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Caregivers and Environments for People with Dementia
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This paper is a report of a study to investigate the perceptions of caregivers regarding the effects of environments on the independence of a family member with dementia living in the home. The majority of persons with ...
Anticipatory Guidance Provision Related to Driving Safety/Cessation for Older Drivers
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Increasing numbers of older adults continue to drive. Aging-related physical and cognitive changes can impact driving ability. Health care providers (HCPs) are ideally placed in society to provide mobility counseling to ...
Social Integration Among Older Adults: A Focus on Socio-Demographic and Health Characteristics
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Social integration is a multi-dimensional construct that is instrumental to healthy aging. The current study explores variation in older adults’ social integration based on socio-demographic variation (age, gender, education, ...
Self Perceptions of Aging: Women's Views of The Aging Process
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Society has generally taught women in a rather subliminal way they should remain
young, thin, and beautiful (Horton, Baker, Cote, & Deakin, 2008; Mock & Eibach, 2011; Stark-
Wroblewski, Edelbaum, & Bello, 2008). As the ...
North Dakota's Nurturing Parenting Programs: An Exploratory Evaluation Using Multilevel Modeling
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Parent education is a common form of tertiary prevention of child maltreatment. The Nurturing Parenting Programs (NPP) include tertiary prevention programs, and general support exists for their effectiveness. However, the ...
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 ...
Age and Gender Differences in Attitudes and Knowledge about Alzheimer's Disease
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The purpose of this study was to examine possible age and gender discrepancies in knowledge and attitudes towards individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Data were taken from a Midwestern survey study of community-dwelling ...
Confronting Prejudice: Identifying Factors of Nontarget Confrontation
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The research question for this project sought to identify factors that encouraged people to stand up to people who were discriminating against others. Seventeen students who had previously stood up against other people ...
Promoting Positive Youth Development: A Crash Course for Youth Ministers
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This paper explores the role religion can play in the Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach to youth development. The relevant literature suggests there is a missing link between youth workers in religious institutions ...
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 ...