Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Human Development and Family Studies"
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Attachment Dimensions of Closeness, Anxiety, and Dependence and Parent and Peer Relationships in a Population of Adolescents who have Sexually Offended: Are These Associations Mediated by Emotion Regulation?
(2016-07-20)
Adolescent males who sexually offend are at great risk for continuing difficulties
in managing emotional arousal, their relationships, and their futures. The purpose of this
study is to examine the relationship between ...
Attrition from Couple Therapy: Individual Symptoms, Relationship Adjustment, and Stage of Change
(2013-11-08)
Research has indicated that attrition in psychotherapy is a problem for therapists and clients. Additionally, there is a lack of research pertaining specifically to factors affecting dropout rates in couple therapy. In ...
Autonomic physiology of social anxiety in preadolescence
(2020-07-15)
The present study sought to build on prior research by examining within-system (sympathetic nervous system (SNS) x SNS) and cross-system (SNS x parasympathetic nervous system) interactions between measures of autonomic ...
Autonomy and Control as Moderators for the Association between Parent Involvement and Educational Aspirations Among Latino Adolescents
(2013-07-10)
This study examined the relationship between parent academic involvement and educational aspirations among Latino adolescents. Additionally, this study examined the moderating effect of varying parenting practices, ...
The Beliefs About PVA Harm Survey: Testing the factor structure, validity, and relationship to use of parental verbal aggression and stress
(2008-12-15)
Recent prevalence data indicate that parental verbal aggression (PVA) (e.g., yelling/screaming, threatening to hit, swearing, insulting, and threatening to send away) is used by a majority of parents at one time or another ...
Believing Sexual Activity Makes One An Adult: Associations with Effective Parenting, and Adolescents' Educational Investments and Cumulative Sexual Risk-Taking
(2014-06-17)
Adolescent sexual risk-taking has been a hot topic in research and prevention work over the past decade, however, much of the research has focused on the environmental and biological predictors of sexual risk taking and ...
Career Decision-Making: Implications for Emerging Adults’ Career Identity Development
(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 ...
Career Preparation during the Transition from High School
(2010-07-20)
Preparing for an adult career through careful planning, choosing a career, and gaining confidence to achieve career goals is a primary task during adolescence and early adulthood (Erikson, 1968; Skorikov, 2007b). The theory ...
Children’s Cortisol in Preschool and Aggression One Year Later in Kindergarten
(2011-01-05)
Previous research has examined associations between aggression and cortisol throughout the lifespan, with most studies concluding that individuals with lower basal cortisol exhibit more aggressive and antisocial behavior. ...
Children’s Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior and Social Competence predicted by Home Environment: Are These Associations Mediated by Social Competence and Moderated by Child Maltreatment?
(2015-07-24)
Home environment is often related to child functioning, including child social competence and child externalizing and internalizing behaviors. However, there is limited research that has examined how child abuse status, ...
Children’s Internalizing, Externalizing, Sexualized Behavior, and Social Competence as Predicted by Maternal Level of Depression: Are These Associations Moderated by Child Sex and Mothers’ History of Sexual Abuse?
(2014-05-27)
Maternal depression is often related to child functioning, including child internalizing, externalizing, and sexualized behavior, as well as child social competence. However, little research has investigated how child sex ...
Children’s Stress and Their Health: Cortisol and the Common Cold
(2012-12-11)
Many studies document associations between high levels of stress in early childhood and poor adult health, but understanding of mechanisms underlying these links is limited. Recent theoretical models focus on physiological ...
Client Attachment, Symptom Distress, Marital Adjustment, and Therapeutic Alliance in Couple's Therapy
(2007-12-15)
The purpose of this thesis was to examine the relationship between client anxiety, avoidance, symptom distress, marital adjustment and the therapeutic alliance in couple’s therapy. Sample for this study was composed of ...
Client Symptom Distress, Stage of Change, and the Therapeutic Alliance in Couple Therapy
(2007-08-15)
The purpose of this thesis was to examine how the relationship between client symptom distress and the therapeutic alliance was mediated by client stage of change in couple therapy. Sample for this study was composed of ...
The Clinical Experience of Therapists in a Training Program as a Predictor of the Therapy Alliance, Client Dropouts, and Duration of Therapy
(2006-12-15)
Little research has addressed the effect clinical experience during graduate training has on students’ ability to improve therapeutic effectiveness. This study examined the relationship between student-therapists’ clinical ...
A Comparative Study of the Relations Between Parenting and Deviance and Parenting and Academic Achievement Among Chinese and European American Youth from Taiwan and the United States
(2010-07-12)
The current investigation studied the relations between parenting and deviance
and parenting and academic achievement among Chinese and European American youth
from Taiwan (n = 906) and the United States (n = 627). More ...
Conflict and harmony during interaction of preschool children: Influences of relationship status of dyads
(2010-08-04)
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of friendship and dominance status on interaction quality—harmony and conflict during play—among preschool-aged children. The study considered the effects of friendship ...
Conflict Behaviors and Marital Satisfaction in Older Adulthood: A Typology
(2014-06-24)
Research has generally supported the idea that older adult conflict resolution is different from that of younger adults and that more effective conflict resolution skills are positively associated with marital satisfaction ...
Contextualizing Relationship Education Effects on Adolescent Attitude toward Sexual Behavior Delay: Considering Class Social Climate
(2014-05-02)
Using data from a statewide relationship education (RE) program targeting youth, this study used a more complex theory-driven and empirically-based model to explore the influence of the program on adolescent attitudes about ...
Continuity and Change in Extracurricular Activity Involvement from Grade 7 to Grade 12
(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 ...