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Japanese Mothers' Parenting Styles With Preschool-Age Children, Ai Shibazaki Lau
Japanese Mothers' Parenting Styles With Preschool-Age Children, Ai Shibazaki Lau
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine whether Western typologies of parenting (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and psychological control) and their dimensions (e.g., connection, regulation, physical punishment, verbal hostility) can be measured in the context of Japanese parenting. Based on the literature review, it was hypothesized that these parenting constructs are measurable in Japan. The participants were 214 Japanese mothers of preschool-age children (101 boys and 113 girls) from several preschools in Kushiro-city, Japan. A series of two-group (boys and girls) Confirmatory Factor Analysis was carried out with Mplus statistical software to test the measurement models of authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, …
Japan: A Future Nuclear Power? A Tentative Conclusion, Aliaa Abdalla Khalil
Japan: A Future Nuclear Power? A Tentative Conclusion, Aliaa Abdalla Khalil
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The Changing Culture Of Fatherhood And Gender Disparities In Japanese Father's Day And Mother's Day Comic Strips: A 55-Year Analysis, Saori Yasumoto
The Changing Culture Of Fatherhood And Gender Disparities In Japanese Father's Day And Mother's Day Comic Strips: A 55-Year Analysis, Saori Yasumoto
Sociology Theses
LaRossa, Jaret, Gadgil, and Wynn (2000, 2001) conducted a content analysis of 495 comic strips published on Father’s Day and Mother’s Day in the United States from 1945 to 1999 in order to determine whether the culture of fatherhood and gender disparities in the media had changed over the past half-century. Drawing on their research, I conducted a similar kind of analysis of 246 comic strips published on Father’s Day and Mother’s Day in Japan from 1950 to 2004. By comparing and contrasting the results in the two studies, I show how comic portrayals of families have changed in Japan …
Kichi Mondai (The Military Base Problem) : A Study Of How American Bases In Okinawa Are Presented To The American People, Mark Carney
Honors Theses
Media representations play a role in how one perceives a particular space. The American media presented the American military bases in Okinawa during the period of American civil administration (1945-1972) as necessary and beneficial for the Okinawan people . Because the media linked the bases and the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (USCAR) as dependent upon one another, the media considered the benefits brought to Okinawa by the existence ofUSCAR a result of the bases as well. Despite Okinawan resistance to both USCAR and the military bases, the press presented the Okinawan people as actually wanting the …