Browsing Human Development & Quantitative Methodology Theses and Dissertations by Title
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CASE STUDIES OF RESILIENT RETURNING WOMEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN AN RN TO BSN COMPLETION PROGRAM AT AN HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY: PERSONAL AND ACADEMIC LIVED EXPERIENCES
(2006-02-10)The purpose of this research was to construct from "their own words" a comprehensive description of the personal and academic lived experiences of resilient adult women of African descent who had been identified by a ... -
Chaos and Community Attachment in Rural Low-Income Families: Influences on Parenting and Early Childhood Language and Behavior Problems
(2016)Families in rural poverty are vulnerable to a range of environmental stressors that negatively impact early childhood outcomes. There is a need for comprehensive research on the context of rural poverty and its impact on ... -
Characteristics of Classroom Contexts, Self-Processes, Engagement, and Achievement across the Transition from Middle School to High School
(2007-01-03)The central purposes of this study were to determine the impact of high school transition on the experience of the 93 participating students (33 males, 60 females, 72 Caucasian, 17 African-American, 2 Asian, and 2 mixed-race) ... -
Characteristics of Exuberance: Novelty-Seeking, Sociability or Emotion?
(2006-04-25)Current theories of temperament posit that individual differences in activity, reactivity, emotionality, sociability and self-regulation arise from biologically based systems and that these differences remain relatively ... -
Childrearing and Helping Behaviors in Young Children
(1984)The purpose of this study was to investigate the parental socialization practices which may be associated with helping behaviors in young children. Symbolic interaction theory and the identification/internalization approach ... -
Children and adolescents' interpretations of peer based social exclusion
(2015)Developmental research on intergroup attitudes has identified social exclusion as a complex peer interaction that can often reflect stereotypes and bias (Killen, Mulvey, & Hitti, 2013). Given the complexity of interracial ... -
Children's Decision-Making about Social Relationships: The Impact of Similarity, Racial Attitudes, and Intergroup Contact
(2004-04-29)Cross-race friendships are a significant factor in the reduction of prejudice. The frequency of cross-race friendships is low throughout childhood and further declines with age. Three factors proposed to influence ... -
Children's Developing Conceptions of Fairness: The Role of Status in Children's Responses to Inequalities
(2018)The moral concern for fairness is a core element of social life throughout the lifespan. Concerns about fairness arise in multiple contexts, and one very salient context is the allocation of resources. Understanding the ... -
Children's Moral Reasoning about Attribution of Intentions: The Influence of Gender Stereotypes and Theory of Mind
(2011)The present study investigated how holding gender stereotypes and having a false belief theory of mind impacts children's understanding of intentionality when evaluating morally relevant stories. Children 3 - 4, 5 - 6, and ... -
CHILDREN'S PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH MOTHERS, FATHERS AND FRIENDS: A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY
(2008)The purpose of this study was to cross-culturally examine children's perceptions of their relationships with mothers, fathers and friends among South Korean and European-American children. During middle childhood and ... -
Children’s Adjustment to Parents’ Break Up: The Family System Mechanisms
(2015)Research has shown that many aspects of family functioning are directly and indirectly linked to children’s social development. One important aspect of how families function is family structure. In this regard, families ... -
CHILDREN’S CONCEPTIONS OF FAIRNESS: THE ROLE OF MENTAL STATE UNDERSTANDING AND GROUP IDENTITY
(2021)Children’s everyday experiences occur against a backdrop that is rich in social information andwhich requires decisions involving considerations about fairness, intentionality, and social groups. With age, children improve ... -
CHILDREN’S UNDERSTANDING OF MERIT IN FAIR RESOURCE ALLOCATION
(2017)While previous studies have documented children’s consideration of merit in fairness decisions, less is known about specifically how merit has been conceptualized by children, as effort and outcome were confounded in merit ... -
Comparative Psychological Assessment of Patients with Anorexia Nervosa and their Siblings
(1985)This study represented an exploration of possible protective factors in the lives of adolescents whose sisters suffer from anorexia nervosa. In examining the 16 patients, ages 12-21, and their 16 siblings free of eating ... -
A Comparison of Adolescents’ In-Person and Virtual Peer Interactions in a Multiplayer Video Game
(2020)Virtual peer interaction is prevalent among adolescents (Anderson & Jiang, 2018), but little is known about how adolescents’ virtual interactions with peers compare to their in-person interactions. The present study aimed ... -
A COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT METHODS THAT DEAL WITH CONSTRUCT SHIFT IN VALUE ADDED MODELING: IS VERTICAL SCALING NECESSARY?
(2013)Construct shift is a term used to describe the change of tests in the construct they intend to measure. In tests across multiple grades where curriculum change occurs, construct shift is expected to exist. This presents a ... -
A Comparison of Methods for Testing for Interaction Effects in Structural Equation Modeling
(2010)The current study aimed to determine the best method for estimating latent variable interactions as a function of the size of the interaction effect, sample size, the loadings of the indicators, the size of the relation ... -
Connecting Political Discussion to Civic Engagement: The Role of Civic Knowledge, Efficacy and Context for Adolescents
(2003-12-04)The relationship between participating in political discussion and civic engagement was examined using survey data collected for the IEA Civic Education Study from a large, nationally representative sample of adolescents ... -
Connecting the dots: Examining the role of parental beliefs and preschoolers’ affect and engagement in predicting parent-child number exploration during a meaningful math experience
(2016)The current study examined the frequency and quality of how 3- to 4-year-old children and their parents explore the relations between symbolic and non-symbolic quantities in the context of a playful math experience, as ... -
Contextual factors in children's and adolescents' predictions and evaluations of interracial peer encounters
(2021)Direct experiences with peers of different races create possibilities for cross-race friendships and reduce racial prejudice and bias. Yet, interracial friendships remain rare in childhood, and decline by early adolescence. ...