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The Impacts Of Migration On Myanmar Women’S Identity And Connectedness To The Land And Food, Allison Joseph
The Impacts Of Migration On Myanmar Women’S Identity And Connectedness To The Land And Food, Allison Joseph
Scripps Senior Theses
In the 21st century, Myanmar has become the largest migration source country in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (Kusakabe & Pearson, 2010). To achieve its economic goals, the government has prioritized the confiscation and reallocation of communal lands, which has resulted in a growing class of landless and dispossessed citizens (Franco, Twomey, Ju, Vervest, & Kramer, 2015). This has resulted in the wide-scale process of Myanmar’s rural women’s disinheritance from the land and food, as they are expropriated from the home of their ancestors and forced to migrate to urban centers to earn a livelihood. The proposed study will examine and …
Temperament And Alcohol Use: The Relationship To Psychological Reactance, Pearle Elizabeth Bobbitt
Temperament And Alcohol Use: The Relationship To Psychological Reactance, Pearle Elizabeth Bobbitt
Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of the present study was to examine personality traits in college students that may predispose them to alcohol-related problems or the development of alcohol abuse or dependence. The personality traits of interest were temperaments and psychological reactance. The participant's personality temperaments were assessed through the utilization of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), and psychological reactance was measured with the Therapeutic Reactance Scale (TRS). The drinking patterns of the students were determined through the use of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and a three-item binge drinking questionnaire.
Results revealed that the personality temperament of Novelty-Seeking was clearly …