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Wise, Lois Recascino – Gerontologist, 1990
Examined effects of Swedish partial pension system on workforce participation among older workers. Findings suggest that policy implementation altered pattern of work behavior among older men, but not among older women. Changes in pension compensation rates appear to have affected participation in partial pensions, including number of participants…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Older Workers
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Haas, Linda – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1981
Investigated the extent to which Swedish couples (N=128) share domestic tasks using a mail survey. Suggests Swedish couples shared household chores more evenly than American couples. Results indicated variables measuring social exchange theory, family life-cycle stage, and socialization had the greatest influence on role sharing behavior.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Females, Home Management, Housework
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Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
To further explore findings indicating that parental gender is a much more important predictor of caretaker behavior style than is involvement in parental role, 45 Swedish couples were observed at home interacting with their 16-month-old infants. Findings suggest that gender differences in parental behavior are much less amenable to social…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Family Life, Fathers, Foreign Countries
Skandia Insurance Co., Stockholm (Sweden). – 1971
This study examined the traffic accidents in Sweden during 1968 and 1969 in which children up to and including the age of ten were actively involved. The major goal of the study was to illustrate the traffic behavior patterns of children in this age group. Data were analyzed under two broad categories: pedestrian accidents and bicycle accidents.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children, Data Analysis
Marklund, Inger, Ed.; Hanse, Mona-Britt, Ed. – School Research Newsletter, 1984
The Swedish Media Panel is a research program about children and young persons and their use of mass media. The aim of the ten-year (1975-1985) project is to explain how media habits originate, how they change as children grow older, what factors on the part of children themselves and in their surroundings may be connected with a certain use of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Olah, Attila – Journal of Adolescence, 1995
Studied influence of culture on coping behavior of youngsters in anxiety-provoking situations. Applied a situation-reaction inventory to late adolescents (n=721) from India, Italy, Hungary, Sweden, and Yemen. Consistent results showed adolescents at low-medium anxiety levels employed constructive and assimilative coping and at high anxiety levels…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns