The Readiness for Independent Living among Incarcerated Adolescents in Malaysia: A Conceptual Paper

This study examines the relationships between the bonding style of an incarcerated adolescent with parents and his/her current feelings of self-esteem, hopelessness, and suicidal thoughts and attempts. It also investigates differences between bonding to mother and bonding to father. Some 296 incarcerated adolescents were interviewed using the Parental Bonding Instrument. Significant relationships were found between youths' self-esteem, hopelessness, and suicidal behavior and their bonding style. Youths whose parent(s) had a parental bonding style of affectionless control reported the greatest distress, and youths whose parent(s) had an optimal bonding style reported the least distress. Differences were found between bonding styles with the mother and with the father. Attachment theory may be useful in targeting incarcerated youths who have affectionless control bonding with parent(s) for special interventions since these youths are most at risk for psychosocial problems.

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Personal Goals of Older Female Twins

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040.14.2.160 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 160-167 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Katariina Salmela-Aro ◽

Sanna Read ◽

Jari-Erik Nurmi ◽

Markku Koskenvuo ◽

Jaakko Kaprio ◽

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Keyword(s):

Physical Exercise ◽

Independent Living ◽

Environmental Effect ◽

Close Relationships ◽

Environmental Influence ◽

Genetic Effect ◽

Additive Genetic Effect ◽

Personal Goals ◽

Cultural Activities ◽

The Individual

This study examined genetic and environmental influences on older women’s personal goals by using data from the Finnish Twin Study on Aging. The interview for the personal goals was completed by 67 monozygotic (MZ) pairs and 75 dizygotic (DZ) pairs. The tetrachoric correlations for personal goals related to health and functioning, close relationships, and independent living were higher in MZ than DZ twins, indicating possible genetic influence. The pattern of tetrachoric correlations for personal goals related to cultural activities, care of others, and physical exercise indicated environmental influence. For goals concerning health and functioning, independent living, and close relationships, additive genetic effect accounted for about half of the individual variation. The rest was the result of a unique environmental effect. Goals concerning physical exercise and care of others showed moderate common environmental effect, while the rest of the variance was the result of a unique environmental effect. Personal goals concerning cultural activities showed unique environmental effects only.

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Personal Motion Technologies for Healthy Independent Living, Bethesda, Maryland, June 22-24, 2010: Workshop Summary

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e519372012-001 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Independent Living ◽

Workshop Summary

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Psychological and spiritual journey of incarcerated adolescents through imaginal psychotherapy

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e695542011-001 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Joy Mondragon-Gilmore

Keyword(s):

Spiritual Journey ◽

Incarcerated Adolescents

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INNOVATION CAPABILITY, ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND SMES PERFORMANCE IN PAKISTAN: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF BUSINESS STRATEGY

Journal of Technology and Operations Management ◽

10.32890/jtom2018.13.2.1 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (Number 2) ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Muhammad Zulqarnain Arshad ◽

Darwina Arshad

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Absorptive Capacity ◽

Business Strategy ◽

Innovation Capability ◽

Research Directions ◽

Conceptual Paper ◽

And Performance ◽

New Research ◽

The Relationship ◽

Crucial Part

The small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial part in county’s economic growth and a key contributor in country’s GDP. In Pakistan SMEs hold about 90 percent of the total businesses. The performance of SMEs depends upon many factors. The main aim for the research is to examine the relationship between Innovation Capability, Absorptive Capacity and Performance of SMEs in Pakistan. This conceptual paper also extends to the vague revelation on Business Strategy in which act as a moderator between Innovation Capability, Absorptive Capacity and SMEs Performance. Conclusively, this study proposes a new research directions and hypotheses development to examine the relationship among the variables in Pakistan’s SMEs context.

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