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Common Dressing Styles and Attributes Associated with Students’ Dressing Styles in Kenyan Public Universities
(East African Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021)
The study sought to examine students’ dressing styles and common attributes assigned to them. A descriptive survey design was used in this study. The study areas were the University of Nairobi, Egerton University, Moi ...
Women in Colonial East Africa
(Springer, 2021)
This chapter provides a contextual analysis of the role and place of women in colonial East Africa. Several factors including land, labor, agriculture, education, trade, politics, nationalism, and struggle for liberation ...
Influence of monitoring and evaluation frameworks on performance of public agricultural projects in Galana Kilifi county, Kenya
(European Journal of Physical and Agricultural Sciences, 2020)
The objective of the study was to establish how monitoring and evaluation frameworks
influence performance of public agricultural projects in Galana Kilifi County, Kenya.
Monitoring and evaluation frameworks was measured ...
International Collaboration in the Study of Positive Youth Development
(Springer, 2021)
The goal of this chapter is to describe how international collaborative research can contribute to understanding of Positive Youth Development (PYD). Throughout the chapter, we draw on examples from the Parenting Across ...
Employees’ Perception on Internal Communication during Unrest in Public Universities in Western Kenya
(EAS Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2021)
Public universities in Kenya have experienced recurrent employees’ unrest
which could be as a result of ineffective internal communication between the
university and its employees. During crisis, effective internal ...
Learning together: Participatory rural appraisal for coproduction of climate change knowledge
(SAGE, 2020)
Literature indicates a general consensus that knowledge on climate change is critical for enhancing community-based adaptation. Local knowledge tends to be localized to specific contexts and needs to be enhanced to ensure ...
Positive Youth Development: Parental Warmth, Values, and Prosocial Behavior in 11 Cultural Groups
(NIH Public Access, 2021)
The current cross-cultural study aimed to extend research on parenting and children’s prosocial behavior by examining relations among parental warmth, values related to family obligations (i.e., children’s support to and ...
Culture and social change in mothers’ and fathers’ individualism, collectivism and parenting attitudes
(MDPI, 2021-12-01)
Cultures and families are not static over time but evolve in response to social transformations, such as changing gender roles, urbanization, globalization, and technology uptake. Historically, individualism and collectivism ...
Cross‐Cultural Associations of Four Parenting Behaviors With Child Flourishing: Examining Cultural Specificity and Commonality in Cultural Normativeness and Intergenerational …
(2021-11)
Families from nine countries (N = 1,338) were interviewed annually seven times (Mage child = 7–15) to test specificity and commonality in parenting behaviors associated with child flourishing and moderation of associations ...
Longitudinal trajectories of four domains of parenting in relation to adolescent age and puberty in nine countries
(Society for research in child development, 2021-07)
Children, mothers, and fathers in 12 ethnic and regional groups in nine countries (N = 1,338 families) were interviewed annually for 8 years (Mage child = 8–16 years) to model four domains of parenting as a function of ...