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In what ways does family background influence students academic performance or achievements?
Considering family structure, family’s socioeconomic status, parents attitude and expectation, home environment, parental care and so on....
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I know of several cases where a student took his education seriously and did well because it was perceived as a way of escaping the expected effects of an abusive home life and unfortunate social background. This may add a further dimension to Orlando M Lourenço 's remarks about resilient children.
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I am currently looking into the prevalence and effects of arthropods as predators of vertebrate brood. To do so, I'm building a database consisting of observations of arthropods predating vertebrate young that are dependent on parental care, in terrestrial systems (think for example of nestlings in birds or young mammals).
So if you, during your field work or in your free time, have observed such a predation event (or know anyone who has), please share it with me with as much detail as possible!
Thanks in advance for your help
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I have observed an attack by a scolopendra (Scolopendra cingulata) on young reptiles. They also attack chicks of birds nesting on the ground. These observations are in the Astrakhan region, Kalmykia, Stavropol Territory, Crimea and Kazakhstan.
Regards, Sergey
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I would like to ask a recommendation of a statistical test to answer a question related to an unusual data structure.
I am testing if birds change nest parental care behavior depending on offspring health status. I video recorded nests in the field, and calculated the proportion of time that parents of each nest spent on different behaviors types (eg. Brooding, Feeding or Absent). In this situation, if a parental spends more time on “Brooding”, the proportion of time on “Absent” will decline. In other word, the frequency of each behavior is not independent (and the sum will be always 1).
Furthermore, my data have several structures. Nest can have 1,2 or 3 nestlings. Parental care could be influenced by nestling age. Offspring could be not infected in a first record but become infected in the next one. Video records have different lengths (it depends of battery duration of each record, but is usually from 50-70 min).
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I am not aware of any particular GLMM for modeling this specific type of data, but if you use hierarchical Bayesian modeling with a Dirichlet distribution for your dependent variable, all should be ok :)
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Hey all! I am studying parental care in Insects and I would lie to check the impact to treating care as a single trait VS investigating each type of care separately. I am trying to find relevant papers on Google Scholar, but it;s hard to break down the question in key words, so I wonder if any of you know of any relevant papers. Many thanks in advance!
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In my work on the evolution of parental care diversity, I precisely argue that care should not be treated as a whole in comparative studies because different care behaviours and adaptations likely entail different costs and benefits, and we demonstrate this matters when investigating questions on the evolutionary origin and loss of care as well as life history evolution. See West & Capellini I (2016) and Furnerss and Capellini (2019) both in Nature Communications
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A variety of theories and models of the evolution of parental care in animals usually consider the origin of various modes of parental care from an ancestral state of no care. Some models of transitions between the reproductive strategies suggest the probability of a reverse process associated with generalization of life history and the evolutionary loss of parental care (see e.g. Mank et al., 2005; Klug, Bonsall, 2010). In which groups of animals have such evolutionary transformations been purposefully investigated and shown? The fishes are most interesting for me.
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Hello Dmitry; Do you have examples that got you thinking along this line? They might get me going too. What immediately comes to mind are the cichlid species swarms in the African Great Lakes. Cheers, Jim Des Lauriers
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I am interested in measuring emotional support, parental care, parental control, parental support, parental bonding, parental involvement, parental types ( eg overprotective, autonomous and laissez-faire). Please suggest existing studies on these topics or how to measure these concepts or similar concepts.
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A student of mine used the MOPS and Parental Bonding instrument with Caribbean adults. You can take a look at this paper as a starting point, but do not quote it. The paper is based on her dissertation, which I could supply in full if necessary. The dissertation is a few years old, but has a lot more literature review, etc..
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I'm looking for papers or another scientific productions that describe parental care in fish that lay eggs in leaves (or similar) and carry these leaves with them until eggs hatch.
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cartilaginous fish could be
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I have a student would like to use the parental acceptance-rejection questionnaire (parq) but it seems its a charged scale
Is there anything similar that is available with just consent or permission?
The student is doing there final year dissertation so its for research use
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Peter Beaman BSc FHEA MBPsS
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You could look into Rene Dailey's work on confirmation theory - she looks at both acceptance and challenge. Ellis 2002 has a confirmation scale that is readily available that should suit your needs. 
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The methods?
The way to access? 
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Hi Nguyen,
What a fantastic work you have already done! It appears you will be comparing the emotional and mental well being of the left behind children and the well supported children on these indices. It might be that a MANOVA could do the work since there are several interval scaled measures and two independent groups. This may help better than t-test as this will address the within and between group effects across your measure. You may also want to make some comparisons with the parents' data too to see what significant factors differentiate the supportive/available parents from non available ones and how that matches with the children's psychosocial outcomes using correlation analysis. Let me know if there is any more issues I can help with.
Best wishes as you keep analysing the massive data you have collected.
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I have found a positive relationship between parental care and mental health. Can i carry put a  t test to determine if theres a difference of mental health between the high and low parental scores 
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You should probably pick one, Alisha, and choose based on the nature of your data and the underlying nature of the constructs that you’re studying.  If mental health falls along a continuum and parental care falls along a continuum, then conduct a correlation.  If instead you conduct a t-test, then you are saying that mental health falls along a continuum (as the dependent variable) but parental care is categorical - either high or low.  Another way to think about it is with the scores.  Let’s say your parental care score ranges from 0 to 100 and the average is 50.  Is the person with a score of 40 more like the person with a score of 60 or 10.  If there is a threshold where 40 really belongs with your 10 and 60 belongs with 90, then you’re thinking categorically (use the t-test), but if 40 and 60 really are in between your extremes, then you’re thinking more continuously (use the correlation).  Hope this helps some. ~ Kevin
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I would like to do some research on this topic. Do you have any instruments or research on this topic?
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Thank you Barbara
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I have found Buri's PAQ, the PDSQ etc but can't seem to find one that directly relates to Baumrind as well as Mccoby & Marin's extra Style of uninvolved/neglecting. Thank you in advance for any help  
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 Thank you very much, I have actually read this one, however it is a bit time consuming for my research purposes - its a good one though.
Thanks again for taking the time to answer my question.
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Parental care is common in the living world, and its magnitude increases with more developed species.
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The natural world, especially the members of Kingdom Animalia show the advantages of belonging.  Humans with a spiritual dimension and a consciousness of others also manifest this in a greater degree.  We have clear descriptions of every kind of relationship.  Being together means warmth and comfort and protection.  Let's remember that NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, and we need one another.  RG is a special place for researchers to belong.  
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I am currently designing a parenting assessment tool for use across partnerships in different settings. There seem to be a wealth of different parenting assessment tools, does anyone have access to evidence based tools which are validated by research?
Thank you.
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For my research I applied the Adult & Adolescent Parenting Inventory II (AAPI-2) that resulted in beautiful findings. There is a cost, however, I have 300 applications available for use, if you would like to collaborate. Let me know.
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I would like to assess sensitivity among parents of children and teenagers
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Serait intéressant que tu me fasses parvenir ton adresse courriel.
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Particularly of young children between the ages of 5-10.
'Low average IQ' as identified on the WISC-IV.
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Thank you everyone for your inputs.
It is very difficult to find papers addressing all three issues, i.e. parent-child interactions, intelligence and behaviors. However, the papers that I did find of these issues (intelligence and behaviors, parent-child relationships and behaviors) are rather outdated. The recent literature available also reference studies that are outdated. I will look into the articles that you have discussed and hopefully they can be incorporated in my research.
Best wishes,
Andrea
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Any studies with you can advise?
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Dear Sarah,
This is wonderful one; with the experience only i give this answer not with some studies; those who are having newborn and upto the age of 3 they are going to face some problem in maintenance and taking care of the babies, it alters the women tendency towards babies than the work, it's a psychological fact; up to the age of 5 the women get affected negatively about the employment due to the babies continual monitoring progress;
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I want to establish a causation in my research,emotional abuse and emotional neglect by working mothers on psycho social adjustment, one way is to apply such scale on children to identify the affected children,what should I do with the parents to assess them?
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nice to see you but i am unable to understand your language sir.
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i.e. GPS tracking of children, apps that turn the child's phone off unless the child contacts parent, etc.
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Thanks Erin for your excellent answer.
Turns out I found a heap of research on parental monitoring via cellphone, and a few Japanese studies involving the use of RFID to track children.
Thanks,Sarah
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Families in which a child is born with a disability or disability manifested itself and diagnosed after some time (as in the case of Rett Syndrome, autism, early psychosis) - experience the shock, grief and mourning of the idealized image of a child. They experience also anger, aggression, burdens and depression.
They are seeking sources of the birth of a child with a disability, and blame those responsible for this, in their opinions. Sometimes the spouses are blaming each other. They go through phases of adaptation to the child's disability in the family until the approval phase. The entire adaptation process takes sometimes many years with no guarantee, that family will cope with all phases sucessfully. 
Another situation, filled with families' dilemmas and burdens are present while diagnosed various disabilities, acquired disabilities or mental disorders manifested, through adolescence or every other adulthood phases. 
What in your opinions determines the consistency and stability of parental or spouses' relationships and what determines the breakdown of the families having member with disability in your country ? I'm completely aware of cultural differences in this issue and thread. 
Please, share your knowledge, experiences, opinions or visualisations. 
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For parents, having a disabled child may increase stress, take a toll on mental and physical health, make it difficult to find appropriate and affordable child care, and affect decisions about work, education/training, having additional children, and relying on public support. It may be associated with guilt, blame, or reduced self-esteem. It may divert attention from other aspects of family functioning. The out-of-pocket costs of medical care and other services may be enormous. All of these potential effects could have repercussions for the quality of the relationship between the parents, their living arrangements, and future relationships and family structure. Having a disabled child may also affect parents' allocation of time and financial resources to their healthy and unhealthy children, their parenting practices, their expectations of healthy siblings in terms of achievement, responsibility, and short- and long-term contributions to the household, and the siblings' health and development. Finally, having a disabled child in the family may affect the contributions of time and financial resources on the part of the child's grandparents or other extended family members, the relationships of those individuals to the core family, and the financial, physical, and emotional well-being of those family members. All of these potential effects on families have implications for the health and well-being of disabled children.
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A measurement tool that will evaluate their parent's discipline strategy and how it contributed to their academic success.
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out team uses the Alabama Parenting questionnaire (child version; http://labs.uno.edu/developmental-psychopathology/APQ.html), Parent-child Affective Quality, as well as, create and assemble items that ask about standard setting, family conflict, school involvement, etc. you may have to determine which metric you want to use for academic success and then run correlations/regressions.
good places to start:
Barry, T. D., Lochman, J. E., Fite, P. J., Wells, K. C., & Colder, C. R. (2012).
Masten, A. S., Hubbard, J. J., Gest, S. D., Tellegen, A., Garmezy, N., & Ramirez, M. (1999).
Stright, A. D., & Yeo, K. L. (2014).
luck!