Children's perceptions of marital conflict, parent -child relations and anxiety in children: A proposed systemic model

This study tested a systemic model in which internalizing behaviors in a clinically-referred sample of children are predicted by children's perceptions of marital conflict in the context of three additional, well-researched, familial variables: parent-child relations, mother's emotional functioning, and children's perception of social support. After finding preliminary support for the model, its generalizability was tested in a combined sample of the clinically-referred group and a community-based group of elementary school children. ^ The clinical group consisted of 31 participants from a specialty clinic for children's anxiety disorders: 15 boys and 16 girls, aged 6 to 16, from both intact and divorced homes. Children's reports and mothers' reports of children's internalizing behaviors were submitted to separate analyses. Mothers' reports of children's internalizing behaviors were predicted only by mothers' emotional functioning. As hypothesized by the model, children's own reports of their internalizing behaviors were predicted significantly by children's perceptions of marital conflict. Parent-child relations, children's perception of social support, and one interaction term, children's perception of marital conflict x children's perception of parental rejection, contributed to the regression solution, while mother's emotional functioning failed to meet entry criterion. ^ The combined sample added 37 community-based children, 18 boys and 19 girls, aged 6 to 11, creating a total of 68 subjects. The model was replicated on the combined sample. ^ Findings of the study suggest child perceptions of marital conflict have a strong direct effect on child internalizing behaviors, accounting for 28% of the variance between marital conflict and child outcome in the clinical sample and 42% in the combined sample. In the past only about 10% of the variance in children's internalizing behaviors was explained by marital conflict. Importance implications are made for optimal assessment and specific treatment strategies for children and families experiencing marital conflict, especially for those at risk for anxiety disorders. ^

Corpus annotation of causal relations and their signals in English and Spanish

El estudio de las relaciones causales y su expresi��n ling����stica ha sido com��nmente estudiado desde diferentes perspectivas en los a��os recientes. Sin embargo, pocos estudios han intentado combinar diferentes enfoques para establecer el significado de estas relaciones, y han investigado de manera contrastiva las se��ales usadas para expresarlas. Este trabajo de fin de master es un proyecto para avanzar el conocimiento en este ��rea mediante la investigaci��n de: a) la posibilidad de caracterizar las relaciones causales en diferentes tipos, usando caracter��sticas que combinan un enfoque funcional y cognitivo; b) los tipos de relaciones causales preferidas en los textos expositivos en ingl��s y sus traducciones al espa��ol; c) las expresiones ling����sticas preferidas para expresar dichas relaciones causales en los textos originales en ingl��s y sus traducciones al espa��ol. La metodolog��a usada en esta investigaci��n se basa en la anotaci��n manual de un corpus biling��e compuesto de un total de 37 textos expositivos (incluyendo los textos originales en ingl��s y sus traducciones al espa��ol) extra��dos del corpus MULTINOT, un corpus de alta calidad, con registros diversificados y multifuncional biling��e ingl��sespa��ol, actualmente compilado y anotado multidimensionalmente por los miembros del grupo de investigaci��n FUNCAP con el proyecto MULTINOT (v��ase Lavid et al.2015) El estudio se llev�� a cabo en cuatro pasos principales: primero, un esquema de anotaci��n para las relaciones causales en ingl��s y espa��ol fue dise��ado constando de tres sistemas interrelacionados y sus correspondientes caracter��sticas; tras ello, se compil�� un inventario de se��ales para las relaciones causales en ingl��s y espa��ol, y una categorizaci��n en diferentes tipos; seguidamente, el esquema de anotaci��n fue implementado en la herramienta UAM Corpus Tool y el conjunto de textos biling��es fue anotado por el autor de este estudio; finalmente, los datos extra��dos de la anotaci��n fueron analizados estad��sticamente para comprobar las posibles diferencias entre los textos originales en ingl��s y sus traducciones al espa��ol respecto a la selecci��n del tipo de relaci��n de causa y sus se��ales. El an��lisis estad��stico de los datos anotados sugiere que los tipos de relaciones de causa preferidos en los textos originales en ingl��s y son los tipos de contenido y no volitivos, que el orden de aparici��n de estos tipos de se��ales preferido es la segunda posici��n, y las se��ales m��s recurrentes usadas para expresar dichas relaciones son las conjunciones, seguidas de los sintagmas verbales. El an��lisis de las traducciones al espa��ol revela un alto grado de similitud con los datos de los textos originales en ingl��s, lo que sugiere que en las traducciones al espa��ol se conservan las preferencias de los textos originales en la mayor��a de los casos y que estas elecciones pueden considerarse un indicativo de los textos expositivos en ingl��s. Proyectos futuros se centraran en el an��lisis de los textos originales en espa��ol para comprobar si las tendencias observadas en los textos originales en ingl��s y sus traducciones al espa��ol son tambi��n validas en textos originales en espa��ol, y en la especificaci��n de patrones que puede ayudar al an��lisis autom��tico de estas relaciones

The Crisis in the UK's High Streets: can the evening and night-time economy help?

Changes in retailing over the last half century have had a detrimental effect on the UK���s local high streets. The recession of 2008-2012 exacerbated these trends leading to a high number of vacancies and neglected properties. The impact was sufficiently severe for the term ���crisis��� to be used in connection with the British high street. In the academic and commercial reports generated by the recognition that the high street needed to adapt to changing circumstances, a view emerged that the leisure component of high street activity would gain in importance. This article reviews the relationship of the evening and nighttime economy to the high street and considers its potential in reinventing the vitality that is normally associated with these mixed-use urban corridors. The article argues that there is hope in the high street offering a different type of experience to the mainstream forms of entertainment that are consolidating in major town and city centres. It concludes by suggesting that for this to be successful, some public support is necessary.

Select Document: Sir George Radcliffe���s ���Original of Government��� (1639) and Absolutist Political Theory in Stuart Ireland

A seventeenth-century manuscript miscellany, which once belonged to Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh, contains a short treatise on the origins of government by Sir George Radcliffe. Radcliffe was legal assistant to Sir Thomas Wentworth, lord deputy of Ireland (from January 1640 earl of Strafford and lord lieutenant). The treatise insisted on the divine origin of all human political power and implied that the best form of government was absolute monarchy, in which the monarch was free of all human law and subject to divine restraint alone. It will be suggested below that the composition of this treatise can be dated to the summer of 1639. This introduction will offer an outline of Radcliffe���s education and political career, explain the genesis of his treatise on government, point out some pertinent aspects of its argument, and finally assess the document���s significance.

The vertical dimension of social relations and accurate interpersonal perception: A meta-analysis

There is little consensus regarding how verticality (social power, dominance, and status) is related to accurate interpersonal perception. The relation could be either positive or negative, and there could be many causal processes at play. The present article discusses the theoretical possibilities and presents a meta-analysis of this question. In studies using a standard test of interpersonal accuracy, higher socioeconomic status (SES) predicted higher accuracy defined as accurate inference about the meanings of cues; also, higher experimentally manipulated vertical position predicted higher accuracy defined as accurate recall of others��� words. In addition, although personality dominance did not predict accurate inference overall, the type of personality dominance did, such that empathic/responsible dominance had a positive relation and egoistic/aggressive dominance had a negative relation to accuracy. In studies involving live interaction, higher experimentally manipulated vertical position produced lower accuracy defined as accurate inference about cues; however, methodological problems place this result in doubt.

Ageing and Imperial Mobility in the British Novel, 1845���1945

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08

Die Interdependenz zwischen Europa und seinen Energielieferl��ndern im historischen Kontext

von Alexander Smith

Every picture tells a story: using selfie-inspired activities to enhance social relations and encourage self-reflexivity.

This chapter explores the results of a study in Thailand that capitalised on the popularity of the selfie, providing second-year English language students with an opportunity to practise their oral presentation and speaking skills. The selfie was used not in the usual sense of online picture-sharing, but as a visual aid in a face-to-face interaction, thus serving as a ���currency for social interaction��� (van Dijck 2008, p.62) and communication device (Saltz, 2014). Mining the rich insights gained from the Thai study, this chapter presents another selfie-inspired activity adapted for a different context and purpose at a UK university. Initially designed to facilitate recall of students��� names linked with faces, the initiative evolved into an effective conversation starter. It is suggested that both selfie-inspired initiatives have led to serendipitous results, such as encouraging self-reflexivity among the students and promoting the development of ���rapid intimacy��� in the classroom (Victoria 2011, p.72). Indeed, creating a space for students to share their personal stories and enact different identities can help enrich the learning and teaching experience. This chapter also demonstrates how aspects of visual methodologies can be employed as a resource for theorising visual data, such as the selfie, for classroom application.

Calculable lepton masses, seesaw relations, and four neutrino mixings in a 3-3-1 model with an extra U(1) symmetry

We propose a scheme in which the masses of the heavier leptons obey seesaw type relations. The light lepton masses, except the electron and the electron neutrino ones, are generated by one loop level radiative corrections. We work in a version of the 3-3-1 electroweak model that predicts singlets (charged and neutral) of heavy leptons beyond the known ones. An extra U(1)(Omega) symmetry is introduced in order to avoid the light leptons getting masses at the tree level. The electron mass induces an explicit symmetry breaking at U(1)(Omega). We discuss also the mixing matrix among four neutrinos. The new energy scale required is not higher than a few TeV.