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Grief girl : my true story
The author describes how her parents were killed in a car accident when she was a teenager, and how she, her seventeen-year-old sister and three-year-old brother were left to deal with the pain and hardship while they struggled to survive on their own.
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Gender differences in protective factors associated with educational, emotional and dual domain resilience
Adolescence has long been recognized as a time of substantial changes accompanied by both challenges and opportunities for growth. Although previous research has focused on risk factors in adolescents’ lives, researchers in recent decades have begun to investigate adolescent development through the framework of resilience. Resilience research is the study of individuals who adapt successfully despite significant threats to their development. The thrust of this research is to investigate the protective factors in the lives of at-risk individuals that increase the likelihood for more positive outcomes than would otherwise be expected. Despite growing interest in the area of resilience, there are gaps in the literature including debate regarding the operational definition of the construct and limited exploration of potential gender differences. This study addressed these gaps by examining the relationship of protective factors (i.e., family cohesion, school dynamics and involvement) with variously defined types of resilience (i.e., educational, emotional and dual domain resilience) for all adolescents, as well as separately by gender. Results using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health dataset demonstrate that there are significant differences in the levels of protective factors reported by resilient and nonresilient adolescents, as well as among adolescents meeting the criteria of various types of resilience. Both emotional and dual domain resilient adolescents reported significantly different levels of family cohesion than their nonresilient peers and educationally resilient peers. The level of school dynamics differed significantly among all types of resilience and with nonresilient adolescents. Level of involvement varied between the nonresilient group and both educationally and dual domain resilient groups. Findings indicated significant differences between genders only with regard to the protective factor of involvement within the emotionally resilience group; females reported higher levels of involvement than did males. Furthermore, there was a significant interaction of gender and emotional resilience. Neither the protective factors of family cohesion, school dynamics nor involvement significantly explained any variance. Lastly, categorization of adolescent by resilience type was explained through two significant discriminant functions and included some gender differences. Limitations and implications for future research and practice were discussed.
Dissertation
What's trending in Canadian politics? : understanding transformations in power, media, and the public sphere
\"What trends are shaping contemporary political communication and behaviour in Canada, and where are they heading? \"What's Trending in Canadian Politics?\" examines political communication and democratic governance in a digital age. Exploring the effects of conventional and emerging political communication practices in Canada, contributors investigate the uses of digital media for political communication, grassroots-driven protest, public behaviour prediction, and relationships between members of civil society and the political establishment. Original and timely, this interdisciplinary volume lays robust theoretical and methodological foundations for the study of transformative trends in Canadian political communication.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Meredith's water making us sick: residents
\"I had seven sties in five weeks, irritation all the time, weeping discharge out of both ears and the top of my eyelids are slimey, that's the nicest word to use,\" she said. \"All they said was it's not killing them. That tells me there's something in there that shouldn't be there.\" \"Barwon Water recognises the water isn't up to the standard we'd like to supply.\"
Newsletter
Hurricane's edge to slide past Bladen County
According to the National Weather Service, a tropical storm warning is in effect for the entire coast of North Carolina and there is a hurricane watch from Bogue Inlet to Oregon Inlet, North Carolina and the Pamlico Sound.
Newsletter
Region slapped with severe storms
According to the National Weather Service, dime- to quarter-sized hail was reported at about 6 p.m. and lasting about 30 minutes.
Newsletter
DAY OF PRANKS
A group backed by Buffet that put up $1 billion to anyone who picked a perfect NCAA men's basketball tournament bracket breathed a collective sigh of relief just 25 games into March Madness when Memphis beat George Washington -- which led The Associated Press to report that no perfect prognostication sheets remained.
Newsletter
Boom over Bladen remains a mystery
Ricky Leinwand, owner of Leinwand's Department Store and member of the Elizabethtown Town Council, said he had just left the afternoon session of the board's budget retreat at White Lake when the boom occurred.
Newsletter
UPDATE: Lewis, Jackson defend resignation events
According to Jackson's contract, written and put into place on Nov. 25 by a 4-2 vote, a resignation clause states: \"In the event that the Employee voluntarily resigns his position with the Employer, the Employee shall provide a minimum of 30 days notice unless the parties agree otherwise.\"
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