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Convenience Samples and Caregiving Research: How Generalizable Are the Findings?
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Pruchno, Rachel A.; Brill, Jonathan E.; Shands, Yvonne; Gordon, Judith R.; Genderson, Maureen Wilson; Rose, Miriam; Cartwright, Francine – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: We contrast characteristics of respondents recruited using convenience strategies with those of respondents recruited by random digit dial (RDD) methods. We compare sample variances, means, and interrelationships among variables generated from the convenience and RDD samples. Design and Methods: Women aged 50 to 64 who work full time and…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Employed Women, Interviews, Evaluation
Age and the Commitment to Work.
Hanlon, Martin D. – 1983
Although age and work commitment have been correlated positively in previous studies, the studies have not clearly defined whether it is age per se or the correlates of age (job tenure, length of service) which account for the commitment. To investigate the relationship between age and various indicators of commitment to work (job involvement,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Employees, Employment, Job Satisfaction
Age Perceptions of Jobs: Convergence of Two Questionnaires.
Cleveland, Jeanette N.; Landy, Frank J. – 1984
Attitudes and decisions regarding older workers should become an increasingly important issue for industrial/organizational psychologists in the 1980's. A variety of problems encountered by older workers has prompted concern about age discrimination in industry. Situational factors also affect the extent to which stereotypes about groups influence…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Age Discrimination, Employees
The Aging Workforce: Implications for Rehabilitation. A Report of the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Seminar (11th, Washington, D.C., October 7-9, 1986).
Perlman, Leonard G., Ed.; Austin, Gary F., Ed. – 1987
This monograph contains papers from the Switzer Seminar on issues regarding the problems of aging, disabilities, and rehabilitation. It is intended for use by rehabilitation counselors, psychologists, gerontologists, researchers, administrators, consumers, legislators, and others interested in providing better services to Americans growing older.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Conference Proceedings
Resources for Older Worker Programs in Ohio. A Technical Assistance Guide.
Bruce, Norma Corbett – 1985
This technical assistance guide is designed to assist trainers, planners, administrators, researchers, librarians, counselors, and advocates involved with Ohio older worker programs and policies with the range of resources, services, and expertise available to them. Discussed in the individual sections of the guide are available resources dealing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advocacy, Agency Role
Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization.
Haveman, Robert H.; Bershadker, Andrew; Schwabish, Jonathan A. – 2003
This book provides an introduction to earnings capacity (EC), a measurement of human capital, and its application to a research study of potential earned annual income over a 25-year period. Focus is on qualitative aspects of EC such as race, age, gender and education and its utilization. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 reviews existing…
Descriptors: Capital, Definitions, Demography, Economic Development