Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 31-01, Section: A, page: 0494. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1969.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 31-09, Section: A, page: 4915. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1970.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 31-09, Section: A, page: 4916. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1970.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 31-09, Section: A, page: 4919. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1970.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University OF MICHIGAN.

<p> Research indicates children with disabilities benefit from therapeutic horseback riding (TR). This study examined the impact TR had on attention behaviors of five children with various developmental disabilities in a preschool classroom. Children were observed in the classroom setting twice weekly for 10 weeks on a day they participated in TR services and on a day they did not participate in TR. Single case experiments suggested there was not a significant difference in all but one child&rsquo;s sustained attention in the classroom on days children received TR services. An independent samples t-test suggested there was no significant difference in scores between riding day (<i>M</i> = 1.78, <i>SD</i> =.247) and non-riding days (<i>M</i> = 1.76, <i>SD</i> = .262); <i>t</i>(87) = -.481, <i>p</i> = .632 for the group as a whole. Further research should be conducted to determine TR&rsquo;s effect on behaviors in the classroom. </p>

The purpose of the present study was twofold; it examined midlife parents' exposure to daily child-related events as well as the daily emotional reactivity that parents experience in association with these events. The premise of the study is that children can influence the well-being of their parents and that both daily exposure and reactivity to child-related experiences differ with the age of child as well as parental gender. Two conceptual frameworks, generativity and stress theory are used to explain how children influence parents' development and well-being. The study variables included daily child-related stressful events of high and low severity, daily emotional support parents provided their children, and parents' negative mood. Data for these analyses are from the National Study of Daily Experiences. The sample for the present study consisted of parents of minor children, ages 1 to 21 (n = 214; 107 mothers, 107 fathers), and parents of adult children, ages 22 and above (n = 287; 107 mothers, 180 fathers). The findings indicated that there were no significant parent gender or child age differences in exposure to high severity stressors, but there were parent gender and child age differences in low severity stressors and emotional support. Mothers of children of all ages experience more frequent low severity daily stressors and provide more emotional support than do fathers. Parents of minor children also experience more frequent daily low severity stressors and provide more emotional support than do parents of adult children. However, parents of minor children do not experience more severe events than parents of adult children. For parents of adult children, the proportion of severe stressors to all stressors was much greater than for parents of minor children. In other words, when a parent of an adult child experiences a child-related stressor, it is more likely to be very serious than when a parent of a minor child experiences a child-related stressor. Last, in relation to parental well-being, this daily stressor study showed that low severity stressors are associated with parents' negative mood. Parent gender nor child age moderated the effects of stressors on negative mood. What this might indicate is that it is truly the persistent, mundane child-related stressors that wear a parent down. Implications of this study show that child-related stressors can also enhance parental development and well-being through opportunity for generativity.

According to feminist researchers cultural norms that dictate what females' sexual desires should look like serve to obscure the variations that actually exist within the lived experiences of women. Data from a sample of 81 females in heterosexual dating relationships were examined to investigate the links between females' sexual desires and sexual behaviors over a period of 14 days. A method of using quantitative data to produce qualitative narratives was used on a subsample of these women to identify three distinct pathways to frequent correspondence between young women's desires to engage in sexual touching and intercourse, and their reported sexual behavior on a daily basis. These pathways differed in the amount of variation in both positive and negative dyadic states exhibited by group members and the necessary conditions of inclusion for each group. In addition HLM analyses indicate that correspondence between females' sexual desires and both less intimate (hugging/cuddling and kissing) and more intimate (sexual touching and intercourse) sexual behaviors tended to predict higher levels of closeness, higher levels of positive affect and lower levels of negative affect towards one's partner on a daily basis. Furthermore, on days when females desired but did not engage in both less intimate and more intimate sexual behaviors, they reported significantly lower levels of closeness. The impact of discordance between desire and behavior differed on positive affect towards their partner, depending upon whether the behaviors were less intimate behaviors, or more intimate behaviors. Interestingly, the discrepancy between their desires and behaviors did not impact negative affect towards partner significantly. Females' daily perceptions of equality with their partner moderated several of the above relationships.

This study examined evolutionary and peer context theories of sexual coercion. Using a longitudinal design it followed university men across the 1997-98 academic year, collecting data from subjects in both the Fall and Spring semesters. Data collected during the Fall data collection addressed two competing evolutionary explanations of sexual coercion: mate deprivation and short-term mating effort. Data collected during the Spring addressed the role of peer contexts in influencing sexual coercion. Evolutionary findings were not consistent with the mate deprivation explanation of sexual coercion. Instead, findings supported the short-term mating strategy explanation of sexual coercion. Longitudinal analysis found that university men's level of short-term mating strategy as measured in the Fall predicted both pro-coercion peer contexts and partner coercion as measured in the Spring. Structural equations models of the interrelationships between time 1 short-term mating strategy, time 2 peer contexts, and time 2 partner coercion were fit to the data. The fit of these models underscored the importance of controlling for selection into peer contexts when examining the relationships between peer contexts and individuals' sexually coercive behavior. The discussion focuses on (1) considering trait-based explanations of sexual coercion and (2) the relevance of short-term mating strategy to the formation of young male peer groups.