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  • Resilience in adulthood : turning points and generativity

    Creator:
    Notter, Megan L.
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    This analysis uses data from a larger ethnographic study examining community effects of mobile home park residence on child and youth development to explore the resilient pathways of 8 mothers and maternal guardians in order to understand better how successful adaptation is achieved despite significant threats present throughout the life...
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    Masters Thesis
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    study is focused on rural poor and working-poor families because multiple risks are often found

  • A Qualitative Feminist Analysis of Welfare Mothers and Human Capital

    Creator:
    Leer-Beyerlein, Amy L.
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores outcomes of women's participation in the American welfare system. The primary goal of this research was to determine the impact certain segments of the welfare system in the United States have on women's ability to obtain and retain human capital. The primary resources were formulated around participants...
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    Masters Thesis
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    (Abramovitz, 1996). With the majority of men and women of color as well as poor white women working in these

  • “We’ll Be That Kid That You Think We Are” : The Influences of Stigma and Interactions with Important Adults on Youth Identity Development in a Rural Context

    Creator:
    Lile, Joy R.
    Abstract:
    Adolescence is a developmental stage marked by crystallization in individuals’ sense of identity (Erikson, 1994; Harter, 1999). Research on positive youth development stresses the ways in which thriving trajectories during adolescence contribute to positive lifelong outcomes (Lerner & Overton, 2008; Scales, Benson, & Roehlkepartain, 2011) A symbolic interactionism perspective (Mead,...
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    Dissertation
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    adults on identity development of low-income adolescents living in a small rural community in Oregon