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Girls Talk Back: Changing School Culture through Feminist and Service-Learning Pedagogies
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Martin, Jennifer L.; Beese, Jane A. – High School Journal, 2016
This paper explores the intersection of feminism and service-learning by describing the creation of a women's studies course for girls attending an alternative high school. In the course participants could critique sexist practices in the media and in the school, as well as establish cultural competence through engaging in service projects that…
Descriptors: School Culture, Service Learning, Feminism, Nontraditional Education
Attributional Styles and Psychosocial Functioning of Adults with ADHD: Practice Issues and Gender Differences
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Rucklidge, Julia; Brown, Deborah; Crawford, Susan; Kaplan, Bonnie – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2007
Objective: This study investigates attributional styles and psychosocial functioning of men and women with ADHD identified in adulthood to inform practice issues. Method: One hundred and eighty adults participate: 52 females with ADHD, 37 males with ADHD, 51 female controls, and 40 male controls are administered questionnaires broadly assessing…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Females, Gender Differences, Depression (Psychology)
Attributional Patterns of Alcoholic, Depressed and Normal Females.
Corbett, Pamela D.; Rich, Alexander R. – 1981
Efforts to understand mediating and maintaining factors associated with dysfunction of alcoholics have produced competing explanations and conflicting, overlapping constructs. To clarify the relationship between mental health and attributional patterns among women, the attributional patterns of alcoholic, depressed, and control females in response…
Descriptors: Achievement, Alcoholism, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes
Resilience Factors Associated with Female Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.
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Valentine, LaNae; Feinauer, Leslie L. – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1993
Interviewed 22 women who were survivors of childhood sexual abuse, yet who were able to have relationships, stable careers, and healthy personalities. Interviews revealed resiliency themes of ability to find emotional support outside the family; self-regard or ability to think well of oneself; spirituality; external attribution of blame and…
Descriptors: Adults, At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Cognitive Style
Blame, Control, and Marital Satisfaction: Wives' Attributions for Conflict in Marriage.
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Madden, Margaret E.; Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie – 1980
Socio-psychological research concerning the relationship between attributions and coping with negative events unrelated to marriage suggests two constructs, blame and perceived control, which may influence conflict resolution in marriage. Married women (N=32) were interviewed in an investigation of attributions of control and blame for marital…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Conflict, Coping, Family Problems
The Multidimensional-Multiattributional Causality Scale: The Development of a Goal Specific Locus of Control Scale.
Lefcourt, Herbert M.; And Others – 1978
The development and validation of the Multidimensional-Multiattributional Causality Scales (MMCS) are described. The scales are distinctive because they measure locus of control specific to two goals--achievement and affiliation. Half of the items concern success, and half concern failure experiences. Results of four validity studies with under…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affiliation Need, Attribution Theory, Females