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Correlates of Work-Life Balance for Faculty across Racial/Ethnic Groups
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Denson, Nida; Szelényi, Katalin; Bresonis, Kate – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Very few studies have examined issues of work-life balance among faculty of different racial/ethnic backgrounds. Utilizing data from Harvard University's Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education project, this study examined predictors of work-life balance for 2953 faculty members from 69 institutions. The final sample consisted of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Family Work Relationship, Predictor Variables, Ethnicity
A Time Use Diary Study of Adult Everyday Writing Behavior
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Cohen, Dale J.; White, Sheida; Cohen, Steffaney B. – Written Communication, 2011
The present study documents everyday adult writing by type of text and medium (computer or paper) in an "in vivo" diary study. The authors compare writing patterns by gender, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, age and working status. The study results reveal that (a) writing time varied with demographic variables for networkers, but…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Gender Differences, Racial Differences
Psychosocial and Biological Markers of Daily Lives of Midlife Parents of Children with Disabilities
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Seltzer, Marsha Mailick; Almeida, David M.; Greenberg, Jan S.; Savla, Jyoti; Stawski, Robert S.; Hong, Jinkuk; Taylor, Julie Lounds – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2009
Using daily telephone interviews, 82 midlife parents (mean age = 57.4) of children with disabilities (mean age = 29.9) were compared with a closely matched sample of unaffected parents (N = 82) to elucidate the daily experience of non-normative parenting. In addition, salivary cortisol samples were obtained to examine whether parents of children…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Parents, Adults, Children
Comparing Black, Hispanic, and White Mothers with a National Standard of Parenting
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Strom, Robert D.; Strom, Paris S.; Beckert, Troy E. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2008
Black, Hispanic, and White mothers (N = 739) and adolescents (N = 806) completed a Parent Success Indicator to assess maternal behavior related to Communication, Use of Time, Teaching, Frustration, Satisfaction, and Information Needs. Comparisons between each ethnic group and a previously established national parenting standard revealed that both…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Mothers, Ethnic Groups, National Standards
Making Preschool More Productive: How Classroom Management Training Can Help Teachers
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Morris, Pamela; Raver, C. Cybele; Millenky, Megan; Jones, Stephanie; Lloyd, Chrishana M. – MDRC, 2010
This report presents results from the Newark, New Jersey, site of the Foundations of Learning (FOL) Demonstration, an intervention and random assignment evaluation of a curriculum designed to target children's behavior and emotional adjustment through the training of preschool teachers. The demonstration adopted the model used by CSRP (formerly…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, School Readiness, Emotional Adjustment, Workshops
Making Preschool More Productive: How Classroom Management Training Can Help Teachers. Executive Summary
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Morris, Pamela; Raver, C. Cybele; Millenky, Megan; Jones, Stephanie; Lloyd, Chrishana M. – MDRC, 2010
This report presents results from the Newark, New Jersey, site of the Foundations of Learning (FOL) Demonstration, an intervention and random assignment evaluation of a curriculum designed to target children's behavior and emotional adjustment through the training of preschool teachers. The demonstration adopted the model used by CSRP (formerly…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, School Readiness, Emotional Adjustment, Workshops