The present study investigated the relationship between Christianity and marital satisfaction. Thirty-eight men and thirty-two women completed the Shepherd Scale measure of Christianity which includes Christian Beliefs and Christian Walk, the Marital Satisfaction Inventory (MSI)…
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The purpose of this study was to examine issues related to post-divorce conditions (such as financial and emotional conditions, child custody, and child support payments) among Iranian immigrant women in the United States. The result of the research indicated that most of these …
Following the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the United States experienced a dramatic increase in the number of Iranians immigrating to its shores. The focus of this study is on the self-image of Iranian-American adolescents and the influence of acculturation on self-image. The mai…
The primary purpose of the present study is aimed at investigating intergenerational conflict in American and Iranian-American families. It has been assumed that immigrant Iranian parents have more frequent arguments with their American-born adolescents than American parents. Th…
This study explored how Turkish transnational families maintain intergenerational relationships. A grounded-theory approach was used to conduct and analyze in-depth qualitative interviews with 30 Turkish immigrants in the United States (U.S.). In an effort to contextualize the e…
In the present study, a theory-driven model concerning acculturation processes was proposed and tested. The main predictor variables in the model were hassles, psychological adjustment, and connectedness to family/culture. The effects of two modes of acculturation, separation an…
This dissertation analyzes the impact Jewish divorce law has on the lives of Jewish women, focusing on Canada. Jewish divorce law, which is adhered to by Orthodox Jews and many Conservative Jews, dictates that only a husband has the right to end a Jewish marriage, by granting hi…
The central argument of my dissertation is that a primary characteristic of Turkish modernity is that the domains of state, Islam, and the market, in all the multiplicities each entails, struggle for economic, social, and cultural control. Yet, they are not entirely oppositional…
This dissertation describes and analyzes the family in late antiquity. It concentrates on the western Roman Empire in the period from 350 to 500 CE. In particular, the phenomenon of Christianization is discussed. The first chapter serves as an introduction to the topic. It seeks…
This study compares American and Turkish male and female university students in terms of moral orientation (justice and care) and Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning to examine the influence of culture and gender on moral development. A total of 324 undergraduate students betwe…
In this study, the important factors on the socialization process of Turkish individuals that lead them to join terrorist organizations were identified and explained according to principles of these two theories. Differential association theory and social learning theories were …
The purpose of this study was to gather oral and visual narratives to provide a voice to rural carpet-weaving women and their children in Iran. Through narrative and photography the study provides insight into the daily lives of women and children in a small, home-based family-r…
This study examined attitudes of young Iranians in Los Angeles regarding arranged marriage and intermarriage. Specifically, the study compared the attitudes of young Muslim Iranians and young Jewish Iranians regarding interethnic and interreligious marriages and identified reaso…
This work describes how Christians in the United States came to believe that they should seek intense pleasure and freedom from guilt through sexual activity. Successive chapters explore the moral theology that obligated Catholics to orgasm; the medical writing that taught Prote…
It is a popular belief that the rearing of a retarded child is burdensome, stressful, and frustrating to family members. Studies in the United States have found that retarded children substantially alter the organization, functioning and relationships among family members. Relat…
This study examined the attitudes of young Iranian women toward traditional gender roles and compared these attitudes with their perceptions of their parents' attitudes. The first subquestion was whether any conflict between respondent's attitudes and perceived parental attitude…
Our global village has become a pluralistic society where people from different continents and countries meet, marry, and form families. These interactions have resulted in a growing number of intermarriages. People from different ethnic, social, religious, and economic backgrou…
Iran is a country with a controversial recent history. This is mainly due to the socio-political changes following the Iranians' Islamic revolution in 1979, the antagonistic relationship between Iran and the United States since that time, and eight years of war from 1980 to 1988…
Other research on conversion to Judaism has investigated who converts, why they do so, and what the outcome of conversion is in terms of religious observance, Jewish identity, ethnicity, and success in forming Jewish family life. This qualitative project focused on the "process"…
In this study, the coping efforts of Turkish couples, one of whom had Type II diabetes, were examined from a dyadic perspective. The aim was to investigate in detail the coping strategies used by the couples which served the primary function of relieving partner's stress rather …