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Rural Adolescents' Perceptions of Alcohol Use: A Qualitative Study
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This qualitative study outlines rural adolescents' perceptions of the reasons they choose to use or not use alcohol. The social contextual factors that underlie their decisions are addressed. Twenty juniors and seniors ...
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 ...
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 ...
Relationships between Body Image and Religiosity among Emerging Adult Women
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Emerging adulthood is a time of identity exploration (Arnett, 2004), in which the areas of religiosity and sexuality may be especially impressionable (Arnett & Tanner, 2006). It is common for emerging adult women to ...
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 ...
A Study of Graduate Student Parents’ Perceptions: Barriers and Resources
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
The present study explored the perceptions of students who were both parenting and pursuing a master's or doctoral degree. Specifically, this study examined students' perceptions regarding the usefulness of resources that ...
Spiritual Diversity in Couple and Family Therapy Training: Student Perspectives
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
The current study assessed couple and family therapy (CFT) students' levels of self-reported competence working with clients from non-Christian spiritual traditions, levels of content that students reported receiving related ...
Predictors of Prosocial Behavior and Civic Involvement: Differences in Middle Aged and Older Adults
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Generativity is important for wellbeing throughout middle and late life. Therefore, it is crucial to understand what contributes to generativity during these life stages. Parenting and work are common ways middle age adults ...
Generative Fathering and Married Adult Children's View of Connectedness between their Fathers and Themselves
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This study utilized a phenomenological approach to examine adult children's views of how
their fathers connected with them as children. Participants consisted of 10 men and 12
women between the ages of 30 and 60 who were ...
An Insider Account Of Insider Witness Practices: Discovering My Chicana Identity
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This thesis is an autoethnographic study of my transformation as a result of being
involved with Insider Witness Practices (IWP). By engaging in a multi-vocal dialogue with
“Anita”, my Mexican self, and “Hyphen Ana”, my ...