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Burford, James – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
Higher education (HE) researchers, like their colleagues across the humanities and social sciences, are increasingly tuning in to the political possibilities offered by working with emotion and affect. Reading across this work, it would seem that certain practices, and their associated affects, have achieved an aura of legitimacy, and political…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Doctoral Programs, Affective Behavior, Emotional Response
Arm, Jennifer R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Prior research on parents of gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) people is significantly dated and has tended to focus on the experiences of parents as they learn they have a GLB child. This study sought to update and extend the research literature on parents of GLB people, by exploring associations between stress, social support, GLB related social…
Descriptors: Mothers, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Social Support Groups
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Darling, Nancy; Clarke, Sara A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
Fifty-three college-aged same- and mixed-sex romantic couples (83% White, 63% female, mean age, 20.8) engaged in a video recall task in which they rated their own and their partners' behaviors and emotions. Females reported feeling more connected to partners and reported fewer negative behaviors than males. Females with male partners reported the…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Young Adults, Affective Behavior
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Kreager, Derek A. – Social Forces, 2008
Assimilation theorists have long viewed inter-group romantic partnerships as indicators of racial equality. Although the past half-century has witnessed the erosion of anti-miscegenation laws and subsequent increases in the frequency of interracial marriages, these unions remain relatively infrequent. Low intermarriage rates may be partially…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Racial Relations, Dating (Social), Racial Differences
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MacCallum, Fiona; Golombok, Susan – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: An increasing number of lesbian women and single heterosexual women are bringing up children with no male involvement. This study follows up to adolescence a sample of children raised in fatherless families from birth or early infancy. Methods: Twenty-five lesbian mother families and 38 families headed by a single heterosexual mother…
Descriptors: Mothers, Sex Role, Sexual Orientation, Early Adolescents