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I Wanted to Be Able to Stand on My Own Two Feet First—Younger Parents Exiting Homelessness and Care and Their Aspirations

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This qualitative study examines the aspirations, motivations and support needs of 15 young parents in South Australia with experiences of out‐of‐home care (OOHC) or homelessness. Most participants aimed to delay parenting to achieve financial stability, education and personal development, but faced unplanned pregnancies due to inadequate ...
Tim Moore, Stewart McDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Happiness: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
TOPIC. Although happiness is important in maintaining health, few studies of happiness can be found in the nursing literature. PURPOSE. This paper explicates the concept of happiness through examination of its defining attributes, antecedents ...
Bekhet, Abir K.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Adults With Intellectual Disability Moving out of the Family Home Using the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Family Members' Planning Experiences

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Pragmatics of Nigerian English in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Novels

open access: yesJournal of Language and Education, 2016
There are relatively few studies that have examined the pragmatization of Nigerian English in Adichie’s novelistic oeuvre. This study seeks to fill that gap by undertaking a pragmatic analysis of Nigerian English in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, Half of a ...
Romanus Aboh, Happiness Uduk
doaj   +1 more source

A Framework of Happiness Survey and Evaluation of Gross National Happiness [PDF]

open access: yes
Happiness surveys based on self-report can generate unreliable data due to respondents’ imperfect retrospection, vulnerability to context, and arbitrariness in measuring happiness. To overcome these problems, this article proposes to incorporate a method
Haiou Zhou
core  

What happy people do: The behavioral correlates of happiness in everyday situations

open access: hybrid, 2022
Gwendolyn Gardiner   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

Trust your instincts:The relationship between intuitive decision making and happiness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Epstein (1994; 2003) proposed that there are two cognitive information processing systems that operate in parallel: the intuitive thinking style and the rational thinking style. Decisional fit occurs when the preferred thinking style is applied to making
Kikm, Euising   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

“Because everybody's different”: Co‐designing body donor program consent processes

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract While it is broadly accepted that body donation for anatomical education should rely on informed consent, consent processes vary substantially. Best practice guidelines for body donation are typically published by anatomical societies and may not reflect details valued by prospective donors or the educators and students who utilize donor ...
Georgina C. Stephens
wiley   +1 more source

Direct and indirect effects of mood on risk decision making in safety-critical workers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The study aimed to examine the direct influence of specific moods (fatigue, anxiety, happiness) on risk in safety-critical decision making. It further aimed to explore indirect effects, specifically, the potential mediating effects of information ...
Arkes   +57 more
core   +1 more source

Community building through play: Development and design of a board game for review in an undergraduate anatomy course

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Engaging students and fostering interactions can be a challenge in large enrollment, foundational‐level, undergraduate anatomy classes. Despite the active learning environment of the anatomy laboratory, students often struggle to find study partners or even speak to fellow learners in a large classroom.
Kristin Stover   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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