PROBLEM: The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between Parenting Stress and a selected set of predictor variables among parents of children and youth, from birth to 17 years, attending Indonesian churches in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The selected predicto…
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The purpose of this study was to assess the counseling and guidance needs of middle school students of Niger as perceived by policy makers, administrators, teachers, students, and parents. It also assessed the areas of counseling and guidance that were most beneficial and necess…
The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of Arab American parents in a Michigan high school on multicultural education in the Detroit Metropolitan area. Arab American parents were both foreign-born and born in the United States with students in 9th, 10 th, 11th, and …
As the percentage of students opting for nonpublic schooling increased in the nineties, private sector choices have diversified, with schools as distinctly different as Afro-centric, Waldorf, Jewish, Muslim, and varieties of Christian schools. Much of the early research in how p…
The study was a secondary analysis of 56 qualitative interview transcripts of 7 African immigrant families from Ethiopia, Nigeria and Congo with the purpose of exploring their childcare experiences. Using data from the Minnesota Child Care Partnership Research Project, a natural…
Many benefits can be realized from physical education programs in both middle and secondary education. Physical education programs are not recognized for their values in schools in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The opinions of teachers and administrators concerning physical ed…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes and behavior of Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Jewish parents in regards to physical punishment of children Specifically, it assessed attitudinal and behavioral differences among these three groups of parents. A 35 i…
As parent researcher and in light of perceived failings of studies found in the literature this research explores the experiences of parents who have a baby described as having a learning difficulty by employing an alternative broad methodology underpinned by ‘critical hermeneut…
It is widely recognised that parents play an important role in children’s emotional and intellectual development, including their success at school. Recently, there has been a growing awareness of the potential of parents to support and enhance children’s English foreign languag…
This thesis examines the powerful appeals to psychology that are made in contemporary popular debate in Britain about parents. It focuses on the political implications of psychological discourse and the knowledge claims on which it rests. Using feminist and discourse theory, it …
The focus of this study is the consumer behaviour habits of adults giving of toys to children aged 11 and under as gifts. It is borne out of a need to understand why adults buy gifts for children adding to the issues on consumption practices and materialism. It begins by discuss…
This thesis considers parental psychological well-being and the acceptability of parenting support for those who have an adolescent with type one diabetes (T1D). Within the literature it is acknowledged that T1D diagnosis and management can have an effect on all family members. …
Background This thesis addresses the topic of parental bereavement, using a multi-method approach. It aims to add to knowledge about the phenomenon of parental bereavement, outcomes for bereaved parents following the loss of their child, and factors associated with these outcome…
This inquiry investigated the relationship of selected Head Start teaching staff and newcomer immigrant Bangladeshi parents. A second, equally important, goal was to ascertain Head Start's role in the lives of these same Bangladeshi families. The questions were answered with qua…
Recent refugees arriving in the United States have escaped political and social oppression in countries such as Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Iraqi Kurdistan, Laos, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, and Liberia. Drastic changes occur in the lives of individuals who flee their homes to a new count…
This project examined how parents can protect their college-aged daughters from the development of disordered eating and body dissatisfaction. It was hypothesized that perceptions of parental emotional availability and acceptance in addition to low levels of critical messages ab…
Parents of children who are seriously ill become overwhelmed and distraught as they attempt to cope with the changes illness has brought into their lives. In support of their need for healing, a resource, Hope and Healing: A Spiritual Resource for Parents was compiled. The resou…
School choice is a topic that has been widely examined in the literature. One aspect of school choice that has interested researchers is what motivates parents to choose specific schools for their children. The research clearly indicates that academic considerations are the prim…
The worsening educational standard of Nigeria schools can be traced to the general social, political, and economic depression of the last 3 decades. The series of reforms that have been adopted by the government have yielded far fewer results than expected and the way forward se…