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Showing 1 to 20 of 180 for “"social problem"”.
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Illiteracy in Virginia: a social problem
… ten years of age and over. Illiteracy is s social problem in that it involves social situations, it is a product of group life, it affects a substantial number of people, it constitutes a threat to social well being as defined by the mores of our civilzation and in order to deal with it …
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Do mindfulness, rumination or social problem-solving factors predict distress?
… that high self-reported mindful awareness and social problem solving are both individually related to a lower severity of self-reported depressive symptoms. Rumination has also been found to have a significant relationship with depressive and anxious symptoms. Yet, these etiological factors …
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The effects of social problem-solving training in an inclusive kindergarten classroom
… disabilities in an inclusive setting to improve socially from social problem solving training. An eight-week social problem-solving training program (SPS) was administered to twenty-three children. Three participants took part in this study. One child was classified as being emotionally disturbed …
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The Mediating/Moderating Role of Social Problem Solving Skills in Childhood Aggression
… study was to examine the mediating role of social problem solving skills in explaining the relationship between early aggression and later behavior problems. Additionally, the moderational role of social problem solving skills was also examined. The criteria proposed by Baron and Kenny …
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SOCIAL PROBLEM-SOLVING, NEGATIVE AFFECT, AND SMOKING URGE REACTIVITY DURING BASELINE CUE EXPOSURE
… study tested for potential relationships between social problem-solving, negative affect, and smoking urges during a baseline smoking cue exposure trial. Methods: aA part of a larger cessation study. 51 male and 50 female physically inactive, sedentary smokers with the intention to quit smoking, …
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The effects of rumination on social problem-solving in depressed and anxious mood
… if the relationship between rumination and social problem-solving changes based on symptom level, rumination status, type of social problem solving measure used, or type of problem being solved. Specifically, this study examined if rumination impairs social problem-solving by negatively …
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Developmental and Gender Patterns in Social Information Processing: Social Problem-Solving and Social Goals
… first- through fifth-grade children's (N = 514) social information processing, as well as the role emotion plays in these patterns. Developmental patterns and goal selection have been relatively understudied in past social information processing literature. Videotaped ambiguous provocations were …
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An examination of the relationships between rumination, social problem-solving, mindfulness and depressive symptomology
… examine the relationships between rumination, social problem-solving, mindfulness, and depressive symptomology. These relationships will be evaluated by means of Pearson correlations, and the testing of the proposed path model using AMOS. In order to test our hypotheses, undergraduate students …
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Homeless and Hopeless: Resignation in News Media Constructions of Homelessness as a Social Problem
… examined news constructions of homelessness as a social problem to identify how news stories communicate notions of what constitutes homelessness; how many and what types of people are homeless; and who can, should or must do something about this social problem. The study entailed a narrative …
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Social self-evaluation and social problem-solving skills in learning and non-learning disabled males
The questions investigated concerned the social problem solving skills of 41 learning disabled (LD) students compared to 41 typical students in grades 10, 11, and 12. Since (a) LD students are generally described as impulsive, lacking in social judgment, and unaware of consequences; since (b) these …
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The Effects of a Narrative-Based Social Problem-Solving Intervention with High-Risk Adolescent Males
… (e.g., Walker, Ramsey, & Gresham, 2004). Poor social competence is often a characteristic of this group of students (e.g., Kauffman, 2005; Maag, 2006). Historically, schools have responded to the social needs of this group of students through opportunities to participate in social …
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Sex offenders, sexuality, and social control: A case study in the social construction of a social problem
… are not always reflective of the nature of the problem. In effect, the policies put into place in the name of declaring war on the deviant behavior reflect these views and do not target the specific problem.</p> <p>While the first two panics involved the identification of sexual offenses, …
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Urban Industry and Literary Work: The Construction of Authorship in the Victorian Social -Problem Novel, 1845--1866
"This dissertation analyzes Victorian social-problem novels as products of an urban, industrial literary culture. Challenging the genre's reputation as a prominently mimetic endeavor of middle-class observers, I argue that the writers I address considered themselves ""authors"" immersed in literary …
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The role of social-problem solving and social support and their relation to well-being in young Saudi women
This study investigates the role of social-problem solving and social support as mediators and moderators of the relationship between stressful life events and adjustment, experienced by young students in Saudi Arabia. The study sample involved 630 college students and 390 high school students. …
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The Multiple Meanings of Domestic Violence: A Constructivist Inquiry
… has been responded to since it emerged as a problem in the 1970s. At first the response was providing places for victims to stay and recover from the violence while also providing opportunities for consciousness raising and empowerment work. As domestic violence became a more recognized …
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Treatment of suicide ideators: a problem-solving approach
… designed to reduce suicidal ideations: social problem-solving therapy and supportive therapy. Social problem-solving therapy is based on research indicating that suicidal individuals have deficits in problem-solving skills in general and in interpersonal problem-solving skills, in …
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The Romance of Social Problems in Austen and Gaskell
… romance plots and their interactions with the social problem-novel plots in Jane Austen's <italic>Pride and Prejudice</italic> and Elizabeth Gaskell's <italic>North and South</italic>. After a discussion of classical romance conventions in the first chapter, I will employ a close reading of …
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