Kenneth J Gruber
Biographic Data
| ID | 353296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth J Gruber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth J |
| FAMILY NAME | Gruber |
| SIGNATURE | GRUBER K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8304-2614 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Development of water insecurity scale for rural households in Cameroon- Central Africa
The WATINE-17 is able to capture key elements of water insecurity and can be used to monitor and evaluate SDG# 6 and water-related programs, such as WASH, in Central Africa
Assessing Child Welfare Agency Practices and Attitudes that Affect Father Engagement
The importance of fathers' involvement in their children's lives is irrefutable. Supportive, warm, and positive involvement of fathers leads to children being well-adjusted. Indeed, involved fathers positively influence their children's cognitive ability, social behavior, psychological well-being, and educational achievement. For children in foster care, when fathers are involved they have significantly shorter stays in foster care than those who…
Beneficioso y Una Prioridad”
The results provide input to community health advocates to identify women who need additional support to take an HIV test
Cultural Receptivity among Foster Parents
Foster parents' ability to support a minority youth's cultural needs is critically important to the appropriate development of the youth's cultural identity and avoidance of negative reactions to real or perceived rejection or dismissal of their cultural values or traditions. This study assessed the ability of a set of practice-based measures to identify indicators of positive transcultural parenting. It involved a cross-sectional, nonprobability…
Baccalaureate Student Perceptions of Challenging Family Problems
This study explored the attitudes of 147 undergraduate social work majors to working with difficult families. Students indicated which problems (from a list of 42, including hot topics such as homosexuality, transgender issues, abortion, and substance abuse) they believed they would find most difficult to work with and provided information regarding their own experience with these problems (personal or family, knowing of others with this situatio…
Research Literature Review on Social Work Education Instructional Methods
This article presents a review of research studies examining instructional methods reported in the social work education literature published between 1998 and 2008. From a sample of 91 studies, 31 were identified as having used either a single group pre/post test design or a comparison of two or more groups and inclusion of a learning outcome measure. Most of the studies were deficient in either the employment of comparison groups, pre/post desig…
The Urban Studio Project Recipe
The Urban Studio was initially planned to enhance the pedagogy and curriculum of students in the Department of Interior Architecture through the design and construction of a home for a needy family. This project grew to include faculty and students from the Department of Social Work when the need for a psychosocial perspective was identified. The project resulted in a discovery of the potential benefits of an interdisciplinary endeavor framed by …
Cultural Adaptation Resources for Nutrition and Health in New Immigrants in Central North Carolina
A Family Perspective for Substance Abuse
This paper calls for researchers and treatment providers to increase their recognition of the role that family and family functioning has for understanding the incidence and impact of substance abuse. Substance abuse is identified as a family problem by exploring its occurrence within families as well as its impact on marital relationship, family violence, and child abuse and neglect. The impact of substance abuse on the roles of spouses and pare…
Context and closure in children’s friendships
Third-grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children’s friendships across the multiple contexts of their lives and to determine the strength of parent-to-parent relationships for these friendships (social network closure). Hierarchical linear modeling procedures were used to evaluate links between friendship context and strength of closure relationships. Closure rel…
In-Home Continuing Care Services for Substance-Affected Families
Addressing substance abuse in families is an important concern for the social work field. This article presents a preliminary view of a continuing care substance abuse recovery services program designed to assist the substance-affected family. The intervention approach is a blended model of substance abuse recovery work and family preservation. Services are directed at helping substance-abusing parents with "recovering" their role with their fami…
The Role of Individuals with Mobility Limitations, Family Members, and Helping Agencies in Obtaining Accessible Home Modifications
Home modifications can enhance the independent living of older adults with mobility limitations; however, obtaining modifications to make the home more accessible often requires resources beyond those of the mobility-limited resident. Personal interviews with independently-living adults with mobility limitations were completed to determine who was responsible for the accessibility modifications present in their homes. Forty-six respondents in two…
Human Factors in Residential Energy Efficiency
Implementing residential energy efficient strategies frequently affects the occupants by involving human factors of thermal comfort and user convenience (time, physical effort, or attention). This paper presents an analysis of human factors and measured energy savings resulting from the use of selected energy efficient strategies in residential heating while families lived in a residential test facility Seven volunteer families lived separately i…
Assessment of neighborhood satisfaction by residents of three housing types
Gender differences in the perceptions of self's and others' use of power strategies
Housing Satisfaction and Type of Residence
A major objective of housing research continues to be the assessment of housing satisfaction. In the present study, housing satisfaction as a multidimensional construct is examined using data from a sample of rural residents of conventional homes (N=105), mobile homes (N=90), and apartments (N=110). Through factor analysis of a set of 61 housing satisfaction items, six satisfaction factors are identified. Comparison of factor scores by housing ty…
Gender differences in leisure-need activity patterns
Procedures for developing training programs in large-scale settings
Reactions of adolescents to being interviewed about their sexual assault experiences
Following extensive interviews about their sexual activities and possible sexual assault experiences, 66 moderately delinquent adolescents were asked a series of postinterview questions to determine their levels of comfort/discomfort with various elements of the interview proper. This was done so that the interviewers could provide counseling or other assistance to any youth who reported significant distress following the interview experience. No…
Instigative aggression as a function of past experience and target characteristics
Third-party-instigated aggression was examined by manipulating the provocativeness of the same or a new target in Part 2 of a task. Effects of previous experience with aggression (i.e., interacting with partners supportive of or disapproving of aggression in Part 1) were also examined. Although the provocativeness of the target accounted for the most variance in the amount of aggression expressed, when the target in Part 2 was new, prior experien…
Sex-Typing of Leisure Activities
One of the effects of the recent trend to equalize the sexes has been a greater awareness and effort on the part of women to participate in and become associated with activities formerly engaged in predominantly by males. In the present study, 65 males and 62 females were asked to indicate their knowledge of, interest in, and the degree to which, each of 29 skill-activities were associated with one sex or the other. Seven of the skill-activities …
Sex differences in listening comprehension
Assessment of neighborhood satisfaction by residents of three housing types
Gender differences in the perceptions of self's and others' use of power strategies
Cultural Receptivity among Foster Parents
Foster parents' ability to support a minority youth's cultural needs is critically important to the appropriate development of the youth's cultural identity and avoidance of negative reactions to real or perceived rejection or dismissal of their cultural values or traditions. This study assessed the ability of a set of practice-based measures to identify indicators of positive transcultural parenting. It involved a cross-sectional, nonprobability…
Context and closure in children’s friendships
Third-grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children’s friendships across the multiple contexts of their lives and to determine the strength of parent-to-parent relationships for these friendships (social network closure). Hierarchical linear modeling procedures were used to evaluate links between friendship context and strength of closure relationships. Closure rel…
Sex differences in listening comprehension
Research Literature Review on Social Work Education Instructional Methods
This article presents a review of research studies examining instructional methods reported in the social work education literature published between 1998 and 2008. From a sample of 91 studies, 31 were identified as having used either a single group pre/post test design or a comparison of two or more groups and inclusion of a learning outcome measure. Most of the studies were deficient in either the employment of comparison groups, pre/post desig…
Gender differences in leisure-need activity patterns
Reactions of adolescents to being interviewed about their sexual assault experiences
Following extensive interviews about their sexual activities and possible sexual assault experiences, 66 moderately delinquent adolescents were asked a series of postinterview questions to determine their levels of comfort/discomfort with various elements of the interview proper. This was done so that the interviewers could provide counseling or other assistance to any youth who reported significant distress following the interview experience. No…
Sex differences in listening comprehension
Sex-Typing of Leisure Activities
One of the effects of the recent trend to equalize the sexes has been a greater awareness and effort on the part of women to participate in and become associated with activities formerly engaged in predominantly by males. In the present study, 65 males and 62 females were asked to indicate their knowledge of, interest in, and the degree to which, each of 29 skill-activities were associated with one sex or the other. Seven of the skill-activities …
Instigative aggression as a function of past experience and target characteristics
Third-party-instigated aggression was examined by manipulating the provocativeness of the same or a new target in Part 2 of a task. Effects of previous experience with aggression (i.e., interacting with partners supportive of or disapproving of aggression in Part 1) were also examined. Although the provocativeness of the target accounted for the most variance in the amount of aggression expressed, when the target in Part 2 was new, prior experien…
Procedures for developing training programs in large-scale settings
Reactions of adolescents to being interviewed about their sexual assault experiences
Following extensive interviews about their sexual activities and possible sexual assault experiences, 66 moderately delinquent adolescents were asked a series of postinterview questions to determine their levels of comfort/discomfort with various elements of the interview proper. This was done so that the interviewers could provide counseling or other assistance to any youth who reported significant distress following the interview experience. No…
Housing Satisfaction and Type of Residence
A major objective of housing research continues to be the assessment of housing satisfaction. In the present study, housing satisfaction as a multidimensional construct is examined using data from a sample of rural residents of conventional homes (N=105), mobile homes (N=90), and apartments (N=110). Through factor analysis of a set of 61 housing satisfaction items, six satisfaction factors are identified. Comparison of factor scores by housing ty…
Gender differences in leisure-need activity patterns
Gender differences in the perceptions of self's and others' use of power strategies
Assessment of neighborhood satisfaction by residents of three housing types
Human Factors in Residential Energy Efficiency
Implementing residential energy efficient strategies frequently affects the occupants by involving human factors of thermal comfort and user convenience (time, physical effort, or attention). This paper presents an analysis of human factors and measured energy savings resulting from the use of selected energy efficient strategies in residential heating while families lived in a residential test facility Seven volunteer families lived separately i…
The Role of Individuals with Mobility Limitations, Family Members, and Helping Agencies in Obtaining Accessible Home Modifications
Home modifications can enhance the independent living of older adults with mobility limitations; however, obtaining modifications to make the home more accessible often requires resources beyond those of the mobility-limited resident. Personal interviews with independently-living adults with mobility limitations were completed to determine who was responsible for the accessibility modifications present in their homes. Forty-six respondents in two…
In-Home Continuing Care Services for Substance-Affected Families
Addressing substance abuse in families is an important concern for the social work field. This article presents a preliminary view of a continuing care substance abuse recovery services program designed to assist the substance-affected family. The intervention approach is a blended model of substance abuse recovery work and family preservation. Services are directed at helping substance-abusing parents with "recovering" their role with their fami…
A Family Perspective for Substance Abuse
This paper calls for researchers and treatment providers to increase their recognition of the role that family and family functioning has for understanding the incidence and impact of substance abuse. Substance abuse is identified as a family problem by exploring its occurrence within families as well as its impact on marital relationship, family violence, and child abuse and neglect. The impact of substance abuse on the roles of spouses and pare…
Context and closure in children’s friendships
Third-grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children’s friendships across the multiple contexts of their lives and to determine the strength of parent-to-parent relationships for these friendships (social network closure). Hierarchical linear modeling procedures were used to evaluate links between friendship context and strength of closure relationships. Closure rel…
Cultural Adaptation Resources for Nutrition and Health in New Immigrants in Central North Carolina
Research Literature Review on Social Work Education Instructional Methods
This article presents a review of research studies examining instructional methods reported in the social work education literature published between 1998 and 2008. From a sample of 91 studies, 31 were identified as having used either a single group pre/post test design or a comparison of two or more groups and inclusion of a learning outcome measure. Most of the studies were deficient in either the employment of comparison groups, pre/post desig…
The Urban Studio Project Recipe
The Urban Studio was initially planned to enhance the pedagogy and curriculum of students in the Department of Interior Architecture through the design and construction of a home for a needy family. This project grew to include faculty and students from the Department of Social Work when the need for a psychosocial perspective was identified. The project resulted in a discovery of the potential benefits of an interdisciplinary endeavor framed by …
Baccalaureate Student Perceptions of Challenging Family Problems
This study explored the attitudes of 147 undergraduate social work majors to working with difficult families. Students indicated which problems (from a list of 42, including hot topics such as homosexuality, transgender issues, abortion, and substance abuse) they believed they would find most difficult to work with and provided information regarding their own experience with these problems (personal or family, knowing of others with this situatio…
Cultural Receptivity among Foster Parents
Foster parents' ability to support a minority youth's cultural needs is critically important to the appropriate development of the youth's cultural identity and avoidance of negative reactions to real or perceived rejection or dismissal of their cultural values or traditions. This study assessed the ability of a set of practice-based measures to identify indicators of positive transcultural parenting. It involved a cross-sectional, nonprobability…
Beneficioso y Una Prioridad”
The results provide input to community health advocates to identify women who need additional support to take an HIV test
Assessing Child Welfare Agency Practices and Attitudes that Affect Father Engagement
The importance of fathers' involvement in their children's lives is irrefutable. Supportive, warm, and positive involvement of fathers leads to children being well-adjusted. Indeed, involved fathers positively influence their children's cognitive ability, social behavior, psychological well-being, and educational achievement. For children in foster care, when fathers are involved they have significantly shorter stays in foster care than those who…
Development of water insecurity scale for rural households in Cameroon- Central Africa
The WATINE-17 is able to capture key elements of water insecurity and can be used to monitor and evaluate SDG# 6 and water-related programs, such as WASH, in Central Africa
Psychology (21 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Business (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Social Work (5 works)