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Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a major concerns for researchers and the public alike and costs Americans $5.8 billion every year in services and job productivity. Both victimization and perpetration confer risk for various negative outcomes including mental illness, substance use, and compromised physical well-being. Moreover, partner aggression peaks during young adult, so understanding the causes of IPV among this age group is important. Existing research has focused on individual (i.e. alcohol use) and familial (i.e. interparental conflict) risks for intimate partner aggression, but the broader social context is less often the focus. Thus. the purpose of this study is to examine the long-term impact of childhood economic pressure on young adulthood common couple violence (CCV) via negative family of origin experiences. The Family Stress Model suggests that childhood economic pressure compromises familial relationships, leading to depression, caregiver conflict, and ineffective parenting practices. These family experiences, in turn, are likely to lead to an increased risk of IPV in adulthood. The study utilized data from a sample of 223 African-American families and from a sample of 306 rural, Caucasian families. Structural equation modeling was used for analyses, and indirect effects were estimated using bias-corrected bootstrapping. Results mainly support the propositions of the FSM in each sample, but there were a few unexpected paths. Further, in both samples, hostile and ineffective parenting significantly predicted common couple violence in young adulthood and mediated the association between caregiver conflict and common couple violence. Further, negative relational schemas acted as a partial link between parenting and partner aggression among African American and Caucasian young adults. The final models explain 18.8% of the variance in the outcome for the FACHS sample and 25.7% of the variance in the outcome for the IYFP sample. The findings of this study point to the importance of economic interventions with families who are struggling financially (i.e. subsidized housing, increased minimum wage) as well as the need for mental health services and relationship education programming for economically-strapped families and young adults.

In this research, I examined the relationship between coaching behaviors and the development of social physique anxiety in adolescent female athletes. In the past, researchers have found links between coaching styles and the behavior and thought processes of athletes, but no research has been conducted regarding the effects of coaching behavior on the development of social physique anxiety in athletes, male or female. The results of this research have the potential to benefit the athletic community by providing them with more information regarding the mental health of athletes. This was an ex post facto correlational study. Each participant completed two surveys: The Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS) and the Coaching Behavior Scale for Sport (CBS-S). The data were analyzed using a one-tailed bivariate correlational analysis. There was no statistically significant correlation found between levels of SPA and general previous coaching behaviors experienced (r= -0.24, p= 0.07). However, there was a statistically significant correlation of -0.30 (p= 0.03) between levels of SPA and the Competition Strategies construct of the CBS-S.--

Katie O'Dwyer flees the constraints of her rural Irish upbringing for the excitement of London. Here she meets and falls in love with William Melville: the imposing head of the Melville fashion dynasty. Elusive, charismatic; married. Their affair is brief but passionate. Katie conceives a child. Fifteen years later she succumbs to cancer; and her beautiful daughter Caitlin finds that she must go to live in England, with the father she has never met. Her half-sisters - cold, high-achieving Elizabeth, and spoilt princess Amber - react to her with hostility; while their elegant mother is too high on valium to notice what goes on. Reeling from her mother's death, unable to fit into this alien world, Caitlin is sent away to boarding school. It is here that something happens which is so awful, so brutalizing, it will change Caitlin forever . . . Over the next fifteen years the sisters' lives will take them in very different directions. Golden girl Elizabeth will enter the family business, hoping to fulfil her destiny of taking the helm; longing above all for her father's approval. But Caitlin remains William's favourite; even though she has rejected his love and his money. In fact, Caitlin's success as a high-fashion designer has been achieved entirely on her own terms. Amber, meanwhile, is too beautiful for her own good. Spoilt but unloved, she craves attention: this makes her easy pickings for predatory men. But the sisters' paths will continue to cross. Because the simple truth is that, no matter how far you go, you cannot escape the claims of family.

Excitatory transmission in the brain is largely mediated by synapses containing the neurotransmitter glutamate. Neuronal circuitry is first established early in brain development requiring the formation of vast numbers of glutamatergic synapses at individual sites of contact made between presynaptic axons and postsynaptic dendrites. Despite mounting efforts in the last decade to identify the complex molecular mechanisms underlying initial synaptogenesis and the subsequent steps of synapse maturation and stabilization, this complex process is still not well understood. Interestingly newly formed glutamatergic synapses in the young brain often lack postsynaptic AMPA-type glutamate receptors (AMPARs). As development progresses, AMPARs are trafficked into synaptic sites but the significance of this event to the functional maturation of synapses remains unclear. To investigate the role of postsynaptic AMPAR insertion in synapse maturation we used RNA interference (RNAi) to knockdown AMPARs in young cultured hippocampal neurons. Surprisingly, loss of postsynaptic AMPARs caused a concurrent reduction in synaptic responses mediated by NMDA-type glutamate receptors (NMDARs), without an apparent change in their synaptic expression. Strikingly, heterologous synapses formed between axons and co-cultured non-neuronal cells expressing AMPARs develop significantly fewer inactive presynaptic terminals, suggesting that AMPARs mediate a retrograde signal to promote presynaptic function. Indeed, the extracellular domain of the AMPAR subunit GluA2 was sufficient to reproduce this effect at heterologous synapses, indicating that this retrograde signaling is independent of AMPAR channel function. Our findings suggest that postsynaptic AMPARs perform an organizational function at synapses that exceeds their standard role as ionotropic receptors by conveying a retrograde trans-synaptic signal that increases the transmission efficacy at a synapse.