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Adolescent co-parenting relationships and their effect on parental self-efficacy 

Lipsmeyer, Kara (2005-12-15)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the structure and quality of the co-residential co-parenting relationships on the self-efficacy of adolescent and young adult unmarried mothers. Forty one predominately ...

Career Decision-Making: Implications for Emerging Adults’ Career Identity Development 

Stringer, Kate (2008-05-15)
Identity exploration in the areas of work and love is theorized to be salient in emerging adulthood, and therefore, commitments often are delayed (Arnett, 2000). The exploration that takes place during adolescence and ...

Continuity and Change in Extracurricular Activity Involvement from Grade 7 to Grade 12 

Carter, Sara (2010-07-19)
Research has shown extracurricular activities to be positive contexts for youth development. Such activities have recently been conceptualized in terms of both breadth (number of activities) and depth (intensiveness of ...

The Effects of Parental Self-Efficacy on Parental Involvement and on Pre-School Aged Children’s Readiness for the Transition to Kindergarten 

Theodille, Victoria (2012-12-05)
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K), demographic and parental predictors of parental self-efficacy were identified among parents with children transitioning to ...

Examining the Reliability and Validity of a Measure of Child Care Provider Motivation 

Ma, YanLing (2009-08-04)
The concept of motivation in the child care area has not been based in theory and no standard measure has been used to assess it. The limited work examining the influence of providers’ motivation on care giving quality has ...

An Exploration of Participant-Level Factors Associated With the Success of the Begin Education Early Program 

Wells, Jennifer (2005-12-15)
This study explored the participant-based factors identified in Cummings’ (1999) organizational framework of factors associated with the successful implementation of family-based, educational programming, and examined the ...

The Impact of Preschool Quality on Peer Relationships at First Grade with Teacher-Child Relationships as a Mediator 

DeMaioribus, Maria (2010-07-12)
Previous research has documented associations between preschool quality and children’s peer relationships as well as the effect of teacher-child relationship quality on peer relationships. Multiple regression models were ...

Marital Adjustment as a Mediating Factor Between Symptom Distress and Therapeutic Alliance in Couples Therapy 

Stephens, Melissa (2006-08-15)
Previous research on symptom distress and therapeutic alliance in conjoint treatment indicates that symptom distress does not impact the formation of alliance, rather, marital adjustment impacts alliance formation. Because ...

One Happy Island: Assessing Preferences and Needs for Marriage and Relationship Education in Aruba 

Beckstead, Camilla (2012-07-27)
Research has generally supported the viability of Marriage and Relationship Education (MRE) for strengthening marriages. However, the research has generally been limited to the middle-class, European population in the ...

Predicting Early Adolescents’ Adjustment: Interaction between Friends’ Behaviors and Friends’ Demographic Characteristics 

Smith, Nathan (2012-07-24)
The present study examined independent cross-sectional associations between friends’ behaviors (prosocial and deviant) and demographic characteristics (age, sex, school) and early adolescents’ adjustment (internalizing and ...

Predictors of Quality Caregiving in the "Family Child Care Partnerships" Home Visitation Program 

Miller, Ellaine (2005-12-15)
The primary focus of this study is to describe the Family Child Care Partnerships (FCCP) program and examine the possible relations among key features and processes of the FCCP training program in an attempt to identify ...

Quality in Family Child Care: The Voice of the Family Child Care Provider 

Newell, Amy (2009-04-14)
The primary purposes of this study are to explore the provider perspective on quality in family child care (FCC) and patterns of relationship between the provider perspective and the research-based perspective on quality ...

Social Support and the Quality of Child Care Practices Among Participants in the Family Child Care Partnerships Program 

Putnam, Robin (2006-12-15)
The purpose of the study was to describe the social and professional support networks of family child care providers involved in a program designed to improve child care quality, and to examine whether the extent and quality ...