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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 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 ...
'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 ...
Particle Simulation of Lower Hybrid Waves and Electron-Ion Hybrid Instability
(2014-05-01)
Lower hybrid wave (LHW) has been of great interest to laboratory plasma physics for decades due to its important applications in particles heating and current drive in plasmas devices. There are two fundamental characteristics ...
Particle Size Affects Physical and Chemical Properties of 100% Pine Bark Horticultural Substrate
(2017-04-21)
Pine bark is the most commonly used substrate component for container plant production in the southeastern United States, with some growers using 100% pine bark. Substrate physical and chemical properties directly affect ...
Particle Swarm Optimization Applied to the Design of a Nonlinear Control
(2006-05-15)
A method of searching for a tuning of an input to state linearizing controller is
presented. The problem of ?nding the appropriate weights of the control law’s terms
is treated as an optimization problem. Given the highly ...
Partnering With Physicians: How Are Medical Speech-Language Pathologists Perceived
(2010-01-05)
The purpose of this research was to gather insight regarding physicians’ understanding and view of the medical speech-language pathologist. Some questions were compared to previous data presented in a prior survey by ...
Partnering with Reach Out and Read Alabama to Understand Families’ Experiences with Books and Their Babies: The Reading and Relationships Project
(2022-07-22)
Shared book reading is associated with higher quality parent-child interactions (Canfield et al., 2020a), as well as child cognitive (e.g., Baker, 2013; Baker et al., 2017) and socioemotional development (Downer & Mendez, ...
Party Polarization: Congressional Divergence on Environmental Policy from 1970-2008
(2012-04-17)
We investigate empirically the importance of a conjectured linkage between economic conditions and increasing party divergence with respect to national-level environmental policy in the United States. Using data from ...