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Exploring Relational Processes In Families Of Gay Youth, Gregory Scott Meek
Exploring Relational Processes In Families Of Gay Youth, Gregory Scott Meek
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No abstract provided.
Responsibility As A Factor In Adjustment For Siblings Of Children With Retardation, Victoria Boccelli Damiani
Responsibility As A Factor In Adjustment For Siblings Of Children With Retardation, Victoria Boccelli Damiani
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Forty mothers of children with retardation and forty-one mothers of children without disabilities rated their nondisabled children on levels of in-home responsibility and psychological adjustment. Siblings of children with retardation were found to show significantly more difficulty in psychological adjustment but not more in-home responsibility. Mean scores on ratings of psychological adjustment were in the normal range for both groups. There was no relationship between the degree of responsibility the sibling had in the home and the degree of psychological difficulty. Girls in both groups had significantly more responsibility than boys. Mothers of children with disabilities did not report closer …
An Analysis Of Early Marital Adjustment: The Role Of Narcissism, Cognitive, And Family Systems Variables, Larry Stephen Armstrong
An Analysis Of Early Marital Adjustment: The Role Of Narcissism, Cognitive, And Family Systems Variables, Larry Stephen Armstrong
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The purpose of this study was to explore the relevance of both intrapsychic and family systems variables for the early marital adjustment of 71 couples in their twenties at the time of marriage, who were married in two central Virginia localities. The intrapsychic variables included subjects' marital locus of control and both subjects' and subjects' spouses' levels of narcissism. The family systems variables included six factors which have been found to be correlated with early marital adjustment. Three of these six factors were: (1) whether the couple married within a year of a significant loss; (2) whether either spouse reported …
The Relationship Between The Content And Quality Of Ex-Spousal Interactions And The Adjustment Of Stepchildren: An Exploratory Study, Bradley Lawrence Elison
The Relationship Between The Content And Quality Of Ex-Spousal Interactions And The Adjustment Of Stepchildren: An Exploratory Study, Bradley Lawrence Elison
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The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between ex-spousal interactions following remarriage and the behavioral and emotional adjustment of stepchildren. The subjects for the study were volunteers and were recruited for the study either through The PACES Family Counseling Center at The College of William and Mary or through a networking sampling procedure. The study participants included stepchildren between the ages of 8 and 16, and their residential biological parents.;Thirty-one stepchild/biological-parent pairs participated in the study by completing a series of questionnaires relevant to ex-spousal interactions and children's adjustment. Ex-spousal interactions were assessed using The Content of …
Reactions To Spousal Death Resulting From Cancer: A Descriptive Study Of Anticipatory Grief And The Cognitive Appraisal Of The Loss Of A Spouse, Jennifer Claire Kinyon Elison
Reactions To Spousal Death Resulting From Cancer: A Descriptive Study Of Anticipatory Grief And The Cognitive Appraisal Of The Loss Of A Spouse, Jennifer Claire Kinyon Elison
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This study described spousal reactions to loss following a cancer related death. Anticipatory grieving behaviors and variables unique to cancer were examined using Lazarus' cognitive appraisal paradigm. An interview which focused on self-reported changes in thoughts and feelings from time of diagnosis to the time of the death was administered by the researcher to thirty men and/or women whose spouses had died from cancer over the past two and a half years.;Individual responses to the interview questions were categorized according to type of response. The findings suggest that the majority of men and/or women whose spouses have died from a …
The Family Context Of Sibling Deidentification, Jeffrey Mark Lackner
The Family Context Of Sibling Deidentification, Jeffrey Mark Lackner
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No abstract provided.
Generation Boundaries In Divorced And Intact Families, Barry Lee Funkhouser
Generation Boundaries In Divorced And Intact Families, Barry Lee Funkhouser
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No abstract provided.
Self-Report Measures Of Family Hierarchy: Construct And Predictive Validity, Richard J. Wilson
Self-Report Measures Of Family Hierarchy: Construct And Predictive Validity, Richard J. Wilson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Loose Coupling And Parallel Interaction In Family Systems, Kay Phillips
Loose Coupling And Parallel Interaction In Family Systems, Kay Phillips
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.