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Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M.; Wilson, Rula M.; Naqvi, Syed Agha M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of Palestinian adults toward different dimensions of wife abuse. A cross-sectional survey, using a combination of self-administered questionnaires and interviews, was conducted among a systematic random sample of 624 adult Palestinian men and women from the West Bank and Gaza Strip (18 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Violence, Place of Residence, Marital Status
Averdijk, Margit; Malti, Tina; Eisner, Manuel; Ribeaud, Denis – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2012
This study investigated the relationship between parental separation and aggressive and internalizing behavior in a large sample of Swiss children drawn from the ongoing Zurich Project on the Social Development of Children and Youths. Parents retrospectively reported life events and problem behavior for the first 7 years of the child's life on a…
Descriptors: Divorce, Depression (Psychology), Social Development, Parent Child Relationship
Mordre, Marianne; Groholt, Berit; Knudsen, Ann Kristin; Sponheim, Eili; Mykletun, Arnstein; Myhre, Anne Margrethe – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
We followed 74 children with autistic disorder (AD) and 39 children with pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD NOS) for 17-38 years in a record linkage study. Rates of disability pension award, marital status, criminality and mortality were compared between groups. Disability pension award was the only outcome measure that…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Autism, Retirement Benefits, Followup Studies
Ellison, Christopher G.; Lee, Jinwoo – Social Indicators Research, 2010
A growing literature examines the correlates and sequelae of spiritual struggles. Particular attention has been focused on three specific types of such struggles: (a) divine, or troubled relationships with God; (b) interpersonal, or negative social encounters in religious settings; and (c) intrapsychic, or chronic religious doubting. To date,…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Interpersonal Relationship, Psychological Patterns
Nelson-Peterman, Jerusha L.; Toof, Robin; Liang, Sidney L.; Grigg-Saito, Dorcas C. – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Refugees in the United States have high rates of chronic disease. Both long-term effects of the refugee experience and adjustment to the U.S. health environment may contribute. While there is significant research on health outcomes of newly resettled refugees and long-term mental health experiences of established refugees, there is currently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Immigrants, Females
Eren, Colleen; Keeton, André – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
The impact of alcohol and substance abuse on college students' behavior has become a ripe area of focus and research. However, interest and research has primarily been focused on traditional four- year college students. Thus, the four-year college experience is taken as the default against which two-year colleges are compared. Nearly 12 million…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Behavior, Substance Abuse
Prins, Esther; Kassab, Cathy; Campbell, Kimeka – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2015
This article paints a comprehensive portrait of the demographic, financial, and educational characteristics of Pennsylvania postsecondary students who are adult learners, and identifies rural-urban differences within this group. The study analyzed data from the 2010-11 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (n = 610,925), supplemented by…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Higher Education, Student Characteristics, Demography
Baran, Medine; Maskan, Abdulkadir; Baran, Mukadder – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
The purpose of this study was to determine teachers' reasons for choosing the profession of teaching and their level of job satisfaction and to investigate the effects of certain variables on their job satisfaction. The research data were collected via a questionnaire form to determine the demographic backgrounds of the participants and a Job…
Descriptors: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Science Teachers
Wade, April Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This quantitative descriptive study identified the differences in the moral reasoning development levels between undergraduate teacher education students enrolled in methods courses and graduate teacher education students enrolled in an alternative certification education program using the Defining Issues Test-2 instrument. Based on Kohlberg's…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Abstract Reasoning, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Trent, Katherine; South, Scott J. – Social Forces, 2011
The relative numbers of women and men are changing dramatically in China, but the consequences of these imbalanced sex ratios have received little empirical attention. We merge data from the Chinese Health and Family Life Survey with community-level data from Chinese censuses to examine the relationship between cohort- and community-specific sex…
Descriptors: Females, Family Life, Foreign Countries, Males
Fuller-Thomson, Esme; Bottoms, Jennifer; Brennenstuhl, Sarah; Hurd, Marion – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
This study investigated childhood physical abuse and ulcers in a regionally representative community sample. Age, race and sex were controlled for in addition to five clusters of potentially confounding factors: adverse childhood conditions, adult socioeconomic status, current health behaviors, current stress and marital status, and history of…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Marital Status, Child Abuse, Public Health
Pilkauskas, Natasha V. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Despite the increasing prevalence of 3-generation family households (grandparent, parent, child), relatively little research has studied these households during early childhood. Using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort ("N" = ~6,550), this study investigated the associations between…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Grandparents, Parents, Longitudinal Studies
Cachioni, Meire; Nascimento Ordonez, Tiago; Lima da Silva, Thais Bento; Tavares Batistoni, Samila Sathler; Sanches Yassuda, Mônica; Caldeira Melo, Ruth; Rodrigues da Costa Domingues, Marisa Accioly; Lopes, Andrea – Educational Gerontology, 2014
The objectives were to describe the stated motives of participants who enrolled in a program at the Open University for the Elderly (UnATI, in Portuguese), identify correlations between the stated motives and sociodemographic data, and find a set of predictors related to the listed motives. A total of 306 middle-aged and elderly adults aged 50 or…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Continuing Education, Student Motivation, Open Universities
Predicting Health Care Utilization among Latinos: Health Locus of Control Beliefs or Access Factors?
De Jesus, Maria; Xiao, Chenyang – Health Education & Behavior, 2014
There are two competing research explanations to account for Latinos' underutilization of health services relative to non-Latino Whites in the United States. One hypothesis examines the impact of health locus of control (HLOC) beliefs, while the other focuses on the role of access factors on health care use. To date, the relative strength of…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Access to Health Care, Locus of Control, Beliefs
Ozgur, Hasan; Demiralay, Tülay; Demiralay, Ilkay – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
The current study investigated the relationship between problematic Internet use and levels of loneliness among 311 distance education students. "The Problematic Internet Use Scale" and "UCLA-Loneliness Scale III" were used to collect the data. Independentsamples t-test and one-way ANOVA were conducted to examine the…
Descriptors: Internet, Educational Technology, Distance Education, Psychological Patterns