Emotion regulation (ER), the regulatory component of temperament, has important implications for emotional, behavioral, and physical health throughout the lifespan. Researchers have examined various factors, such as maternal ER functioning and parenting behaviors, that influence…
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Identity development is associated with positive functioning in youth. For Muslim-American adolescents who have to navigate the heated sociopolitical context of the U.S., positive identity development may be particularly important. However, past research has ignored the dynamic …
Previous research has demonstrated a link between PTSD symptomatology (PTSS) and parenting stress in veterans. As the literature on veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is increasing, there has been a call to identify variables which may contribute to positive outcomes i…
The present investigation is part of a larger research endeavor whose goal is to empirically study a precisely articulated definition of family stability. The “molecular” conceptualization of family stability examined by this research encompasses the patterning of daily life, su…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between adult participants' ratings of their mother's and father's parenting styles and participants' levels of nonviolence in adulthood. Utilizing Baumrind's (1971) typology of authoritarian, authoritative and permissive…
The direct and indirect links among parents' marital quality, parenting styles, and their children's adjustment when children's emotional security serve as a moderator were examined across 2 cultures: Israel and the US. 80 Israeli children and 101 American children in kindergart…
Parenting styles have often been associated with delinquency. Parenting styles that include high levels of parent-child communication, modest and complimentary amounts of control and independence (authoritative) have been associated with positive adolescent outcomes. Conversely,…
Attachment theory focuses on mother-child interaction and the notion of providing a secure base for the child. A secure attachment is the product of the mother's quality of response to a series of behaviors manifested by the infant. Today, research studies have raised doubts on …
In the United States in post 9/11 context, American mothers perform a daily struggle to both protect children from indirect experience of the war on terror and other dangers, and prepare children to enter into the social world safely and successfully. How mothers manage this eve…
This study addressed the parenting experiences of adults in Israel who have a vision impairment ranging from partial sight to total blindness. It was framed within the overarching study problem of disability and was grounded in a social model of disability that identifies disabi…
Israel is a country at war. Children in this country are born into a continual life threat and exposed to endless stress. Previous research studies regarding children who had experienced war related trauma reported that many children did not discuss their traumatic symptoms with…
The present research utilized the information-processing model of parenting to examine Turkish mothers' parenting beliefs in response to aggression and social withdrawal. Participants were 84 mothers with preschool-aged children residing in Ankara. Findings indicated that mother…
The war in Afghanistan and subsequent migration had a significant impact on the parenting abilities of Afghan families. The present study focuses on providing a deeper understanding of this impact on parenting with Afghan families living in the United States. The following theme…
The study focused on parenting stressors, needs for services and caregiving self-efficacy among 98 Kuwaiti mothers of children with mild Intellectual Developmental Disabilities from age 6 to 14. The study utilized a survey method involving mothers of children in the elementary l…
The purpose of this descriptive, qualitative study is to examine Kuwaiti parents' experiences with autism, with the goal of capturing the essence of the parents' life with individuals with autism. The research involved interviews with 11 mothers who have children diagnosed with …
This phenomenological study examined perceptions about parenting among Pentecostal Nigerian Yoruba parents who arrived in the United States within the past 20 years. The study explored the extent to which American values and the environments have affected participants' parenting…
This study examined the factors associated with children's readiness to learn at school in Turkey. Two-hundred-thirty two mother-father dyads reported on their socioeconomic status (SES), parenting beliefs and goals, child rearing practices and their perceptions of their prescho…
The number of Arab-American households has almost doubled in recent years, increasing from 268,000 in 1990 to 427,000 in 2000 (Asi & Beaulieu, 2013). This is a growing immigrant population that has not been examined thoroughly. In this dissertation, the impact of immigration on …
This dissertation project aimed to examine the meaning of social withdrawal in an inter-dependent cultural context (Turkey), its correlates, and the risk and protective factors for withdrawn children's adjustment across two consecutive studies. In Study 1, semi-structured interv…