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Item Aging in Urban Communities, Neighborhood Senior Attachment and Youth Offending: New Roles and New Goals(2012-03-16) Hobson-Prater, Tara L.; Leech, Tamara G. J.; Pike, Lynn M.; Chumbler, Neale R.Relationships among neighbors contribute to the well-being and outcomes of all who live within a neighborhood. Existing literature provides us with a wealth of information on individual seniors’ isolation but does not seem to consider how neighborhood factors add to the attachment of seniors. Given the increasing number of seniors in our society who have the ability to remain living in their neighborhoods as they age, this study focuses on understanding neighborhood attachment to seniors living in the community. Furthermore, emphasis was placed on the potential impact that senior attachment could have on youth as one subset life stage who reside in a neighborhood. This thesis describes the characteristics of neighborhoods that foster low, normal, and high levels of senior attachment in urban areas and explores the relationship this attachment has to neighborhood youth outcomes. This research opens the door for other scholars to begin to place greater emphasis on the understanding of neighborhood dynamics, intergenerational ties to seniors, and the well being of residents across the life course.Item Established multicultural families' work and life : the impact of employment and perceived Korean husbands' practical support on migrant wives' life satisfaction(2018-05-07) Son, Hyemin; Adamek, Margaret E.; Kim, Hea-won; Gentle-Genitty, Carolyn S.; Pike, Lynn M.As multicultural families become more established in Korea, researchers have paid increasing attention to enhancing the families’ quality of life. The number of multicultural families was only 619 in 1990 but jumped to 750,000 as of 2013. It is projected that the multicultural families will be accounted for 5 % of the total population, which is the enormously conspicuous number given that Korean society had been a homogeneous society for a long time. While several Korean studies have examined acculturation process of immigrants, there is little understanding of multicultural families’ work and family life. The purpose of this study is to investigate migrant women’s later stage of adaptation by measuring their subjective perception of life satisfaction focusing on two key factors: migrant wives’ employment and perceived practical support from Korean husbands. Using data from the 2012 National Survey on Multicultural Families, a nationwide survey implemented in Korea, the hierarchical regression model of migrant wives’ life satisfaction was conducted with the following set of predictors: demographics, social-relationship factors, and employment and perceived practical support from Korean husbands in household labor and child-caring. Study results found that the higher levels of life satisfaction were observed among migrant wives who had higher levels of relationship satisfaction with Korean husbands (β = .414, p < .001), had more participation in community events and activities (β = .059, p < .001), and had more networks with people (β = .017, p < .001). Two main predictors also contributed to determine levels of life satisfaction. Employed migrant wives showed lower levels of life satisfaction than non-employed wives (β = -.083, p < .001). Migrant wives who had higher levels of perceived practical support from Korean husbands in child care showed higher levels of life satisfaction (β = .018, p < .001), but no impact was found in housework. For established multicultural families, findings highlight the importance of perceived practical support from Korean husbands particularly in childcare as a critical resource of support. Social work implications were discussed in order to improve established migrant wives’ life satisfaction and enhance their later stage of integration in Korean society.Item Illness representations and self-management behaviors of African American adolescents with asthma(2013-10-07) Crowder, Sharron Johnson; Hanna, Kathleen M.; Broome, Marion; Mays, Rose M.; Pike, Lynn M.; Swigonski, Nancy L.African American adolescents have inadequate self-management behaviors, particularly during middle adolescence (14-16 years of age). Inaccurate beliefs, degree of asthma impairment (well controlled or not well controlled), and gender could influence asthma self-management (symptom management, medication management, and environmental control). The researcher used the illness representations concept from the common sense self-regulation model as the framework for this study. The descriptive correlational study explored (1) differences in illness representations (cognitive and emotional) and self-management behaviors by gender, asthma impairment, and gender by asthma impairment of African American adolescents with asthma; and (2) relationships between illness representations and asthma self-management behaviors, gender, and asthma impairment in 133 African American adolescents with asthma. Data were collected using the Asthma Control Test, the Illness Perceptions Questionnaire-Revised, and the Asthma Self-Care Practice Instrument. Data were analyzed using ANOVA, MANOVA, Pearson correlations, and multiple regressions. Findings indicated that females whose asthma was not well controlled had more beliefs about the chronicity of their asthma than those who were well controlled. However, there were no differences in such beliefs among males whose asthma was not well controlled from those who were well controlled. Well controlled adolescents differed from not well controlled adolescents for cognitive representations of cyclic timeline, treatment control, psychological attributes, and consequences as well as for emotional representations. There were no significant differences in the means of the self-management behaviors by gender, by asthma impairment, or by gender by asthma impairment. A significant bivariate relationship was found between representations of identity, consequences, treatment control, and symptom management. In the multiple regression model, representations of treatment control and consequences contributed to variances in symptom management; however, no other representations, gender, or asthma impairment variables were statistically significant. The representations, gender, and asthma impairment variables did not contribute to variances in medication management or environmental control. Limited studies have been conducted with African American adolescents with asthma; therefore, the findings will contribute information to the literature on their illness representations and self-management behaviors. The findings also contribute to the literature information based on adolescents' genders and levels of asthma impairment.Item The influence of body satisfaction, weight satisfaction, and BMI on sexual behaviors among female college students(2014-02-25) Flitcraft, Jewel Marie; Hensel, Devon J.; Pike, Lynn M.; Rickert, Vaughn I., 1953-This paper describes the influence of body satisfaction, weight satisfaction, and BMI on sexual behaviors among female college students.Item A Rhetoric of Betrayal: Military Sexual Trauma and the Reported Experiences of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Women Veterans(2010-04-01T15:30:02Z) Aktepy, Sarah Louise; Gardner, Carol Brooks; Foote, Carrie E.; Pike, Lynn M.The primary objective of this pilot study was to understand the military experiences of OEF/OIF women veterans. Seven women veterans described accounts of sexual harassment and sexual assault, also known in the Veteran Health Administration (VHA) context as Military Sexual Trauma (MST). The prevalence and dialogue of MST both explicitly and implicitly throughout all the interviews justified examining MST on its own. As an alternative to tracking new cases of MST, this thesis provides an examination of the rhetoric of betrayal and suggests that objective knowledge of MST does not exist apart from such social conditions and one’s interpretations of them. Betrayal emerged as the way in which women veterans understood and made meaning of their MST experiences during the claims-making process. Women veterans incorporated strategies to manage the sexual harassment and sexual assault they experienced while in the military environment, since reporting MST was actively discouraged. Findings from this study suggest that the way we approach and understand MST as a social problem needs to be reconsidered and further examined.