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Direct linkMunn, Karleton Jermaine – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to understand the college transition processes of single mothers attending a 4-year public university. Using a constructivist epistemological paradigm, I employed grounded theory methods to explore how participants interpreted their transition to and through college. Specifically, I aimed to understand the transition…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Mothers, College Attendance, College Students
Peer reviewedMyers, Phillipa; Riveros, Gus; Duggal, Abhilasha – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2020
Peoples of Latin American origin are one of the fastest growing communities in Canada, yet little is known about their experiences in Canadian schools. This exploratory case study examines the articulations of agency by mothers of Colombian origin as they transition their children into Southwestern Ontario urban schools. Focus group and follow-up…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Latin Americans, Case Studies, Mothers
Kersten-Alvarez, Laura E.; Hosman, Clemens M. H.; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne; van Doesum, Karin T. M.; Smeekens, Sanny; Hoefnagels, Cees – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2012
Previous studies of the long-term effects of maternal postpartum depression (PPD) on child development have mostly focused on a limited set of outcomes, and have often not controlled for risk factors associated with maternal depression. The present study compared children of postpartum depressed mothers (n = 29) with children from a community…
Descriptors: Mothers, Risk, Student Adjustment, Depression (Psychology)
Gniewosz, Burkhard; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Noack, Peter – Social Development, 2012
This study focuses on processes involved in students' academic self-concept constructions before, during, and after secondary school transition. The study is based on a four-wave longitudinal dataset (N = 1953). Structural equation modeling showed that during school transition, the impact of grades on students' academic self-concepts in Math and…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Self Concept, Structural Equation Models, Student Attitudes
Toso, Blaire Willson – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study used a post-structural feminist framework to examine how the literacy and mothering discourses women encountered in a family literacy program assisted or constrained them in enacting agency. Employing a narrative approach, combined with other methodological strategies (ethnographic observations, discourse analysis of program…
Descriptors: Mothers, Discourse Analysis, Biographies, Family Literacy
Goldner, Limor; Mayseless, Ofra – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
The quality of the relationships that mentors forge with their proteges is assumed to significantly affect the success of mentoring interventions. Building on previous research, this study examined the association between relationship qualities and protege functioning. Multiple reporters (e.g., mentors, proteges and teachers) were used in a…
Descriptors: Research Design, Mentors, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries
