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The long-term effects on identifiable populations or groups produced by a project or program. Impacts may be direct or indirect, intended or unintended, economic, sociocultural, institutional, environmental, technological, or other.
Bamberger, M., Rugh, J., & Mabry, L. (2006). Real world evaluation: Working under budget, time, data, and political constraints. Sage Publications.
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Methodology
The running or putting into effect of a program. Also the third stage of the project cycle: the operational procedures used to transform project inputs into project outputs.
Bamberger, M., Rugh, J., & Mabry, L. (2006). Real world evaluation: Working under budget, time, data, and political constraints. Sage Publications.
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Methodology
“An implied expectation; in the military an implicit norm is showing respect for all military service members and veterans, while in a family an implicit norm is how affection is shown.”
Blaisure, K. R., Saathoff-Wells, T., Pereira, A., MacDermid Wadsworth, S., & Dombro, A. L. (2015). Serving military families -theories, research, and application. Taylor & Francis Ltd.
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Family Processes
An IED is a "homemade" bomb which can be made in a wide variety of sizes and forms.
Mansoor. (2018, August 30). Improvised explosive device. Retrieved April 3, 2019, from https://www.britannica.com/technology/improvised-explosive-device
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Military
“National Guard personnel who are required to muster only once a year with their unit.”
Blaisure, K. R., Saathoff-Wells, T., Pereira, A., MacDermid Wadsworth, S., & Dombro,A. L. (2015). Serving military families -theories, research, and application. Taylor & Francis Ltd.
The belief that two perspectives are so fundamentally different that there can be no mutual understanding, agreement, or collaboration.
Bamberger, M., Rugh, J., & Mabry, L. (2006). Real world evaluation: Working under budget, time, data, and political constraints. Sage Publications.
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Family Processes
Independent variables are those which researchers believe causes an outcome on another variable, the dependent variable. In experimental research, the independent variable is manipulated by the researcher and applied to the subject or subject group to measure the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable. In nonexperimental research, the independent variable is the variable which, although not manipulatable, is the variable from which causal inference is implied.
Lewis-Beck, M., Bryman, A., & Liao, T. (2004). The SAGE encyclopedia of social science research methods (Vols. 1–3). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412950589
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Methodology
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An independent samples t-test is used to compare the means of two independent or unrelated groups (e.g., between-groups design) on an approximately normal dependent variable.
Leech, N., Barrett, K., & Morgan, G. A. (2013). SPSS for intermediate statistics: Use and interpretation. Routledge.
“Resilience programming targeted toward individuals who are exhibiting early signs of distress or loss of functioning.”
Blaisure, K. R., Saathoff-Wells, T., Pereira, A., MacDermid Wadsworth, S., & Dombro, A. L. (2015). Serving military families -theories, research, and application. Taylor & Francis Ltd.
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Programs/Resources
The indirect effect measures how much the independent variable influences the dependent variable through a mediator (intervening) variable.
Pearl, J. (2022). Direct and indirect effects. In H. Geffner, R. Dechter & J. Halpern (Eds.), Probabilistic and Causal Inference: The Works of Judea Pearl (pp. 373-392). ACM Books. https://doi.org/10.1145/3501714.3501736