Thesis (Psy. D.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, 2003. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-76).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (July 11, 2006) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-156). Also available on the Internet.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on November 17, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. John Petrocik. Includes bibliographical references.

ABSTRACT INTERGENERATIONAL DISCIPLESHIP FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY Scott Michael Douglas, Ed.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2013 Chair: Dr. Brian C. Richardson The purpose of this study was to examine the leadership development of Millennial associate pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention by exploring the discipling relationship the associate has with the lead pastor. A sequential, mixed-methods line of inquiry was used in this study. The quantitative part utilized an online survey for the lead pastor and associate pastor. The online survey contained demographic questions, a thirty-item questionnaire about the associate pastor's leadership development along the Five Exemplary Practices of Kouzes and Posner, and a fifty-item questionnaire on necessary pastoral competencies. Following the quantitative analysis, five interviews were conducted with churches that displayed a high level of perceived leadership development. A significant sample size was not reached in this study, with n = 99 participating church ministry teams in the study. Despite this, several conclusions were reached. Most notably, Millennial associate pastors and Generation-X lead pastors had a significant relationship with regard to the associate pastor's perceived leadership development, but that Millennial associate pastors and Baby Boomer lead pastors shared more in common in terms of necessary pastoral competencies. The follow-up interviews explored four lines of inquiry: the competency development of the associate pastor, the dynamics of the discipling relationship, the balance between personal and professional aspects, and the generational differences on the church staff. One interview that was conducted was an anomaly, but the other four interviews shared many similar qualities. The lead pastor and associate pastors shared a strong friendship, they were committed to not only ministry success but also to the pursuit of Christlikeness, there was an intentionality on the part of the lead pastor to allow the associate opportunities to serve outside their specific ministry area, and the informality of the relationship did not diminish the intentionality the lead pastor had for the growth of his associate pastor.

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本論文收錄了三篇有關婚姻和代際關係的研究論文。 / 第一篇文章探討人們如何加強隱性契約。本文在理論分析中引入了情感關係生產函數和假定兒子是老年父母的主要贍養者。我們發現獲得更高的合同金額和加強合同是重男輕女的動機，孝順是為了獲得成人子女的贍養，偏愛孫子體現了祖父母希望向子女提供及時的支援來鞏固合同關係的企圖。我們的經驗分析結果表明，男孩得到更多的投資，男性兒童能激勵他們的父母向祖父母表明其孝道，而有更多兒子的人可以從父母那得到更多的轉移支付。 / 第二篇文章討論人們在不同的資訊條件下如何做出婚姻決策。我們利用同卵雙胞胎與異卵雙胞胎之間的差異來確認整個能力效應，然後利用結婚時的工資與當前工資之間能力效應的構成差異來區分能力的收入效應和能力的信號效應。我們的經驗分析結果表明：（1）第一, 在資訊不對稱的情況下，幸運地擁有高工資的人將結婚較早，而具有美好前景的人將結婚較晚；（2）考慮到能力具有不可觀測性，在資訊不對稱的情況下，能力高的人更容易被低估因而結婚晚；（3）在資訊對稱的情況下，能力高的人結婚早；（4）工資與男子的初次結婚年齡之間存在很強的關係，然而這種關係在女性樣本中很弱。 / 第三篇文章探討婚姻中的討價還價和代際之間的互動的關係。本文強調議價能力不僅影響資源配置，還會影響心理狀態。我們發現情緒效應對代際間的互動有顯著的影響。本文使用夫妻間的相對收入作為議價能力的測量，得到以下結果。非互動式支援：（1）隨著自己的議價能力的提高，人們會更多地支援自己的父母和配偶的父母；（2）隨著子女的議價能力的提高，父母會提供較少的支援給子女，而提供更多的支援給子女的配偶。互動式交流：（1）隨著議價能力的提高，人們會增加與自己的父母的互動交流；（2）議價能力和與配偶的父母的互動溝通的關係是不確定的。我們用中國成人雙胞胎的資料核對我們的理論，獲得的結果與我們的理論預期一致。 / This dissertation is composed of three essays on marriage and intergenerational relationship. / The first essay explores how people enforce implicit contracts. By introducing the production function of the emotional relationship and assuming sons are the main support forces of the elder parents, we provide several strategies to identify the motives behind son preference, filial piety, and grandson preference. Our altruism-assumption and selfishness-assumption models suggest that first, to enhance the contract value and to enforce the implicit contract are two possible motives for son preference; second, one of motives behind filial piety is to gain children’s support in old age; third, grandson preference reflects that the old intends to reinforce the implicit contract by providing increased support to the middle who is more in need of help. Using two Chinese twins datasets, we find that first, parents invest more resources on the son rather than the daughter; second, the male child can motivate his/her parents to demonstrate their filial piety to grandparents; third, individuals with sons can obtain added transfers from parents. / The second essay discusses how individuals make marriage decisions under different information situations. Using Chinese adult twins dataset, we employ the difference between identical and non-identical twins to identify the entire ability effect, and then utilize the different compositions of ability effects between wedding-time wages and current wages to distinguish ability income effect from ability revelation effect. Our empirical results suggest the following findings. First, with information asymmetry, a high-wage individual will marry early, whereas an advantageous-prospect individual will marry late. Second, given that ability is barely noticeable, individuals with high abilities are easily underestimated and generally postpone marriage with imperfect information. Third, under information symmetry, the smartest individual who has the promising future will first of all gain the favor of potential mates. Finally, a strong relationship exists between the wages and men’s age at first marriage; however, such a relationship is weak for females. / The third essay investigates the relationship between bargain within marriage and intergenerational interactions. We emphasize that bargaining power influences not only the resource distribution within marriage but also the personal psychological status. We find that the emotional effect significantly influences intergenerational interactions. Given that several significant differences between non-interactive support (e.g., transfers) and interactive communications (e.g., visitations) exist, and by using the relative incomes of partners as a measure of bargaining power, we obtain the following findings. For non-interactive support: (1) as a child’s bargaining power increases, he/she will offers more help to both parents and parents-in-law; (2) as the increase of own child’s bargaining power within marriage, parents will provide less help to their own child while more to their child’s spouse. For interactive communications: (1) the interactive conversations with parents definitely increase with own bargaining power; (2) the relationship between own bargaining power and the interactive communications with parents-in-law is ambiguous. Using Chinese adult Twins dataset, we obtain results that provide consistent evidence for our theoretical predictions. / essay one. Implicit contract commitment: the motives for son preference, filial piety, and grandson preference -- essay two. Information asymmetry, ability, and age at first marriage -- essay three. Bargain within marriage and intergenerational interactions. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Deng, Weiguang. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts also in Chinese.

Women aged 55 and older have been participating actively in the American work force and recently have been drawing increased attention from researchers in the social sciences (Ashbaugh & Fay, 1987) . This study examines the nature of service work performed by older part-time women workers and their younger women co-workers, and the relationship between the two generations in the workplace. The following research questions guided this exploratory study: Do the older women workers and their younger women co-workers report that there have been changes in the co-workers' work since the older women began working at the job site? What do the older women workers and their younger women co-workers perceive to be the emotional quality of their intergenerational interaction in the workplace? If the co-workers report that the way their work is performed in the setting has changed since the older women began working, is the intergenerational relationship influenced by the perceived change in the distribution of work?

Interviewing eighteen older parents (aged 65 and older) with two or more children for this project established support for the emotional experience of intergenerational ambivalence. Seventy-five parent-child relationships were discussed. Two major themes arose over what healthy, independently living parents feel ambivalent about in their relationships with their midlife children. The first theme focused on how parents simultaneously felt sadness and pride about the busyness of their children's lives. In some respects, parents sensed themselves left out of their children's everyday life, yet they accepted these feelings with a gratified knowledge that their children were functioning adults in society. The second theme of intergenerational ambivalence that surfaced from the interviews was the issue of respecting and negotiating boundaries around spheres of influence. Parents oscillated between positive and negative feelings and thoughts about the appropriateness of offering advice to children. Parents shared conflicted thoughts about stepping back, allowing their children to live their own lives even if they disapproved of certain aspects of it. A few parents shared situations when they felt they did interfere and overstepped their right to comment on their children's life decisions. This theme centered around four issues: financial matters, core beliefs of politics and religion, romantic partnerships, and parenting styles. This study also examined management strategies parents used to sort out and think through complex feelings and thoughts about their midlife children. A contribution this project gives to the emergence of intergenerational ambivalence as a theoretical concept of study in parent-child relations over the lifecourse is the experience of older mothers and fathers. I found no evidence parents experienced qualitatively different emotions because of their gender. Instead, the underlying experience of intergenerational ambivalence was very similar for mothers and fathers. From the results presented in this study, mixed emotions seem to be a natural and normative experience in late life. Older parents experienced ambivalence on a psychological level. Conflicting inner thoughts and mixed emotions resulted from everyday interactions and conversations with midlife children. / Graduation date: 2004

Thesis (D.Min.)--Abilene Christian University, 2007. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-101).