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Pudrovska, Tetyana – Social Forces, 2010
Using data from two waves of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (N = 8,054), I examine gender differences in psychological adjustment to cancer among older white adults. Results from different types of longitudinal models reveal that cancer has more adverse psychological implications for men than women. Men's higher levels of depression are reduced…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Females, Cancer, Gender Differences
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Lively, Kathryn – Social Forces, 2008
Recent studies suggest that gender may be less influential on the experience of emotion than originally believed. Most of these studies, however, have focused almost exclusively on gender differences in discrete emotional experiences, paying less attention to the ways in which emotions may co-occur within a relatively short period. Using the…
Descriptors: Females, Emotional Response, Gender Differences, Males
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Hagan, John; Foster, Holly – Social Forces, 2003
Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health on 11,506 high school students were used to test a gendered and age-graded sequential stress theory in which delinquency can play an additive and intervening role in adolescents' movement from early anger through rebellious or aggressive forms of behavior to later depressive symptoms…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Delinquency, Depression (Psychology)