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  • Achievement as a family theme in drama

    Creator:
    Gray, Cecilia D.
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    The development and maintenance of a family achievement theme was analyzed using two dramas: Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill and A Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Three propositions were tested: 1) The development of a family achievement theme involves a transaction between individual personality needs...
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    disgarded if it can assist us in this endeavor. Literature has supplied us with rich protrayals of family

  • Sex role stereotypes and children's memory for story content

    Creator:
    Gentry, Sally A.
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    The present experiment examined children's memory for stereotypic and non-stereotypic sex role content in their reading material. Twenty-four male and twenty-four female fifth grade subjects read two short stories, each depicting a male and female character who exhibited an equal number of masculine and feminine traits and behaviors. Results of...
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    literature, or its effect upon their memory for story material. In an effort to address this issue, the

  • Early Predictors of Academic Achievement and Externalizing Problems for Children in Low-Income Families

    Creator:
    Duncan, Robert J.
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    Empirical studies and theory have identified many early predictors of children's academic achievement and externalizing problems. Moreover, research shows that children's early cognitive abilities and behavioral problems are strong predictors of later academic achievement and externalizing problems. The current dissertation studies extend previous work and unpack how early predictors relate...
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    have been well documented, a noticeable gap in the literature exists in exploring the influence of

  • Predicting School Readiness Using Motor Skill Proficiency of At-Risk Preschoolers

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    Tepfer, Amanda Taek Soon
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    Background: Early childhood is filled with incredible growth in all areas of development and offers a critical period for optimal learning (Lerner, 2002). During this critical period both motor skills (Bouffard, Watkinson, Thompson, Causgrove Dunn, & Romanow, 1996; Clark & Metcalfe, 2002; Lubans, Morgan, Cliff, Barnett, & Okely, 2010; Stodden...
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    are at higher risk for poor outcomes in such areas as school performance, health, and mental health