• Chronic illness and sibling relationships in childhood: associations among parentification, differential treatment, and communication 

  Cox, Amanda (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Using a retrospective survey design, adults who were raised with a chronically ill sibling were asked to report on levels of parentification, differential parenting, and communication/disclosure of the chronic illness ...
• Why are we "friends" online with our face-to-face antipathies? 

  Green, Tiffany (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  This study explored the reasons why emerging adults remain friends online with their face-to-face antipathy. Even further, this study explored to what degree these individuals were interacting with and lurking on their ...
• Do altruistic acts in emerging adults translate to a willingness to forgive? 

  Peters, Candace S. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  Forgiveness is linked with a host of benefits for the forgiver and is an important predictor of well-being; therefore, it is important to understand what predicts an individual’s willingness to forgive others, especially ...
• Adult children caregivers of parents with Alzheimer’s Dementia 

  Meyer, Grace Helen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  Dementia is a neurological disease that affects cognitive functioning. Those who suffer from dementia lose their cognitive abilities and the ability to care for themselves, and as the disease progresses, they often require ...
• Does group membership affect children's judgments of social transgressions? 

  Chapman, Melissa (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  Children judge moral transgressions as more serious and more punish-worthy than conventional transgressions (Slomkowski & Killen, 1992; Smetana, 1981). Children also judge the actions of in-group members more favorably ...
• What not to swear: how do children learn bad words? 

  Savage, Shakira Desiree (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  Children begin producing taboo words as early as ages one or two years old and produce them at a steady rate until the teenage years. However, little is known about how children acquire taboo words and whether the acquisition ...
• College students and their relationships with parents 

  Bruchas, Emily Therese (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  This study identified college age emerging adults’ perceptions of their parents’ parenting as it relates to three constructs of parenting and how those constructs related to the emerging adults’ psychological well-being ...
• Differences in affect through medical play 

  Davis, Fairfax (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  Child life specialists use play as a central mechanism to teach and communicate with their patients. Play allows children to learn, engage in their surroundings, and express themselves. A variety of types of play, including ...
• The development of young children's emotion regulation and their mothers' coping strategies 

  Schaefers, Kelly Wilson (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  This study sought to establish correlations between maternal emotion regulation strategies and children’s emotion regulation understanding. Ninety-seven children three-to-six years old, together with their mothers, ...
• Children's evaluations of moral and conventional retaliations 

  Williams, Laurie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  Recent research has found that children are able to effectively interpret and justify situations of moral provocation and retaliation and that their disapproval of provocation increases with age (Astor, 1994; Smetana, ...
• Child life iPad distraction: a psychosocial tool for children receiving an injection 

  Atencio, Stephanie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  Distraction is a common and effective type of nonpharmacological intervention that offers support to children during medical procedures. Distraction helps children shift their attention away from a procedure to something ...
• Exploring contexts that facilitate optimal infant and toddler verbal and non-verbal communication 

  Gunn, Lindy (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  Associations were examined between amount and type of communicative behavior and several contexts: child's age, communication partner (e.g., adult, peer), communication style (i.e., adult- or child-directed), and temperament. ...
• Does father warmth/involvement predict intergenerational teenage pregnancy and adolescent risky sexual behavior? 

  Carter, Vanessa Christine (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

  Previous studies highlight many disadvantages for adolescent mothers who experience an early pregnancy. Among these disadvantages is the high probability of single-parenthood and the likelihood that their children may ...
• Maternal attitudes and values about corporal punishment 

  Wilson, Brooke Latham (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

  This study identified the attitudes and values about corporal punishment held by mothers of children aged 12 months to 5 years, as they are related to the normative and situational context. Participants in the study were ...
• Using music to facilitate infant word learning 

  Granger, Jessica Anise Marian (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

  Previous studies on infant word-object learning suggest that infants as young as 6-months of age are capable of learning word-object relationships when labeled by their mother (Matayaho & Gogate, 2008). Yet, the unexplored ...
• Literacy and dramatic play: storytelling with props increases preschool children's language skills during play 

  Barton, Kelly (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

  Literacy and play are two of the greatest influences to children's social and cognitive growth. To examine how literacy influences play, research on the impact of children's literature on dramatic play is reviewed followed ...
• Preschool teachers' beliefs about classroom practices and how preschool students learn 

  Lutonsky, Rebecca Rose (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

  The researcher in this study investigated how preschool teachers' beliefs about teaching practice, children, and discipline and behavior management related to the preschool teachers' level of education, type of teaching ...
• Neighborhood and school contextual factors: longitudinal outcomes in a high-poverty adolescent population 

  Hitchcock, Shannon Marie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

  Research framed by Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, suggests that neighborhood and school contextual factors greatly influence adolescent outcomes. While this research examines the multiple contexts that impact ...
• Impact of experience, education, professional development and perception of teaching on the endorsement of developmentally appropriate practices 

  Simpson, Alissa (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

  Developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) help to promote high quality child care environment. The likelihood that an early child care teacher or educator practices (DAP) may be impacted by a wide variety of factors ...
• In whom we trust: factors that influence university student 

  Sudduth, Melissa Dawn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

  This paper explores the sources of parenting help and child growth and development information for parents who are also college students. Student parents' levels of hope in relationship to their likelihood to accept help ...

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