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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"significant life events"”.
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IMMERSION : a platform for visualization and temporal analysis of email data
… upon our past relationships, collaborations and significant life events. Additionally, they can also serve as digital archives, thus making it possible for others to access, learn from and reflect upon our life's trajectory long after we are gone. In this thesis, I propose and develop a webbased …
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SCREAM IF YOU CAN
… is an episodic memoir that captures the driving lifestyle of southern California while focusing on significant life events of a twenty-something young woman. The memoir explores themes of family, trauma, and perseverance. Biculturalism and disability are explored alongside the use of education to …
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Ethnographic Narrative Project (Resilience, Love and Equity: First Year Teaching Vol.1 )
… special needs, and a student who has experienced significant life events, to enact equitable education for all students. This paper highlights the importance of relationships, getting to know students as individuals, and appreciation for their communities as a means to dismantle oppressive …
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The role of attributional style, dysfunctional attitudes, and negative life events on depression in college students
… propose a diathesis-stress model in which significant life events are imparted by specific cognitive styles; This study incorporated the major tenets of both theories to examine the role of dysfunctional attitudes, attributional style, and negative life events on Beck Depression Inventory …
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The Association Between Autobiographical Memory Specificity And Memory Sharing In College Students
… adjustment have been found; however, the role significant others have in the socialization and co-construction of AM may have be overlooked. This study examines whether the process of sharing AMs and the perceived benefits of sharing these memories are associated with differences in specificity …
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The Story of a Sexually Abused Child's Sandplay: A Single Case Study
… sandplay, and concurrent family transitions and events. Included are reflections and meanings that the therapist attributed to the sandplay. Child-centered play therapy was the guiding theory for the therapy. Thirty-six consecutive therapy sessions are examined in this study. The therapy sessions …
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Inequitable, disparate outcomes for U.S. divorces in 2022: how gender and age moderate family income and divorce
Divorce can significantly affect personal income, which economically harms adults and children during the post-divorce recovery. Half a century of research on how much a divorce affects gender stays relevant even to this day. What are the heterogeneous effects of divorce on income? Female divorcées …
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Effects of Parental or Caregiver Death Prior to Age Eighteen on Depressive Symptoms and Grief Following Miscarriage
… emotional ramifications in an individual's life. When this early loss is followed by significant life events such as pregnancy, and losses such as miscarriage, the bereaved woman experiences considerable emotional impact. The present study explores the relationship between parental or …
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Building and breaking identities: How adversity shapes entrepreneurial motivation
… the role of people's lived experiences and significant life events prior to their venturing. Still, little is known about how adverse events shape founder identities and entrepreneurial motivation. My study uses an identity theoretical lens to consider the influence of founders' adverse life …
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Leadership for Social Change: Learning from Latina/Chicana Activist Educators
… from familial and community mentors/models, significant life events, and educational experiences. Their heightened and evolving consciousness and social justice identity fueled their activism and leadership. The stories of their experiences demonstrate a theory of action that emphasizes a …
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Adoptees and adoptive families: an exploration of the formation of the legal family, the stigma of adoption, and the decision to search
… support existing literature that suggests that significant life events,similarity of characteristics between the adoptee and his or her adoptive family, communication about adoption in the adoptive home, and the amount of information about the birth family are all factors that may motivate …
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Visual and Verbal Narratives of Older Women Who Identify Themselves as Lifelong Learners
… story-telling and promote understanding about life experiences, I also illustrate how engagement with images extends learning and meaning-making. Effective in carrying life stories and integrating experience, the visual narratives also reveal archetypal imagery that is sustained and sustaining. …
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An investigation into the process of recovery when substance misusers are attempting desistance
… the research was in relation to the importance significant life events have on the individual's decision to stop or resume drug use. The results confirm that recovery should not be viewed as an end state, but as a process of change over time, one which may be influenced by factors extraneous to …
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An unknown country
… and changes that attend this period of human life. The realisation that one is reaching what is commonly understood as old age is a paradoxical one: a sense of change accompanied by wisdom and insight, yet also the recognition of decline and the stasis that accompanies this. In order to …
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Key events in the lives of successful middle school principals in Virginia
… from successful middle school principals what significant or key life events seem to have made a difference in the manner in which the principals work and lead their schools. A similar study of executives in business, conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership, was utilized as a model for …
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Examining the Construction of the Perceived Teacher Identity of Secondary Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers in Career and Technical Education Classrooms
… in education, interactions with students, and significant life events. The reported teacher identity of the participants was described as serving as a role model, teaching FCS, caring, and being supportive. Distinct types of support are necessary to encourage teacher longevity and job …
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Identification of Night Eating Behaviour and Investigation into Its Characteristics in an Obese Population
… Comparison of the NEB and non-NEB group showed significant differences in mood (p=0.001), work status (p= 0.03), perceived lack of control over eating (p= 0.03) and variability in sleep duration (p<0.01). The study tool successfully identified NEB, but not other ED. Interview analysis identified …
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Essays on Unemployment
… and panel measurements change around certain significant life events. Despite large falls in both subjective well-being and reemployment earnings as workers remain unemployed, we find that all of the earnings-relevant cognitive and noncognitive skills in the survey remain constant. We provide …
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Pivotal moments in the formation of the medieval Irish hero: conception/birth and death, and the case of Conall Cernach
… the two most important moments that define human life: conception/birth and death. It focuses in particular on the births and deaths of heroes. The heroes under investigation here are martial heroes whose lives are placed in the Irish pre-Christian era. A hero is often a semi-divine figure in …