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The point of confluence : a qualitative study of the life-span developmental importance of menarche in the bodily histories of older women

Creator:: Sasser-Coen, Jennifer
Abstract:: In this qualitative, phenomenological study I employed oral history methodology, grounded in a life-span developmental and feminist approach, to explore the developmental importance of menarche in twenty older women's "bodily histories." Menarche is an important developmental event in the female life course because it represents a major point of confluence...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Jennifer R. Sasser-Coen for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development and Family Sciences

Personal teaching efficacy and ethnic attributions as contributors to caucasian preservice teachers' behavior toward international children

Creator:: Burt, Linda S.
Abstract:: Two theoretical models were examined based on the contributions of preservice teachers' personal teaching efficacy, ethnic causal attributions, past teaching, and international interaction experiences to their behaviors toward international children in multicultural small group activity sessions. Path analytic results revealed that for both models, these variables together did not significantly...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: children' s ethnicity, gender, age, socioeconomic status, and involvement in different types of small

Residential placement of patients with dementia : relationship to care recipient and caregiver variables

Creator:: Coehlo, Deborah Padgett
Abstract:: The occurrence and timing of residential care of patients with dementia is impacted by several care recipient and caregiver variables. Previous research has shown a strong relationship among residential placement and marital status, cognitive decline, deterioration in functional abilities, and presence of behavior problems in the care recipient. Research on...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Parenting styles and children's outcomes mediated by family problem solving

Creator:: Hadlock, Terry G.
Abstract:: Contemporary parenting strategies tend to involve parent-child interactions in which the parent neither repressively dominates the child nor follows a permissive laissez-faire course but respects the child's dignity as a person. This paper integrates several current theories of parenting and parent education into the construct of "respectful parenting," which is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: others in a functional way in which s/he can experience cooperation, considering others' ideas, or

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

Creator:: Schmiege, Cynthia J.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: children, and demographers have estimated that of children born in the 1980's, 35% will be raised in

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:: parent education. This new model was called family literacy (U. S. Department of Education, 1995

Factors contributing to prosocial behavior among pre-school children from low-income families

Creator:: Vale, Elizabeth
Abstract:: This exploratory study examined whether temperament, home environment, and family stress impact the amount of prosocial behavior displayed by pre-school age low-income children and examined how much of an impact each factor has. Each factor was explored in depth along sub-scale dimensions including, (1) self-regulatory temperament, negative reactive temperament, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Adams, Hillman, & Gaydos, 1994; Dubow & Ippolito, 1994; Duncan, Brooks-Gunn, & Klebanov, 1994; Mc Loyd

Preschoolers' hostile attribution, aggressive behavior and relationships with their mothers' attributional style, parenting behavior and affect

Creator:: Katsurada, Emiko
Abstract:: The purposes of this study were to find out about the associations between hostile attributional bias and aggressive behaviors among preschool-aged children and to identify possible sources of their hostile attributional bias. Seventy-two preschoolers with an average age of 4.76 and their mothers acted as participants. Children's hostile attributional bias...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: approved: Alan I. S awara The purposes of this study were to find out about the associations between

Selected factors contributing to preservice teachers' perceptions of the social and cognitive competence of preschool children

Creator:: Pettit, Rebecca Ward
Abstract:: As increasing numbers of poor children enter child care programs due to changes in work requirements under the Welfare Reform Act, there is a critical need to examine factors that may affect the quality of care that these children receive. One factor that has received limited attention in the literature...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: have inadequate or poor quality medical care, and to die beforeage six. (Duncan, Brooks- Gunn

The effects of the family context and parent involvement on perceptions of children's school achievement

Creator:: Katzev, Aphra R.
Abstract:: The study examined dimensions of the family context associated with variations in parent involvement and parent perceptions of children's school achievement using data from 1,085 male and 2,239 female respondents with a child between the ages of 5 and 18 years collected in the 1987-88 National Survey of Families and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: household (U. S. Census, 1992a). Estimates indicate that almost half of all children in America

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The point of confluence : a qualitative study of the life-span developmental importance of menarche in the bodily histories of older women

Personal teaching efficacy and ethnic attributions as contributors to caucasian preservice teachers' behavior toward international children

Residential placement of patients with dementia : relationship to care recipient and caregiver variables

Parenting styles and children's outcomes mediated by family problem solving

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

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

Factors contributing to prosocial behavior among pre-school children from low-income families

Preschoolers' hostile attribution, aggressive behavior and relationships with their mothers' attributional style, parenting behavior and affect

Selected factors contributing to preservice teachers' perceptions of the social and cognitive competence of preschool children

The effects of the family context and parent involvement on perceptions of children's school achievement

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