In this dissertation I evaluate the family support for the elderly in the aging developing countries. I argue that well-being of the elderly cannot be ensured by the family alone for two reasons: the burden will increase in the future and elderly are not necessarily taken of wel…
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This research investigated cultural and social factors that influenced or allowed Saudi women to become leaders. It also examined those values that are synchronous with cultural and social factors that improved their access to leadership opportunities. An understanding of the fa…
Family support for the South Asian elderly is usually considered to be given automatically to all, without taking into consideration the available resources of the elder, or their gender and marital status. These assumptions are problematic because they do not accord agency to t…
The purpose of this study was to understand the role that self-concept, peer support, and family support play in relation to openness to secular knowledge among American Modern Orthodox Jewish high school students studying for the year in Israel. The change in openness to secula…
Early adulthood is a time when young adults struggle with accepting or rejecting their ancestral roots as they attempt to develop a positive sense of self. Nigerian-American adults, in particular, struggle with the integration of immensely different elements of Eastern and Weste…
We know little about how transgender adolescents and their parents perceive and experience transgender adolescents’ gender identity development, minority stress, and the parent-adolescent stress (hereafter referred to as dyadic stress), and parent support factors related to adol…
Each year hundreds of thousands of ex-offenders are released from U.S. jails and prisons to return to their communities. After release, ex-offenders’ families can play a critical role in helping their loved ones re-adjust to life outside of prison as well as meet the terms of th…