Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Title
Now showing items 7145-7164 of 10147
Parent Experiences in Alabama Charter Schools: Satisfaction, Enrollment Decision-Making, and Special Education
(2024-07-29)
This sequential mixed-methods study explored the experiences of parents of students with and without disabilities across six Alabama charter schools, utilizing a survey and focus groups. The survey (n=460) examined parents’ ...
Parent Involvement in Transition Planning for Students with Learning Disabilities
(2009-12-14)
Post-secondary education is a path that many individuals take after high school. For students with learning disabilities, post-secondary education is an attainable goal regardless of the academic difficulties they may face. ...
Parent Training with African American Parents
(2012-05-08)
One of the ways in which conduct problems are treated is parent training (Bagner & Eyberg, 2007). Parent training has been primarily designed with Caucasian middle-class parents (Kerig, 2001). Therefore, it may be beneficial ...
Parent-Child Conflict and Children’s Sleep: Attachment Security as a Moderator or Mediator
(2008-08-15)
Findings in recent years have highlighted sleep problems in children as a growing epidemic throughout the world (National Sleep Foundation, 2004; Sadeh, Raviv, & Gruber, 2000). Dahl and El-Sheikh (2007) propose that in ...
Parental Bereavement as a Form of Trauma in College Students: Personal Contexts and an Institution’s Role in Healing
(2024-12-13)
This qualitative study aims to understand how college students navigate parental loss and how institutions are helpful or harmful during the healing process. Utilizing a constructivist case study approach, data were collected ...
Parental Effects and Commercial-Scale Sperm Cryopreservation Techniques for Blue Catfish
(2025-04-21)
Catfish are an important U.S. aquaculture species, with the channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) female by blue catfish (I. furcatus) male hybrid constituting most of the harvest. Hatchery issues persist with male blue ...
Parental Involvement from the Perspective of Saudi Graduate Student Parents with Children in Elementary School in the U.S.
(2021-12-03)
Research shows that parental involvement in their children's education is related to positive student outcomes. Although there is a consensus among many researchers that parental involvement is beneficial to students' ...
Parental Processes and Young Adults' Romantic Relationships in Traditional, Divorced, and Remarried Family Structures
(2005-08-15)
The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of parental figures on young adults’ romantic relationships in traditional two-parent, divorced/separated, and remarried family structures. Participants (n = 786) ...
Parental Protection and Guidance Related to Early Adolescents’ Stressful Peer Experiences
(2022-07-20)
Peer-related parenting has been connected to young adolescents’ social and emotional wellbeing, yet largely missing from the literature are attempts to understand how parents respond to youths’ social and emotional ...
Parentification in the Context of Diverse Domestic Violence Exposure Experiences
(2017-07-27)
Guided by family systems theory and Johnson’s typology of violence, the current study examined the parentification experiences of 25 young adults exposed to father-mother domestic violence (DV) using thematic analysis. ...
Parenting Processes and Risky Sexual Behaviors in First and Second Generation Hispanic Immigrant Youth
(2006-12-15)
Despite the remarkable increase of Hispanic immigrant families with foreign-born and American-born children, the unique problems and behavioral characteristics of this particular population continue to be overlooked. Even ...
Parenting Styles Influence on Locus of Control, Self-Efficacy and Academic Adjustment in College Students
(2010-08-04)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived parenting style, locus of control, self-efficacy, and student outcome (i.e. academic performance, GPA) in a sample of college students. The ...
Parenting, Attachment and Child Outcomes: Self-Regulation as a Developmental mechanism
(2013-07-31)
Using data from The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD), I conducted two distinct but related studies. In the first study, the associations ...
Parents, Peers, and Risky Sexual Behavior in Rural African American Adolescents
(2008-08-15)
The current study examined the relationships among parenting factors (closeness, communication, support, and monitoring), peer deviance, and adolescent risky sexual behavior in a sample of rural African American youth (N ...
Partial Saturation Numbers of Graphs
(2024-12-11)
Given a fixed simple graph $H$, a simple graph $G$ is called $H$-saturated if $G$ is $H$-free, but the addition of any edge $e \in E(\overline{G})$ creates a copy of $H$. The saturation number of $H$, denoted $\sat(n,H)$, ...
'A Participant in the World': Identity, Change, and the Closet in Angels in America
(2008-05-15)
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America consists of two plays that examine the lives of a group of gay men living in New York City during the mid-1980s. Kushner revised Perestroika, the second play, in 1995, and made further ...
Participatory Design of Warning Symbols Using Distributed Interactive Evolutionary Computation
(2009-12-14)
Safety warnings play an important role in communicating risk via product labels and environmental signs. With the diversification of cultures and languages in the United States, and with the increasing globalization of ...
Particle Bubble Interactions in Flotation Systems
(2007-05-15)
Flotation separation is an important process in mineral processing and paper recycling. Flotation is a separation process used to remove particles from a liquid stream. Bubbles are introduced into the liquid stream, and, ...
Particle Charge Determination in a Magnetized Dusty Plasma Flow
(2023-05-04)
Dusty plasmas consist of components typically found in a plasma (electrons, ions
and neutral particles) as well as micrometer sized dust particles. The structural and dynamic
properties of a dusty plasma system are ...
Particle Motion Analysis in Pancreatic Islets Isolation using a Quadrupole Magnetic Flow Sorter
(2010-12-14)
Pancreatic islet transplantation offers a viable option to achieve permanent metabolic control in Type 1 diabetes patients. However, large quantities of pure viable donor islet cells are necessary for transplantation. Using ...