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PubMed1987

Fathers and daughters: their relationship and personality characteristics associated with the daughter's smoking behavior.

This study examined the interrelationships of domains (i.e., sets) of paternal personality and father-daughter relationship variables and daughter characteristics and their impact on the daughter's smoking. In addition, the interactive effects of individual father and daughter variables on the daughter's smoking were studied. Female college student volunteers (N = 403) and their fathers were given closed-ended questionnaires that included a number of scales assessing father and daughter characteristics. Results indicated that the domains of father and daughter variables each had a direct impact on the daughter's smoking (an independent model). Interactive findings revealed that daughter protective factors (those conducive to her not smoking) could offset the negative impact of paternal risk factors (those conducive to her smoking), and that, to a lesser extent, daughter protective factors further enhanced the positive effect of father protective variables.

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PubMed1992

Psychological functioning of daughters of breast cancer patients. Part II: Characterizing the distressed daughter of the breast cancer patient.

Sixty daughters whose mothers had breast cancer were cross-sectionally studied. Daughters age 11-20 reported feeling significantly more uncomfortable about involvement in their mothers' illness than daughters age 20+. Daughters whose mothers died were more likely to report long-term life plan changes and role changes with their mothers during the mothers' illness. The Global Symptom Index was predicted by the daughter's perceived degree of involvement with her mother (during her mother's illness), current emotional resolution (about her mother's illness), and sexual satisfaction. Sexual satisfaction was predicted by role changes during the mother's illness, frequency of sexual relations, and a depression scale.

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[Effectiveness of evaluating bulls according to their progeny by the "daughters-mothers" and "daughters-peers" methods].

The repeatability coefficient of sire evaluation by daughters performance in different lactations was 0.38-0.70, that suggests the necessity to specify annually the previous sire evaluation on receiving new daughters performance data. When using the "daughters-mothers" method the repeatability coefficients of sire evaluation by dairy indexes, milk fat content and total milk fat production (0.41, 0.52 and 0.45 respectively) were significantly higher than those obtained by the "daughters-herdmates" method (0.25, 0.30 and 0.28 respectively). Thus, sire progeny testing evaluation should be carried out simultaneously by both methods. Nevertheless, the "daughters-mothers" method is preferable.

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PubMed1991

Psychological functioning of daughters of breast cancer patients. Part I: Daughters and comparison subjects.

Sixty daughters of mothers with breast cancer were matched for age, educational level, and race with 60 comparison subjects without a maternal history of breast cancer to assess the impact on psychological adjustment, coping, body image, sexual functioning, and health knowledge and practices of having had a mother with breast cancer. Daughters of breast cancer patients showed significantly less frequent sexual intercourse, lower sexual satisfaction, and greater feelings of vulnerability to breast cancer, and they could identify a greater number of symptoms of breast cancer. No differences between groups were found in psychological symptoms, coping styles, breast self-examination practices, mammography practices, health knowledge, or body-image ratings. Contrary to clinical studies, women at risk for breast cancer showed good overall coping with few signs of significant dysfunctions in relation to comparison subjects.

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PubMed1976

Mother-father and daughter-male relationships: a comparison.

A two-generation study of pregnant nulliparous women (daughters) and their mothers is presented. The women in both generations were interviewed. Daughters from homes characterized by marital discord between the parents (as judged from the report of the mother) were compared to daughters from harmonious homes. Daughters from discordant homes reported a poor emotional relationship with their father. In contrast, the emotional relationship with the mother was little influenced by parental discord. Daughters from discordant homes reported less stable and gratifying relationships with male partners and more sex partners than daughters from harmonious homes. At the time of their first pregnancy, daughters from discordant homes received little support from the father of the child. They more often described unsatisfactory housing and financial conditions. Poor parental interralations may impair the daughter's ability to establish gratifying relationships with men. One explanation is the daughter's identification with her parents. During the identification process, the daughter of discordant parents assimilates her parents' negative patterns of relating to each other. These unsuccessful patterns may later undermine her ability to establish positive relationships with men.

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PubMed1986

Comparison of heritability estimates from daughter on dam regression with three models to account for production level of dam.

Three models were used to estimate heritabilities for milk yields at different production levels and for different years as twice the regression of daughter residual effects on dam residual effects. The denominator is the residual mean square for dams. The numerator is the difference between the residual term for sum of dam's and daughter's records and sum of residual terms for records of dams and daughters. Model 1 included sire of daughter and herd-year-season of daughters only. Model 2 included sire of daughter, herd-year-season of dam, and herd-year-season of daughter. Model 3 included sire of daughter and herd-year-season of dam and herd-year-season of daughter combination. The weighted mean estimates for each method were, respectively, .35, .38, .38 for milk production and .61, .67, .67 for fat test. Yearly time trends in heritability were slightly positive for both milk production and fat test. Standard errors of heritability estimates from model 1 were 40 to 50% smaller than those from models 2 and 3 due to the smaller number of effects in the model. Estimates for model 2 from low to high production levels averaged .30, .38, .38, and .42 for milk yield and .64, .68, .67, and .71 for fat test.

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PubMed1992

A comparison of the perceptions of the mother-daughter relationship of black pregnant and nonpregnant teenagers.

This study examined the relationship between mothers and their teenage daughters in order to determine if there was a significant difference in perceived relationships between pregnant and nonpregnant mother-daughter dyads in a predominantly black sample. Results indicated that the nonpregnant daughters and their mothers felt significantly more intimacy toward each other than did the pregnant daughters and their mothers. However, correlations of the mother and daughter scores revealed that the intimacy scores of the mothers of the pregnant daughters were positively correlated with their daughters' attachment scores, suggesting that the mothers and their pregnant daughters were more in agreement regarding their relationship than were the nonpregnant mother-daughter pairs.

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PubMed1986

Feminist attitudes and mother-daughter relationships in adolescence.

In spite of the growing amount of research on women's issues, there are few empirical studies of mother-daughter relationships, and almost none on the effects of the major women's movement of our times on relationships between mothers and daughters. In this study of late adolescent daughters' perceptions of their relationships with their mothers, two alternative hypotheses are examined: (1) feminism, with its emphasis on bonding among women, strengthens relations between adolescent daughters and their mothers, or (2) feminism as a force of social change, both attitudinal and behavioral, weakens the adolescent daughter-mother relationship. Based on 102 questionnaires completed by university-age women in the winter of 1983, it was found that the majority of daughters who have a good relationship with their mothers see both themselves and their mothers as feminist. However, these daughters do not attribute their positive mother-daughter relationship explicitly to feminism. For the minority of daughters who claim to have a poor relationship with their mothers, they attribute the problems to feminism.

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PubMed1991

Mothers, daughters, and disordered eating.

We examined features of 77 mothers' attitudes and behavior that relate to disordered eating among their adolescent daughters. Mothers whose daughters reported a level of disordered eating comparable with clinical samples of bulimic patients were compared with mothers whose daughters reported a low level of eating disturbances. As hypothesized, mothers of daughters with disordered eating were more dissatisfied with the general functioning of the family system. Also, mothers whose daughters were eating disordered were themselves more eating disordered and differed in their dieting history compared with mothers of the girls who were not eating disordered. Furthermore, mothers of girls with disordered eating thought their daughters should lose more weight than mothers of girls who were not eating disordered. They also thought that their daughters were less attractive than the girls judged themselves.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1991

Self-concept and perceptions of attractiveness and body size among Mexican-American mothers and daughters.

The socialization of physical attractiveness stereotypes and its relationship to self-concept among parent/child dyads has not been previously examined. This study examined the relationship between mothers' and daughters' judgements of body size and the impact of size on subjects' judgements of attractiveness. Mexican-American mothers and their 7-12-year-old daughters completed attractiveness ratings of five figures of girls varying in body size and indicated which of these figures were closest to the perceived and ideal sizes of the daughter. One-half of the mothers were obese and had participated in a behavioral weight loss program, while the other half served as normal weight controls. Self-concept measures were also completed by all subjects. Daughters tended to prefer a thinner figure than did mothers. The control mothers indicated almost no preference for body size, with nearly uniform rankings for obese, normal and thin figures. The daughters ranked their own ideal figures as thinner than their perceived figures, but mothers' rankings of their daughters' ideal and actual sizes were congruent. Daughter's overall self-concept was predicted by age, their own size and their mother's size. Control but not intervention mothers' self-concept was negatively correlated with their size.

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PubMed1987

An integrating thermoluminescent Rn daughter personal dosimeter.

An integrating Rn daughter dosimeter using conventional Dy-doped CaSO4 thermoluminescent (TL) material has been developed for use as a personal monitor. The dosimeter was found to have a linear response over the range 0.5 WL-h to 25 WL-h and to be insensitive to the state of equilibrium of the Rn daughters. The use of the dosimeter to monitor both 222Rn and 220Rn daughters is described. The limiting sensitivity of the dosimeter, at a sampling rate of 1 L min-1, was determined to be 0.1 WL-h for 222Rn daughters and 0.5 WL-h for 220Rn daughters. The application of the thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) to occupational monitoring of 222Rn and 220Rn daughters is discussed.

Air Pollutants↗
PubMed1989

Familial resemblance of radial bone mass between premenopausal mothers and their college-age daughters.

The influences of heredity and environmental factors on radial bone mass were evaluated in 84 premenopausal mothers with their biological daughters (ages 18-22). Mid- and distal radial bone mineral content (BMC) and density (BMD) were assessed using single-photon absorptiometry. As a group, the daughters (mean age 18.6 years) had 5-10% less bone mass at both the distal and midradial sites than their mothers (mean age 44.2 years). Familial resemblance estimates showed significant relationships between mothers and daughters for mid- and distal BMC and BMD after considering the influence of body mass index (BMI). Daughters with a maternal family history of osteoporosis had 6-7% lower but nonsignificant values of mid- (P = 0.086) and distal BMC (P = 0.075) compared to values of women with a negative family history, whereas mothers with a positive family history had 3-4% lower (NS) values of distal and mid-BMC compared to those of mothers with a negative family history after adjustment for BMI. Multiple regression analyses showed BMI to be the most important determinant of the bone values of the mothers, and both BMI and dietary calcium intake were found to be significant for the daughters. The findings of this study suggest that hereditary contributions from the mothers play an overwhelmingly critical role in the accrual of bone mass by their daughters by ages 18-22, but that environmental influences on bone consolidation during the premenopausal decades may be more important in promoting optimal (peak) bone mass and thereby may help to delay the postmenopausal onset of osteoporotic fractures.

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PubMed1988

Computed tomography detection of small daughter nodules in hepatocellular carcinoma after iodized oil infusion into the hepatic artery.

The detectability of small daughter nodules of hepatocellular carcinoma by computed tomography after hepatic arterial infusion of Lipiodol (iodized oil) and by infusion hepatic angiography was studied in 102 cases. The Lipiodol was selectively accumulated by the tumor. Tumors and small daughter nodules appeared as high-density areas on computed tomography. In 24 cases daughter nodules were identified only by computed tomography. In 50 cases computed tomography demonstrated superior ability to detect the daughter nodules when compared with infusion hepatic angiography. In 21 cases the daughter nodules were detected for the first time in areas other than the main site of the primary tumor. Lipiodol-computed tomography is very effective in the diagnosis of daughter nodules of hepatocellular carcinoma.

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PubMed1975

Elevated serum levels of estrogen and prolactin in daughters of patients with breast cancer.

Demographic risk factors in sisters and daughters of 150 patients with breast cancer were compared to those of controls. Plasma hormone levels in 36 teen-age daughters of patients and 31 controls were also studied to ascertain whether an "abnormal" hormone pattern underlies these risk factors. The patients' sisters had, on the average, menarche four months earlier and first full-term pregnancy 12 months later than the controls. The patients' daughters did not show these differences -- apparently owing to low fertility in the patients with early menarche. The patients' daughters had higher 22d-day estradiol-plus-estrone levels than controls (24.4 vs. 19.1 ng per 100 ml, P less than 0.05). Sixth-day prolactin was also elevated (19.0 vs. 14.2 ng per 100 ml, P less than 0.05). About half the patients' daughters could clearly be distinguished from the controls' daughters by means of the sixth-day information on both estrogens and prolactin. Hypersecretion of these hormones may be important factors in breast cancer.

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