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  • Predictors of participation in a prison-based parenting program

    Creator:
    Schumer, Jean Ellen
    Abstract:
    The focus of this study was threefold. This research examined the extent to which parenting alliance between incarcerated parents and the caregivers of their children, influences participation of inmate parents in parenting programs. This research explored the extent to which family contact influences participation of inmate parents in parenting programs....
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    Dissertation
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    Estimated Number of Parents in State and Federal Prisons and Their Minor Children (Glaze & Maruschak, 2008

  • Women's perceptions of their children's experiences in domestic violence

    Creator:
    Wood, Barbara L.
    Abstract:
    Ten female survivors of physically assaultive domestic violence were interviewed three times each in a feminist, qualitative study designed to access their perceptions about their children's experiences in domestic violence. All participants had children living with them at the time of the abuse and were one to five years out...
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    Dissertation
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    participants had children living with them at the time of the abuse and were one to five years out of the

  • Mothering a child with autism in the United States and in South Korea

    Creator:
    You, Hyun-Kyung
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    In this dissertation, I qualitatively examined the meaning of mothering a child with autism in two countries: the United States and South Korea. The overarching research question focused on how sociocultural ideas about mothering and disability, particularly autism spectrum disorders, shape women’s understanding of themselves and their children with disabilities....
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    Dissertation
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    direct and indirect activities of providing care for children in both South Korea and in the United

  • Applying theories of capital to understand parent involvement at school as a component of family-school interaction : the special case of children with special needs

    Creator:
    Dogaru, Cristian M.
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    This study used a nationally representative dataset of 21,260 kindergartners, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001a), and a conceptual framework of theories of cultural and social capital (Bourdieu, 1986) embedded in an ecological framework (Bronfenbrenner, 2005) to identify unobserved socio-cultural classes in...
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    Dissertation
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    : The Special Case of Children with Special Needs Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used for determining

  • The impact of children with chronic health problems on marriage

    Creator:
    Eddy, Linda L.
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    The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of having a child with a chrome illness or handicapping condition on marital quality and perceived marital stability. The subject is important because the belief that marriages in parents of chronically ill or handicapped children are uniformly less happy and...
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    Dissertation

  • Academic achievement trajectories of adolescents from Mexican and East Asian immigrant families

    Creator:
    Jeong, Yu Jin
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    Academic achievement of adolescent children is directly associated with their success in adulthood. Little is known, however, regarding how adolescents in immigrant families academically grow over time and what factors influence the trajectories. Drawing on the National Educational Longitudinal Survey 1988 (NELS: 88), this study aimed to: 1) identify the...
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    Dissertation
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    United States. In 2000, approximately one of five children under 18 lived with at least one foreign

  • More than a term : a consideration of how to support generation 1.5 students at colleges and universities

    Creator:
    Wimberly, Elizabeth Summer
    Abstract:
    In this thesis, Elizabeth Summer Wimberly details the profile of generation 1.5 students as a group of students who can need extra support in higher education. Generation 1.5 students stand distinct from both international students and native, monolingual students. As such, placing generation 1.5 students in either a mainstream or...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    the permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature below authorizes

  • Middle Eastern mothers' perspectives of U.S. early childhood schools

    Creator:
    Badiee, Shahrnaz
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    I determined the perspectives of Middle Eastern mothers concerning U.S. early childhood schools using qualitative methodologies. The ecological perspective model presented by Bronfenbrenner was the ideal framework for investigating the Middle Eastern children's experiences in this study that considered the importance of the sociocultural contexts of children and their families....
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    Masters Thesis
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    living in the United States (Schmidley, 2003) and the majority of them are families with children under