ADJUSTMENT ISSUES OF SAUDI ARABIAN STUDENTS AND THEIR SPOUSES IN THE U.S Saleh Saeed Alshihri St. Mary’s University, 2019 Dissertation Advisor: Carolyn Y. Tubbs, Ph.D. A significant proportion of Saudi Arabians seek further studies in western countries, including the United Stat…
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This thesis explores children’s everyday experiences in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As members of the Bihari community, children and adults living in the camp are historically, ethnically, linguistically, and structurally marginalised. Examining the everyd…
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of a parental involvement intervention on the mathematics self-efficacy and achievement of students. A previous study showed the involvement of many Nigerian parents in their children’s education was low and parents were lac…
Introduction: Orphaned and separated youth (OSY) in Sub-Saharan Africa are thought to have higher rates of HIV risk behavior and twice the odds of HIV infection compared to non-orphaned youth. Yet, evidence also suggests OSY have lower rates of HIV testing than non-orphaned yout…
There is no formal word for dementia in Nigeria. Instead, people consider dementia an inevitable part of aging. Even so, people with dementia and their families are at risk of stigmatization. With its rapid aging, increased risk of dementia, and lack of formal long-term care, th…
The presence of an autistic child in a family has adverse effects on many parts of family life. Parents of autistic children are known to experience disbelief, sadness, depression, self-blame, and anger. Autism is also commonplace in African countries, but little empirical resea…
Saudi Arabia and the United States of America have a strong relationship both politically and economically. This is exemplified by the number of Saudi students sent on scholarship to study in the US. Roughly, there are 70 thousands Saudi students enrolled in such scholarships, m…
Married women in the banking and management consulting firms in Nigeria encounter challenges that affect their commitment to their families while working long hours in demanding jobs. This study explores the challenges that married women encounter, and the impacts of these chall…
Poor reading levels is a pervasive problem in the US. For example, two of every three eigth grade students in the US are estimated to demonstrate insufficient reading comprehension skills. Early use of decontextualized language, in which the language expressed is removed from th…
Background The transition to adulthood is critical for future wellbeing and in determining whether Indonesia will reap the demographic dividend. There are gaps in the description of Indonesian youth's transition to adulthood and the identification of factors that affect the tran…
Background: High rates of unintended and unplanned pregnancies in the United States result in challenges to quality of life, negative maternal and neonatal outcomes, and increased federal spending. While several socioeconomic and environmental factors have been associated with i…
This thesis examines how young, married, heterosexual Christian couples talk about and make sense of pregnancy loss, specifically loss before the twentieth week. Studies of pregnancy loss often focus on individual differences in response to pregnancy loss, but this research enga…
Two major assumptions have dominated much of the discourse on Islamic schools in Pakistan since the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s and following the US attack on Afghanistan in October 2001. First, the Pakistani state-run education system is failing. Because of the poor qualit…
It is my opinion that we, as human, as living-beings, we are complex and complicated vessels of ambiguous intent. We exchange information, opinions, and experiences with friends, family, co-workers, and colleagues, sometimes agreeing--sometimes not. We communicate about ordinary…
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of cultural factors on housework in Turkish families. More specifically, this study uses the 2008 Turkey Demographic Health Survey (TDHS) to investigate how gender ideology and religion affect the division of domestic labor in …
This dissertation investigates conversion to Islam in the United States analyzing egocentric networks of 30 converts to Islam and that of 30 people in the control group. By comparing Michigan, where there is a large Muslim community, to Kentucky, where there is smaller community…
This dissertation is a study of the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh. The particular focus of the dissertation is the situation of married women. Since independence, growing economic hardship, increasing op…
This dissertation provides a comprehensive examination of the involvement of U.S. military veterans and families in the anti-Iraq War movement which I term the modern "military peace movement." I draw on over two years of participant observation, thirty semi-structured interview…
This research explores how parents who originated from communities in Southern Sudan make meaning of their transition to being newcomer parents upon relocation to Winnipeg, Canada. Already established parents in one setting they are now continuing to be parents in a new setting.…