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Factors influencing the adolescent pregnancy rate in the Greater Giyani Municipality, Limpopo Province - South Africa
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Muller, Helene, Monareng, Lydia, Mushwana, Lenny, Richter, Solina
A quantitative, descriptive and explorative survey was conducted to determine factors that influence adolescent pregnancy rate among teenage girls (n = 147) attending four high schools in the Greater Giyani Municipality in South Africa. Data was collected using a validated questionnaire which had...
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Federalism and Natural Resource Management: A Comparative Study of Intergovernmental Conflict over Oil and Gas in Canada and Nigeria
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How does federalism affect oil conflict between governments in federations? Systematic theory-driven answers to this question are scarce, both in the comparative federalism and resource curse literatures. My dissertation bridges this research gap by comparing intergovernmental conflicts over oil...
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Gender differences in adolescent anxiety symptoms: Interactions between peer experiences and individual characteristics
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Anxiety is the most common mental health concern among children and adolescents globally. Anxiety symptoms such as fears and worries increase markedly in early adolescence, particularly for girls. However, not all early adolescents experience this increase in anxiety symptoms. Guided by the...
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Spring 2021
This collection comprises a short story, a novella, and an essay in fragments which explore themes of queer love and friendship, grief, outdoor adventure, adolescence, settler colonialism, memory, and the writing process. In “How Our Calls Cross the Ocean,” the narrator mourns the death of her...
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Identity, conflict and radical coalition building: a study of grassroots organizing in Northern Ireland
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Coalitions in Northern Ireland have been organizing across the ethno-nationalist divide for decades. Yet, while empirical research has addressed challenges of, and potential for, organizing across ethnonationalism, the ways in which coalition members attend to their complex subjectivites have...
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Reframing the World. Local Communities and Multinational Corporations. The case of Cajamarca, Colombia
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This research seeks to develop our understanding of the elements that define the relationship between multinational mining corporations and local peasant communities living in areas affected by large-scale gold mining in Latin America. Previous research has focused on describing the forms this...
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Spring 2016
The symbiotic union of art creation and art-based research found a practical application in research devoted to skin modification as a new frontier of communication among contemporary adolescents. Viewed through the lens of pedagogy, art, and adulthood, the study examined youths’ motivations and...
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Stories We Live By, With, and In: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Canadian Muslim Girls and their Mothers
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Drawing upon my experiences as a Canadian Muslim woman, mother, and researcher, I engaged in a two-year multiperspectival narrative inquiry (Houle, 2012; Huber, Clandinin, & Murphy, 2011) alongside three Canadian Muslim girls and their mothers as girl co-inquirers transitioned into adolescence....
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The Influence of Parental and Peer Relationship Factors on Adolescent Internalizing Behaviour
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The present research investigated the ability of parental psychological control, as well as peer overt and relational bullying victimization, to predict adolescent internalizing problems. Specifically, it was examined whether these three variables could individually, as well as interactively,...