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Assessment of social support among veterans with military-related post-traumatic stress disorder : a study of the Social Support Questionnaire

Daniels, Lori Rae (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002)

Numerous studies in the past 20 years have found an inverse correlation between social support and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the social support literature is encumbered by a wide-spread inconsistency ...
Factors that contribute to stress among Japanese-American and Caucasian-American family caregivers of frail elders

McLaughlin, Linda A (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002)

Care for frail elderly adults in the U.S. has increasingly become the financial, physical and emotional responsibility of family members. Over twenty years of caregiving research has documented many factors that contribute ...
Sekentei and family caregiving of elders among Japanese : development and evaluation of the Sekentei Scale

Asai, Masayuki O (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002)

This study describes the development of a measure for assessing sekentei. The concept of sekentei is peculiar to the culture of Japan. Translated, sekentei is defined as social appearance that causes an individual to worry ...
Testing Braithwaite's theory of reintegrative shaming through data on the circle sentencing program in the Yukon

Percival, Christel Skinner (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003)

The theory of reintegrative shaming (Braithwaite, 1989) and circle sentencing program are examples of restorative justice initiatives. Restorative justice is part of a movement towards alternatives to the formal justice ...
Perceptions of procedural justice in child protection : a study of family group conferencing

Neff, Donald R (2004)
Micro-finance and empowerment of women : Evidence from Nepal

Rajouria, Alok (2008)
Psychosocial factors associated with substance use among youth in Hawai'i

Nishimura, Stephanie T (2008)
Re-visioning family : A photovoice project with transgenders and their families in Hawai'i

Ikeda-Vogel, Linda L (2008)