Parent Side Research Articles

SAINT JOHN ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS STUDENTS AND EMPLOYEES ATTENDANCE MONITORING WITH PAYROLL AND E-BULLETIN USING RFID

In this study, RFID is one of the best ways to track the student's in and out. Aside from the convenience, it will benefit both the school and the parent's side by allowing them to monitor and keep track of the student's school activities with a single touch. It is applicable to the employee module. It will reveal their time in and out by tapping the RFID. This will automatically record their attendance and make it easy to compute their income based on the sort of work they have, whether full-time or part-time. If they work full-time, their salary will be determined per day; if they only work part-time, their salary will be computed per hour. If students are coming to Saint John Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, the first thing they must do is enroll and fill out a registration form. Employees must also register if they do not currently have RFID, and administrators will give them with one. They will also be held accountable if a student or employee has an issue with their accounts. Admin may also track their actual time in and out.

성인자녀의 부모 동거 현황 및 분석틀의 탐색

The purpose of this study is to explore whether the phenomenon of both married and unmarried adults' cohabiting with their parents in Korean society is "unilaterally parasitic" on the child's side, or is "interdependent", characterized by expectation and dependence from the parent's side. As a result of this study possessing the characteristics of theoretic research, the following propensities of parent-dependent adults have been discussed. First of all, it was discovered that the ratio of adult children dependent on and cohabiting with their parents is considerable. Second, parents cohabiting with their adult children have unfavorable sociological features, such as high age, low level of education and income, and lower standards of education and income, compared to parents in normal households. Third, it was found that parent-dependent adults in Korean society maintain a relatively high rate of financial activity and stable employment-based occupation status. Fourth, it was shown that the level of satisfaction on the relationship between parent-dependent adults and their parents was discovered to be high, which is contrastive to the prediction of negative results based on some previous researches. Single adult children's age, their level of education and financial activity status, and their parents' age and level of education were deducted as variables related to the level of satisfaction of the relationship between parents and their children. It seems that the issue of married and unmarried adults' cohabiting with their parents in Korean society should be approached from various perspectives such as political, economic, socio-cultural and developmental aspects. On the basis of this fundamental awareness and several of the materials, it is pertinent that approaches to both married and unmarried adults' cohabiting with parents in Korean society should be distinguished from approaches to those in Japanese or Western society because it reflects the uniqueness of Korean society. In the phenomenon of married and unmarried adults' cohabiting with their parents in Korean society, there are several factors besides the economic factor, especially the socio-cultural factor that have the characteristics of mutual dependence between parents and their children rather than those of unilateral parasitism, in contrast with the phenomenon in Japanese or Western society. This research was aimed to contribute by establishing basic data for policy making by providing necessary information to treat the issues of instability and anxiety related to families and reflection on the matters of generations and parent-child relationships in current Korean society.

Why NICU nurses mean so much to parents.

Parents of premature infants are grateful for their child's NICU nurse. Take a step onto the parent's side and see the top ten reasons parents are grateful for the nurses, and you might see some surprises.

A Construct Study of the Eight Symptoms of Severe Parental Alienation Syndrome

A survey study was conducted of adults who self-reported having children who were severely alienated from them. The primary research questions addressed were: (1) To what extent were the eight symptoms of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)-as identified by the construct's originator, Dr. Richard Gardnerreported to be manifested by the alienated children? And (2) holding severity constant, to what degree did the frequency of symptoms vary? Sixty-eight parents reported that the relationship with their children was severely damaged due to the attitudes and actions of the other parent. One question was asked about each of Gardner's eight symptoms (campaign of denigration, frivolous, weak or absurd rationale for the alienation, lack of ambivalence towards the alienating, lack of guilt or remorse about the alienation, borrowed scenarios, independent thinker phenomenon, taking the alienating parent's side in the conflict, and spread of alienation to the extended family of the targeted parent). Additional questions were surveyed to determine whether despite the severity of the alienation, were there moments in which the child was less than completely rejecting and committed to the alienation. Results revealed general support for the presence of the eight symptoms of PAS as well as insight into windows of opportunity when even the most severely alienated child demonstrates some “cracks in the armor,” raising hope for clinical intervention and eventual reunification.

Parents' Socioemotional Investment in Children

ROBERT H. BRADLEY, LEANNE WHITESIDE-MANSELL, AND JUDITH A. BRISBY University of Arkansas at Little Rock BETTYE M. CALDWELL University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences* Parental Investment in Children (PIC) is a 24item questionnaire designed to assess parents' socioemotional investment in their children. PIC is composed of four scales: Acceptance of the Parenting Role, Delight, Knowledge/Sensitivity, and Separation Anxiety. Assessment of this type of investment is important because there is limited research on the parent's side of the attachment system and because the attitudes and behaviors that represent parental investment may be central targets of parental education and guidance programs. This study evaluates the reliability and validity of PIC in a sample of 137 mothers of 15month-old children. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the four scales were internally consistent. Results also indicated from moderate to high test-retest reliability and substantial evidence of construct validity. For purposes of this study, PIC scores were related to scores on the quality of caregiving, social support, the quality of marital relationships, maternal depression, neuroticism, and agreeableness, maternal separation anxiety, parenting stress, and child difficulty. Key Words: attachment, bonding, confirmatory factor analysis, home environment, parenting, separation anxiety. During the past quarter century there has been an increasing appreciation of the organization of the attachment system in relation to the attachment figure (i.e., children are believed to develop an internal working model of attachment with cognitive as well as emotional components) and the transmission of these internal working models from generation to generation (Lebovici, 1993). Children construct a working model of their relationship with caregivers based on exchanges with those caregivers over an extended period of time. Particularly important for the development of a child's internal model of attachment is the availability and responsiveness of the caregiver, especially during times of distress. Children who receive sensitive caregiving are believed to construct an internal representation of the caregiver as warm and responsive and of themselves as worthy of love and support, a secure attachment. According to attachment theory, such children accordingly feel comfortable to explore and usefully exploit their environments, an adaptive developmental outcome (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978; Bowlby, 1969; Bretherton, 1985). At times of distress, a child with a secure attachment will seek comfort from the caregiver. Once comfort is given, distress is relieved, and the child becomes active again in exploring the environment. By contrast, children with insecure attachments see themselves as unworthy and their caregivers as unpredictable. Research demonstrates that a child's internal working model, though open to change based on new experiences, plays an instrumental role in a wide variety of behavioral domains (Booth, Rose-Krasnegor, McKinnon, & Rubin, 1994; Sroufe, 1985; Teti & Abelard, 1985). Although Bowlby's (1969) ethological theory of attachment makes clear that attachment is a relational process in which both caregiver and child endeavor to maintain proximity and closeness, the focus of most attachment research and most attachment measures has been on the child's side of the relationship. This disparity of focus arises because of the postulated centrality of attachment security for children's development (Bretherton, 1985). The quality of a child's attachment appears closely tied to the caregiver's own personal developmental history and the attitudes and expectations derived from that history. Specifically, there is evidence indicating that children's attachment classifications can be predicted from their caregivers' own recollections about experiences with their own caregivers (i. …