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Loftis, Allison E. "ENGAGING MOTHERS: SELF-EFFICACY AND MOTHER/INFANT INTERACTION AMONG MOTHERS EXPERIENCING MULTIPLE LIFE STRESSORS." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/edsrc_etds/4.
Full textBerman, Sheryl H. "Taking the "Mother" out of "Motherese" : young infants' preference for mothers' use of infant-directed speech /." Thesis, This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11012008-063753/.
Full textAbraham, Jane L. "Mother and infant communication: mothers' experiences and infants' preferences." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39157.
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Kime, Susan Thomas 1944. "Working mothers and maternal attachment: an exploratory study." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/558101.
Full textEarles, Lesley Ann. "Faith of Our Mothers: Religiosity in Adult Daughter-Mother Relationships." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81453.
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SPINELLI, MARIA. "Parenting preterm infants: implications for mothers and mother- infant relationship." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/45026.
Full textBotha, Johanna Maria. "Vroeë moeder-kind kommunikasie interaksie in lae sosio-ekonomiese families." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2000. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07172006-152250.
Full textMeadows, Denis William, and D. Meadows@mailbox gu edu au. "Mothers' Sensitivity to Infants' Communicative Acts." Griffith University. School of Cognition, Language and Special Education, 2001. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030226.164131.
Full textMcTaggart, Deborah L. "Breast cancer experience : mothers, adolescent daughters and the mother-daughter relationship." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0018/NQ56587.pdf.
Full textBorello, Lisa Joy. ""Mother May I? Food, Power and Control in Mothers and Daughters"." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07272006-133036/.
Full textTitle from title screen. Layli Phillips, committee chair; Amira Jarmakani, Cassandra White, committee members. Electronic text (125 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 2, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-118).
Gray, Natasha. "Single mothers' accounts of influences on children in mother headed families." Thesis, University of East London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532394.
Full textLi, Fook-sung William, and 李福生. "The influence of irrational beliefs of mothers on mother-child relationship." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31250397.
Full textAllie, Elva Leticia Concha. "Childrearing Attitudes of Mexican-American Mothers Effects of Education of Mother." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332060/.
Full textLi, Fook-sung William. "The influence of irrational beliefs of mothers on mother-child relationship /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19470964.
Full textWongvatunyu, Suporn. "Mothers' experience of helping the young adult with traumatic brain injury." Free to MU Campus, others may purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3091981.
Full textBray, Sheila A. "Sons' remembered communication experiences with their mothers a research proposal /." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000brays.pdf.
Full textAl-Hawwaj, Ala Hussdain. "Factors impacting mothers' decision to breastfeed : mothers attitudes in Kuwait /." View online, 2004. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131200572.pdf.
Full textGreenstone, Harriet. "Mother writes : writing as therapy for mothers of children with special needs." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100613.
Full textThe study focuses on the relationship between writing processes and products and the development of mothers' emotional states and emotional development, their self-image, self-confidence, role identity, and comfort. It investigates feelings of inadequacy, guilt, anger, and frustration, especially those engendered by good mother/bad mother social judgments, to which mothers of children with special needs are particularly vulnerable.
I came to this area of research organically---as a clinician, as a teacher, and as a mother of a child with special needs myself. Van Manan (1990) suggests there is no better way to understand a phenomenon than to live it. I realized I was uniquely positioned to understand, examine, and synthesize the therapeutic effects of mothers' writing, reading, and storytelling, and understand the social environment that fuels it. As a clinician and educator, I also recognized its value as a rich, yet relatively unexplored, source of knowledge.
In preparation for designing the study, I looked beyond peer-reviewed literature to popular literature, including diaries and autobiographies of mothers, to familiarize myself with their writings and the impact of such writings on the mothers' emotional adjustments, including their need for expression, support, and advocacy---for themselves and others.
The study describes the experiences of a writing group (eight participants) comprised of mothers of children with special needs. The group met weekly for ten weeks to examine and share their feelings and life stories through a series of written assignments. Common themes and individual responses to this experience were captured anecdotally throughout the sessions, as well as in pre- and post-group interviews.
Following a description of how the study evolved, coinciding with my personal shift from quantitative to qualitative researcher, I begin with a comprehensive review of mothering as a research area in literature, and a review of literature on the therapeutic effects of reading, writing and storytelling. I then discuss the methodology of this study with an emphasis on the literature on focus groups, memory work, narratives and writing, as well as qualitative research tools and techniques. The results of the study are presented descriptively using primarily a narrative approach, including a more detailed analysis of the experiences of four mothers who participated in the study.
All the mothers reported beneficial effects from their participation. They felt empowered by the experience and inspired to continue to use writing, not only for its individual therapeutic effect but also as a means to advocate and inform others. The connection between writing and advocacy was a recurrent theme that emerged from the study---a strong common desire to help others, and the recognition that writing was an effective means to accomplish the mothers' goal to have professionals understand them better, individually and as a whole, and to be more empathetic.
Other findings include the incongruence of thought between mothers and professionals, and the need to deepen our understanding of parent-professional interaction; and how much more impact the mothering debate has on mothers of children with special needs, particularly the stay-at-home versus working mothers' argument.
This study provides insight into the extensive thoughts and emotions experienced by these mothers, and furthers our understanding of themes like stages of mourning for the not-so-perfect child, and the inter-related processes of storytelling, reading, and writing. It also has implications in the field of memory work, looking at how these mothers recalled early events in the lives of their children and how they remembered their experience in the study, months after its conclusion. Finally, it discusses the implications of using therapeutic writing as a qualitative research tool.
The study concludes with suggestions for using writing to facilitate communication and understanding between parents and educators as well as between parents and other professionals, for their mutual benefit.
Davies, Dawn. "Mothers of Sparta." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1929.
Full textPohl, Tanya Claire. "Votes for Mothers." Thesis, Boston College, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/359.
Full textBetween 1866 and 1918, suffragists in Britain campaigned to acquire the vote for women. Opposition to women's suffrage derived mainly from separate spheres ideology – the belief that the genders are inherently different and must fulfill different roles in society. Many scholars claim that the suffragists challenged separate spheres ideology. By comparing the writings of Millicent Fawcett and Frances Cobbe, two prominent suffragists, with the writings of Mary Ward and Violet Markham, two prominent anti-suffragists, this work demonstrates similar themes within the opposing campaigns. More importantly, the similarities indicate that suffragists argued within the context of separate spheres ideology and did not seek to significantly alter traditional gender roles
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2005
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
Discipline: College Honors Program
Horlacher, Stefan. "‘Mothers Reign Supreme’?" Bril | Rodopi, 2011. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A37637.
Full textLake, Marilyn Hope. "Our mothers' ghosts /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3091940.
Full textMcIntosh, Kelly L. "Working Mothers vs Stay at Home Mothers: The Impact On Children." Marietta College / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marietta1144855683.
Full textUnderwood, Siobhan. "Mothers of invention : developing a better understanding of mothers' doctoral persistence /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3072608.
Full textTypescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-176). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Yip, Sau-kuen, and 葉秀娟. "Mother-infant intervention to promote maternal mental health after preterm birth." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48339477.
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Oshio, Sachiko. "Mother's mental representation of her infant and its effect on infant organization and mother's perception of self /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7211.
Full textDel, Villar Angelica. "EFFECTS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER ON MOTHERS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/674.
Full textFlacking, Renée. "Breastfeeding and Becoming a Mother : Influences and Experiences of Mothers of Preterm Infants." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Women's and Children's Health, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7898.
Full textThe overall aim of this thesis was to expand the knowledge and understanding of the processes of breastfeeding and becoming a mother in mothers of preterm infants.
For this purpose, in-depth interviews were conducted with 25 mothers, whose very preterm infants had received care in seven neonatal units (NU) in Sweden, 1-12 months after discharge (I-II). In addition, prospective population-based register studies were performed of infants born 1993-2001; among 35 250 term and 2093 preterm infants (III), and a subpopulation of 225 very preterm infants (IV). Data were obtained from the Child Health Service registry of breastfeeding in Uppsala and Örebro, the Medical Birth Registry, and Statistics Sweden.
The experiences of mother-infant separation, institutional authority, emotional exhaustion and disregard of breastfeeding as a relational interplay, comprised major hindrances to mothers’ experiences of breastfeeding as reciprocal and of a secure mother-infant relation, during and after the discharge from an NU (I-II). All studied socioeconomic factors, i.e. lower educational level, receiving unemployment benefit or social welfare or having a low equivalent disposable income, were individually adversely associated with breastfeeding up to six months of infants’ postnatal age, but were not found more decisive for weaning in mothers of preterm infants compared to those of term infants (III). Preterm infants were breastfed for a shorter time than term infants (III), but a long breastfeeding duration was evident. In addition, gestational age and neonatal disorders were not associated with breastfeeding duration in very preterm infants (IV).
In conclusion, this thesis shows that improvements in the NU environment and the caring paradigm are called for. Furthermore, as socioeconomic status clearly has an impact on breastfeeding duration, increased equity in health care in accordance with the individuals’ needs must be sought, where resources are allocated to ensure fulfilment of needs in more vulnerable mothers and infants.
Flacking, Renée. "Breastfeeding and becoming a mother : influences and experiences of mothers of preterm infants /." Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7898.
Full textBarbard, Penelope Jane. "Beyond the feeding relationship: mothers' descriptions of interaction within the mother-child dyad." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2965.
Full textWright, Stephanie A. "Mother Making: How First Time Mothers Develop a Parenting Practice in Contemporary America." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1478632472127031.
Full textSawyers, Amanda G. "“I’ve Been Given the Wrong Mother:” Reconsidering Absent Mothers in Postmodern British Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3506.
Full textLau, Ai Shibazaki. "Japanese Mothers' Parenting Styles with Preschool-Age Children." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1395.pdf.
Full textChan, Lit-fai. "Feminization of poverty in Hong Kong : the experiences of pauperization of lone mothers receiving comprehensive social security assistance (CSSA) /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21028953.
Full textMolony, Samantha L. "Of the Mothers, by the Mothers and for the Mothers: A Frame Analysis of Motherhood Discourse in Female Politicians’ Speeches." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460447019.
Full textByrn, Michelle D. "A comparative case study of music interactions between mothers and infants." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/684.
Full textHo, S. Y. "Why do mothers smoke? : a qualitative research study in Hong Kong Chinese /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/b39724128.
Full textAygunes, Asli. ""Mothers like Us Think Differently": Mothers' Negotiations of Virginity in Contemporary Turkey." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6676.
Full textVaughan, Karolyn, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and School of Health and Nursing. "Mother, baby residential admission : the mother's experience." THESIS_XXX_SHN_Vaughan_K.xml, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/340.
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Yurdusen, (aci) Sema. "The Effects Of Mothers." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605643/index.pdf.
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parental attitudes and their preschool children&rsquo
s behavioral problems relationship. The participants were 204 married mothers, 64 fathers, 195 chief teachers and 25 assistant teachers of preschool children aged between 1½
- 5 years-old, who are attending nurseries in different neighborhoods of Ankara. Prior to the main analyses, the reliability analyses of Child Behavior Check List - 1½
- 5 (CBCL &ndash
1½
- 5), and Caregiver-Teacher Report Form (C-TRF) were conducted. These analyses yielded many significant coefficients, though the strength of the correlations varied from low to high. Following the reliability analyses, Hierarchical Regression Analyses were performed to test the mediational role of mothers&rsquo
psychological adjustment between their parental attitudes and children&rsquo
s internalizing, externalizing, and total behavior problems relationships. For these analyses, the variances accounted for by children&rsquo
s and mothers&rsquo
demographic characteristics were controlled. Results revealed that, &lsquo
Rejection of the Home Making Role&rsquo
measure of PARI and Trait Anxiety measure explained the largest amount of variances while predicting the children&rsquo
s behavioral problems. According to hierarchical regression analyses, rejecting attitudes of mothers significantly associated with children&rsquo
s internalizing, externalizing, and total behavior problems. Moreover, mothers&rsquo
rejecting attitudes significantly associated with their trait anxiety which is in turn associated with children&rsquo
s behavior problems. However, after controlling for the effect of trait anxiety, the relationship between mothers&rsquo
rejecting attitudes and their children&rsquo
s behavior problems was disappeared. Therefore, mothers&rsquo
trait anxiety was found to mediate their rejecting attitudes and preschool children&rsquo
s internalizing, externalizing, and total behavior problems. Results were discussed by referring the relevant literature.
Smith, Mary Patricia. "Postpartum concerns of mothers." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26135.
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Duff, Alexa. "Wellbeing in working mothers." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2017. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/16454/.
Full textHennessy, Deborah. "Mothers and health visitors." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1985. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/402124/.
Full textRobins, Roy. "Mothers and sons : stories." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7960.
Full textMcLeod, Janet. "Teenage mothers and education." Thesis, University of East London, 2013. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3478/.
Full textSheets, Natalie J. "Single Mothers and Religiosity." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2356.
Full textVaughan, Karolyn. "Mother, baby residential admission : the mother's experience." Thesis, View thesis, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/340.
Full textRobinson, Patrice Devane. "A mother's role defined employment messages communicated to mothers in the Southern Baptist convention /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/650509079/viewonline.
Full textHarman, Bronwyn. "The 'good mother syndrome' and playgroup: The lived experience of a group of mothers." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/226.
Full textSims, Jessica Laurens. "What would mother do? boys as mothers in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin /." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Spring%20Theses/SIMS_JESSICA_39.pdf.
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