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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...