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Time Allocations Of Children In Single-Parent Urban Utah Families To Selected Household Tasks, Susan Wilde Kingsford

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this study was to investigate how selected factors are related to the time children in single parent families spend in the household tasks of meal preparation; dishwashing; shopping; housecleaning; maintenance of home, yard, car and pets and nonphysical care of family members.

The data for this study were collected from 89 female headed single-parent/ two-child households in the greater metropolitan Salt Lake City Utah area. Time use data were collected for mothers and their children between the ages of 6 and 17. There were 178 children in the 89 families, of which 150 were in the specified …

Body Image Dissatisfaction And Eating Behavior In Survivors Of Child Sex Abuse, Ellen S. Dorfman

Theses

A review of the literature suggests a relationship between child sexual abuse and the development of eating disorders in female subjects . Additionally, body image dissatisfaction and distortion are well documented among eating disordered individuals and women in general. This study found a relationship between body image dissatisfaction and some eating disordered behaviors . Women who are in out-patient therapy for treatment of child sexual abuse were surveyed. Secretiveness about the sexual abuse at the time of the abuse was compared to both body image dissatisfaction and eating disorder attitudes and behaviors . Secretiveness was significantly related to body image …