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Filson, Jennifer; Ulloa, Emilio; Runfola, Cristin; Hokoda, Audrey – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
The current study aimed to test whether relationship power could act as a mediator of the relationship between intimate partner violence and depression. The proposed mediation model was based on the theory of gender and power and on previous research of intimate partner violence and depression. Survey results from a sample of 327 single…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Dating (Social), Victims of Crime
de Ruijter, Esther; Treas, Judith K.; Cohen, Philip N. – Social Forces, 2005
Using data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey 1998, this study analyzes how much money different types of households spend for domestic services on "female" and "male" tasks. We test alternative hypotheses based on economic and sociological theories of gender differentiation. Contrary to arguments that marriage lowers the risk to one…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Females, Males, Expenditures
Byers, E. Sandra; Nichols, Shana; Voyer, Susan D. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
This study examined the sexual functioning of single adults (61 men, 68 women) with high functioning autism and Asperger syndrome living in the community with and without prior relationship experience. Participants completed an on-line questionnaire assessing autism symptoms, psychological functioning, and various aspects of sexual functioning. In…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Adults, Autism, Asperger Syndrome
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Callan, Victor J. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1983
Single women (N=45) who had made early decisions not to have children and 45 single women who wanted to be mothers completed a questionnaire exploring issues relevant to various stages of partner selection. Factor analysis revealed two partner-selection dimensions highlighting educational economic attributes and characteristics of the dyadic…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Children, Educational Background, Females
Peer reviewed
Morrison, Donna Ruane; Lichter, Daniel T. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1988
Examined effects of geographic mobility on changes in underemployment among married and single women. Results reinforce findings from previous studies by showing that migration contributed to labor force nonparticipation and unemployment among married women. Migration was also linked to involuntary part-time employment and low pay, and negatively…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Family Mobility, Females, Marital Status
Kalleberg, Arne L.; Dunn, Michael – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2014
The extent to which community college students experience labor market success depends on both the attributes of the individual students and the characteristics of the community colleges they attend. In this paper, we examine the impact of community college characteristics on the earnings of first-time college students who enrolled in the North…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Labor Market, Institutional Characteristics
McCormack, Christopher F. – History of Education, 2015
This paper examines the role of William Graham Brooke as advocate of women's higher education and access to university. His work as advocate is considered against the religious, political, social and economic backdrop of late nineteenth century Ireland. A barrister, as Clerk in the Lord Chancellor's office, he was centrally involved in the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Churches, Social Change, Womens Education
Henderson, Rachel; Miller, Paul; Stewart, John; Traxler, Adrienne; Lindell, Rebecca – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Gender gaps on the most widely used conceptual inventories created by physics education researchers have been extensively studied. Most of the research exploring the consistent gender gaps has been performed at the student level using the total evaluation score; less research has been performed examining these assessments at the item level and…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Energy, Physics, Motion
Lemez, Srdjan; MacMahon, Clare; Weir, Patricia – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2016
Annual age cohort groupings promote relative age effects (RAEs), which often, inadvertently, create participation and attainment biases between relatively older and younger players within the same age cohort. In a globally evolving sport, women's rugby team selection practices may potentially bypass qualified players as a result of maturational…
Descriptors: Womens Athletics, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
Jang, Soo Jung; Zippay, Allison; Park, Rhokeun – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
Employer initiatives that address the spillover of work strain onto family life include flexible work schedules. This study explored the mediating role of negative work-family spillover in the relationship between schedule flexibility and employee stress and the moderating roles of gender, family workload, and single-parent status. Data were drawn…
Descriptors: Employees, Family Work Relationship, Family Life, Working Hours
Hansen, Thomas – Social Indicators Research, 2012
This paper reviews and compares folk theories and empirical evidence about the influence of parenthood on happiness and life satisfaction. The review of attitudes toward parenthood and childlessness reveals that people tend to believe that parenthood is central to a meaningful and fulfilling life, and that the lives of childless people are…
Descriptors: Evidence, Life Satisfaction, Childlessness, Parents
Kolkovich, Elizabeth Zeman – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation analyzes the understudied dramatic genre of Elizabethan progress entertainments, the political ideologies it conveys, and especially the female alliances it enacts. Aristocrats staged these outdoor, episodic pageants on their country estates during Elizabeth I's summer "progress" visits, 1575-1602. While previous scholars…
Descriptors: Females, Politics, Ideology, History
Peer reviewed
Siegel, Judith M. – Journal of Family Issues, 1995
Examines why older, single women become mothers and how their premotherhood motivation and experience compare to those of demographically-similar married mothers. The composite picture that emerged from the single mothers was one of ambivalence toward marriage: a combination of an idealized image of marriage and an unwillingness to accept…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Fatherless Family, Marriage
Graber, Helen V.; Wolfe, Jayne L. – Journal of Family Social Work, 2004
The Family Support Center, recognizing the need for single women with children to maintain stability, has developed a program referred to as the Family Support Center Village, which incorporates a service enriched co-housing model. The "Village" will be the catalyst for these mothers' self-sufficiency and will provide opportunities to develop…
Descriptors: Mothers, Females, Family Programs, One Parent Family
Daigle, Leah E.; Fisher, Bonnie S.; Cullen, Francis T. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
Little attention has been given to repeat violent and sexual victimization among college women. Using two national-level data sets, the authors find that a small proportion of college women experience a large proportion of violent and sexual victimizations. Women are more likely to experience repeat sexual victimization than repeat violence…
Descriptors: Females, Victims of Crime, Violence, College Students