The study sought to determine the relationship between both positive and negative religious beliefs and adjustment to chronic pain, as measured by pain severity, disability, depression, anger, and positive and negative affect. This study also sought to identify specific secular …
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The purposes of the current study were to test the replicability of the factor structure of the Attitudes Toward Women's Roles (ATWR), Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale (SRES), Self-Esteem Scale (SES), Self-Esteem Inventory, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale,…
The number of American families choosing to adopt a child from Ethiopia has increased exponentially since 2004. Over the past five years alone, between 2006 and 2011, 13.5% of internationally adopted children in the U.S. came from Ethiopia. The purpose of this study was to exami…
This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of immigrant Nigerians in North Carolina and their adjustment and coping mechanisms. The study involved 10 immigrant Nigerians telling their personal stories regarding their struggle to adjust to life in North Carolina. …
The problems under investigation were (1) How does sense of coherence (SOC) affect adjustment (adjustment measured by depression and life satisfaction) for African immigrants? (2) In what manner does SOC moderate the relationship between migration stress and adjustment? Ethiopia…
Scope and method of study. This cross-cultural study investigates the importance of privacy regulation on college adjustment of American and Turkish freshmen living in residence halls. The research was carried out by means of a survey at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, …
This study is designed to examine the impact of riverine hazards and displacement upon displacees, both males and females, in Bangladesh. The specific objectives of the study are to: (a) determine the magnitude of psychological distress associated with riverine hazards and displ…
This thesis consists of three essays that analyze issues of external shock, adjustment, finance and real exchange rates in a group of developing countries—Sudan, Egypt, Pakistan and the Philippines. The first essay, “External Shock, Non-Adjustment and Finance: The Experience of …
This study focused on leadership involvement and cross-cultural adjustment experiences of two undergraduate international students in order to better understand how international students become involved at the leadership level, become adjusted to living in the U.S., and to dete…
The present study investigated differences in the impact of attributions of responsibility on young (5 to 10 1/2 years old) sexual abuse victims' adjustment to the abuse within the frameworks of perspective taking and self-concept, because the literature suggested that the relat…
Inadequate government assistance to refugees, negative attitudes of host communities, lack of participation by refugees in community affairs, lack of access to better-paying jobs, and lack of English skills exacerbate dependence on public assistance by refugees. The purpose of t…
The United States has experienced unrivaled success in attracting international students for higher education studies. Saudi Arabia has sponsored students for study in the United States since 1950, with the number of students on scholarship varying according to the fluctuation i…
Though the number of Nigerian immigrants in the United States has increased since 1965, the literature on transnational communities has been selective in its examination of this population. The present study examines the adjustment and settlement issues of Nigerian immigrants in…
This research is a qualitative ethnographic case study of Kuwaiti students attending the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The purpose of this research was two-fold: to understand the academic and cultural factors that affected the adjustment of Kuwaiti students sponsored by t…
This dissertation offers an ethnographic study of a mosque in a small town in the Southwest of the United States. Composed primarily of entrepreneurs drawn mainly by the convenience store business, the congregation represents a multi-ethnic Muslim community in the early stages o…
Between the years 1992-2002, approximately 150,000 Bosnian Muslim refugees were resettled in the United States following the civil war in Bosnia that lasted from 1992-1996. Three million people were displaced and there were nearly 250,000 deaths. This study used quantitative met…
