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Goranson-Coleman, Jane Susan. "The relationship between family rituals and family functioning in the remarried family." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29716.
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This paper proposes that remarried families who have a higher level of family ritual observance will also have a higher level of family functioning. This hypothesis was tested in a study involving 60 individuals comprising 30 couples remarried over two years, and with a stepchild under 13 years of age. Each partner responded to a questionnaire composed of family functioning measures (FACES Ill-Adaptability and Cohesion subscales, Family Satisfaction Scale, Quality Marriage Index) family ritual measures (Family Traditions Index, Family Celebrations Scale, Family Time and Routines Index), and demographic information.
Data was examined using Correlation, Analysis of Variance, and Regression analysis. Results indicate that women experiencing a higher level of family routines also experience greater family satisfaction. Additionally, women who had counselling in the remarried family, report greater marital quality, and women who work outside the home report a higher level of adaptability. For men, a higher level of cohesion and family celebrations were found for men where the remarried family includes a child from the current marriage. These results suggest that awareness of family rituals present in remarried families and the effect of particular demographic variables can be useful information for both family therapists and the families themselves.Education, Faculty of
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
Graduate
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Kalaitzaki, Argyroula E. "Schizophrenia and family relationships." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416789.
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Grytsaieva, Tetiana, and Johan Strandberg. "Communication in family businesses : Relationships between family and non-family managers." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-31118.
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Problem: Family firms often comprise of a complex web of relationships between family and non-family managers that are active within the business. Family enterprises are also known for their closed communication and decision-making practices. It often occurs that families do not include non-family managers into important business-related discussions and do not consult their decisions with managers from outside of the family. At the same time, research in the area of family business defines that the relationships between family and non-family managers are highly linked to the success of a business. With these considerations in mind, this study investigates how family and non-family managers communicate in family businesses. Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to create an understanding of the phenomenon of communication and information-sharing between family and non-family managers in small and medium-sized family firms in Sweden. In particular, we are investigating the distinctive characteristics of communication, the barriers to effective communication, and what business-related information that is not shared between family and non-family managers. Method: This study is conducted qualitatively, utilising multiple case studies. For the collection of empirical data, we conducted twelve semi-structured interviews with both family and non-family managers in three small and medium-sized family companies located in Sweden. Findings: Our findings show that there are multiple distinctive characteristics of communication in family firms. Additionally, we uncovered several groups of barriers that hinder effective communication between family and non-family managers in family companies. Additionally, we found out that there is numerous business-related information that is not shared between family and non-family managers. Contributions: Our findings contribute to the managerial and theoretical understanding of communication and information-sharing between family and non-family managers in family businesses. This thesis is of interest to any individual working in or with family companies, as well as, academics, who investigate the field of family business.
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Marriott, Charlotte Elizabeth. "Exploring family relationships and psychosis." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7028/.
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The thesis consists of two volumes. Volume 1 comprises three chapters. The first, a systematic literature review of how positive relationships within families can support individuals experiencing psychosis. The second is a qualitative study investigating how families with one member with a first episode of psychosis have experienced their roles and relationships. The third chapter comprises a public domain briefing document which provides a plain language summary of the literature review and empirical paper. Volume 2 presents five Clinical Practice Reports (CPR). The first details a woman with a moderate learning disability who was experiencing anxiety, formulated from two psychological perspectives. The second is an evaluation of challenging behaviour guidelines for staff working in residential homes. The third report is an experimental design investigating the effectiveness of “Attentional Training” for a gentleman with health anxiety. The fourth report documents a case study of intervention with a male experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder. The fifth CPR is an abstract of a case presentation of a neuropsychological assessment of a young girl with a hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.
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Chelladurai, Joe Meshach. "Exploring Love in Family Relationships." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8420.
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The purpose of the study was to qualitatively investigate love in religious family relationships. Participants were from the American Families of Faith Project, a qualitative study on religion and family life with participants from 198 Christian, Jewish, and Muslim families (N = 478) across the United States. The primary research questions of present study were (a) what does love mean for families? (b) why do individuals and couples in families love? (c) how is love experienced? (d) what are the related processes of love? (e) how does religion influence love in religious families? and (f) what are the reported outcomes of love for individuals and families? Interview data was analyzed through a three-phase approach: feasibility study, codebook development, and grounded theory coding. The first phase conducted by two coders, excluding the author, concluded that there was sufficient data to conduct further analysis. The second phase was conducted by four coders, excluding the author and the two previous coders, who developed a codebook and organized data into four relational domains (marital, parental, children’s, and divine) and six categories, which were based on the research questions (meaning, motivation, process, experience, influence, and outcome). In the third phase, the author analyzed the intersections between domains and categories through matrix coding and numeric content analysis. Then, using modified grounded theory approaches, themes were developed and presented as findings with illustrative participant quotations. Finally, findings, limitations, future directions, and implications for therapists and educators were discussed.
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Adler, Jeffrey Steven. "Siblings of Incest Victims: Sibling-Victim Relationships and Adjustment." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330888/.
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The non-victimized siblings in incestuous families have often been ignored in research, literature, and treatment. This study explored these siblings' 1) relationship to the victim, 2) attribution of blame, and 3) adjustment. Participants were 30 non-victimized siblings of incest victims, between the ages of 8 and 14. They completed the Sibling Relationship Questionnaire, the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, the Self-perception Profile for Children, the Children's Depression Inventory, and a questionnaire developed for this research. Participants' scores were compared with the normative sample scores on several measures.
Siblings perceived little warmth and closeness in their relationships to their victimized sisters. Rivalry and conflict were within normal limits. Siblings blamed victims and other family members less than expected, with the greatest amount of blame attributed to perpetrators. Adjustment was impaired. Males demonstrated less athletic competence, less global self-worth, more worry and oversensitivity than normative samples. Females showed a tendency toward less global self-worth and heightened general anxiety. Siblings' overall level of emotional distress was higher than most of the normative samples.
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Gamm, Stephanie N. "Relationships among socioeconomic status, family relationships, and academic achievement." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1262.
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Sciences
Psychology
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La-Placa, Vincent. "Homosexuality and the family." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324570.
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This study is an analysis of the social construction of lesbian and gay identities within the immediate family. The analysis draws on the insights obtained from in-depth interviews conducted with 39 individual lesbian and gay respondents and 22 parents. The thesis is organised into six chapters. In Chapter 1, I review past work on lesbian and gay identity formation and the disclosure of a lesbian or gay identity to members of the family. I argue that past research on lesbian and gay identity formation has not paid sufficient attention to the influence of the family on sexual identity construction. I also argue that past research on lesbians and gays and the family has only focused on initial disclosure of sexual identity to parents. I suggest that we can proceed beyond these limitations by examining the social construction of lesbian and gay identities in the family by focusing on two research themes: the internal theme which explores individual sexual identity formation, coming out to parents and developments in familial relations from initial disclosure to the present; and the external theme which examines lesbian and gays experiences beyond the family, for instance, the lesbian and gay communities and work. It also considers how lesbian and gay involvement beyond the family affects parents. The research is then related to a broad theoretical framework concerning the construction and negotiation of identities in postmodernity. The methodology for the research is explored in Chapter 2. I review etiological and structural approaches to lesbians and gays and the family and argue that if we are to consider sexual identity and family relationships, then it is best achieved through a qualitative approach based on grounded theory. This approach would focus on meaning, interaction and the negotiation of relationships between lesbians and gays and their families. The design and uses of the research tools, the sampling procedure, the pilot and main studies and data analysis are also outlined. The findings of the research are reported in Chapters 3,4 and 5. Chapters 3 and 4 examine the internal theme of the research. Chapter 5 explores the external theme. Finally, three conceptual themes are identified in Chapter 6, based on the findings reported throughout the thesis. This is consistent with the grounded theory approach, which seeks to theorise on the basis of empirical data. Firstly, I suggest that individuals are active strategists in the production of postmodern identities; secondly, family relations are constructed through discourse and social practices; lastly, familial and sexual identities and relationships are constructed in wider contexts beyond the family. The chapter ends by attempting to make some recommendations for further research.
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Taylor, Janet Edgar. "Fairness, family relationships, and farm transfer." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0003/NQ33324.pdf.
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Singh, Jaya. "Functional Relationships Among Rubisco Family Members." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1220413240.
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Davidson, Melissa J. "Shared experiences : a qualitative study of the impact of a diagnosis of terminal illness on family functioning." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112611.
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The purpose of this qualitative research is to provide an in-depth exploration of the impact that a diagnosis of a terminal illness has on family functioning. The goal is to gain insight into adult children's personal experience when a parent is diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer. This study explores how families respond, adapt and cope when this specific family member is diagnosed with a terminal illness. It also explores any significant changes in relationships within the family and any shifts in the roles of the members and how they adjusted to such shifts.The study is informed by a phenomenological paradigm and used an explorative, qualitative design, which included semi-structured interviews. Participant text and "found poetry" is used in order to present a more accurate account of the participants' experiences. Found poetry provides an opportunity to hear the participant's voices by taking direct quotes from their transcripts and forming them into a poem. Themes of denial, anger, helplessness, hope and anticipatory grief/mourning are portrayed in the findings of this study. The difficult emotional dilemmas and tensions that people have to work through when faced with a family member dying are discussed. The realization of the loss of future relationships will be identified as one of the greatest impacts of the illness. This study shows the lack of professional supports and resources that are available for each participant's family in being faced with the diagnosis of a terminal illness, and will address a needed consideration for social work practice.
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溫有歡 and Yau-fun Ginny Wan. "Family functioning after divorce-separation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249565.
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Wolfe, Herbert F. "The relationships among perceptions of family disharmony, parent-child relationships, disharmonious family experiences, and adolescent cigarette smoking." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0519104-134946/unrestricted/WolfeH100404f.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0519104-134946 Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.
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Gamache, Susan. "Parental status : a new construct describing adolescent perceptions of stepfathers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ56549.pdf.
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Lee, Wilson S. "David's family a study of his family relationships and its applications /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Oszadszky, Ilona. "Family ritualization, family cohesion and adaptability, and a measure of intimate relationships outside the family." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ32209.pdf.
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Guinn, Megan D. "Sibling Relationship Quality: Associations with Marital and Coparenting Subsystems." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc177205/.
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Marital relationships play an important role in family functioning and in the development of sibling relationships. From a family systems perspective, other subsystems within the family, such as coparenting interactions, could explain the effects of the marital relationship on sibling bonds. Specifically, the quality of the coparenting relationship may mediate the association between marital functioning and sibling relationship quality. The current study examined relationships between these three subsystems (marital, coparenting, and sibling) as self-reported by mothers, fathers, and children with siblings. As part of a larger project, families with a child aged 8 to 11 and at least one sibling (N = 75) completed the Dyadic Adjustment Scale and the Coparenting Scale (both completed by mother and father), as well as the Sibling Relationship Questionnaire (completed by target child). Results suggested that marital functioning is a significant predictor of functioning within the coparenting relationship. Predicted associations did not emerge between sibling relationship quality and marital or coparenting relationships, with minor exceptions, and the coparenting relationship did not mediate the association between marital and sibling relationship quality. Implications of the current findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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Nelson, Christine B. "When older mothers work : adult children's perceptions of maternal employment effects Christine B. Nelson." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4110.
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The effects of maternal employment on the young child have been examined for over 50 years. This research focuses on perceived maternal employment effects at a later point in the family life cycle: when mother is older and children are grown. Thirty-two poverty level women aged 56-83 (M=66.4 years) and their adult sons (n=l 6) and daughters (n= 16) were independently interviewed. All of the older women were paid workers or "stipended volunteers" who were employed part time (20 hours a week) in child care, clerical, or other service jobs. They had a variety of work histories; all were widowed or divorced.
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McDougall, Jennifer. "Fostering family relationships in long-term care." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62604.
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Family relationships are a significant part of a person’s life. Unfortunately, moving a relative from a family home into a long-term care (LTC) home requires the readjustment of family relationships from a familiar to a foreign environment and puts these relationships and associated family identity at risk. With the shift in focus to person-centred care and its need for the maintenance of family connection, the fostering of family relationships in LTC homes becomes an important part of properly enacting this approach to care.
This critical ethnography explored the ways in which family relationships are fostered in LTC and identified the efforts made and barriers that exist in the broader organizational and social context of LTC that influence how these relationships are fostered. Data from a larger critical ethnography was collected through semi-structured interviews with and participant observation of 12 family members, seven staff members, and three residents from a LTC home in an urban city in British Columbia, Canada.
Family members came into the LTC home to spend time with their relative and maintain a connection with them, but a lack of opportunity to take part in activities that recognized the importance of these connections prevented family relationships from being fostered. Task-focused care overlooked the importance of relational care and further prevented family relationships from being maintained. Physical and cognitive decline also made it difficult for family members to engage and connect with their relative, resulting in a significant impact on the fostering of family relationships. Driving distances and a lack of opportunity to maintain connections with relatives outside of the LTC home added to the challenge of fostering family relationships. Family members want to maintain family identities and associated relationships but require support in doing so. The findings from this study have implications for nursing practice, administration, education, and research.Applied Science, Faculty of
Nursing, School of
Graduate
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Ryan, Susan M. "Effects of family structure on sibling relationships." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041884.
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This study assessed the relationship and rivalry differences among siblings of intact families versus divorced families. It involved children, young adults, and adults from a Midwestern, moderately sized community. These participants answered two brief questionnaires requesting information on their age, sex, ethnicity, family structure, and perceived sibling relationships. The researcher found that there were no overall differences between children of married parents versus divorced parents except concerning the level of antagonism. Further, it was found that there were differing levels of dominance, nurturance, and quarrels in sibling relationships depending on the level of contact with step or half siblings and the child's perceptions of the parents' current relationship with each other.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Glenny, James Brownlee. "Biblical and psychological perspectives on family relationships." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317080.
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Stanley, Edward Leo. "Evolutionary relationships within the family Cordylidae (Squamata)." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1848731751&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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House, Lawrence Duane. "Family Separation and Changes in Peer Relationships among Early Adolescent Latino Youth: Examining the Mediating Role of Family Relationships." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_diss/66.
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This longitudinal study examines whether family processes (family cohesion and family conflict) mediate the relationship between family separation experiences and the development of peer relationships (quality and conflict). The study includes a sample of 199 early adolescent Latinos from immigrant families. Family conflict mediated the relationship between separation experiences from fathers and peer conflict at year 1 but not year 2 such that more separation from father was associated with higher family conflict and higher peer conflict at year 1. Family cohesion did not mediate associations between mother or father separation and peer relationship outcomes. Family cohesion predicted more positive peer relationship quality at year 1 and family conflict predicted more peer conflict at year 1 indicating some distinction between these characteristics of relationships for families and peers. Mother separation predicted more peer conflict at year 1. This is consistent with qualitative studies of immigration experiences and separation (e.g., Baccallo & Smokowski, 2007; Suarez-Orozco et al., 2002). This study has added empirical quantitative support to show high levels of family conflict associated with family separation. Further, this study has demonstrated that youth who experience greater separation from fathers are likely to experience higher family conflict that is associated with greater peer conflict. In contrast, mother separation has a more direct association with peer conflict. Although family separations are associated with more peer conflict, they do not appear to influence change over time in peer conflict. The different paths of influence for mother separation and father separation warrant further research to explicate the unique associations between each parent‟s separation and family dynamics.
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陳袁美玉 and Yuen Mei-yuk Peggy Chan. "Problems encourtered by discharged mentally ill patients and their families: case study of four young maleschizophrenics and their families." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1985. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31974338.
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Vanderwall, Donna Staab. "Continuity of sibling relationships: A descriptive profile of "close" vs. "not-close" sibling relationships." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/132.
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CARMO, GISELE ALELUIA VIEIRA ALVES DO. "CHEMICAL DEPENDENCE AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS: THE FAMILY IMPORTANCE IN THE DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4348@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORO objetivo deste trabalho é compreender as características da dinâmica da família em que um ou mais de seus componentes é adicto a álcool e outras drogas. Utilizamos, para este fim, o referencial sistêmico. Entendemos que a dependência química seja tanto uma patologia em si quanto um sintoma de um sistema familiar. Nas relações que se estabelecem entre o dependente químico e os outros membros da família, vai-se construindo uma teia relacional que, muitas vezes, perpetua os padrões disfuncionais que ajudam a manter a dependência . É indispensável, no tratamento da dependência, abordar os vínculos familiares para que o sistema familiar possa encontrar alternativas mais saudáveis de relacionamento, a fim de promover uma progressiva mudança nos padrões de interação que são facilitadores da manutenção do comportamento adictivo.
The purpose of this study is to understand the dynamics of the addict´s family . For this purpose, we used the systemic approach. We understand that chemical dependence is not only a pathology per se but also a symptom of the family system. A web of interrelations is construed from the relationships that are established between the addict and other family members. This web frequently perpetuates the dysfunctional patterns that help maintain the addiction. It is of primary importance in the treatment of addiction, to identify family ties so that the family system may find healthier alternatives of relationships thus promoting a progressive change in the patterns of interaction that help maintain the addiction behavior.
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Durrant, Abigail Christine. "Family portrayals design to support photographic representations of intergenerational relationships in family homes." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2011. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/846429/.
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Focusing on intergenerational relationships, this project combined theoretical and empirical studies to explore the use of photographs in self and family representation at home. This exploration was considered timely given the recent adoption of digital capture devices by both parents and children and the unprecedented amount of photographic content that they generate. This has raised interesting questions concerning the digitisation and democratisation of family photography, in terms of form and content. Inquiry was positioned in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The proposed contribution of the project to the HCI field was threefold. First, findings on the psychological function of photographic displays were intended to inform the design and innovation of display technologies for family homes. A focus upon home display was informed by the recent emergence of new display technology paradigms; and a critical perspective was adopted on the potential application of these technologies in home settings. Second, findings were intended to illuminate the social psychological function of photos as cultural artefacts. In order to inter-relate psychological understandings and the practice of design, the project engaged multiple discourses, inviting a third contribution: to develop the foundations of an interdisciplinary methodological approach. Epistemological compatibility for this inquiry was found in Phenomenology and the use of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Qualitative research constituted three empirical studies, plus conceptual design exercises and the fabrication of a novel design for inclusion in empirical work. The research population comprised parents and their older teenagers, of British nationality, residing together in the United Kingdom. For Study One, participants were interviewed at home about their use of stored and displayed photos for portraying self and family. Analysis highlighted the significance of portrayals for shaping the social, moral order of homes, and the design implications of this. Study Two explored the potential integration of teenagers’ and parents’ photo displays in communal domestic spaces and how digital display design may support intergenerational expression. Findings supported integration and further design implications were generated. Study Three engaged the same teenagers exclusively and explored their use of Internet-enabled platforms at home for self and family representation. Findings revealed how their display practices mediated self-processes and related to the functioning of the family household. Psychological insights and design considerations were produced from this research. New questions and opportunities were established for future researchers.
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Fang, Fang. "Culture and Family Life: Three Studies on Family and Marriage Relationships across Cultures." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83771.
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This dissertation explores how family and marriage relationships vary according to the culture in which they occur. Based on the individualism/collectivism framework about cultural variations in familial beliefs across countries, I study three topics of family and marriage relationships across cultures. In the first study, I examine how 17 member countries of Organisation of Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) differ culturally in older adults' preference for family elder care. I find that older adults from countries with more traditional values that emphasize the importance of a strong parent-child tie are more likely to prefer family care rather than formal care than those from more secular-rational countries with less emphasis on the parent-child tie; the cultural difference gets smaller at a higher level of individual family income. In the second study, I select China as a representative of the collectivist culture, and look into how the collectivist culture and older parents' filial beliefs shape the intergenerational relationship in China. I find that patrilocal and patrilineal traditions are still prevail in China. A highly cohesive intergenerational relationship people idealize in the collectivist culture is more common between older parents and married sons, and least common between older parents and married daughters. In the third study, I compare an individualist society, the U.S., and China, a collectivist society to test whether marriage also isolates people from their informal social network in China as observed in the U.S. I find that marriage does not isolate but integrates people into their informal social network in China, while marriage isolate people in the U.S. The three studies present new evidence on how marriage and family experiences differ due to different cultural beliefs about family, and under what conditions the cultural influences are weakened or reinforced.Ph. D.
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Wilson, Patricia Ann. "The family and volunteer ministry a correlation between ministry involvement and family relationships /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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SCHUR, PETER BARTON. "A COMPARISON OF INTRAFAMILIAL AND EXTRAFAMILIAL SEX OFFENDERS." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183984.
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Intrafamilial and extrafamilial sex offenders receive differential treatment from criminal justice, mental health, and social service agencies. This differential treatment is based on assumptions that intrafamilial offenders are better candidates for successful treatment and that they are less dangerous than extrafamilial offenders. These assumptions are based upon clinical experience and anecdotal reports, but they lack empirical research evidence. The present study attempts to address the need for objective information regarding sex offenders and their offenses. Specifically, it compares a group of intrafamilial offenders with a group of extrafamilial offenders in terms of variables related to treatment prognosis, dangerousness, and psychological characteristics. The results suggest that there is a sound basis for the decisions being made by criminal justice, mental health, and social service agencies. Intrafamilial sex offenders are predominantly regressed offenders who do not have fixed sexual preferences for children and who are thought to be treatable in community-based treatment programs. In contrast, extrafamilial offenders are predominantly fixated offenders who do have fixed sexual preferences for children and who are thought to be particularly difficult, if not impossible, to treat. In addition, intrafamilial offenders appear less dangerous than extrafamilial offenders in that they used less forceful and violent means of coercion in order to gain compliance of their victims. No significant differences were found between groups regarding their psychological characteristics as measured by the MMPI. While the literature has characterized regressed offenders as men who sexually abuse children in the context of situational stress and family dysfunction, no evidence of this was found in the present study. This finding raises a question regarding the definition, understanding, and validity of the concept of the regressed offender. This may be of some importance to evaluators and treatment teams who believe that the treament of choice for the regressed offender involves family therapy and the alleviation of stress-related factors, while they tend to neglect or minimize the possible contribution of the individual psychopathology of the offender.
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Behounek, Elaina. "Mediated Relationships: An Ethnography of Family Law Mediation." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5909.
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In my dissertation, I use multi-ethnographic methods to examine how mediators talk about, manage, and process families going through divorce. I show how a dominant narrative about marriage and the cultural expectations of parenthood provide a framework for mediators to manage the discourse of divorcing parties so assets and care giving can be split 50/50. The dominant P.E.A.C.E. narrative (P=parenting plan, E=equitable distribution, A=alimony, C=child support, E=everything else) restricts available discourse in mediation and guides mediators’ behaviors in ways that homogenize families by providing a linear formula for mediators to follow which results in only certain stories being allowed to enter the mediation. Next, I show how constructions about power and violence serve to frame and shape understandings of divorce for mediators, thereby guiding their actions in mediation and discursively impacting the discourses of mediated parties. Power and violence are constructed in ways that conflate the concepts, and no clear protocol is offered to manage these complicated concerns for family law mediators. The outcome is mediators report being unsure and often fearful about mediating cases where intimate partner violence is a concern. Finally, an analytic autoethnographic examination of family law mediation provides an example of the power of ideology and makes clear my positionality within this dissertation. I explore my own identity as a white, heterosexual, female, in a world ripe with expectations about marriage and family creation as I encounter alternative messages and information in my fieldwork. Throughout my dissertation, I uncover larger cultural narratives about marriage, and families that guide and manage people, illustrating the ways identities, stories of violence, and the ideology of marriage are shaped.
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Byrne, Carolyn. "Parental depression, meaning and agency in family relationships." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ56274.pdf.
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Gebhard, Madison. "Relationships Within the Family Tree: Roots of Recidivism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1237.
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This paper seeks to examine the correlation between family relations and habitual criminal activity. Building on previous research analyzing the power and influence of positive family environments on criminal behavior, I studied the effect of parent-child relationships as determinants of adult recidivism. My results corresponded with previous studies and implied a direct correlation between positive relationships and recidivism reduction. Furthermore, my findings support the research illustrating the effect of a person's family criminal history, level of education, and socioeconomic status on criminal behavior, which may ultimately have an effect on these influential ties between parents and children.
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Chebra, Janice Marie. "Family correlates of sibling relationships in young adulthood." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1247849580.
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Wilkin, John Charles. "Relationships between family variables and children's mathematical achievement." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 1999. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3337/.
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This study aims to assess the relationship between family variables and specific mathematical achievement in secondary school children. It employs both quantitative and qualitative methods. In the early stages, re-analysis of data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS), (e. g. Fogelman, K. 1983), suggested that previous findings may have confounded mathematical ability/ achievement with general educational achievement and/or measures of cognitive ability. In addition these studies tended to use only family variables which could be measured quantitatively and in ways which facilitated statistical analysis. However, the re-analysis of NCDS data showed a significant association between teachers' subjective assessment of parental interest in their children's education when they were aged 7 years, and the children's mathematical achievement at age 11 years. This significant relationship led to the focus in the second, qualitative phase on the involvement of parents in their children's education (Steinberg and Silverberg, 1986; Lareau, A. 1987,1989), on intra-family interactions (Wentzel, K. R. 1994), and the possible relations between them and the children's mathematical achievement. In the later stages, therefore, following a methodological model developed by Goetz and Lecompte (1995), qualitative techniques were utilised to elicit from parents details of intra-family interactions, with particular emphasis on their involvement with their children's educational activities. The results of the qualitative phase of this study suggested that high mathematics achievers were more likely to be found in families where mothers and fathers had both obtained 0 Levels, where a similar history of educational achievement in the wider families was reported, and where there was a high level of parent/child/sibling interaction. In contrast, low mathematics achievers were more likely to be found in families where only one or neither parent had obtained 0 Levels, where there was little evidence offered of educational achievements in the wider families.
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Farrar, Jay Curtis. "Strengthening marriage and family relationships through biblical teachings." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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Fisher, Stacey J. "Relationships between Family Literacy Practices and Reading Achievement." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4695.
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McLaughlin, K. "Work and family life : experiences of mothers and fathers." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273084.
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Shoda, Buchanan Tonya. "Family as a source of social support under stress: Perceptions of family and breadth of inclusion." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406375261.
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OLIVEIRA, MARIA FERNANDA BORGES VAZ DE. "FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE PSYCHOTIC ADOLESCENT: DELUSION AS A SYMPTOM OF THE FAMILY HISTORY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5281@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOO foco deste estudo é apontar como o delírio do paciente psicótico é estruturado a partir das relações familiares transgeracionais. Utiliza- se o conceito de transmissão psíquica geracional para mostrar que o desenvolvimento psíquico de todo indivíduo é constituído pelas relações intersubjetivas que este estabelece, tendo como base as relações familiares. O sujeito é visto como formador e formado através destas relações. Tenta-se mostrar pelo enfoque psicanalítico como se dá esse processo no caso do paciente psiquiátrico adolescente É abordada a questão das expectativas familiares com a chegada de um novo membro e a dinâmica da família em relação aos filhos na fase da adolescência. A visão da terapia familiar psicanalítica embasa a análise de um caso clínico mostrando a questão da transmissão psíquica transgeracional na construção do delírio de um paciente psicótico adolescente atendido com sua família em um hospital psiquiátrico, universitário e público.
This dissertation intends to demonstrate how the delusion of a psychotic patient is structured by transgenerative family relationships. The concept of generative psychical transmission is used to prove that the psychical development of every person is constituted by the intersubjectives relations, having their foundations in the families relationships. The person is the maker as well as it is made through these relationships. It is tried to demonstrate this process under psychoanalytic focus when working with psychotic adolescents. The author proves the expectations of the families when a new member becomes part of it and too the family dynamic when they have adolescents members. The theory of psychoanalytical family therapy is used to analyze a clinical situation demonstrating the transgenerative psychical transmission in the construction of delusion of a psychotic adolescent and their family history in a public mental hospital.
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Cueto, Sergio Ivan. "Relationships among family cohesion, family adaptability, potentially stressful life events and symptoms of stress." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45015.
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Cueto, Sergio Iván. "Relationships among family cohesion, family adaptability, potentially stressful life events and symptoms of stress /." This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10062009-020128/.
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CIVILLERI, Alba. "FAMILY FIRMS: WELL-BEING OF EMPLOYEES AND ENTREPRENEURS. FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND WORK-RELATED STRESS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10447/91231.
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The general aim of the present dissertation is to gain more insight into the phenomenon of family firms, the well-being of employees and entrepreneurs and the role of family relationships at work. These objectives have been pursued by means of three empirical studies presented in the three chapters respectively: Chapter 1 focuses on comparing the employees of family and non-family firms to identify clearly the distinctive features. Chapter 2 focuses on the Job demands-resources model and on the role of the emotional experience as an important variable in attempt to understand whether there is a different pattern of relationships in the model depending on the fact that the people work with or without kin. Chapter 3 focuses on the effects of work and family demands and resources on well-being of entrepreneurs, in terms of need for recovery after work, examining the differences between entrepreneurs of family and non-family firms.
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Wong, Nga-wing Maria, and 王雅穎. "Family dinner and youth risk behaviors." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48426258.
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Background:
Adolescent risk behaviors are important public health problems worldwide. They can lead to significant mortalities and morbidities. Common and important adolescent risk behaviors include tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking, drug abuse, dating, sexual activity, suicide, participation in fighting and gambling. Various factors were studied on the association with youth risk behaviors. Families, schools and communities play important roles. Having meals with families have been shown to be associated with less risk behaviors in youths in other studies. However, there is no study on the association between family dinner and youth risk behaviors in Hong Kong.
Objectives:
The objectives of the current study are to test for any association between the frequency of family dinner and youth risk behaviors and to raise the public awareness of the importance of youth risk behaviors and the associated factors.
Methods:
The data in the current study was extracted from the Child Health Survey (CHS) conducted in 2005/2006. The CHS was commissioned by the Surveillance and Epidemiology Branch Centre for Health Protection under Department of Health. Children in the age group of 11 to 14 years old were included in this study. In CHS, self-administered questionnaires including Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) which were validated were completed by the parent. For children of 11 to 14 years of age, except those who were mentally handicapped, data on quality of life, psychological assessment and risk behaviors were collected through a separate face-to-face interview and a self- administered questionnaire in Chinese. The association between number of family dinners per week and youth problems including smoking, alcohol drinking, drug abuse, dating, sexual experience, suicidal ideation, participation in fighting and gambling were tested using univariate analysis. Risk behaviors found to be significantly associated with frequency of family dinner were further tested by adjustment of possible confounders using logistic regression.
Results:
Family dinner of 3 times or more per week was associated with less alcohol drinking, dating and participation in fighting. Alcohol drinking, sexual experience and peer smoking were significantly associated with youth smoking. Youth alcohol drinking was found to be associated with smoking, dating, gambling and externalization problem. Smoking and alcohol drinking were significantly associated with dating. Alcohol drinking, drug abuse, participation in fighting, anxiety and depression problem were associated with suicidal ideation. Suicidal ideation, gambling, anxiety and depression problem, and externalization problem were significantly associated with participation in fighting. Factors associated with youth gambling included alcohol drinking, suicidal ideation and participation in fighting.
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Family dinner is likely to be a protective factor against certain youth risk behaviors, including alcohol drinking, youth dating and participation in fighting. It should be promoted to all families in Hong Kong. Youth risk behaviors were inter-related. Detection of one youth risk problem should prompt the detection of other risk problems.published_or_final_version
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Bruce, Vanessa Leigh. "Couple Outcomes in Stepfamilies." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367677.
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Stepfamilies are an increasingly common family structure which has been associated with unique challenges for couples early in their relationships. Previous research has shown that both children and couples within stepfamilies have poorer outcomes than those in first marriage (intact) families and that couples within stepfamilies break-up at much higher rates than couples in first marriage families.
The present research consists of two studies that aimed to investigate these differential outcomes for stepfamily couples by examining the longitudinal relationship between a range of both couple and stepfamily specific variables and relationship satisfaction and stability. The broad aims of the research were to compare the relative contribution of general couple factors that have been found to be associated with relationship outcomes for first married couples as opposed to factors that are specific to stepfamilies.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology (PhD ClinPsych)
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Griffith Health
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Lee, Sun-A. "Young Adults' Committed Romantic Relationships: A Longitudinal Study on the Dynamics among Parental Divorce, Relationships with Mothers and Fathers, and Children's Committed Romantic Relationships." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193790.
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Romantic relationship qualities are important for individuals' psychosocial adjustment. This dissertation focuses on how young adults' committed romantic relationships are related to experience of parental divorce and relationships with parents during adolescence. Also, how this relationship may be different by four dyads of parents and children - father/daughter, father/son, mother/daughter, and mother/son - is examined.The conceptual paper proposes parent-child relationships as a main family process affecting children's romantic relationships. Social learning theoretical perspectives is used as a guide that children observe, model, learn, and then apply the behaviors or patterns of relationships with parents to their own romantic relationships. Two potential roles of parent-child relationships are addressed in the dynamics among parental divorce, parent-child relationships, and children's romantic relationships. The first role of parent-child relationships is a mediation role between parental divorce and children's romantic relationships. The second role of parent-child relationships is a moderation role between parental divorce and children's romantic relationships. How one variable, parent-child relationships, can be a mediator as well as moderator is addressed in the conceptual paper. Also, the need to examine four dyads of parents and children in these models is addressed.Two empirical studies examine a potential mediation and a moderation model respectively. The data for these studies were taken from Wave 6 (high school senior) and Wave 8 (age 24) of the Michigan Study of Adolescent Life Transitions (MSALT). The mediation model is tested using a multi-group mediation model using SEM. The results suggest that there is indirect effect of parental divorce on children's romantic relationships, specifically for father-daughter dyads. The moderation model is tested using hierarchical regression analyses and the results show that there is interaction between parental divorce and relationships with parents. For example, relationships with fathers in always-married families are significantly related to children's satisfaction in their romantic relationships.In the conclusion chapter, implications of the findings, limitations and contribution of the studies, and direction for future research are addressed.
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Srivastava, Shweta Arpit. "Introducing Parasocial Relationships to Family Communication Scholarship: A Tripartite Model of Family Communication Patterns, Parental Management of Children’s Parasocial Relationships, and Parent-Child Bonding." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29874.
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PSRs are one-sided, emotionally-tinged relationships with media characters such as Peter Pan, Batman; Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, and Mulan; and celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and Harry Stiles (Giles, 2000). This project situates children’s PSRs within the family communication environment by exploring the relationships between Family Communication Patterns (FCPs), parental management of PSRs, and perceptions of parent-child bonding.
Four parental management of PSRs behaviors, Guiding, Prohibiting, Supporting, and Neutrality, were studied with respect to the Conversation and Conformity orientations of FCPs. Parental management behaviors of Guiding, Prohibiting, and Supporting had significant impacts on perceptions of parent-child bonding, but Neutrality on its own did not have any significant influence. Guiding was manifested through the FCP path of Conformity instead of Conversation. Prohibiting had a strong inverse relationship with perceptions of parent-child bonding. Besides Conformity, Prohibiting also had a significant pathway through Conversation. Supporting had a strong and positive relationship with perceptions of parent-child bonding and a significant pathway through Conversation but not through Conformity. Although Neutrality on its own did not have a significant impact, it had a significant impact through Conformity.
Overall, this study fulfills its goal to look at the impact of parental communication behaviors on perceptions of the parent-child relationship. In the context of PSRs, parental communication about managing children’s PSRs is significantly related to the perceptions of parent-child bonding, and the impact of these micro communication behaviors is mediated by the overarching communication environment. Therefore, this study recommends that PSRs can be introduced to the mainstream discussion of interpersonal relationships such that family communication scholarship can explore the role of PSRs beyond media effects.
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Braun, Kimberly Barthelemy. "Do perceptions of past family climate influence adults' current relationships?" Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115715.
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The existing scholarly literature that addresses the transgenerational transmission of family processes fails to answer many questions concerning adults' current relationships with partners and peers. The purpose of the present study was to investigate how adults' perceptions of their family of origin climates affect their own satisfaction with emotionally significant interpersonal relationships and their fear of intimacy in these relationships. Participants were recruited from a mid-western college. A total of 281 participants were tested.The main research question was: What is the nature of the relationship between adults' perceptions of their family of origin climate and their current relationship satisfaction/fear of intimacy. It was hypothesized that adults' perceptions of cohesion, expressiveness, independence, achievement orientation, intellectual-cultural orientation, active-recreational orientation, moral religious emphasis, and organization within their families of origin would be positively related to their satisfaction with their current friendship and partner relationships and negatively related to their fear of intimacy. It was conversely hypothesized that adult's perceptions of conflict and control within their families of origin would be negatively related to their current relationship satisfaction with friends and partners and positively related to their fear of intimacy.Family of origin climate was assessed by the Family Environment Scale which measures 10 aspects of family of origin climate. These are: cohesion, expressiveness, conflict, independent, achievement orientation, intellectual-cultural orientation, activerecreational orientation, moral-religious emphasis, organization, and control. Relationshipsatisfaction was measured in two types of relationships: partner relationship satisfaction with the Relationship Assessment Scale and peer relationship satisfaction with the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment, Peer Scale. The Fear of Intimacy Scale was utilized to assess participants' anxiety or fear that influences intimacy in a close relationship or at the prospect of a close relationship. Participants also completed a demographic questionnaire.Results of a canonical correlation analysis indicated that perceptions of family of origin climate did not influence current relationship satisfaction or fear of intimacy in adults. Adults' perceptions of their family of origin climates did not influence their current relationship satisfaction and fear of intimacy. Limitations of the current study and recommendations for future research are discussed.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Veach, Theresa A. "Family adaptation to medical illness inventory (FAMILLI) : the development of a measure for second order patients." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1180776.
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Although there are many instruments available to assess patient adaptation to cancer, there are few instruments which can be used to assess family members of cancer patients' adaptation to cancer. The present study was conducted to determine the internal structure and factor reliability estimates of a new instrument, the Family Adaptation to Medical ILLness Inventory (FAMILLI). The analysis of the FAMILLI was conducted using respondents (N=139) with family members of cancer. Respondents' ages ranged from 18 to 70 and many types of cancer, such as lung, breast, colorectal, prostate, brain, and cervical, were represented. The study was conducted in two phases, the pilot study and the major investigation.During the pilot study, respondents from a midwestern university setting and the oncology department at a midwestern hospital (N=28) completed the FAMILLI and participated in feedback groups. The pilot study helped to refine the demographic information sheet and to reduce the number of questions on the FAMILLI from 55 to 35 questions. In addition, interesting demographic questions were added to the demographics forms.The major study (N= 117) was conducted to test the initial factor structure of the FAMILLI and to test convergent and discriminant validity. A principal components extraction yielded a six factor solution which was judged best in terms of statistical structure and theoretical parsimony. The six factors to emerge were 1) factor one, "personal needs," 2) factor two, "attitudes toward leisure and work activities," 3) factor three, "anger and blame," 4) factor four, "receiving support," 5) factor five, "seeking medical information," and 6) factor six, "family responsibilities."Convergent and discriminant validity were tested using the Cancer Behavior Inventory (CBI-B) and the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS). It was hypothesized that the FAMILLI would demonstrate convergent validity with the CBI-B. Four of the six factors (factors 2, 3, 4, and 5) significantly correlated with the CBI-B. The SWLS was used to test discriminant validity. Five of the six factors (factors 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6) correlated significantly with the SWLS. Thus, the FAMILLI did not demonstrate discriminant validity with an instrument used to measure global assessment of quality of life. Further research is needed to test the reliability and validity of the FAMILLI.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Hughes, Charles Daniel. "AN INVESTIGATION OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS FOR PEOPLE WHO STUTTER." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174423351.