Browsing by Department "Human Development and Family Studies"
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Sleep as a Moderator of Links Between Parent-Child Attachment and Adjustment in Early Adolescence
(2015-07-02)
Poor sleep duration and quality are common among typically developing children and are related to adjustment problems such as internalizing and externalizing symptoms, as well as lower self-esteem. Attachment, or the bond ...
Sleep Functioning and Problem Behaviors: The Salience of Parental Warmth
(2009-05-15)
Inadequate sleep functioning, such as low sleep quantity and poor sleep quality, appears prevalent across age groups, but is particularly detrimental during adolescence, and the consequences vary widely; they include ...
Social Desirability, Formation of the Therapeutic Alliance, and Dyadic Adjustment in Couples Therapy
(2012-04-18)
Social desirability has been shown to have both positive and negative associations in the formation of intimate and professional relationships. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship that social ...
Social Support and the Quality of Child Care Practices Among Participants in the Family Child Care Partnerships Program
(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 ...
Socioeconomic Status and Health: The Protective Role of Religiosity among African Americans
(2018-11-15)
Several lines of evidence suggest that there is a significant relationship between religiosity, socioeconomic status (SES), and health. In the past, researchers have grown more interested in the protective factors of ...
Specificity in Links between Parenting Style, Peer Relationship Difficulties, and Adjustment Problems in Preadolescences
(2012-07-10)
This study examined specificity linkages among peer relationship difficulties, negative parenting, and preadolescent adjustment problems. Of particular interest was whether specificity exists between bullying, hostile ...
Spirituality and Relationship Satisfaction: The Role of Prayer
(2013-07-10)
Research has supported the association between spirituality and relationship satisfaction, whereby more spiritual individuals are more satisfied with their romantic relationships. However, it remains unclear why spirituality ...
Stepparents participating in Couples Relationship Education and mental health: Differences at baseline and improvements over time
(2019-08-09)
The current study involves a sample of 1,313 parents participating in couple relationship education (CRE) programs as part of a larger randomized control trial. Drawing on theoretical assumptions from Family Systems Theory ...
Teacher reports of children's emotion regulation: Is there concordance with trained observers?
(2005-12-15)
The purpose of this study was to examine agreement between observers and teachers on ratings of individual children’s emotional regulation and social competence. This study examined agreement between teacher-observer pairs ...
Testing Accuracy of Body Size Estimation Among Boys
(2012-07-27)
The current study utilized this sample to explore a very different question: the associations between boys’ estimates of their body size/shape and potential biasing factors such as the boys’ preferred size, parents’ ...
Therapeutic Alliance and Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Therapist Sex
(2013-07-10)
The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between therapeutic alliance (between system and within system) and therapeutic outcomes (individual distress and relational satisfaction) for males and females. ...
Therapeutic Alliance as a Mediating Factor Between Couple Attachment and Therapeutic Outcome
(2005-08-15)
The purpose of this thesis was to examine how the therapeutic alliance mediates
the relationship between the anxiety and avoidance dimensions on a couple attachment
measure and subsequent relationship satisfaction scores. ...
Therapeutic Alliance as a Mediating Factor between Couple Expectancy and Therapeutic Outcome
(2006-08-15)
The purpose of this thesis was to determine whether the therapeutic alliance mediated the relationship between couple expectancy for change and relationship satisfaction. The sample was comprised of 59 cases of males and ...
Therapist Effectiveness, the Therapeutic Alliance, and Change in Couples Therapy: An Exploratory Study
(2011-08-04)
The purpose of this thesis was to take an exploratory approach in examining how therapist effectiveness influences the therapeutic alliance and outcomes in couple therapy. Sample for this study was composed of couples ...
To Forgive or to Forget? The Forgiveness Process in Older Adulthood
(2017-07-10)
The ability to navigate transgressions in romantic relationships is imperative for both their quality and longevity, making forgiveness a critical process for all couples. However, the forgiveness process has the potential ...
Too Stressed to Sleep: Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity and Sleep in Adolescents
(2019-09-27)
The purpose of the present study was to investigate relations between autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity across its parasympathetic and sympathetic branches and multiple sleep parameters in adolescence. Participants ...
Trust in Dating Relationships: The Role of Communal Orientation
(2006-12-15)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between communal orientation and trust in recently established dating relationships. We expected that the degree to which one’s partner was perceived to have a ...
Typologies of childhood experiences and systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity, depression, and anxiety in the Black Women’s Experiences Living with Lupus (BeWELL) Study
(2020-07-10)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease that is sensitive to stress. However, there is a paucity of research on the impact of childhood stress on adult health among this population. This study ...
Understanding and promoting rural adolescents' psychosocial development in the context of a unique social milieu
(2016-07-20)
The need to belong is fundamental among human beings, and is associated with a variety of indices of wellbeing. Individuals can experience belonging in a variety of contexts. During adolescence, two of the most prominent ...
Unpacking the Links between Interpersonal Relationship Features and Depression in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
(2017-07-27)
Depression is a rapidly growing problem with enormous economic and social burden (World Health Organization, 2017b), with rates increasing by about 1.5 to 2 million adults per decade recently (Greenberg et al., 2015; Marcus ...