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Brogan, Patrick. "Walter's Rules for Getting By." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4343.

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This novella focuses on the lives of Walter, his mother Sabine, and his would-be love Bernadette. Walter is an awkward, unemployed thirty-year-old that still lives at home with his mother pressed into the pursuit of love by an obsession with romance novels. Walter is an outstanding cook and dishwasher but has no other notable talents. He eventually finds a job and manages to lose his virginity but changes little otherwise. The narrative is interested in the failures of family, love, and traditional societal expectations. It is interested in seeing and being seen. It is interested in a path around the conventional plot arc. Walter's Rules for Getting By wishes to disrupt the expected and the roles we often feel forced into.

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Levesque, Constance D. "Ice and Other Stories." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1192.

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From the Oregon coast to the steppes of Mongolia, the seven short stories in this collection take the reader on a journey through the landscape of human experience. In the high desert of southeast Idaho, a mammalogist confronts his own predatory instincts. A sister laments the distance between herself and a brother studying climate change in Antarctica. A caregiver for an aging botanist learns the value of forgiveness. Love, loss and redemption--the relationships that define our lives--are here juxtaposed with the beauty and implacability of the natural world.

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Schlegel, Daniel Drew. "All Begins to Bloom: Stories." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1033.

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A collection of short stories, All Begins to Bloom follows a range of young protagonists living in the greater Los Angeles area. In a time when even the most underground lifestyles are commodified, when Independent media is just another genre, when every mode of living has seemingly been exhausted, these characters struggle to forge an identity in the face of adulthood. From a group of surfers reeling from a careless death ("The Pier") to a young artistic couple brought together by the will to overcome an eating disorder ("All Begins to Bloom"), these stories explore the hollow promises among various subcultures. Instead of finding solace in the possibilities of the future, the narrators often gaze into the past, searching for a lost lesson inside the machinery of an old camera, or a neighbor's memory of the riots of 1992 ("Daydreamers"). Within the confining age of relentless digitization, the fight for human connection is waged. Two brothers, in a string of emails, attempt to make sense of their father's surprising infidelities, exposing the smothered confusions of childhood ("Things Emails Should Not Contain"). In the throes of withdrawal, a young pill-popper is forced to comfort his mother's best friend, a recent widow ("Pharm Boy"). These stories attempt to find an answer to apathy, the unwillingness to care, and to break apart all the defenses one uses to shelter oneself. Whether failing or succeeding, the striving to connect with one another proves to be invigorating.

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Franco, Sally. "Stories: Spain, Lovers and Crazy Old Ladies." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4734/.

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Kinch, Erin Brinkman. "A Hint of Meaning." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4733/.

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A Hint of Meaning contains a scholarly preface, "Language, Experimentation, and Craft: Creating a Vivid, Continuous Fictional Dream," that discusses the ambiguities of language and how they relate to different aspects of the craft of writing. Six original short stories follow the preface. "Musical Chairs" explores a woman's conflicting emotions about her ex-husband. "Baby Steps" depicts the struggle of a woman against her father's alcoholism. "Go Home Happy" depicts a day in the life of a video store employee. "Bargain Basement Perfection" contrasts the reality of a relationship with an imagined, perfect relationship. "Did You Hear about Donald and Bitsy?" is an experimental piece that tells a story through gossip. "Glass Angels" explores a minister's relationship with his homosexual son and how that relates to the minister's faith.

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Albamonte, Gene. "THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS: STORIES." Master's thesis, Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002534.

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Ukani, Amreen. "The Edge of the World, and Other Stories." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1367.

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The six short stories in this collection explore the lives and desires of disparate women. In "Sentinel," a woman visits an ex-boyfriend, injured in the army, and his family, with whom she has a fraught relationship, in their vacation home. A diagnosis of cancer spurs a woman to change her life in "Cell Division"; when a new possibility for treatment arises, she reconsiders the choice she made to take her life apart. In the story, "A Wake," a funeral and an unexpected pregnancy set the stage for the breakdown of a couple's relationship. In "A Cyclic Process," a woman conflates her ambivalence toward the anti-depressants she takes with her feelings about her relationship; in the end, she cannot let go of either. A woman, traveling with a new acquaintance, takes a trip to Venice in "The Edge of the World," and falls into an unsettling relationship with a man she meets there. The process of protein denaturation serves as a metaphor in "Marina," for the unraveling of a friendship between two teenage girls.

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Sheehan, Dinah Belle. "Central Stories." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1215.

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Central Stories is a series of interconnected stories about students at a fictional high school. Each story focuses on a pair or small group of students who are grappling with issues of gender identity, sexual orientation, and changing friendships. These stories explore varying aspects of the coming out processes, as well as attendant character-developments related to adolescence.

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McCaffrey, Molly Ann. "Heaven and Earth a collection of short stories /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1116245589.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2005.
Committee/Advisors: Brock Clarke, James Schiff, Michael Griffith. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed May 20, 2008). Keywords: Short stories; Fiction; American; Women authors; Class; Race; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

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Lin, Lidan. "The Rhetoric of Posthumanism in Four Twentieth-Century International Novels." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278990/.

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The dissertation traces the trope of the incomplete character in four twentieth-century cosmopolitan novels that reflect European colonialism in a global context. I argue that, by creating characters sharply aware of the insufficiency of the Self and thus constantly seeking the constitutive participation of the Other, the four authors E. M. Forster, Samuel Beckett, J. M. Coetzee, and Congwen Shen all dramatize the incomplete character as an agent of postcolonial resistance to Western humanism that, tending to enforce the divide between the Self and the Other, provided the epistemological basis for the emergence of European colonialism. For example, Fielding's good-willed aspiration to forge cross-cultural friendship in A Passage to India; Murphy's dogged search for recognition of his Irish identity in Murphy; Susan's unfailing compassion to restore Friday's lost speech in Foe; and Changshun Teng, the Chinese orange-grower's warm-hearted generosity toward his customers in Long River--all these textual occasions dramatize the incomplete character's anxiety over the Other's rejection that will impair the fullness of his or her being, rendering it solitary and empty. I relate this anxiety to the theory of "posthumanism" advanced by such thinkers as Marx, Bakhtin, Sartre, and Lacan; in their texts the humanist view of the individual as an autonomous constitution has undergone a transformation marked by the emphasis on locating selfhood not in the insular and static Self but in the mutable middle space connecting the Self and the Other.

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Foley, J. Elizabeth. "Perceived interpersonal climate and interpersonal complementarity." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102502.

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Few studies of interpersonal complementarity have examined individual differences that might moderate the relation between one person's behaviour and the other's response. The present research investigated the degree to which global perceptions of others (perceived interpersonal climates) moderated the relation between event-level perceptions of the other and behavioural response in social interactions. The influence of interpersonal perceptions on social behaviour was examined in two field studies; the first study was conducted with university undergraduates, and the second study was conducted with a community sample of working adults. Event-contingent recording procedures were used to collect information about participants' communal (agreeable---quarrelsome) and agentic (dominant---submissive) behaviours and perceptions of partner communion and partner agency. Based on hypotheses derived from interpersonal complementarity, it was expected that perceptions of communion would predict communal behaviour according to the principle of correspondence (agreeableness evokes agreeableness and hostility evokes hostility) and perceptions of agency would predict agentic behaviour according to the principle of reciprocity (dominance invites submissiveness and submissiveness invites dominance). As predicted, perceived interpersonal climates moderated the relation between perception of the other and behaviour in specific interactions. Perceived communion in an event predicted correspondence with regard to communal behaviour; this response was stronger for individuals who generally perceived others as cold-quarrelsome rather than warm-agreeable. Perceived agency in an event predicted reciprocity such that individuals responded to perceptions of dominance with more submissive behaviour and perceptions of submissiveness with more dominant behaviour; this response was stronger for individuals who generally perceived others as submissive, and this response was weak to non-existent for individuals who generally perceived others as dominant. The moderating effects of perceived interpersonal climates were independent of five-factor and interpersonal traits; global perceptions of others provided unique interpersonal information not captured by the five-factor model of personality. Both studies support the basic principles of complementarity while indicating that complementarity does not apply equally to all people. The present research shows that interpersonal perceptions are not only useful for studying behaviour within an event, but that global perceptions of others (perceived interpersonal climates) influence our reactions to the social environment.

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Hakelind, Camilla. "Perceived interpersonal relations in adolescents." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Psychology, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1469.

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The general objective of this thesis was to examine aspects of adolescents perceived interpersonal relations, in view of the association between adolescents’ interpersonal problems and self-concepts, and considering influential factors such as behavioural problems, depression, perceptions of parental rearing styles, type of relationships and sex. All of the studies examined participants from the four-year longitudinal research project in Umeå, which was designed to investigate the psychic health and social context of adolescents with psychological and antisocial problems (Armelius & Hägglöf, 1998), except for the normal adolescents in study I, who took part in a project with purpose to determine norms for an intake interview that is used for adolescents in different settings in Sweden. Study I addressed the impact of type of relationship on adolescents interpersonal behaviour, and the results were discussed in terms of interpersonal theory and the complementarity principle. Study II investigated the association between self-concept and interpersonal problems in normal adolescents. Different interpersonal problems were systematically related to three self-concept patterns, and showed the importance of considering the combination of self-love and self-autonomy to understand interpersonal problems in adolescents. In study III the associations between self-concept, and interpersonal problems were investigated, also considering depression as a factor, in a group of adolescents with conduct problems. This study revealed sex differences: boys’ interpersonal problems mainly were associated with self-control, an imbalance between self control and autonomy, and depression, whereas girls’ interpersonal problems mainly were associated with low self-love and depression. Study IV examined the relationship between memories of perceived parenting styles and interpersonal problems. Also in this study, sex differences were shown. It was found that for boys the perceived parenting styles of the fathers had the strongest associations to interpersonal problems, and for girls the perceived parenting styles of the mothers had the strongest associations to interpersonal problems.

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Hakelind, Camilla. "Perceived interpersonal relations in adolescence /." Umeå : Department of Psychology, Umeå University, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1469.

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Cassidy, Kevin Scott. "Giving and receiving from one another : the communal character of Christianity /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p033-0849.

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Mo, Yuet-Ha. "Interpersonal trust and business relationships." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1004afdd-05c8-48ca-b6ac-c9bfa671640b.

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The research was multi-method as it combined qualitative semi-structured interviews with quantitative surveys. The thesis concludes by discussing cultural implications for the formation of trust among business people in the UK and China, and future research directions.

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Doumas, Leonidas Adam Alexander. "A neural-network model for discovering relational concepts and learning structured representations." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=990297121&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Du, Bois Craig A. "The relationships we live by." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Maguire, Katheryn Coveley. "Communication and communal coping in long-distance romantic relationships." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3034936.

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Raffety, Brian. "The brief interpersonal circumplex /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9037.

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Azzari, Kenneth A. "Interpersonal relations: The key to effective school administration." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/343.

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Jones, Joe Milton. "Images of relationships to God a process for building a trust relationship between pastor and congregation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Klein, Cameron Robert. "What do we know about interpersonal skills? a meta-analytic examination of antecedents, outcomes, and the efficacy of training /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002642.

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Fode, Elke. "Interpersonal communication and relational maintenance in the church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Powers, Theodore A. "Self-criticism : antecedents and interpersonal consequences." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72761.

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Cherry, Kristin L. "Reality TV and interpersonal relationship perception." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5532.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on June 2, 2009) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Vandine, Alicia M. "The effects of cancer on interpersonal relationships." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2003. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2995.

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Krueger, Jennifer K. "Perceived power in association with perceived interpersonal relations behavior." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998kruegerje.pdf.

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Olivier, Hermina. "Fenomenografiese ondersoek na verhoudinge binne die bategebaseerde benadering." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2010. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05012010-160847.

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Mattson, Richard E. "The longitudinal course of positive and negative relationship quality." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.

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Bartz, Jennifer A. "Navigating the interdependence dilemma : attachment goals and the use of communal and exchange norms in new relationship development." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84987.

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The early stages of a relationship present an interdependence dilemma: People want to demonstrate interest, but are reluctant because trust is not yet established (Holmes, 1991). Five studies investigated the influence of attachment on how people navigate the interdependence dilemma focusing on the use of communal and exchange norms (Clark & Mills, 1979). In Study 1, compared to secure and avoidantly attached individuals, anxiously attached individuals avoided using exchange norms with a potential friend, presumably to signal interest in closeness. In Study 2, when a potential friend used communal norms (compared to exchange norms), anxious individuals felt more anxious and exhibited lower appearance self-esteem, whereas avoidant individuals viewed their partner as more negatively communal and liked their partner less. In Study 3, secure individuals accepted help from a potential friend, and did not feel the need to reciprocate, whereas avoidant individuals quickly reciprocated, presumably to clear their debt and to establish boundaries. Anxious individuals again felt anxious upon receiving help. Study 4 focused on emotion regulation and cognition. When a potential friend used communal norms (suggested working as a team), anxious individuals performed worse on a mental concentration task (ruminated) compared to secures. Moreover, lexical decision analyses revealed that proximity accessibility was associated with better performance for the less anxiously attached, and worse performance for the more anxiously attached, suggesting that thoughts about closeness dampened anxiety and rumination for the secures, but increased it for the anxious individuals. Finally, in Study 5, which focused on attributions, anxious individuals tended to monitor and appraise discrete events for their significance to relationship goals, and were more likely to infer relationship progress from discrete communal events. Moreover, anxious individuals made more relati

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Li, Feng, and 李峰. "Perceived indebtedness: a relational methodological perspective." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31237344.

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Schlosnagle, Leo. "Age differences in younger and older adults' experience of interpersonal problems." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10188.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2009.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 74 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-53).

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Eymann, Jor̈g. "Die "Lehrer-Schul̈er"-Beziehung in der japanischen Gesellschaft ihre Wurzeln, ihre Bedeutung fur̈ die Christlichen Gemeinden Japans und ihre biblisch gegrun̈dete Neugestaltung : Historisch beschreibende und biblisch-exegetische Untersuchung in der japanischen Gesellschaft /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Bolton, Alicia Claire. "Nowhere to put a heart." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2009. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2009m/bolton.pdf.

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Biercz, Rebekah. "Trust me." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594494981&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Davis, Kirsch Sallie E. "Congruence of self, parent, teacher, and peer perceptions of social competence in the early school age child /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7228.

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Li, Feng. "Perceived indebtedness : a relational methodological perspective /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19852988.

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Tilton-Weaver, Lauree Coleen. ""Peer relations management:" parents' attempts to influence adolescents' peer relations." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ52776.pdf.

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劉文松 and Wensong Liu. "Saul Bellow's fiction: power relations and female representation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42576775.

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Liu, Wensong. "Saul Bellow's fiction : power relations and female representation /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42576775.

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Tiedemann, Georgia Louise. "The development and promotion of sharing between siblings : effects of parent behavior." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31307.

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Toy sharing and sibling interaction are major contexts for young children's developing social skills. This study examined the effects of parenting on sharing between siblings, and the effectiveness of a 5-session parenting programme in promoting sharing. Forty-eight mothers with two preschoolers participated. Each family was assessed before and after the parenting programme and at a 6-week follow-up. The mother completed measures of her parenting approach and reported on her children's behavior. The children were interviewed to obtain cognitive measures. Interactions of the mother and two children were observed in a laboratory playroom. Fathers and preschool teachers also reported on the children's behavior. Two parts of the study used data collected at the first assessment. First, multivariate analyses showed significant correlations between mother behaviors and those of the children, and between the two children. Second, the immediate effects of parenting on children's sharing were explored by manipulating the mother's activities. Children exhibited more appropriate sharing when the mother was free to interact with them than when she was busy with paperwork. The third part of the study examined the effects of two formats of a parent-training programme on sibling sharing. Families were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: individual programme, group programme, or waiting-list control. The programme provided parents with information about the development of sharing and sibling relationships and taught behavioral parenting techniques to use in promoting the development of child sharing skills. Positive effects of the sharing programme on siblings' sharing-related behavior were clearly demonstrated. These effects were seen to generalize across informants and across behaviors, but not across informants and behaviors combined. Treatment effects were maintained over a follow-up period. Although mothers demonstrated increased knowledge of the content covered by the programme and rated it highly, they did not demonstrate or report significant changes in their own parenting approach on the original measures. Mixed results were obtained concerning the two treatment formats. For observations of child behavior, only the individual format showed superiority over the control condition. The two formats did not differ in treatment effects found on most questionnaire measures. Mothers' reports of decreased behavior problems among younger children and a few tentative findings from child interview measures suggested superiority of the group format. Overall, this study demonstrated both strong relationships between the sharing-related behavior of children, and correlational and causal relationships between mother behavior and sibling sharing. A parent-training intervention was demonstrated to have positive effects on children's sharing behaviors, and these effects generalized over situations, behaviors and time.
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Fetterman, Sandra M. "The Communication Experience of Relationship Dissolution: A Grounded Theory Approach." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2008. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/FettermanSM2008.pdf.

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Born, Ryan. "A Problem Of Access: Autism, Other Minds, And Interpersonal Relations." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/103.

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Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASCs) are marked by social-communicative difficulties and unusually fixed or repetitive interests, activities, and behaviors (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). In this thesis, I review empirically and conceptually based philosophic proposals that maintain the social-communicative difficulties exhibited by persons on the autism spectrum result from a lack of capacity to understand other persons as minded. I will argue that the social-communicative difficulties that characterize ASCs may instead result from a lack of ability to access other minds, and that this lack of ability is due to a contingent lack of external resources.

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Lumsden, Joanne. "Moving in time with others : exploring interpersonal synchrony." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=192191.

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The temporal coordination of interpersonal behaviour is a foundation for effective joint action, and research reveals that it occurs spontaneously during social interactions. Moreover, synchronous movement has been evidenced to be associated with core aspects of social exchange and person perception (reviewed in Chapter 1). However, synchronisation is not unique to humans, and the emergence of coordination across a variety of domains (e.g., in nature, mechanics, intrapersonal coordination) has been demonstrated to follow similar patterns. The aim of the current work was to explore potential influences on the degree of rhythmic movement synchrony between interaction partners by incorporating methods and theory from both the social psychological and coordination dynamics literatures. Over the course of six studies, several social influences on the emergence and perception of interpersonal synchrony were identified. The degree to which individuals coordinate with the movement rhythms of an interaction partner was found to be shaped by their partner’s social identity (Chapter 2), the individual’s own social motives (Chapter 3), and also their sex (Chapter 4). Therefore, the coordination dynamics governing synchrony were shown to be affected by social factors. In a separate but related thread of research, it was revealed that third-party perceptions of physically synchronous interactions are also influenced by socially relevant information (Chapter 5). Thus, it appears that social forces modulate the degree of synchronisation between interaction partners, and also outsider perceptions of rhythmic movements. The results are discussed in terms of their theoretical and methodological implications, as well as the overall contribution they make to the extant literature (Chapter 6). From an overarching theoretical standpoint, it is suggested that the findings should be viewed from a dynamical systems perspective as, in contrast to alternative theories (e.g., the mirror-neurons theory), this account can more fully explain the phenomena of synchrony and the patterns which emerge.

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Feldgaier, Steven. "A clinical-developmental analysis of interpersonal problem solving /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487331541709128.

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Mok, Sui-tong. "The effects of social skills training for a group of F.1 pupils." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38627310.

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de, la Mothe M. "Empathy revisited." Thesis, Open University, 1987. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57027/.

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Empathy is presented as a relation between persons and by analogy between persons and non-human entities in which case it is called quasi-empathy. The characteristics of empathy, the sufficient and necessary conditions for its creation and nurturance, and various types of empathy, both authentic and mistaken, are examined. The role of empathy in various types of knowing especially personal knowing are discussed leading to an attempt to classify interpersonal relations. In the course of this analysis different ways of construing human beings are presented and contrasted with particular interest in the extent to which empathy, quasi-empathy and other relations are involved. A variety of emotional bonds which have some bearing on or similarity to empathy are compared with empathy. The dissertation concludes with a review of a selection from the empathy literature in which contrasts are made with the outline theory of empathy developed in this dissertation.

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Ammeter, Anthony Paul Fernand. "Determinants of interpersonal trust in workgroup relationships /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004207.

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Janes, Adam Vincent. "Learning to listen improving parent and child communication /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p062-0314.

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Wang, Chia-Chih DC. "Cultural ideal of secure adult attachment : a comparison of three cultural groups /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3144466.

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