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Goal Congruity within Copreneurial Partners: An Exploration of Family Business Continuance
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This study utilized data from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business
Survey to explore goal processes of 320 copreneurial and noncopreneurial family business
households. Ecological systems theory (Deacon ...
How Partnered Gay Men Do Relationships: Negotiating the Tensions Between Hetero- and Homonormativity
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This study explored partnered gay men’s experiences of negotiating heteronormativity and homonormativity in their relationships. Twenty-six men involved in a current or past, gay intimate partner relationships participated ...
Parenting a Gender Nonconforming Child: Implications for Therapy
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Parents who are raising children who do not conform to societal gender norms are in need of support and advocacy, as they are not receiving enough in the current social climate. The focus of this single case study is on a ...
CFT Faculty: Self-Assessment of LGB-Affirming Stances and Programs
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that Couple and Family Therapy (CFT) faculty were using to identify the extent to which their program was LGB-affirmative. The sample for this study included 71 ...
Experience Needed: Recruitment of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients in Coamfte-Accredited Training Programs
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This study explored the efforts that faculty at accredited Couple and Family Therapy
(CFT) training programs made to recruit lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) clients, and to what
extent these reflected the LGB-affirmative ...
Transgender Couples' Beliefs and Experiences of Couple and Family Therapy
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The purpose of this study was to explore transgender couples’ beliefs and experiences of couple and family therapy. This study utilized a secondary data set of interviews from seven transgender participants and three ...
Parents’ Impact on Pregender Children’s Toy Preferences
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Societal messages of what it means to be a boy or a girl influence children at an early age, shaping their developing identities into adulthood. Parents, for example, offer children toys and other objects that are ...
Mothers and Fathers, Churches and Schools: Formal and Informal Sources of Sexual Information as They Relate to Emerging Adult Women’s Safe Sex Practices and Sexual-esteem
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This study sought to explore which individuals and institutions 455 emerging adult women recalled as having provided them with sexual information. Independent-samples t tests were run to explore how these sources of ...
Assessing Child Care Standards and Rates of Expulsion for Problem Behaviors in Preschool Children
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Quality in child care programs has been studied often and researchers search to find correlations between quality measures and positive child outcomes. Some studies also show that problem behaviors result in large numbers ...
Connections between Parental Eating Behaviors and Adolescents’ Disordered Eating Attitudes and Behaviors Optimal Parenting Style as a Mediator
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
An optimal parenting style consists of high warmth and low overprotection, and can influence the development of adolescents’ eating attitudes and behaviors. Evidence suggests that parental eating behaviors influence their ...