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The Influence Of Race, Economics, Neighborhood, And School Category On The Severity Of Adhd Symptoms, Angel Linh Nguyen
The Influence Of Race, Economics, Neighborhood, And School Category On The Severity Of Adhd Symptoms, Angel Linh Nguyen
MA Community Psychology Theses
An ordinal regression method was used to model the relationship between the ordinal outcome variable, an ADHD index created for the purpose of this research, and the predictor variables of Race, Economics, Neighborhood Rating, and School Category/Type. A secondary data analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and Child Development Supplement (CDS) was used in this study. The final sample consisted of 1,169 elementary, middle, and high school children ages 9-18. Six analyses were conducted to determine the best fit model for the data: a combined model with all the predictor variables, one for each individual predictor variable, …
Attendance And Restorative Practices, Annie W. Scott
Attendance And Restorative Practices, Annie W. Scott
MA Community Psychology Theses
Attendance and Restorative Practices examines the attendance and discipline policies of Portland Public Schools (PPS) as a means to understand the discipline gap. The lead investigator is a former PPS employee that worked directly with chronically absent and truant students. The hypothesis of the study is that there is a link between students with high incidents of school exclusions and those who have chronic attendance issues. The School Refusal Assessment Scale by Kearney (2002) is used to evaluate the function school refusal has for individual students, and in this study aggregated as a whole for three targeted middle schools within …
Black Faces In White Spaces: The Influence Of Predominately White Congregations On Black Congregants’ Sense Of Community And Racial Identity, Eunice O. Makinde
Black Faces In White Spaces: The Influence Of Predominately White Congregations On Black Congregants’ Sense Of Community And Racial Identity, Eunice O. Makinde
MA Community Psychology Theses
The purpose of this research is to explore the sense of community Blacks feel within predominately White congregations, and the ways those feelings may be tied to Black congregants’ racial identities. Research has primarily focused on predominately Black churches and the way these institutions affect Black congregants’ sense of community and racial identity. In this paper, the role the church has played in Black lives will be explained and sense of community and racial identity will be defined and discussed. The historical context of the Black church will be used in the evaluation of predominately White churches in order to …
The Impact Of Ethnicity And Social Class On The Practice Of Corporal Punishment, Jana Weiss
The Impact Of Ethnicity And Social Class On The Practice Of Corporal Punishment, Jana Weiss
MA Community Psychology Theses
The purpose of this research is to explore disciplinary practices employed by families from different socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. In history, corporal punishment, (CP; also known as flagellation) was a practice widely used in religious settings during the eighth century. The social norm was to whip for punishment but also for pleasure. For some, CP is one way of disciplining children in home and in school settings. There are signs that are present in determining whether a parent may practice CP in the home that include certain parenting behaviors, socioeconomic status (SES), parent mood, and discipline responses. It has been …