Browsing by Department "Human Development and Family Studies"
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One Happy Island: Assessing Preferences and Needs for Marriage and Relationship Education in Aruba
(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 ...
Parent and Peer Social-Emotional Support as Predictors of Depressive Symptoms in the Transition into and out of College
(2020-07-02)
Depression is common in the college student population. Parent and peer socio-emotional support have long been shown to be associated with greater well-being and less depressive symptoms, including a smoother transition ...
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 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) ...
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, 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 ...
Peer Influence Moderates Relationship Education Effects on Adolescents’ Romantic Ideals
(2015-10-14)
The effectiveness of relationship education has been confirmed for youth in correcting faulty romantic beliefs. Some evaluation studies also support that relationship education plays a role for building and modifying ...
Peer Victimization and Adjustment: The Moderating Role of Personal Orientations
(2017-05-15)
The present study examined whether associations between peer victimization and later aggression, depressive symptoms, and school liking are moderated by personal orientations, including popularity, affiliation, academic, ...
Peer Victimization and School Adjustment in Early Adolescence: Friends' Social Adjustment as a Moderator
(2009-04-16)
Peer victimization is a relatively common occurrence during the middle school years and has been found to be negatively associated with school outcomes. Friends are thought to serve ameliorative functions for adolescents ...
Person X Environment in the Peer Domain: Parenting Strategies and Preadolescent Physiological Responses in the Context of Peer Stress
(2013-04-29)
During preadolescence, concerns about maintaining and developing friendships, gaining peer acceptance, and avoiding peer victimization become central concerns. The transition to middle school can create or exacerbate these ...
The Portrayal of Gender in the Feature-Length Films of Pixar Animation Studios: A Content Analysis
(2010-04-12)
This study was a content analysis of the portrayal of gender in the feature-length films of Pixar Animation Studios. All ten films currently released from the studio were included in the study (Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy ...
Practice makes Perfect? An Exploration of Benefits Gained from a six week Mindfulness-Based Couple Relationship Education Course
(2016-08-04)
Mindfulness-Based Couple Relationship Education (MBCRE) courses seek to provide participants with skills that they can use to benefit themselves and their relationships. This pilot study of Couples Connecting Mindfully ...
Predicting Dyadic Synchrony in Early Childhood: Maternal, Child, and Contextual Antecedents
(2011-01-05)
Parent-child dyadic synchrony has been found to predict children’s later adjustment outcomes. However, few studies have examined the factors that promote or interfere with the development of synchrony. Using data from the ...
Predicting Early Adolescents’ Adjustment: Interaction between Friends’ Behaviors and Friends’ Demographic Characteristics
(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 and Consequences of Disruptions in Sleep among Children
(2012-05-10)
This dissertation includes two studies. In the first study, children’s emotional insecurity
was examined as a process variable and as a moderator of effects using three waves of data
spanning five years. Participants ...
Predictors of Quality Caregiving in the "Family Child Care Partnerships" Home Visitation Program
(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 ...
Prevention, Protection, or Institutional Oppression? Exploring the Institution of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention in Alabama
(2020-08-07)
In light of the need for child abuse and neglect prevention efforts to target institutional and social conditions underlying family challenges, I use institutional ethnography to analyze focus group discussions (secondary ...
Public goods and private resources as determinants of county low birth weight incidence
(2018-04-24)
Infants born at low birth weight are at elevated risk of infant mortality, developmental delays, and adulthood cardiovascular disease. That low birth weight (LBW; <2500 grams) incidence varies two-to-three-fold between ...