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Parenting Processes and Risky Sexual Behaviors in First and Second Generation Hispanic Immigrant Youth
(2008-09-09)
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 ...
Adolescents’ Sexual Risk Behaviors: What Roles Do Parental Warmth, Parental Psychological Control, Adolescent Psychological Well-Being and Demographics Play?
(2009-02-23)
Although adolescents’ relationships with their parents have been widely studied, how adolescents’ relationships with their parents are associated with adolescents’ sexuality is one area of research that is beginning to ...
The Effects of African-Aamericans’ Attitudes/Beliefs about Marriage on Their Desire to Marry
(2008-09-09)
To address the state of marriage and family life in the African-American community, the purpose of this study was to gain understanding as to why many African-American singles are not choosing marriage. The primary predictor ...
An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Stages of Change and Client Outcomes in Couples Therapy
(2008-09-09)
While research exists concerning the stages of change and outcomes for individuals in specified treatments, there is currently a lack of research on the stages of change and client outcomes in couples therapy. This study ...
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 ...
Future Orientation, Impulsivity, and Deviance: Longitudinal Relationships and Multilevel Processes
(2009-07-06)
Using a sample of over 14,000 adolescents from 145 schools of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), the current work tested the longitudinal relationship between future orientation and deviance ...
Examining the Reliability and Validity of a Measure of Child Care Provider Motivation
(2009-08-04)
The concept of motivation in the child care area has not been based in theory and no standard measure has been used to assess it. The limited work examining the influence of providers’ motivation on care giving quality has ...
Parent-Child Conflict and Children’s Sleep: Attachment Security as a Moderator or Mediator
(2009-02-23)
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 ...
The Effect of Demographic Variables on Therapy Alliance in Couple Therapy Controlling for Relationship Adjustment and Symptom Distress
(2009-02-23)
Therapy alliance is a central concern in couple therapy as alliance has been consistently shown to predict therapy outcome. However, little is known about the factors that affect alliance formation. The purpose of this ...
Malleability in Gender Role Attitudes During the Transition to Divorce and Remarriage: A Longitudinal Study of Marital Experiences
(2009-02-23)
Gender roles affect many aspects of individual development and daily life including career goals, one’s decision to parent, familial contact, and relationships, yet most of the research on gender roles and related gender ...