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

    Creator:
    Lynch, Maureen Jessica
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    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...
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    : (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.
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    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....
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    make greater gains in parenting knowledge and practices than would comparison group parents; (b

  • In their own words : divorced and widowed women, retirement, and friendships

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    Barlow-Pieterick, Marilyn
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    Friends benefit both our psychological and our emotional well-being by increasing overall happiness, life satisfaction, and a positive sense of self among women. Often, however, friendships decrease in the later years. The purpose of this study is to learn more about divorced or widowed, retired women and their friendships, specifically,...
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    B: Informed Consent Document ....................................... 100 Appendix C: Coding Frame

  • Forging new paths : life course transitions for American women and their families

    Creator:
    Schmiege, Cynthia J.
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    Families of remarriage constitute a growing number of American families. The spiraling divorce rate of the 1970s was accompanied by a concomitant increase in the number of remarriages. Forty percent of American families today contain at least one spouse that has been previously married, thus studying relationships within families of...
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    Dissertation

  • Intergenerational responses to the death of a child

    Creator:
    White, Diana L.
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    The death of a child is a traumatic family event. This qualitative study examined the experiences of parents and grandparents in 10 families who had lost a baby to SIDS, stillbirth, or birth defects. Key questions focused on support given and received, meanings attributed to the loss, continuing bonds, and...
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    ......................................................................... 148 Appendix B Interview Guides

  • Depression risk : an examination of rural low income mothers

    Creator:
    Guyer, Amy M.
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    This study used a multi-method approach to explore factors associated with high and low depression in a sample of rural mothers living in poverty. From a sample of 117 women with very high or very low CES-D depression scores, 40 cases were randomly selected for in-depth qualitative analysis. Qualitative comments...
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    Masters Thesis
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    APPENDICES Appendix A CES-D ............................................................... 95 Appendix B

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

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    Merrill, Marina L.
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    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...
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    Protocol 133 Appendix B. Participant Interview Protocol (Spanish Version) 137 Appendix C. Program

  • Health, well-being, and financial self-sufficiency of low-income families in the context of welfare reform

    Creator:
    Corson, Corinne
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    The Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act of 1996 brought several changes to the welfare system. Among these changes are lifetime limits for receiving welfare benefits, and work requirements intended to foster economic self-sufficiency in welfare recipients. In the past few years, it has been acknowledged that there are challenges...
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    ............................................................................. 86 Appendix B Interview Protocol

  • Moving on : the effects of frequent childhood mobility on a low-income population

    Creator:
    Hilberg, Beth Alyne
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    The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between frequent childhood mobility and perceived social support, education level, and economic well-being in a sample of former Even Start parents. Theoretically the mechanisms for the disruption of frequent mobility are studied through both social capital theory and an ecological...
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    ........................................................... 84 Appendix B Parent Interview Coding Scheme ............................................... 88

  • Informal social support and attrition among nonpartnered, rurally-located, poor mothers

    Creator:
    Amity, Frederica A.
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    This qualitative study used interview transcripts to find clues to attrition from a longitudinal study among nonpartnered, rurally-located, poor mothers, a generally vulnerable population with characteristics commonly associated with attrition (low-income, low levels of educational attainment, and rural location). Drawing on Rural Families Speak data, the author used the number...
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    ) informal social support for poor, rural women; and (b) attrition and longitudinal research. Poverty in