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Work-Family Conflict and its Sustainability Implications among Married Immigrants Working in the USA

Description: Article describes how there is a paucity of research on the work and family dynamics of immigrants who arrive in the U.S. on visas. This study examined work-family conflicts and work-life support among married immigrants born abroad but currently holding permanent resident status in the U.S.
Date: October 8, 2023
Creator: Gopalan, Neena; Beutell, Nicholas J.; Grzywacz, Joseph G.; Middlemiss, Wendy; Manchiraju, Srikant & Srivastava, Sapna
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Partner: UNT College of Education

My Darling Boys: A Family at War, 1941-1947

Description: My Darling Boys is the story of a New Mexico farm family whose three sons were sent to fight in World War II. All flew combat aircraft in the Army Air Forces. In 1973 one of the boys, Oscar Allison, a B-24 top turret gunner and flight engineer, wrote a memoir of his World War II experiences. On a mission to Regensburg, Germany, his bomber, ravaged by German fighters, was shot down. He was captured and spent fifteen months in German stalag prisons. His memoir, the core of this unique book, detai… more
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Date: October 2023
Creator: Allison, Fred H.
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Educational Psychology, Special Education, and Human Development and Family Science Academic Program Review

Description: This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Educational Psychology, Special Education, and Human Development and Family Science-related resources and materials to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was generated as part of the UNT Libraries’ contributions to the university’s Academic Program Reviews, which are conducted by the Accreditation office in the Division of Planning. The UNT Libraries’ Collection Assessment Department evaluated collections… more
Date: July 28, 2023
Creator: Harker, Karen
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A Cultural and Systemic Model of Sibling Aggression and Its Impact

Description: Sibling aggression is one of the most frequently occurring forms of aggression within the family and has been associated with socioemotional problems. Guided by the cultural context perspective and family systems theory, a conceptual model depicting the direct and indirect effects of cultural orientation values, traditional gender role attitudes, parental differential treatment, and parent-child conflict on sibling aggression and psychosocial functioning (i.e., psychological distress and interp… more
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Date: July 2023
Creator: Weierbach, Gabrielle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Saving the Golden Goose: A Dual Exploration into the Organizational Culture of a Family-Owned Firm and the Impacted DIY Customer Experience

Description: This thesis investigates the influence of organizational culture on customer experience through a comprehensive study of a global supplier of home repair products. By combining organizational analysis and consumer research, this research draws on anthropological principles to explore the nuances of family governance and their effects on behavior, customer experience, and product design. The results of this study present insightful information on product perception and actionable strategies to i… more
Date: July 2023
Creator: Holland, Elizabeth Anglin
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The Association between Adult Sport, Fitness, and Recreational Physical Activity and Number and Age of Children Present in the Household: A Secondary Analysis Using NHANES

Description: Article describes how only one in three adults in the United States meets the weekly recommendation for physical activity. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between adult moderate and vigorous sport, fitness, and recreational physical activities and the number and age (0–5 and 6–17) of children in their household.
Date: May 24, 2023
Creator: Johnson, Jerraco L.; Coleman, Ailton; Kwarteng, Jamila L.; Holmes, Ahondju U.; Kermah, Dulcie; Bruce, Marino A. et al.
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Partner: UNT College of Education

Saving the Byrds: Reshaping Digitization Workflows for Photographic Materials

Description: Presentation detailing the customized workflow established for the creation of the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection in the UNT Digital Library, as well as the unique problems and solutions that arose throughout the course of the project. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 18, 2023
Creator: Ekberg, Samantha
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Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

"Mexican Goodbye"

Description: Mexican Goodbye is a collection of poetry that interrogates the dichotomy of a family fractured in conjunction with a speaker's coming of age. The collection reckons with divorce and the subsequent dissolution of the speaker's Mexican American family. Individual poems deal with sisterhood, daughterhood, Chicanismo, grief, the intergenerational impact of the immigrant experience, and inherited trauma. The titular poem illustrates the typical Mexican goodbye, a Latine despedida which can last hou… more
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Date: May 2023
Creator: Hernandez, Xaviera
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Testing Family Functioning and Psychosis Risk Across Race and Ethnicity

Description: Family functioning has long been a focus of research in psychopathology. Decades of research has shown that family factors are associated with symptom severity, relapse, functional outcomes, and conversion to psychosis among at-risk individuals. Previous studies suggest family functioning varies across cultures, which raises the possibility that associations between family factors and psychopathology may also differ by culture. Furthermore, family functioning assessment generally involves instr… more
Date: May 2023
Creator: Su, Charlie C.
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Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Make Better Parents? A Qualitative Exploration of Parents' Experiences during an Historic Period

Description: Predicated on the literature, parenting practices are subject to change following high-impact events. This understandably applies to the COVID-19 pandemic, a calamity of sheer magnitude. Despite the presence of maladaptive parenting behaviors in the pandemic, upsides (e.g., compassionate parenting practices, strengthened child-parent bond) did transpire as well. The present study is focused on whether and how parental betterment occurred and unfolded during the pandemic. The explicit research g… more
Date: December 2022
Creator: Xiao, He
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Using Gottman's Sound Relationship House Scales to Assess the Impact of Safe Conversations Workshops

Description: This study replicated components from Babcock et al. (2013) by examining an Imago-based Safe Conversations (SC) workshop using Gottman's psychometrically established instruments for couple functioning. Participants were 28 married heterosexual couples (N = 56) with a mean age of 27.30 years (SD = 10.16), 89.3% non-Hispanic, 78.6% Black or African-American, 85.7% first time married, 75% with at least a bachelor's degree, and a median household income in the $100,000-150,000 range. Couples indepe… more
Date: December 2022
Creator: Eaglin, Benlon V.
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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[TBAAL - Rick Smiley prank call: catering _12]

Description: Audio from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The audio is of a prank call from the Rick Smiley radio show to a catering company regarding the menu for a family reunion. By the end of the call, three seperate voices have joined the call in an argument over "shrimp lollipops" and the recipient of the call disconnects.
Date: June 24, 2022
Duration: 3 minutes 11 seconds
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[TBAAL: Deep Kho - Kho album audio recording]

Description: Audio from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The audio is an album recording of Deep Kho Kho, a Frisco based artist and poet. "Deep" is an acronym for "Direct Explicit Erotic Passionate." The album contains sixteen clips of songs and spoken word poetry related to artist's experiences in self-love, self-expression and romance as an African-American woman. Her words speak to staying motivated to push forward in life, regardless of circumstances.
Date: June 23, 2022
Duration: 45 minutes 46 seconds
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Artificial Intelligence at Home: Alexa, Are You Influencing My Family?

Description: The purpose of this research is to measure the social shifts that take place in a home where artificial intelligent (AI) devices like Echo Dot and Google Home are fully integrated into their everyday life. Research is currently limited, being that the widespread use of these devices is roughly seven years old. Three main outcomes of this study were related to how often Alexa is being used in homes to solve everyday problems, the lack of overall privacy and security concerns users had, and the l… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Ra'oof, Jameelah
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Engineering Whole Cell-Based Biosensors for Heavy Metal Detection Using Metalloregulatory Transcriptional Repressors of the SmtB/ArsR Family

Description: This study focuses on engineering whole cell-based biosensors for heavy metal detection. Through the exploitation of metalloregulatory proteins, fabrication of metal ion-responsive biosensors is achieved. Metalloregulatory proteins of the SmtB/ArsR family including arsenite-responsive ArsR, cadmium-responsive CadC, zinc-responsive CzrA, and nickel-responsive NmtR were evaluated as biosensor sensing modules. Characterization of these four metal sensing modules was accomplished through quantifica… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Draeger, Alison
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Exploring the Narrative and Family Identity Constructions of Adult Children with Visible Disabilities

Description: Using communicated narrative sense-making model and discourse-dependence, the present study examined the retrospective narratives parents told their adult children with visible disabilities in order for them to make sense of their disabilities in their families and to build personal identity. Eleven participants ages 18 to 30 with visible disabilities participated in the study and told retrospective narratives while also relying on internal boundary management strategies to communicate in the f… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Lyssy, Kendal
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Identified with Texas: the Lives of Governor Elisha Marshall Pease and Lucadia Niles Pease

Description: Identified with Texas is the first published biography of Texas Governor Elisha Marshall Pease (1812-1883), presented by historian Elizabeth Whitlow as a dual biography of Pease and his wife, Lucadia Niles Pease (1813-1905). Pease volunteered to fight in the first battle of the Revolution at Gonzales, and he served with the Texan Army at the Siege of Bexar. Pease served in the first three state legislatures after Texas joined the Union in 1845, was elected governor in 1853 and re-elected in 185… more
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Date: March 2022
Creator: Whitlow, Elizabeth
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Gender Role Beliefs, Adult Attachment, and Parenting Competence: An Exploratory Analysis

Description: Research suggests that adult attachment is associated with various social roles, such as parenting, with insecure attachment patterns corresponding to lower levels of parenting competence. An increasing amount of research suggests that attachment patterns and social roles are interwoven with gender role beliefs. With family systems theory as an overarching framework, the current study extends the literature by examining dyadic associations between these variables in a sample of 61 cohabitating… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Oosterhouse, Kendra K.
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Increasing Mother and Child Safety: Social Factors Influencing Help Seeking Behaviors amongst Child Welfare-Involved Women Experiencing Family Violence

Description: The purpose of this study is to determine social factors that influence help seeking behaviors by mothers who are concurrently involved in two social service systems: Child Protective Services (CPS) and family violence advocacy programs. Through the application of the behavioral model (of service use) for vulnerable populations, this study seeks to determine predisposing, enabling and need characteristics that impact help seeking behaviors at a family violence agency after participation in an … more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Baker, Cassidy A.
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Lived Experiences of Families of University Students Amid a Pandemic Response

Description: This study explores students' and their families' experiences during the pandemic response to COVID-19 by the higher education community. Using the hermeneutic phenomenological approach, we employed two open-ended surveys and semi-structured interviews of 16 parent-college student dyads (N = 34). The study draws on students' and parents' retrospective accounts beginning Spring 2020 through the Fall 2020 semesters. Families experienced a disruptive event initialized by the ebb and flow of inform… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Eide, Shaun
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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