Esther Sales
Biographic Data
| ID | 179709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Sales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Sales |
| SIGNATURE | SALES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Researcher-Made Reading Drill Booklet and Students’ Oral Reading Fluency in Communication Arts Presentations
Teachers open the path for greater involvement and lifetime literacy skills by arming students with deliberate strategies. This quasi-experimental study investigated the effectiveness of a researcher-made reading drill booklet in enhancing the oral reading fluency of Grade 7 students at Bagumbayan National High School during the 2024–2025 school year. Forty students were selected to participate in a one-group pre-test-post-test design, utilizing …
Family Cultural Socialization, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Esteem: Web-Based Survey of International Adult Adoptees
Using a Web-based survey, this study of 82 adult international adoptees examined the relationship between parental support for cultural socialization and its effect on adoptees' selfesteem. Feelings of belongingness and ethnic identity were predicted to serve as mediators between the central variables. The results showed a positive relationship between cultural socialization and selfesteem, which was mediated by a feeling of belongingness and one…
Examining Transportation and Employment Outcomes: Evidence for Moving Beyond The Bus Pass
This study of 62 low-income, primarily black, single mothers, in the Pittsburgh labor force, examined the relationship between transportation and employment outcomes through regression analyses. The study's unique Transportation Advantage measure enabled the quantification of mobility disparities between auto owners and those utilizing other travel modes. Results indicated that women with private vehicles reported higher Transportation Advantage …
Impact of Maternal Mental Health Status on Child Mental Health Treatment Outcome
Gender Differences in Perceptions of Coparenting Quality Among Expartners
Gender differences in perceptions of former partners regarding their breakup, as they relate to the quality of their coparenting relationship, were examined in a survey of 135 respondents (54 males, 81 females). No differences were found between men and women in perceived co-parenting quality or in 9 of 10 measures of past and present perceptions (women were more satisfied with their child custody arrangements). However, gender moderated the impa…
Maternal caregiving strain as a mediator in the relationship between child and mother mental health problems
This study examined whether the general stress-caregiver strain-mental health outcome model may be as appropriate for caregivers of minor-age children as it has been for caregivers of adults with chronic illness. The authors examined whether children's behavioral problems are related to mothers' caregiving strains, which then is related to greater maternal mental health symptomatology. Mothers of 222 children referred for mental health services c…
Social support buffering of acculturative stress: A study of mental health symptoms among Korean international students
Forgiveness as a Mediator Between Post Divorce Cognitive Processes and Coparenting Quality
This study investigated the mediating role of forgiveness between the predictor variables of causal attributions and offense severity judgments and the outcome variable, quality coparenting post divorce. A mailed survey sent to a sample of 585 separated/divorced parents with minor aged children who had attended a brief educational seminar resulted in a final sample of 135 respondents. The significant negative relationship between cause attributed…
Therapist and Case Manager Perceptions of Client Barriers to Treatment Participation and Use of Engagement Strategies
Acculturation, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Among Korean Immigrants in the United States
A sample of 157 Korean immigrants responded to measures of acculturation level, stress from acculturation, and depressive symptoms. The authors hypothesized that adaptive acculturation would depend on assimilation regarding social interactions and the host culture's language as well as on retention of a core identity, including values and traditions of the culture of origin. Consistent with the mediation hypothesis, acculturation, based on a fact…
The Role of Shame in Women's Recovery from Alcoholism: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse
This study compares the recovery experience of female members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) who reported a history of childhood sexual abuse (68%) with those who did not report experiencing childhood sexual abuse. A sample of 53 women was obtained from AA. A significant relationship was found between shame and two measures of difficulties in recovery-problems in social adjustment and relapse. Though the hypothesis that experiences of child sexual …
Surviving Unemployment: Economic Resources and Job Loss Duration in Blue-Collar Households
Journal Article Surviving Unemployment: Economic Resources and Job Loss Duration in Blue-Collar Households Get access Esther Sales Esther Sales Esther Sales, PhD, is professor, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, 2217F Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. The author thanks Patrick Doreian, Tony Tripodi, and Charlotte Rath for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. Search for other works by this author on:…
Family Caregiving in Chronic Illness
Considering The Social Context in Gender Research: The Impact of College Students' Life Stage
Although a large body of research has investigated the possibility of motivational or attitudinal differences in women and men that would explain observable differences in levels of achievement, much of this research has failed to produce the expected results. It is proposed that the failure of researchers to consider the personal and contextual characteristics of their college student samples may have contributed to this lack of results. Some of…
Victim Readjustment Following Assault
A growing literature on the impact of assault has given little consideration to the factors contributing to variations in victim reaction. This paper reviews the preassault and postassault variables that are associated with the recovery process. Among key factors are the psychosocial resources of the victim at entry to the crisis and the violence of the assault itself; however, variables often contribute differentially at different points in the …
Acculturation, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Among Korean Immigrants in the United States
A sample of 157 Korean immigrants responded to measures of acculturation level, stress from acculturation, and depressive symptoms. The authors hypothesized that adaptive acculturation would depend on assimilation regarding social interactions and the host culture's language as well as on retention of a core identity, including values and traditions of the culture of origin. Consistent with the mediation hypothesis, acculturation, based on a fact…
Social support buffering of acculturative stress: A study of mental health symptoms among Korean international students
Victim Readjustment Following Assault
A growing literature on the impact of assault has given little consideration to the factors contributing to variations in victim reaction. This paper reviews the preassault and postassault variables that are associated with the recovery process. Among key factors are the psychosocial resources of the victim at entry to the crisis and the violence of the assault itself; however, variables often contribute differentially at different points in the …
Impact of Maternal Mental Health Status on Child Mental Health Treatment Outcome
Family Cultural Socialization, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Esteem: Web-Based Survey of International Adult Adoptees
Using a Web-based survey, this study of 82 adult international adoptees examined the relationship between parental support for cultural socialization and its effect on adoptees' selfesteem. Feelings of belongingness and ethnic identity were predicted to serve as mediators between the central variables. The results showed a positive relationship between cultural socialization and selfesteem, which was mediated by a feeling of belongingness and one…
Maternal caregiving strain as a mediator in the relationship between child and mother mental health problems
This study examined whether the general stress-caregiver strain-mental health outcome model may be as appropriate for caregivers of minor-age children as it has been for caregivers of adults with chronic illness. The authors examined whether children's behavioral problems are related to mothers' caregiving strains, which then is related to greater maternal mental health symptomatology. Mothers of 222 children referred for mental health services c…
Examining Transportation and Employment Outcomes: Evidence for Moving Beyond The Bus Pass
This study of 62 low-income, primarily black, single mothers, in the Pittsburgh labor force, examined the relationship between transportation and employment outcomes through regression analyses. The study's unique Transportation Advantage measure enabled the quantification of mobility disparities between auto owners and those utilizing other travel modes. Results indicated that women with private vehicles reported higher Transportation Advantage …
Surviving Unemployment: Economic Resources and Job Loss Duration in Blue-Collar Households
Journal Article Surviving Unemployment: Economic Resources and Job Loss Duration in Blue-Collar Households Get access Esther Sales Esther Sales Esther Sales, PhD, is professor, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, 2217F Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. The author thanks Patrick Doreian, Tony Tripodi, and Charlotte Rath for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. Search for other works by this author on:…
Considering The Social Context in Gender Research: The Impact of College Students' Life Stage
Although a large body of research has investigated the possibility of motivational or attitudinal differences in women and men that would explain observable differences in levels of achievement, much of this research has failed to produce the expected results. It is proposed that the failure of researchers to consider the personal and contextual characteristics of their college student samples may have contributed to this lack of results. Some of…
Therapist and Case Manager Perceptions of Client Barriers to Treatment Participation and Use of Engagement Strategies
Victim Readjustment Following Assault
A growing literature on the impact of assault has given little consideration to the factors contributing to variations in victim reaction. This paper reviews the preassault and postassault variables that are associated with the recovery process. Among key factors are the psychosocial resources of the victim at entry to the crisis and the violence of the assault itself; however, variables often contribute differentially at different points in the …
Considering The Social Context in Gender Research: The Impact of College Students' Life Stage
Although a large body of research has investigated the possibility of motivational or attitudinal differences in women and men that would explain observable differences in levels of achievement, much of this research has failed to produce the expected results. It is proposed that the failure of researchers to consider the personal and contextual characteristics of their college student samples may have contributed to this lack of results. Some of…
Family Caregiving in Chronic Illness
Surviving Unemployment: Economic Resources and Job Loss Duration in Blue-Collar Households
Journal Article Surviving Unemployment: Economic Resources and Job Loss Duration in Blue-Collar Households Get access Esther Sales Esther Sales Esther Sales, PhD, is professor, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, 2217F Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. The author thanks Patrick Doreian, Tony Tripodi, and Charlotte Rath for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. Search for other works by this author on:…
The Role of Shame in Women's Recovery from Alcoholism: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse
This study compares the recovery experience of female members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) who reported a history of childhood sexual abuse (68%) with those who did not report experiencing childhood sexual abuse. A sample of 53 women was obtained from AA. A significant relationship was found between shame and two measures of difficulties in recovery-problems in social adjustment and relapse. Though the hypothesis that experiences of child sexual …
Forgiveness as a Mediator Between Post Divorce Cognitive Processes and Coparenting Quality
This study investigated the mediating role of forgiveness between the predictor variables of causal attributions and offense severity judgments and the outcome variable, quality coparenting post divorce. A mailed survey sent to a sample of 585 separated/divorced parents with minor aged children who had attended a brief educational seminar resulted in a final sample of 135 respondents. The significant negative relationship between cause attributed…
Therapist and Case Manager Perceptions of Client Barriers to Treatment Participation and Use of Engagement Strategies
Acculturation, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Among Korean Immigrants in the United States
A sample of 157 Korean immigrants responded to measures of acculturation level, stress from acculturation, and depressive symptoms. The authors hypothesized that adaptive acculturation would depend on assimilation regarding social interactions and the host culture's language as well as on retention of a core identity, including values and traditions of the culture of origin. Consistent with the mediation hypothesis, acculturation, based on a fact…
Maternal caregiving strain as a mediator in the relationship between child and mother mental health problems
This study examined whether the general stress-caregiver strain-mental health outcome model may be as appropriate for caregivers of minor-age children as it has been for caregivers of adults with chronic illness. The authors examined whether children's behavioral problems are related to mothers' caregiving strains, which then is related to greater maternal mental health symptomatology. Mothers of 222 children referred for mental health services c…
Social support buffering of acculturative stress: A study of mental health symptoms among Korean international students
Gender Differences in Perceptions of Coparenting Quality Among Expartners
Gender differences in perceptions of former partners regarding their breakup, as they relate to the quality of their coparenting relationship, were examined in a survey of 135 respondents (54 males, 81 females). No differences were found between men and women in perceived co-parenting quality or in 9 of 10 measures of past and present perceptions (women were more satisfied with their child custody arrangements). However, gender moderated the impa…
Family Cultural Socialization, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Esteem: Web-Based Survey of International Adult Adoptees
Using a Web-based survey, this study of 82 adult international adoptees examined the relationship between parental support for cultural socialization and its effect on adoptees' selfesteem. Feelings of belongingness and ethnic identity were predicted to serve as mediators between the central variables. The results showed a positive relationship between cultural socialization and selfesteem, which was mediated by a feeling of belongingness and one…
Examining Transportation and Employment Outcomes: Evidence for Moving Beyond The Bus Pass
This study of 62 low-income, primarily black, single mothers, in the Pittsburgh labor force, examined the relationship between transportation and employment outcomes through regression analyses. The study's unique Transportation Advantage measure enabled the quantification of mobility disparities between auto owners and those utilizing other travel modes. Results indicated that women with private vehicles reported higher Transportation Advantage …
Impact of Maternal Mental Health Status on Child Mental Health Treatment Outcome
Researcher-Made Reading Drill Booklet and Students’ Oral Reading Fluency in Communication Arts Presentations
Teachers open the path for greater involvement and lifetime literacy skills by arming students with deliberate strategies. This quasi-experimental study investigated the effectiveness of a researcher-made reading drill booklet in enhancing the oral reading fluency of Grade 7 students at Bagumbayan National High School during the 2024–2025 school year. Forty students were selected to participate in a one-group pre-test-post-test design, utilizing …
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