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Diener, Marissa L.; Wright, Cheryl | Attachment security among mothers and their young children living in poverty: associations with maternal, child, and contextual characteristics | In order to extend previous research and inform intervention programs, the goal of the present study was to further understand variability in mother-child attachment security among high-risk families living in poverty. Mothers (65% Hispanic) and their young children who were in a home visitor progr... | Attachment security | 2003 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Where the contradictions meet: women and family security in Canada in the 1990s | Family and security are both contested ground in Canada in the 1990s. The family and family values are lauded sentimentally on both sides of the 49th parallel. Yet, more and more families, Canadian and American - families with children, aging couples and the working poor - are lining up at food bank... | Values; Responsibilities; Opportunities | 1993 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Work, retirement and women in later life | Research on the labour market experiences of mid-life and older women is increasing, revealing new knowledge, but also showing us how much is not yet known. Retirement remains, for the most part, a presumed life transition for men, but not necessarily for women. Despite the growing, but still small ... | Women; Retirement; Mid-life; Canada | 1995 |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Influence of participation in the national school lunch program and food insecurity on child well-being | This study examines two research questions: the child- and family-specific factors that predict food insecurity and participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the effects on school-age children of food insecurity and participating in the NSLP. Results show that factors representin... | Children's nutrition; Children's diet; Child development | 2003-03 |
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Svedin, Lina | Crisis management in Russia: overcoming institutional rigidity and resource constraints | The editors would like to express their gratitude to a number of persons and institutions for making this book on Russian crisis management possible. We are grateful for the generous financial support from the Swedish Agency for Civil Emergency Planning (?CB) which has made the CM Europe program (of... | | 2002 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Gray agendas: interest groups and public pensions in Canada, Britain, and the United States, by Henry J. Pratt | Gray Agendas, by Wayne State University's Henry J. Pratt, is an in-depth and well-structured examination of the historical development of pension policy and its impact on interest groups in three countries over the last century: Canada, Britain, and the United States. It is of interest to political... | Gray agendas; Book review; Pratt, Henry J.; United States; Canada; Great Britain | 1995 |
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Gelfand, Donna M. | Preschool assessment of attachment: construct validity in a sample of depressed and nondepressed families. | Construct validity of the newly developed Preschool Assessment of Attachment (PAA) was examined in a sample of depressed and nondepressed mothers and their preschoolers, focusing on attachment related differences in children's general caregiving environments, maternal psychosocial functioning, and c... | Preschoolers; Families; Maternal, psychosocial functioning; Mothers; Children, caregiving; Attachment | 1997-07 |
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Cline, Nicole L. | Markets of sorrow, labors of faith | The United States Constitution was written with the expectation that our government officials serve with integrity. Normative theory of public administration is grounded through the oath of office to uphold the Constitution. When people in the U. S. become victims of catastrophic events, they expect... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Zick, Cathleen D.; Srisukhumbowornchai, Sivithee | Does housework matter anymore? The shifting impact of housework on economic inequality | In recent years, American women's housework time has declined while American men's housework time has risen. We examine how these changes have affected economic inequality in America. Using time-diary data from the Time Use in Economic and Social Accounts, 1975-76 (N=1,484) and the American Time Use... | Demography; Socioeconomic status; Household duties; Female; Male; United States; Economics | 2006-09-25 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | Expressing affection and love to young children | Few people would seriously contest the proposition that children need love. The belief that children thrive on love is not universal, but in our western culture it has become the foundation for the work of educators and parents (Kagan, 1978). Yet, for all of our certainty about the principle, the p... | Expressing affection | 1980 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Challenges to health promotion among older working women | The work site, has, been a place of successful health promotion among; certain groups, most notably men in management. The potential of work site health promotion among women, particularly among' older working women, remains unexplored.. Given women's greater longevity and women's likelihood of spen... | Workers; Longevity; Aging | 1988 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Residential territories: cues to burglary vulnerability | Newman's work on defensible space and Altman's work on territoriality were used to formulate a hypothesis that certain design elements enhance or reflect residential territoriality and thereby influence burglars' target selections. Specifically, evidence on the links from real and symbolic barriers... | Burglary; Residences; Territoriality; Homes | 1985 |
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Diamond, Lisa | Psychobiological perspectives on attachment: implications for health over the lifespan | One of the most robust findings to emerge from health psychology over the past 30 years is that individuals in enduring, committed romantic relationships have longer, healthier, and happier lives than unmarried individuals (Kitigawa & Hauser, 1973; Ryff, Singer, Wing, & Love, 2001; Stack & Eshleman,... | Health Psychology; Psychobiology; Relationships; Well-being | 2004 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Family size and support of older adults in urban and rural China: current effects and future implications | China will experience rapid growth in the proportion and number of older people in its population in the near future as a consequence of an extraordinarily rapid decline in fertility over the past several decades. Total fertility rates were as high as 7.5 in the early 1950s, but have fallen to below... | Urban China; Rural China; Support; Older adults; One-child policy | 2003 |
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Diamond, Lisa | Contributions of psychophysiology to research on adult attachment: review and recommendations | Despite the increasing use of psychophysiological measures to investigate social and interpersonal phenomena, few studies of adult romantic attachment have taken advantage of this approach. In this article I argue for a biologically-specific, theory-based integration of psychophysiological measures ... | Attachment; Emotions; Physiology | 2001-10-08 |
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Svedin, Lina | Small-State crisis management: the lcelandic way | The editors would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to a number of people and institutions, which have made this volume on Icelandic crisis management possible. We would like to first of all thank all of the case writers for their pioneering research and for their Icelandic stubbornness and accep... | | 2004 |
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Li, Minqi | Chinas grain production: a decade of consecutive growth or stagnation? | Some progressive writers have argued that while China's agricultural privatization achieved short-term gains, it did so by undermining longterm production facilities such as the infrastructure and public services built in the socialist era.1 Environmental scholars have questioned the sustainability ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | A relational perspective on the development of self and emotion | Begin with two premises. First, psychological experience always implies a connection, a relationship: with another person, with cultural tools or language, or with the natural environment. Life is a network of relationships. Second, psychological experience is always dynamic and changing. The sim... | | 2001 |
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Hall, Thad; Roberts, Brian F. | Military voting and the law: procedural and technological solutions to the ballot transit problem | During the 2000 presidential election controversy in Florida, the ballots submitted by individuals living overseas-especially military voters-were seen as crucial to the election outcome as the margin of potential victory was so small that these ballots could turn the election from one candidate ... | Military, Voting; United States, elections; Absentee Ballot | 2007-01-12 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Approche sociologique feministe pour l'ettude de la fecondite. | L'essor d'une perspective feministe de la fecondite provient de plusieurs endroits et se situe a des niveaux varies. Avant d'esquisser ceux qui serviront de base aux discussions de ce chapitre, une breve histoire de ce contexte parait de mise. Il y a une vingtaine d'annees, alors que les sciences... | Fecundity; Feminist sociology | 1995 |
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Hall, Thad | Controlling democracy: the principal-agent problems in election administration | Election reform has become a major issue since the 2000 election, but little consideration has been given to the issues associated with managing them. In this article, we use principal agent theory to examine the problems associated with Election Day polling place voting. We note that Election Day v... | Election reform; Public management; Principal-Agent Theory | 2006-07-20 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | A relational perspective on the development of self and emotion | This work was funded in part by a grant to the author from the United States National Institute of Mental Health (MH48680 and MH57669). I am grateful to the following individuals for their comments on this chapter: Kari Applegate, Trevor Burnsed, Jacqueline Fogel, J'lene George, Ilse de Koeijer, ... | | 2001 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Seniors and portrayals of intra-generational and inter-generational inequality in the Globe and Mail | In this article, we examine how seniors are portrayed in the Globe and Mail. Thirty articles published in 2004 were selected and thematically analysed. Seniors were discussed in six different contexts, including family, work/retirement, community networks, scientific studies of population, social a... | | 2006 |
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Hall, Thad | Internet voting in comparative perspective: the case of Estonia | ABSTRACT Several countries have conducted Internet voting trials in binding public elections over the past decade, including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. However, Estonia-a former Soviet republic and now a full member of the European Union-has advanced the farthest in dep... | | 2009-07 |
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Li, Minqi | China: hyper-development and environmental crisis | China's spectacular economic growth has been one of the most dramatic developments in the global economy over the past quarter century. Between 1978 and 2004 the Chinese economy expanded at an annual rate of 9.4 per cent. No other large economy has ever grown so rapidly for so long in the economic h... | China; Economic growth; Environmental impacts | 2007 |
