process in Primary Education: An Action Research Project in a Junior, Primary School
… they may share a similar socio-economic and racial background.
-
An examination of perceptions of ethnoviolence among urban middle and high school students
… a cross section of a diverse ethnic and racial school population, and were enrolled in grades ranging from the 8th to the 12th grade. The study investigated students' perceptions of ethnoviolence experiences, and analyzed such perceptions based on students' ethnic/racial background, …
-
Embracing A Diverse Curriculum In University Teacher Preparation Programs
… Children come from many different cultures and backgrounds and pre-service teachers must be equipped to effectively teach them all. Culturally relevant teacher preparation programs are crucial to preparing teachers to teach across diverse boundaries and have culturally responsive classrooms. …
-
The Impact of the Media on Biracial Identity Formation
Biracial individuals undergo a developmental process that is different than monoracial individuals. Not only do they have to develop a strong and cohesive self-esteem, but also develop a strong and cohesive racial identity to have a healthy self-concept. The media is a social structure that has …
-
Impact of Race on Use of Disease-Modifying Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis
… (DMT) decreases the rate of relapses in MS, and racial differences in the use of DMT could contribute to differences in disability.<b>Methods:</b> The Knowledge Program (KP), a Cleveland Clinic electronic database linked to the Epic electronic medical record, was queried for patients aged 18-65, …
-
Narratives Of Southern Contact Zones: Mobility And The Literary Imagination Of Zora Neale Hurston And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
… who became friends with each other beyond their racial background in the segregated South, shared physical and social mobility and the interest in the Southern folk cultures. They wrote fiction about the region and its folk cultures while continuously moving back and forth between their Southern …
-
The Quarterbacks of the NFL Draft: A Study into the Media Coverage of the 2012 and 2020 First Round Quarterbacks
… the differences in frames that exist due to the racial background of each quarterback. Additionally, the difference in narratives and expressed frames, depicted by the print media over an eight-year time span were compared and examined using framing theory. The findings reveal that in both 2012 …
-
THE ONE STATE SOLUTION An Alternative Vision for Ending The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
… citizens regardless of ethnicity, religion, or racial background. Considering the troubled history of the region, many would view a state where Israelis and Palestinians living together, sharing land, and engaged in a peaceful democratic process to be an unattainable fantasy. This paper does not …
-
Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Attributes: A Gender and Racial Analysis
… from Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic racial backgrounds. Loglinear analyses revealed that men and women, regardless of racial background, rated shapely underweight females as most physically attractive, sexy, and ideal for a woman, followed by normal weight figures of similar …
-
Combatting Anti-Indigenous Prejudice Through Imagined Contact: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
… stranger of an unspecified or Indigenous ethnic background. They then described the imagined interaction in writing, and completed questionnaires measuring modern and old-fashioned prejudice, intergroup anxiety, perceptions of outgroup variability, and their support for an Indigenous-related …
-
The War on Who? An Analysis of Drug Possession Arrests in Four U.S. Cities
… punishment, large numbers of Americans from all backgrounds continue to use illegal substances, despite the risk of arrest or incarceration. However, the burden of enforcement is not borne evenly across different demographic groups. In particular, black men appear to suffer from disproportionate …
-
Household Food Insecurity Among Older People in Canada: the Exploration of a Public Health Issue Rendered Invisible
… in the second manuscript, I found sex, age, racial background, self-perceived health, marital status, living arrangement, and low household income to be predictive of food insecurity. In the third manuscript, logistic regression revealed that women are at greater risk of food insecurity and …
-
‘Aging in the Right Place’: An Analysis of the Demographic Profile and Residential Relocation Patterns of Older Adults Living in Residential Facilities in Kingston, Ontario
… wealthier, better educated, and of a White racial background. Results of the quantitative analysis revealed that the majority of participants had relocated from within Kingston, thus continuing to age in place in their community. Gender appeared to influence whether one had undergone a …
Page 1 of 2