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Greene, Makeda Jacqueline – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With the increase of West Indian families of African descent acculturating into new communities and cultivating spaces for their cultures and customs to flourish, there is an increased significance for continued quantitative analyses to examine the cultural patterns, values and practices that take place within the West Indian familial structures…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Resilience (Psychology)
Smith, Gerri – ProQuest LLC, 2011
College retention rates are a growing problem for many universities. Previous researchers focused on the inconsistencies between high school exit exams and college entrance exams, marginalized groups, and students with disabilities. However, a gap remains in the current literature regarding other external variables that may affect college…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Questionnaires, Emotional Adjustment, Social Change
Esther S. Chavez – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The observation of leadership development has focused primarily on adult populations. Few studies have investigated leadership development in adolescents. Parenting style effects on the development of adolescent socialization have been widely studied. These studies have consistently found direct relationships between parenting behaviors and…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Adolescents, Leadership, Parent Child Relationship
Nordstrom, Donna E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to address the gap in the current literature on community college students in basic math courses by examining motivational, parental and cultural factors as predictors of achievement and persistence of students enrolled in basic skills mathematics courses at a community college. More specifically, this study…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Mathematics, Two Year College Students, Parent Influence
Moorman, Elizabeth A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This research examined the role of mothers' incremental versus entity ability mindsets in the quality of their involvement in children's learning. Mothers (N = 81) of early elementary school children (mean age = 7.65 years) were given either an incremental or entity mindset. Mothers' unconstructive (i.e., performance-oriented teaching, control,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation
Robinson, Kimberly Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Problematic drinking in college students is a serious public health problem. Although parental influence wanes during the college years, research suggests that parental behaviors in high school, including monitoring, alcohol-specific control (i.e., rules or communication), and problematic modeling of drinking, continue to predict their children's…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Self Efficacy, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse
Edwards, Nicole Megan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Guided by Bioecological Systems Theory and Schema Theory, I investigated mothers' perceptions regarding the emotional development of their preschool children. Researchers acknowledge mothers' contributing role in influencing children's behavioral displays of emotion, but there is a dearth in the literature on mothers. emotion-related behaviors,…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Mothers, Disadvantaged, Child Rearing