This dissertation is a quantitative investigation of father involvement among unmarried, non-resident fathers, and seeks to uncover the factors that keep them engaged in the parenting process over time using data from the Fragile Families and Child Well Being Study. Contrasting …
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This study examines the relative contribution of school resources on student academic achievement in Indonesian senior secondary schools. The analysis primarily focuses on the relationship between teacher and principal characteristics, instructional materials, school facilities,…
The purposes of the study were to: (1) describe male students awareness of family planning methods, (2) describe their sources of family planning information, (3) describe their knowledge of, attitude towards, and interest in vasectomy, and (4) use factor analysis and structural…
Purpose of the study. The purpose of this study was to investigate engaged males' perceptions about battered wives; about husbands who batter; and the use of different tactics to contain conflicts with fiancees, as explained by an integration of eight predictors derived from thr…
This study investigated the relationship between moral development, parental development, parental discipline, and parental education among senior college students at some Saudi universities. Also investigated were the differences between fathers' and mothers' discipline. Two hu…
The study deals with the question: how do people who experience a disability and who function well, differ in their personality traits from those who become ill under stress and show dysfunction? This question was studied in the framework of Antonovsky's Salutogenic model and ex…
This thesis examines livelihood strategies of small farmer/settler households in the context of a planned irrigation settlement scheme. The differential response of settler households to changing agricultural conditions and the process of livelihood successes and failures are ex…
Rural development is a serious problem in Bangladesh, and so is the situation of women. This thesis assesses the programmes offered by a particular non-governmental organization, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), which simultaneously promote rural development an…
This study borrows theoretical perspectives applied in studies of migrant fertility--related to migrant selectivity, life disruption, and urban adaptation--to examine urban migration-child mortality interrelationships in three West African countries--Ghana, Mali and Senegal. The…
This study investigated the perceptions of U.S. Saudi students regarding fertility and family size and attempted to answer the following questions: (1) Does a relationship exist between the fertility and family size attitudes of Saudi students and their religious backgrounds? (2…
The purpose of the research was to explore interpersonal communication between same sex dyads and the nature of friendships in Qatar. Another purpose was to investigate the relationship between self acceptance and self-disclosure and their contribution to friendship in Qatar. Si…
In recent years a new social structure has developed in Kuwait. The spread of education of members of both sexes, cultural contact with Western and Eastern worlds, and significant immigration of foreigners to Kuwait have led to a more heterogamous population, with Kuwaiti citize…
This study examines individuals' status attainment in Peninsular Malaysia, an ethnically plural society undergoing socioeconomic transformation. It focuses on the impact of sibship size, sex composition and familial socioeconomic characteristics on education; and that of schooli…
Contemporary U.S. white urban Protestant upper middle class families are contrasted with traditional non-gentry Chinese families as examples of two extremes of human action and thought patterns. It is the thesis of this dissertation that there exist specific continua in the real…
The purpose of the dissertation was to investigate parent-child relationships among first-century Christians. The first chapter was an examination of the background for understanding parent-child relationships among first-century Christians. The chapter was divided into three ma…
This study examines the significance of Tunisian women's visits: their role in maintaining kin relations, defining class and social boundaries, and providing married women in seclusion with access to resources outside of the male domain. During a one year ethnographic field stud…
This dissertation examines the articulation between work and family systems in a sample of urban families who live in a highly industrialized city of Canada. Empirically, the problem investigated deals with an analysis of the degree of differentiation and jointness in family act…
Models of collaterality derived from historical accounts of intestate law, prohibitions on marriage, and socioeconomic sources seem useful for studying the interrelationship between family and society in four European countries (Austria, Finland, Germany, and Ireland). Some kins…
The major purpose of this study was to investigate factors that may relate to method of conjugal role allocation--segregated or joint--in the areas of marital decision making, household task performance, and use of leisure time. Data were taken from anonymous mailed questionnair…