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  • Parental contributions to aspects of ethnic development among four- and seven-year-old Chinese-American children

    Creator:
    Lin, Kowhei Sophia
    Abstract:
    This study had two major purposes. The first focused upon understanding the development of aspects of ethnic development among 4- and 7-year-old Chinese-American boys and girls from immigrant and non-immigrant families. The second focused upon understanding the contribution of selected parental (fathers' and mothers') characteristics on aspects of children's ethnic...
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    Dissertation
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    -American Children by Kowhei Sophia Lin A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

  • Parental warmth and children's effortful control : predictors of social-emotional competency

    Creator:
    Murray, Amy K.
    Abstract:
    Recent research has examined complex relationships between parent and child characteristics and the development of children’s social-emotional competencies. The over-arching objective of the current study was to compare differential patterns of predictability between the individual social-emotional competencies of cooperation, responsibility, and independence, and a social-emotional competency composite, to parental warmth...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of Master of Science in Human Development and Family Studies presented on March 22, 2007. Title

  • Abandoning the girl show ghetto : introducing and incorporating care ethics to girls' animation

    Creator:
    Hughes, Adam C.
    Abstract:
    In regards to animation created and aimed at them, girls are largely underserved and underrepresented. This underrepresentation leads to decreased socio-cultural capital in adulthood and a feeling of sacrificed childhood. Although there is a common consensus in entertainment toward girls as a potentially deficient audience, philosophy and applied ethics open...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ridicule among children. The deeper meaning of this socio-personal problem is tied up very closely in

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

    Creator:
    You, Hyun-Kyung
    Abstract:
    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

  • A Thematic Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books

    Creator:
    Marie, Michelle
    Abstract:
    Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the top ten best-selling children's picture books of 2006 reveals that these books contain elements of systematic privilege and oppression. Dominant group members are numerically overrepresented in the sample. Major emergent themes are the normalization of racism and white privilege, the stereotypical portrayal of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the