Browsing by Department "Human Development and Family Studies"
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Quality in Family Child Care: The Voice of the Family Child Care Provider
(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 ...
Quality or Quantity: Which is More Important for Adult Child-Parent Relationships?
(2019-07-12)
The purpose of this study was to explore, in a community sample, the association between quality and quantity of parent-adult child interactions and parents’ ratings of parent-adult child relationship quality. Additionally, ...
Relating Preschoolers Coping Tactics during Resource-Based Conflicts to Social Competence
(2016-12-07)
As early exposure to center-based care continues to rise, infants and young children are introduced to a broad array of social dynamics and are immersed in peer networks in ways that were not common a generation ago. The ...
The Relationship among Marital Quality, Sexual Frequency, Sexual Disagreement, Depression, and Married Women’s Sexual Satisfaction
(2005-08-15)
Women’s sexual satisfaction is linked to several relational and individual factors. In particular, sexual satisfaction appears to covary with the general quality of women’s marital relationships and the level of intimacy ...
The Relationship Between Couples’ Hopelessness and Relationship Satisfaction in Therapy Moderated by Change in Ineffective Arguing Over Time
(2020-07-28)
Relationship satisfaction is a complex construct that has been studied for decades. While there are a variety of known variables that influence relationship satisfaction, such as conflict management, few studies have ...
The Relationship Between Fee for Services and Couples Therapy Dropout Moderated by Therapeutic Alliance in a Training Environment
(2020-11-24)
Dropout in psychotherapy is a common problem associated with a variety of negative outcomes for clients, service providers, and society (Anderson et al., 2019). Although many studies cite inconsistent findings between ...
The Relationship Between Geographic Mobility and Feelings of Mastery During Adolescence
(2005-12-15)
The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of geographic mobility and demographic characteristics on feelings of mastery in adolescents. Participants (N = 1,268) were part of the second wave of the National ...
The Relationship Between Indirect Family Factors, Emotional Reactivity, and Young Adults' Interpersonal Competence
(2006-08-15)
While interpersonal competence has been studied for decades by myriad disciplines, reviewers have noted again and again a deficit in the study of the development of interpersonal competence. The purpose of this study is ...
The Relationship Between Polyvictimization and Perceptions of Police Moderated by Race in Survivors of Sex Trafficking
(2020-07-17)
Sex trafficking is a violent crime that affects millions of survivors every year (International Labor Organization [ILO], 2017). Law enforcement officers frequently interact with victims of sex trafficking, putting them ...
The Relationship Between Sexual Satisfaction and Relationship Satisfaction as Mediated by Partner Perceptions of Power
(2016-08-01)
Using a sample of 34 clients from the Auburn University Marriage and Family Therapy Center, this study examined the relationship between sexual satisfaction, marital power and relationship satisfaction for males and females ...
The Relationships Between Conflict, Marital Satisfaction and Couples' Time Spent in Joint Activity
(2005-12-15)
The purpose of this study is to examine the links between marital satisfaction, couples’ time together in joint, leisure activity and relationship conflict. Current literature has established the positive link between ...
The Relationships between Economic Hardship, Financial Distress, Relational Aggression, and Marital Quality as Experienced by Mid-Life Married Couples during and following the Recent Economic Recession
(2015-07-21)
Using data from the Flourishing Families Project, the current dissertation is composed of two studies examining how 335 mid-life married couples experienced economic hardship and financial distress during the recent economic ...
The Remarriage Belief Inventory: Testing the Factorial Structure and Validity with a Remarried Sample
(2005-08-15)
Recent figures have indicated that approximately half of all marriages each year are remarriages for one or both partners and that the majority of these remarriages form stepfamilies. Despite the prevalence of remarriages ...
The Role of Identity Styles and Academic Possible Selves on Academic Outcomes for High School Students
(2010-10-20)
The present study investigated the influence of identity styles and academic possible selves on academic outcomes for high school students. Specifically, the present study examined the relationship between identity styles ...
Romantic Relationship Attachment and Identity Style as Predictors of Adolescent Interpersonal Competence: A Mediation Model
(2008-08-15)
Since interpersonal competence is such a significant predictor of a variety of important outcomes for adolescents, the central goal of the current study was to investigate the developmental factors of attachment style and ...
Romantic Relationship Trajectories: A Qualitative Analysis of Young Adults Exposed to Marital Violence
(2016-08-05)
Guided by a review of the literature on the theory of intergenerational transmission of violence (ITV) and Johnson’s typology of violence, the current study qualitatively examined 25 young adults’ romantic relationship ...
Sex Role Orientation as a Predictor of Women's Identity Statuses, Identity Styles, Priorities, and Time Use
(2006-08-15)
In the current study, we were interested in how the balance between expressive and instrumental qualities may be associated with women’s identity statuses, identity styles, priorities, and time use. Our sample consisted ...
Sexual Communication Anxiety, Attachment, Relationship Satisfaction, and Sexual Satisfaction in Auburn
(2008-08-15)
To date, sexual communication anxiety has not been investigated in a college undergraduate sample. The purpose of the present study is to examine the relationships among sexual communication anxiety, relationship satisfaction, ...
Skin conductance reactivity moderates the association between parental behavioral control and adolescent externalizing behavior
(2018-07-18)
The present study examined whether skin conductance level reactivity (SCLR) moderated the concurrent and longitudinal association between parental behavioral control and early adolescents’ externalizing behaviors. Data ...
Sleep and Cognitive Functioning: The Moderating Role of Vagal Indices
(2011-12-05)
This dissertation contains two studies. In the first study, vagal tone and vagal reactivity (indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia; RSA) were examined as possible moderators of the associations between both actigraphy ...