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Hwang, Ray. "The Well-Being of Chinese Immigrant Sons: Importance of Father-Son Attachment, Father Involvement, Father Acceptance and Adolescents' Phenomenological Perceptions of Father-Son Relationship." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1342470551.
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Hickey, Chris L. Sr. "The Phenomenal Characteristics of the Son-Father Relationship Experience." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1366845575.
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Murray, Lauren Donna. "Elite father and son relationships in Republican Rome." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11709.
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The focus of this study is aristocratic fathers and sons in the middle and late Roman Republic (264 – 27 B.C.). By considering legal, literary, and material evidence, it addresses the behaviour of elite families throughout this period. Although there is a great deal of important research conducted on family relations in the ancient world more generally, there is no extensive study which analyses the bonds of duty, obligation, and affection between fathers and sons in republican Rome. It is this gap in the scholarship which is addressed in my thesis. The key aspects of this relationship are considered through several interconnected chapters. Each reflects the social nature of this analysis, and demonstrates that traditional values, dynastic considerations, and social ideals promoted a sense of common identity and unity within the household. Although the hierarchical nature of Roman family life also provided opportunities for conflict between father and son, ultimately the relationship between the two was governed by these three concerns, as well as the close correlation between public and private in the lives of the republican elite. The discussion begins by considering the high valuation of fatherhood at Rome, evidenced by the use of terms derived from pater, and argues that the qualities expected of this individual were similar to those associated with the ideal statesman (Ch. I). From there, depictions of the Roman father by Greek and Roman authors are analysed to show that the former often emphasised the morality of the episode in question, while the latter stressed the conflict between the well-being of the family and the safety of the state (Ch. II). The argument then moves on to explore social expectations. Cicero’s Pro Roscio Amerino provides an example in which the ideals for father and son relationships are manipulated in order to persuade an audience (Ch. III). This shows that pietas, duty, companionship, and support towards one another were recognised as norms for these individuals. The discussion of the paterfamilias in the following chapter demonstrates that he was expected to act as a role model for future generations, and to provide education and protection to his dependants (Ch. IV). The reputation and continuity of the family line were also important considerations for the aristocratic head of household. From there, traditional values, dynastic considerations, and social ideals are explored through the family life-cycle (Ch. V). This section establishes that these three areas fostered a sense of common identity and unity within the household, and exerted significant pressure upon fathers and sons to maintain relatively harmonious relationships. The final chapter considers literary portrayals of Rome’s founders in order to reiterate the close correlation between the ideal of the father and the ideal of the statesman (Ch. VI). It concludes that the use of the father-figure by Augustus and later emperors to legitimise their position in the state develops from the ideological significance of fatherhood in the Republic.
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Perillo, Annamaria <1976>. "The Father-Son Relationship in Cormac McCarthy's "The Road": A Psychological interpretation." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/11987.
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La tesi verte sulla relazione fisica e psicologica tra padre e figlio nel libro premio Pulitzer 2006 di Cormac McCarthy "The road". Verranno inoltre esaminati due testi, in due differenti capitoli, inerenti la psicologia umana e i relativi sviluppi nell'epoca moderna. I libri sono "Il complesso di Telemaco " di Massimo Recalcati e "L'uomo di sabbia" di Catherine Ternynck.
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Tie, Peter L. "The relationship of the Father and the Son in Jesus' prayer in John 17." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Evans, Tony. "The bridge to manhood : how the masculine self is affected by the father-son relationship." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2009. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/the-bridge-to-manhood(f6d5407e-b5cd-47cd-83ac-998b4d1050ab).html.
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This study explores how men experience the construction of the masculine self as influenced by the father-son relationship. It employs a mixed methodology using Hollway and Jefferson’s Free Association Narrative Interview model, Farough’s Photo-Ethnographic Interviewing technique and a data analysis informed by Foucauldian concepts, to explore the father-son dynamics of twenty male participants and their subsequent effect on the adoption of masculine subject positions and beliefs. The mixed method design accesses the intrapersonal, interpersonal and wider social fields, in which the gendered self is built, performed and negotiated. The results find that the father-son relationship is a key factor in shaping the masculine self and set out a masculinity spectrum of male positions adopted (eg. thug, dominator position; laddish bravado position; traditional provider emotionally detached; good provider emotionally holding; effeminate male weakling position). The spectrum can apply equally to a man’s style of “doing maleness” and to a man’s style of fathering. Men are not tied exclusively to one spectrum position. Most will express aspects of different positions depending on context, company and age. Most men tend to move in a rightward direction (ie. from more traditional rigid or hegemonic male styles towards more emotionally open styles) on the spectrum as they grow older. However, men (and their fathers) will tend to have a dominant style of masculinity and the gaps between their relative spectrum positions (or masculinity subject positions) are unpacked and analysed in terms of what such gaps may mean for their relationship and ways of doing maleness. Implications for working with men in counselling psychology practice are considered, as are suggestions for future research work in this field.
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Zhao, Yanxia. "On the ethical relationship of father and son : a comparative study of Xunzi and Paul." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683328.
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Johansson, Joachim, and Katja Thörnblad. "Sex unga mäns berättelser om fadersrelationen." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1243.
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The present study examines six young men’s, born in the 1980’s, experiences of their relationships with their fathers. The focus of the study lies on the son’s evaluations of their fathers’ influence on them, the men’s emotional language and the experience of the fathers’ presence versus absence. The relationship with the fathers and the fathers’ emotionality are also being discussed. The method used is semistructured interview. The interviews lasted circa 40 minutes. The results show that half of the men experienced their fathers as present during their childhoods and half, as absent. This shows a more present father than previous studies have shown. All the interviewed men feel that their fathers have influenced them in some way, either positively, negatively or both. This result differs from a previous study which shows a primarily negative influence of the father. A majority of the men experiences their fathers’ emotionality to be similar to the male stereotype. Anger is prominent, whereas sadness is a less prominet emotion of the fathers’. The results further showed that the men in the present study verbally expresses emotions mainly through distansing constructions.
Keywords: Fatherhood, Father Son relationship, men´s emotional language, men’s emotions
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Steytler, Johannes Petrus Du Plessis. "Mentorskap in die maatskaplike funksionering van die seun in sy laat-middelkinderjare / J.P.DP Steytler." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1848.
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The boy in his late middle childhood faces enormous changes — physically, socially and
mentally. World-wide, people experience challenges - politically and economically as well as regarding social structures such as families. Children are not excluded from these challenges. Family structures change over time and fathers are increasingly becoming absent in the lives of their children. This Master's dissertation provides information concerning three major aspects regarding the boy. The first, as described in Article 1, is
the effect of the absent father on the boy in his late middle childhood and that of the alternative father figure, the mentor. The second major aspect, as described in Article 2, is the influence of family ordinance on the boy in his transition phase from middle childhood into adolescence, his experience of the biological father and his expectancies regarding a mentor relationship
The third major aspect is the adolescent boy's experience of his biological father, the influence of an alternative father figure, namely the mentor, and the affect of the mentor relationship.Thesis (M.A. (MW))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.
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Herrmann, Andrew F. "This Man's Body: At What Age Do I Become my Father?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/806.
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Herrmann, Andrew F. "Living a Father's Unfinished Narrative." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/812.
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Caires, Tharine Louise Gonçalves. "Vivências do pai no parto e repercussões na vida conjugal e familiar: contribuição da Enfermagem." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2013. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6760.
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de JaneiroTrata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa que buscou descrever e analisar a vivência do pai no trabalho de parto, parto e pós-parto de seu filho e discutir as repercussões advindas com essa vivência em sua vida conjugal e familiar. Foram entrevistados 24 homens-pais, aleatoriamente, dentre aqueles que estavam presentes no momento das consultas/atividades de puericultura de seus filhos, realizadas em quatro centros municipais de saúde do município do Rio de Janeiro e que participaram do processo de parturição de sua companheira. Para coleta de dados foi utilizada a entrevista semi-estruturada na qual se investigou condições sócio demográficas e aspectos relativos à sua vivência no parto. Para análise dos dados, foi utilizada a Análise Temática. Emergiram um tema (A vivência do pai no parto) e quatro subtemas: sentimentos, sensações e emoções paterna, a importância da presença paterna e as repercussões na vida do pai: conjugal e familiar. Os resultados revelaram que o parto foi para os pais um momento único com mistura de sentimentos. Outros se sentiram úteis por terem conseguido oferecer suporte emocional. Sua presença foi vista por eles mesmos como fundamental, seja por desejo da mulher, seja por decisão do casal. Mostraram ainda a existência de um novo modelo de pai, que se preocupa com o sustento de sua nova família e está à disposição para cooperar nas tarefas domésticas. Ressalta-se que a figura do pai provedor ainda se faz presente. Destaca-se a preocupação dos pais para não prejudicar a equipe e os procedimentos médicos no momento do parto. A vivência do pai no parto mudou o imaginário social da figura da mulher, mãe de seu filho, tornando-a mais corajosa, mais forte e até mais bonita aos olhos desse homem. Para outros, sua presença trouxe uma aproximação na relação conjugal, uma demonstração de que agora ele é um homem de confiança. Considera-se urgente uma reavaliação dos profissionais de saúde sobre a presença e preparação do pai durante todo o processo de nascimento. Na vida familiar, os resultados mostraram que os pais não souberam retratar como esta vivência afetou os membros, ditos por eles, como família. Principalmente aqueles que enumeraram pais, irmãos e enteados como integrantes. Nesse sentido, ressalta-se a importância de uma efetiva preparação dos pais para as transformações que uma vivência do parto repercute em todos os campos de sua vida.
This is a qualitative research which tried to describe and analyze the experience of the father present during childbirth labor, childbirth and post childbirth of his child and discuss the repercussions resulting of this experience in his conjugal and family life. There were random interviews with twenty-four fathers, among the ones present at the moment of consultation appointments/ child care of their children, occurred in four municipal health care centers in Rio de Janeiro, who attended their partners childbirth process. For data collection it was used semi-structured interviews in which were investigated social demographic conditions and aspects related to their experience in the childbirth. For data analyses, it was used thematic analyses, which gave origin to a theme (the experience of the father in the childbirth) and four sub-themes: feelings, fathers sensations and emotions, the importance of fathers presence, repercussions in the fathers life: conjugal and familiar. The results revealed that the childbirth was a unique moment with a mix of feelings. Some felt useful for offering emotional support. Their presence was seen by them as fundamental, for the wifes desire or the couples decision. It also showed a new pattern of father, who is concerned with the family sustainability and also ready to help in the domestic chores, the figure of the financially supportive father is still present. The concern of fathers in order not to disturb or interfere on the delivery team work and the medical procedures in the moment of the parturition is highlighted. The experience of the father in the childbirth has changed the social image of the mother, making her seem more courageous, stronger and even more beautiful on the eyes of the man. For others, their presence created a better conjugal atmosphere, a demonstration that he is a man of trust. It is considered urgent to reevaluate health professionals on the fathers presence and preparation during all the childbirth process. In family life, fathers could not explain how the experience affected the members of the family, mainly those who enumerated fathers, brothers and stepson as family members. In this sense, it is important to mention the relevance of an effective preparation for transformations that the experience of childbirth attending can cause in all the fields of his life.
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LeNeave, Douglas M. "CHILD OF INVENTION." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/68.
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This collection of poetry explores the intersection of elegy and ekphrasis. The poems contemplate and take inspiration from a range of painters and artists, often as a way of thinking about themes of invention, technology, and both father/son and teacher/student relationships.
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Pugh, Christopher. "The late twentieth-century British father poem : searching for the male self." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391065.
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Paul, Palisin M. "The Role of Verbal Aggression and Humor in Father-Son Relationships and its Impact on Relational Satisfaction." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1355191133.
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Gergely, Noemi. "Implicit Family Process and Couples Rules: A Comparison of American and Hungarian Families." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/526.
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Family life is organized by rules, and most of them are unspokenly agreed-upon by family members and may be even out of awareness. Implicit family process and couple rules may facilitate or constrain family relationship and intimate couple relationship growth. Prevalence of family rules may be different across cultures. Family members may perceive their rules and family functioning differently according to their family position and gender. Married couples may view their relationship rules differently than couples who cohabit. This study utilized the Family Implicit Rules Profile (FIRP) and the Couples Implicit Rules Profile (CIRP) Questionnaires to answer these research questions. The questionnaires were translated into Hungarian, and the content validity of the Hungarian translation was established. Hungarian non-clinical families and couples were compared to American (U.S.) non-clinical families and couples to examine how prevalent implicit rules were in the two cultures. According to the findings, Hungarian families and couples scored lower on the total FIRP and CIRP scores. Hungarian families perceived implicit family rules regarding kindness and monitoring less prevalent, and rules regarding constraining their thoughts, feelings and self more prevalent than American families. No differences were found in expressiveness and connection and inappropriate caretaking of parents between the two cultures. Hungarian couples perceived their implicit relationship rules regarding kindness, expressiveness and connection and monitoring less prevalent than American couples. No differences in implicit rules about constraining thoughts, feelings and self and inappropriate caretaking of partner were found between the two cultures. Mothers in both cultures viewed their families in a more positive light than other family members, and female family members (mothers and daughters) were more positive than their male counterparts (fathers and sons) about rules in their families in both cultures. Sons in both cultures perceived more responsibility to protect their parents emotionally than did daughters. Married couples in both cultures perceived their relationship rules more favorably in terms of kindness and monitoring than cohabiting couples. Results were interpreted in the context of cultural differences between the American and the Hungarian cultures. Limitations and the possibility of future research are discussed.
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Frigge, Caren. "Paternal child-feeding attitudes in relationship to the obese or lean status of their elementary school age son." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41551.
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The present study assessed the relationship between the paternal use of food in a contingency manner and the physical status of the respective son.
The prevalence of childhood obesity has been documented to be significant in this country (Mayer, 1968; Collipp, 1975; Forbes, 1975; Hafen, 1981). The etiology of the increasing percentages of obese children is based upon a variety of variables. Parental influence on children's eating habits and socioeconomic variables, which influence parents, appeared to be possible factors in the development of childhood obesity.
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Percivall, Nic. "Ideals, masculinity and inheritance : a study of father/son relationships presented in the narrative sources of Iceland and Normandy in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.427059.
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Skipper, Jason E. "The Origins of a Circle." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1077306765.
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Martínez, Brito Izacar Jesús. "Quantitative structure fate relationships for multimedia environmental analysis." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/8590.
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Key physicochemical properties for a wide spectrum of chemical pollutants are unknown. This thesis analyses the prospect of assessing the environmental distribution of chemicals directly from supervised learning algorithms using molecular descriptors, rather than from multimedia environmental models (MEMs) using several physicochemical properties estimated from QSARs. Dimensionless compartmental mass ratios of 468 validation chemicals were compared, in logarithmic units, between: a) SimpleBox 3, a Level III MEM, propagating random property values within statistical distributions of widely recommended QSARs; and, b) Support Vector Regressions (SVRs), acting as Quantitative Structure-Fate Relationships (QSFRs), linking mass ratios to molecular weight and constituent counts (atoms, bonds, functional groups and rings) for training chemicals. Best predictions were obtained for test and validation chemicals optimally found to be within the domain of applicability of the QSFRs, evidenced by low MAE and high q2 values (in air, MAE≤0.54 and q2≥0.92; in water, MAE≤0.27 and q2≥0.92).Las propiedades fisicoquímicas de un gran espectro de contaminantes químicos son desconocidas. Esta tesis analiza la posibilidad de evaluar la distribución ambiental de compuestos utilizando algoritmos de aprendizaje supervisados alimentados con descriptores moleculares, en vez de modelos ambientales multimedia alimentados con propiedades estimadas por QSARs. Se han comparado fracciones másicas adimensionales, en unidades logarítmicas, de 468 compuestos entre: a) SimpleBox 3, un modelo de nivel III, propagando valores aleatorios de propiedades dentro de distribuciones estadísticas de QSARs recomendados; y, b) regresiones de vectores soporte (SVRs) actuando como relaciones cuantitativas de estructura y destino (QSFRs), relacionando fracciones másicas con pesos moleculares y cuentas de constituyentes (átomos, enlaces, grupos funcionales y anillos) para compuestos de entrenamiento. Las mejores predicciones resultaron para compuestos de test y validación correctamente localizados dentro del dominio de aplicabilidad de los QSFRs, evidenciado por valores bajos de MAE y valores altos de q2 (en aire, MAE≤0.54 y q2≥0.92; en agua, MAE≤0.27 y q2≥0.92).
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Hung, Clara Shu-chuan, and 洪淑娟. "Father-Son Relationship in John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66330725572783275763.
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Although the father-son relationship between Harry Angstrom, nicknamed Rabbit, and Nelson is the logest father-son relationshipin all of John Updike's novels and it is undeniably on of the mostimportant subjects in the Rabbit tetralogy, no critic has ever extensively and meticulously studied the complexities and evolution of their relationship in all of the Rabbit novels. Thisthesis aims at studying in details the changing father-son relationship between harry and his only son Nelson over the courseof thirty years as Updike presents it in each of the Rabbit novels.Updike himself has more than once proclaimed his interest in exploring domestic fierceness in his fiction. In addition, he unwaveringly believes that tension is essential in interpersonalrelationships. Not unexpectedly, the father-son relationshipbetween Harry and Nelson is full of conflict, competition, and verbal abuses. However, for all their seemingly ceaselessconflict, a careful reader will still have no difficulty in discovering their love for each other. By focusing on their changing relationship throughout the four Rabbit novels, Updike'scharacterization of his two important characters and their troubledrelationship at each stage of their life are fully analyzed. Harryand Nelson's subltle and complicated realtionship substantiatesUpdike's keen insight into human nature.
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Hendricks, Lynn Avril. "Father-son relationship quality and associated adolescent risks." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3446.
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Magister Psychologiae - MPsychInternational research over the past two decades has advanced knowledge in the study of fathers and the protective role they play in the prevention of adolescent risk behaviours. Studies have often investigated parental relationships and their influence on adolescent risk behaviours but rarely the specific role of the adolescents’ relationships with their fathers or father figures in prevention of risk behaviour.Three main hypotheses were investigated: first, that the theoretically aligned dimensions of relationship quality would be nomogically validated; second, that there would be little significance difference in the dimensions of relationship quality across groupings of father residential status; and third, that the quality of the fatherson relationship is a stronger predictor of risk behaviour than father’s residential status (whether the adolescent lived with the father or not), or whether the “father” is a biological father or not. Three samples of adolescents were included: a fatherresident group (biological fathers reside in the adolescents’ homes) (N = 196); a nonresident group (biological fathers live elsewhere) (N = 72); and a father figure group(no contact with biological father) (N = 58). The school-based sample of 331 participants all resided in a low-income area of Cape Town. Risk behaviours were investigated using the Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers(POSIT). Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) risk behaviour was assessed on a POSIT sub-scale designed specifically for South Africa, the POSIT HIV/STD Risk Subscale. Paternal relationship quality was measured by the Acceptance subscale of the revised Child Report of Parent Behavior Inventory, the Child-Parent Communication Apprehension Scale for Use with Young Adults, and a measure of paternal quality contact time that was developed for this study. After conducting a factor analysis the Paternal Quality Contact Time Scale was found to have three factors: the father’s availability, activities engaged in together, and the motivation of the son to spend time with his father (including the son’s enjoyment of the time spent). This provides an extension to past conceptualizations of father-son contact which commonly assessed only the amount of time and activities engaged in. The dimensions of paternal relationship quality were found to be strongly associated.Linear regressions showed that father-son communication was the stronger predictor of risk behaviours when compared to father residential status. Paternal communication was a predictive factor for mental health risk, negative family relations, educational under-attainment, aggressive and violent behaviour and HIV/STD risk behaviours for adolescent boys. These findings confirm that fathers play an important protective role with regard to the development of adolescent risk behaviours. They also confirm that paternal relationship quality plays a more significant role, specifically the dimension of communication between them, than whether fathers live with their sons or are biologically related to them. The findings suggest a need to address the issues of building relationships between at-risk youth and their fathers (be they biological fathers or father figures) through community and clinical interventions.
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Near, Jennifer L. "Father-son relationship quality and its association with gender role stress, adult relationship satisfaction, and parental behaviors." 2007. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/near%5Fjennifer%5Fl%5F200712%5Fms.
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Choo, Florin, and 朱思辰. "Mencius Human Ability analysis : Accord relationship with others and Reproof between father and son." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76958518262839746091.
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陳安琪. "Exploring intergenerational influences of fatherhood practice and of father-son relationship on middle-aged fathers from the critical feminist perspective." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39924785844113409031.
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Taking the viewpoint of critical feminism, the study explored the intergenerational influences of fatherhood practice and father-son relationship on middle-aged fathers. This study not only focused on the changes in fathering experiences that proceeded generation by generation and the evolution of interactions between father and son due to the progress of time and space context, but also clarified the transformative agency generative from intergenerational influences. The study was conducted with qualitative research methodology: Data was collected through interviews, while the interviewees were those middle-aged fathers in their age of 35-60 with boys in their junior high school years; data was analyzed by narrative analysis method. The findings of research were as follows: I Inheritance and reproduction Due to the culture of labor-division of gender in the interviewees’ original family and model demonstrations of their own fathers, gender role stereotype shaped by traditional patriarchal culture still existed in the cognition schema of these middle-aged fathers. The gender housework labor division of “ the male in charge of the outside, while the female the inside,” the status of major bread-winner, ultimate punisher and significant decision-maker, and the power-distribution principle of “Father makes final decisions on major matters, while Mother deals with minor matters,” were the performances of the fatherhood on the interviewees’ fathers. Such behavioral patterns were not weakened by the indifferent and alienated relationship with the interviewees’, but rather these patterns were still inherited and reproduced in family activities by those modern middle-aged fathers. Moreover, in the dyadic relationship of father and son, each one’s reactions toward each other reinforced the solidity of gender stereotype. As to the intergenerational influences of father-son relationship, the research result showed that it was impossible to go beyond the traditional gender characteristics under the control of social norm. Influenced by the economic difficulties in the past, difficult growing up experiences, and the strict body discipline from their fathers, middle-aged fathers also naturally followed the same pattern on the next generation. In addition, being in the transitional period from traditional to modern society, the interviewees’ status and power in family were not challenged, and thus, the fathers’ values and beliefs still dominated the interaction between father and son. No matter in communication, conflicts, or establishment of intimate relationship, the performance of father’s power and the unequal status were obvious. II Modification and transformation According to the research, while adopting the tradition of taking care of their parents, middle-aged fathers had to adjust their attitude at the same time to be self-supporting, not expecting their children’s feedback, and even extending their supply for children. Traditionally, fathers of the older generation play the role as a breadwinner, but nowadays such performance can’t satisfy the demands of the modern society. Moreover, out of the personal feelings of the aloof and lack of interaction with their fathers, not only did the modern middle-aged fathers increase their participating in children’s lives both qualitatively and quantitatively, but also the pattern of father-son interaction became more diverse. Inquiring into the indifference and concealment of father-son relationship of the older generation, the study found that traditional fathers tended to support their families in instrumental and practical ways and to express their love in a negative way. And while middle-aged fathers couldn’t feel the intimate affections from their fathers, they expected themselves to be a father and a friend out of compensation and influenced by modern social culture. They made more multiple intimate contacts with their sons, and more initiative actions which made more opportunities to further affections and closer relationship with their sons. However, the ways of intimate interaction between father and son were apparently hard to get out of the strict framework of traditional gender roles. III Role shifting and transformative agency in surpassing generational influences The self-role shifting process undergone by middle-aged fathers was a kind of relationship correspondence of double roles, both father and son. From observation of being son to empowerment of becoming a father, the self attitude toward relationship of middle-aged fathers changed from passive to active, from inheriting Father’s teachings to practicing their own ideals. Because of the shifting of self roles and increasing depowerment of Father, the interviewees eventually got the fusion of horizon and empathy for their fathers, and emotionally changed from being indifferent to sympathetic and rewarding. Middle-aged fathers’ cognition, affection and behavior in intergenerational influences of father-son relationship were entangled in the dyadic interactions between father and son. Regarding the transformative agency of intergenerational influences, according to this study, the meanings of fatherhood and father-son relationship were more than influenced by differences in values and beliefs in different time and space context, which thus contributed to generational differences in cognition and practice. The enhancement of education and knowledge enlightened middle-aged fathers on awareness and reflection of their own experiences. Guidance and influence of their wives also advanced men’s sensitivity to their roles in family and father-son relationship. The frustration and regret in father-son interaction they experienced while they were growing up stimulated middle-aged fathers’ psychological and emotional compensation and projection, and they constantly took the negative demonstrations as a warning from their past experiences and avoided making the same mistakes. At last, when gradually putting more energy and emotion in managing father-son relationship, middle-aged fathers actually got a taste of the intimacy beyond their imagination and expectation. This relationship, originating in children’s sincere affectional feedback and intimate father-son interactions, only belongs to father and son.
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蔡昀蓉. "A Study of Christian Family Education through the Father-Son Relationship of David and Absalom." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8acx29.
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“Family” is the growth environment that children first come into contact with and marriage is set up by God who gave parents responsibility to start children off on the way they should go. Furthermore, the Bible tells us, “These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7). This is the faith education that God has commanded. David, whom the Old Testament called “a man after his own heart,” had a marriage often discussed by scholars. However, the focus of this discussion is mostly on the events of David and Bathsheba. As for David’s parent-child education and faith education, it can only be found in several passages in journal articles or books. There is not much we can say about how to use David’s family as an example in discussing the Christian faith in education. According to the verses in chapters 13 through 18 of 2 Samuel, the author uses David and Absalom’s events to explore the father’s role, his son’s feelings, and their interaction with each other, using the structure of their scriptural background. From the description of David and Absalom in the Bible, we can analyze the parent-child interaction using their speech, actions, conversation, timing and environment, story structure, in addition to the theme, background, meaning, parallel structures, and arbitration metaphors. This study uses David’s third son, Absalom, as the main research object to discuss what kind of influence and harm Absalom suffered from his father, which grew into a disobedient character, finally leading towards the road to death. The scope of the study begins with the father-son relationship between David and his sons, and explores the importance of faith education. The study finds that David’s words and deeds have had a profound influence on his son, leading to his son committing acts of adultery and murder. Therefore, it is advised and encouraged for parents to be vigilant in preventing their children from deviating from the Lord’s path; failure to do so may ultimately cause themselves grief. The study also further explored how the church can exert its influence in the modern generation, particularly when the family’s function is not well, and social problems continue to exist. It also provides practical help for the current family and church member’s lives, and promotes the implementation of faith education.
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Man-yi, Chen, and 陳嫚儀. "The development and change process of the fatherhood and father-son relationship: The dyad perspective of middle-aged sons and their elderly fathers." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09737965175150522187.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
婚姻與家族治療研究所
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The purposes of this study are to investigate the development process and the changes of intergenerational fatherhood and father-son relationship adopting system and dyad perspectives. This study was conducted through semi-structured in-depth interview with two father-son dyads that were at elderly and middle-aged stage. Narrative categorical content analysis was used as method of data analysis to understand the difference of the conduct of fatherhood and father-son interaction patterns between older and younger generations. The findings of this study were as follows: (1) It could be said that the common feature of fatherhood in older fathers was “material supply, subtle emotion”. The elderly fathers’ main fathering roles were breadwinner, providing resources to help son pursue success, and keeping rigorous image. Their traditional and authoritative fathering type did not change significantly until they became grandfathers. On the other side, the middle-aged fathers were quite different. Although they were traditional and authoritative like the older generation, a significant transformation from authority to peer-liked relation could be found in a middle-aged father. The changes of fathering occurred in the process of family responding to crisis and father’s awareness, reflections and coping behaviors. (2) The development process of the elderly father-son relationship were divided into four stages: “birth to school age “, “adolescence “, “adult to get married”, “after married”. Characteristics of each stage were: “authoritative relations”, “mostly supply and demand or role responsibility as the most important”, “transformation of authority and supply-demand relationship: reciprocal behaviors, emotional expression with gift “, "plain and harmonious relations", respectively. The factors affecting the father-son relationship included cultural and family context, the offspring’s gratitude and frame transformation, and changes in father-son dyad interaction. (3) Two developmental trends of the relationships between middle-aged fathers and their teenage sons were found, including “move toward peer-liked relationship and become increasingly intimate”, and “low conflict and high avoidance, maintain close with a bit distance”. (4) In the Chinese cultural context, the characteristics of parent-child relationship presented as “rigorous and fear relations”, “low conflict and high avoidance”, “intimacy between mother and son, alienation between father and son”, “the meaning of emotional expression with gift”, “a sense of gratitude and intergenerational reciprocity”. Based on the above results, specific suggestions were provided for further researches, family counseling practice, and family education.
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Kuo, Hung-Ku, and 郭虹谷. "Lacanian Reading—the Father-son Relationship and Crises of the Subject in Churchill''s A Number." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70082044582289552385.
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碩士臺灣大學
戲劇學研究所
98
The thesis analyses the ambivalent feelings between the father and the son and their crises of subject in Caryl Churchill’s A Number with mainly Lacan’s theories about the subject and with other psychoanalytic theories. Salter and Bernard have a complex relation owing to the temper of father and the son’s Oedipus complex, but most of all, the absence of Bernard’s mother. Due to the disclosed secret of cloning, the problem buried under the surface between the father and the son is revealed. Therefore, they are forced to face the unpleasant past, and crises of subject happen. To save their selves, they develop some strategies according to the crises but in vain. Finally, Bernard decides to destroy both of the cloning one and himself, and Salter keeps searching for other cloning sons in order to reconstruct his identity of father. Besides, we would compare to A Number’s theme of self reproduction and father-son relationship with those of two plays: The Ugly One by Marious von Mayenburg and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. We find Lette in The Ugly One also experiences similar identity crises, and he chooses to love one of his reproduced man so as to save his broken self in the end. Willy and Biff, the father and the son in Death of a Salesman, build their relation on some kind of narcissism . Just as the father-son relationship in A Number, Willy and Biff depend on each other so much that their hate toward one another occurs. This thesis would explore further whether it exists the possible solution to the complex feelings between fathers and sons and their difficult construction of subjects.
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Huang, Shui-Hui, and 黃淑惠. "An Analysis of the Structural Equation Modeling on the Elementary School Students’ Perception of the Father’s Rearing Style, Educational Expectation, and Father-son Relationship." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11315508725601000152.
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碩士國立嘉義大學
家庭教育研究所
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Abstract The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among the fathers’ rearing style, the educational expectation, and father-son relationship of the elementary school students. According to the findings, this study provides some suggestions for parents, the relative workers of family education and school education. A questionnaire was adopted to survey on the fifth and sixth grade students who were randomly selected from the elementary schools in Tainan county. The effective sample consisted of 894 elementary school students. The instruments used in this study were "the Father’s Child-rearing Style Scale ", "the Father’s Educational Expectation Scale" and " the Father-son Relationship Scale". The statistical methods used to analyze the data were, descriptive statistic, one - way ANOVA, and structural equation modeling. The findings of the study were concluded as follows: 1. The demand of father’s rearing style was more than the response. 2. The father’s educational expectation was at middle and high level, and there was a high expectation of character. 3. The father-son relationship of the elementary school students was at middle and high level. 4. The girl’s perception of the father’s demand was more than the boy’s. 5. The father’s demand, response and educational expectation of the elementary school students with two children in the family were higher than students with three children. 6. The girl’s perception of the father’s educational expectation was higher than the boy’s. 7. The oldest child of the family perceived more father’s demand, response and educational expectation than the youngest children of the family did. 8. The father’s social economic status had a direct and positive relationship to the father’s rearing style, and the father’s educational expectation. The father’s rearing style had a direct and positive relationship to the father-son relationship. The father’s educational expectation had a direct and positive relationship to the father’s rearing style. 9. The impact of the father’s social economic status on the father-son relationship was mediated by the intermediate factors- the father’s rearing style and educational expectation. 10. The impact of the father’s educational expectation on the father-son relationship was mediated by the intermediate factor -the father’s rearing style.
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Pitsoane, Enid Manyaku. "The role of the emotional father-son relationship in the self-concept formation of adolescent boys in secondary schools." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18201.
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The study investigated adolescent boys who experienced behavioural problems at school and the possible causes for these phenomena. It was evident that the adolescent boys who experienced behavioural problems were found to lack emotional connections with others due to their fathers’ absence and lack of positive attachment. A total of 403 adolescent boys from various schools in the Tshwane districts were used in the sample group. This quantitative study employed the use of a quantitative questionnaire as a means of data collection that included qualitative open-ended question as a method to enrich the quantitative data and obtain insight into the life world functioning and experience of the participants. The primary aim of the research study was to determine the emotional relationship between fathers and sons within the sample group. Secondly, the study sought to investigate how this emotional relationship affects the adolescent boy’s self-concept, resilience and motivational aspects in his daily functioning. The approach to quantitative data analysis was by means of descriptive statistical analysis. The findings revealed that emotionally absent fathers indeed impact negatively on the adolescent boys’ resilience and motivational aspects of their functioning and that a father’s absence has a significant influence on the behaviours of adolescent boys in relation to motivation and resilience. However, the research results also revealed that an emotionally absent father does not significantly affect the self–concept of an adolescent boy. Finally, an intervention programme was developed to assist and guide fathers and adolescent boys to improve their relationship with one another.Psychology of Education
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LIU, YI-WEN, and 劉宜玟. "A Study on Cinema Narrative in Middle-aged Father-son Relationship for the Creation of the 3D Animation “Bouncing Spores”." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p3z9py.
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碩士國立臺灣藝術大學
多媒體動畫藝術學系動畫藝術碩士班
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This animation focuses on the parent-child relationship between the son and the middle-aged father, which explores the differences between the old-fashioned and the innovative, and describes the emotional changes from conflict, communication to acceptance. In the thesis, I first explore the practice and connotation of fatherhood. Furthermore, I divide these fatherhood conditions into three parts, which are educational, functional and emotional. In addition, compare the differences between father and son's expectation of fatherhood, and take the generation transition period in the evolution of parent-child relationship as the creative points. Then, by exploring the three films that related to the middle-aged father-son relationship, this paper also analyzes the plot narrative style and techniques with the beat sheet, which coined by Blake Snyder, and observes the comparison of the transition period between father and son in the movie. Throughout the whole changing process between Father and son, we obtain the relationship state changing from rare intersection, and then gradually through many contacts to achieve the improvement in the end. By acquiring these conclusions, I could apply the concepts to benefit my story and to strength the narrative structure of the animation creation.
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Chih-hung, Chang, and 張志宏. "A Study on the Changes in Relationship of Traditional Chinese Eldest Son and Father After the Mother’s Death with the System Perspective." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99278027215898820700.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
輔導與諮商學系所
98
The purposes of this research were to investigate the changes in relationship of traditional Chinese eldest son and his father before and after the death of mother with the system perspective, to understand the role of the Chinese eldest son affects parent-child relationship by using the perspective of culture context, and to explore family members’ grief and meaning reconstruction after the death of mother. This research based on “hermeneutics” and “time sequence” to explore a family which of mother died with cancer. After two years of mother’s death, the researcher interviewed father, son and daughter for the first time. And after one year of first interviewed, the researcher interviewed once again to understand the changes of father-son relationship in the family system. The result showed that the changes in relationship of traditional Chinese eldest son and his father experiencing the following six stages before and after the death of mother: “relationship alienation”, “parent-child triangulation”, “dissolution of triangulation”, “new parent-child triangulation”, “struggling and hesitating” and “conflict avoidance”. Because of the Chinese traditional culture, the father disciplined his eldest son so strictly that their relationship became estranged. However, with the expectation of traditional gender role in family, the mother became the key person of affection relationship and the parent-child triangulation with father-son relationship was formed. After the mother’s death, the dissolution of triangulation brought father-son relationship to an alienation. Due to the differences of grief process between each family members, family reorganization and the expectation of traditional gender role in family, the daughter filled the absence of mother’s role to stabilized the new triangulation with father-son relationship. When father and son had intense conflict, she used the relative resources to construct the multiple triangulation. Experiencing the struggle between traditional mothering role and modern female self-identification, the daughter determined to leave the triangulation with father-son relationship. However, father had new intimate relationship that made son conflicting with him to protect the status of dead mother. Although they tried to repair their relationship after the daughter’s leaving, the father-son relationship became estranged again after three years of mother’s death. The son struggled for showing filial piety, and the father disappointed that his son would not show filial piety to him. When their relationship unable to repair and they still had to live together, the father-son relationship changed to a peaceful but avoidant situation. Both of them expect that future daughter-in-law may try to repair their father-son relationship when the son get married. Finally, the researcher discusses the above findings based on the triangulation changing in the family system, the Chinese culture context, and grief process. After discussion, the researcher also provides suggestions for further study, and for people who work in the counseling field.
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Dubbeld, Gys. "Die vader-seun-verhouding binne 'n postkoloniale konteks : Indishce duinen van Adriaan van Dis = The relationship between father and son within a post-colonial context : Indische duinen by Adriaan van Dis." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4356.
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This study examines the relationship between father and son in the novel Indische duinen (1994, 2002) by Adriaan van Dis within the context of post-war and postcolonial Dutch society. It relates the process by which an adult son, 36 years after the death of his father, comes to terms with the memory of a man whom he has always seen as unreasonably strict, violent and even cruel. During this process the son discovers the effects of colonialism, war, the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies (subsequently Indonesia) and the process of rapid decolonisation and repatriation to the Netherlands upon his father. For the father the latter experiences amount to what Kaja Silverman (1992: 55) refers to as "historical trauma". The experiences that shaped his father and influenced his behaviour towards his son are linked to what Paul Ricoeur (1992: 121) would refer to as the father's "narrative identity" and his sense of masculinity (Cormell, 1995: 77 - 81) which have both been marginalised within the "dominant fiction" (Silverman, 1992: 54) of the postcolonial society in which he has been forced to live. As the son discovers the father through a process of retelling both his father's story and the story of their relationship he is able to gain sense of understanding and closure. Regarding issues of race and gender in Dutch colonialism and the trauma of postcolonial alienation this study draws upon the insights of E.M. Beekman (1988 and 1998), Frances Gouda (1998), Elsbeth Locher-SchoIten (1995), Rob Nieuwenhuys (1982), Edy Seriese (1995), Ann Laura Stoler (1992, 1995 and 1997) and Peter van Zonneveld (1995, 2002 and 2003).Thesis (M.A.) - University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2004.
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Lévesque, Nicolas. "La relation entre l’attachement et la représentation de la figure paternelle dans le jeu symbolique du garçon d’âge préscolaire." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3476.
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Cette recherche a été inspirée par les travaux de John Bowlby sur l’attachement ainsi que par les écrits psychanalytiques de Sigmund Freud et de Donald Winnicott sur le développement de la relation père-garçon. Trois objectifs ont été formulés dans la présente étude : A) Les jeunes garçons d’âge préscolaire pourraient-ils projeter, à travers quelques sessions de jeu symbolique libre, leurs représentations paternelles? B) S’ils les projettent, quelle est la nature de ces représentations paternelles? C) Existe-t-il une relation entre le type d’attachement (évalué par un instrument standard) et les représentations paternelles projetées dans le jeu symbolique libre?
Dix garçons de quatre ans ont été filmés à la maison et dans une garderie pendant, en moyenne, quatre sessions totalisant par enfant, une durée moyenne de deux heures trente minutes de jeu symbolique. Le type d’attachement a été évalué à l’aide de l’Attachment Story Completion Task. Les résultats démontrent que l’ensemble des garçons ont été en mesure de projeter des représentations paternelles basées sur la figure du père. Tous ces garçons ont perçu le père comme une figure de protection et huit enfants sur dix ont exprimé verbalement leur attachement à ce dernier. Un enfant de type évitant (type A) n’a pas évoqué la figure du père dans son jeu. Ce père était rarement à la maison pour s’occuper de son garçon. Enfin, le dernier enfant, de type ambivalent (un enfant particulièrement agressif de type C), a présenté dans son jeu des interactions négatives avec le père et ce, tout au long des sessions de jeu symbolique. Il appert ainsi que le jeu symbolique permet à l’enfant de projeter des représentations de la figure
paternelle. Ces représentations sont en lien avec le type d’attachement que l’enfant détient au moment de l’évaluation.This research was inspired by the work of John Bowlby on infant attachment and the psychoanalytic writings of Freud and Winnicott on the father figure. Three objectives were formulated for this exploratory study; a) Will the young preschool boy spontaneously project his paternal representations in the context of a series of symbolic free play sessions? b) If so, what is the nature of the paternal representations? c) Is there a relationship between the type of attachment as evaluated with a standardized instrument and the paternal representation projected into the free play sessions? Ten four year old boys were filmed in their own homes and in the daycare setting during an average of four sessions each for a total of two and a half hours. The type of attachment was evaluated with the Attachment Story Completion Task. The results showed that all of the boys were capable of projecting paternal representations onto the father figures. All of the children perceived these figures as a source of protection and eight out of ten verbally expressed their attachment to them. One insecure boy (type A) did not invoke the father figure in his play and in real life his father was rarely at home. The remaining insecure boy (a very angry type C) showed consistent negative interaction with the father figure throughout the sessions. It seems that the symbolic play allow the child to project adequatly the representation of the father figure. These representations are linked to the attachment type that the children possessed at the moment of the evaluation.
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Penha, Marcely Lima da. "O impacto dos horários de trabalho do pai na vida dos filhos." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/49239.
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Dissertação de mestrado em Psicologia AplicadaNo âmbito da Psicologia Organizacional, a relação entre trabalho-família tem vindo a adquirir um elevado interesse, pois são grandes as exigências profissionais em relação ao cumprimento de horários pouco flexíveis e, não conseguindo os pais muitas vezes, manter o apoio desejado e adequado à família e principalmente aos filhos, o que acaba por causar um grande impacto na vida destes. O presente estudo tem como objetivo identificar e comparar os impactos dos horários de trabalho do pai na vida do filho. Participaram 203 homens (pais), trabalhadores que tinham filhos até 15 anos de idade. Os dados foram recolhidos através de escalas que permitiram avaliar as seguintes dimensões: Comunicação iniciada pelo pai para com seu filho; Comunicação iniciada pelo filho na percepção do pai; Participação do pai no cuidado com o filho; Participação do pai nas atividades escolares, culturais e de lazer do filho; Adequação do pai no desempenho do papel familiar. À exceção da dimensão Participação do pai no cuidado com o filho, foram encontradas diferenças estatisticamente significativas em função do horário de trabalho convencional e não convencional.
In the context of Organizational Psychology, the relationship between work and family has become highly relevant, as the professional demands are high in relation to a litle bit flexible schedules, and parents are often unable to maintain the desired and adequate support family and especially to sons casing a great impact on their lives. The present study aims to identify and compare the impacts of the father's working hours on the sons' live. There were 203 men (parents), workers who had children up to 15 years of age. The data were collected through scales that allowed to evaluate the following dimensions: Communication initiated by the father towards his son; Communication initiated by the son in the perception of the father; Father involvement in child care; Father's participation in the schoolar, cultural and leisure activities of the son; Adequacy of the father in the performance of the family role. With the exception of the father's participation in child care, statistically significant differences were found in relation to conventional and non-conventional working hours.
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Yu, Hsiang-An, and 游翔安. "Animation creation “Father and Son”-a study on relationships and inflrences of the Family members." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16689895645874386712.
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碩士國立臺南藝術大學
音像動畫研究所
98
“Father and Son” is a character animation integration of hand-drawn and CGI. Film mainly describes a father and his son's parent-child relationship and interdependence of patriarchal culture, the practice under the fatherhood role and impact of parent-child relationship. Give vitality to the role of character animation, often allowing viewers to fully experience the content and meaning of the story. It’s most important purpose to reflect the interaction of human emotions, make every viewer can understand the links between people how important it is. The thesis is divided into three chapters, the first chapter, indicate that the individual creative learning experiences, creative concept and dynamic images from the painting into the experience and review after. The second chapter analyzes my final project, ”Father and Son” which includes the process of this production: The inspiration, pre-production, applied digital tool, and the storyline and its image. The whole chapter tries to present the developing stages. The third chapter, made the image of traditional ethical constraints of men and reflection from “Father and Son”, and explain the interaction between father and son.
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Bantjes, Jason Robert. "The gender straightjacket: a qualitative investigation of a group of South African adolescent males' cognitive schemata for masculinity and gender roles." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2100.
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A surge of "masculinity in crisis" discourse suggests that men are primarily responsible for lawlessness, social mayhem, violence and other forms of psycho- and socio-pathology. This crisis is attributed, in part, to hegemonic models of masculinity which restrict men to certain modes of behaviour and specific roles in society. This study investigates the content of a group of South African adolescent males' cognitive schemata for masculinity and gender roles. A qualitative mode of enquiry was used to identify the beliefs held by participants about manhood and gender roles. The findings of this study affirm that a hegemonic model of masculinity exists is the sub-culture of South African society represented by the participants and suggests that hegemonic masculinity in South African is both restrictive and damaging to men and society.Psychology
M. A. (Psychology)