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The complexity of nonresident father involvement in low-income families : mothers' perspectives

Creator:: Sano, Yoshie
Abstract:: The two studies of this dissertation examined mothers' perspectives of nonresident fathers' involvement in low-income families. The overall goal of these studies was to gain a more comprehensive understanding of nonresident fathers' involvement and its effect on family well-being. In the first study I applied a relatively new methodology, zero-inflated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: approved: Leslie N. Richards Alan C. Acock The two studies of this dissertation examined mothers

Children's housework in single-mother and single-father families

Creator:: Hall, Leslie Duke
Abstract:: Using data from the 1987-1988 National Survey of Families and Households, this study compared time children of single mothers (n = 717) and fathers (n = 78) spent on housework. Housework takes time and many parents combine it with employment and child rearing. Characteristics of families headed by single mothers...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The experience of southeast Asian refugee families : an exploration of family identity

Creator:: Lynch, Maureen Jessica
Abstract:: Every year thousands of families experience a major life-changing event when they are torn from their homeland and become refugees. Little is known about how the refugee experience impacts the family and how members perceive it affects their sense of family identity. The construct of family identity as proposed by...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : (a) family membership, (b) quality of day to day life, and (c) an elusive historical dynamic

Family literacy programs : can they make a difference in parenting?

Creator:: Bailey, Sandra J.
Abstract:: Parenting education is a process of providing information to parents on the challenges of parenting, services available for families, and ideas on how to interact with children. The federal Even Start family literacy program, designed to increase the educational opportunities of parents and children, has a strong parenting education component....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: characteristics than those who did not make gains; (c) parents with lower depression, higher self-esteem, and

Beyond high hopes : educational attainment among children of immigrants

Creator:: Feeney, Sarah L.
Abstract:: In light of broadening racial/ethnic educational attainment gaps, growing diversity within young populations, and the increasingly critical relationship between higher education and outcomes in adulthood, understanding the factors that shape educational attainment is an especially important task for research. With this goal in mind, the current study examined how national...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ) academic performance, and then to both (c) significant others’ and (d) youth’s appraisal of potential

“We’ll Be That Kid That You Think We Are” : The Influences of Stigma and Interactions with Important Adults on Youth Identity Development in a Rural Context

Creator:: Lile, Joy R.
Abstract:: Adolescence is a developmental stage marked by crystallization in individuals’ sense of identity (Erikson, 1994; Harter, 1999). Research on positive youth development stresses the ways in which thriving trajectories during adolescence contribute to positive lifelong outcomes (Lerner & Overton, 2008; Scales, Benson, & Roehlkepartain, 2011) A symbolic interactionism perspective (Mead,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ………………………………………164 Appendix B: Youth Demographic Survey…………………………………………..165 Appendix C: Youth Interview 1 Guide

Adolescent motivation and learning in a summer youth employment program

Creator:: McCausland, Suzy G.
Abstract:: Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEPs) provide disadvantaged youth jobs and employment experiences. These federally funded programs meet a practical need to help adolescents earn money and have positive summer activities. In addition, federal administrators have implemented program requirements designed to give youth relevant training for future employment. One federal requirement...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Finding personal power through literacy : Latina women's transformative learning experiences in two family literacy programs

Creator:: Merrill, Marina L.
Abstract:: This research focused on the experiences of 15 low income Mexican women immigrants participating in MAS and Superando, two family literacy programs at the center of these women's sociocultural change. This research sought to understand the extent to which participation in these two programs empowers women to create change in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Protocol 133 Appendix B. Participant Interview Protocol (Spanish Version) 137 Appendix C. Program

A qualitative analysis of clinical records from a trauma response program for families exposed to violence

Creator:: Behan, Kathleen G.
Abstract:: This dissertation is a qualitative secondary content analysis of clinical records collected for the Spokane Safe Start Project in Spokane, Washington, a program designed to offset trauma in children exposed to domestic and intimate partner violence (IPV). The Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have identified intimate...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Even Start Family Literacy Program : similarities and differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic participants

Creator:: Pamulapati, Sireesha
Abstract:: This study used a mixed method approach (quantitative and qualitative) to examine the commonalities and differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic participants of the Even Start Family Literacy Program. Using a life course perspective, this study examined the educational background and life history of Hispanic and non-Hispanic participants, their reasons and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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The complexity of nonresident father involvement in low-income families : mothers' perspectives

Children's housework in single-mother and single-father families

The experience of southeast Asian refugee families : an exploration of family identity

Family literacy programs : can they make a difference in parenting?

Beyond high hopes : educational attainment among children of immigrants

“We’ll Be That Kid That You Think We Are” : The Influences of Stigma and Interactions with Important Adults on Youth Identity Development in a Rural Context

Adolescent motivation and learning in a summer youth employment program

Finding personal power through literacy : Latina women's transformative learning experiences in two family literacy programs

A qualitative analysis of clinical records from a trauma response program for families exposed to violence

Even Start Family Literacy Program : similarities and differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic participants

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