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Haskell, Samuel D. – 1979
The Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Scale was administered to 35 Caucasian, Protestant couples who were married an average of nine years, largely middle class, and lived in Knoxville, Tennessee. Significant correlates of marital adjustment were organized into groups of similar variables. Correlate groups that were the same for the husband and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Emotional Response, Life Style
Kunkel, Suzanne – 1979
Areas of morale, health, perceived income adequacy, stress, interaction with family and friends, and attitude toward life in retirement, were examined to determine the existence, degree, and direction of sex differences among widowed persons. Survey data from 161 widowed respondents from a study of 1100 adults aged 50 or older were analyzed.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Friendship, Interpersonal Relationship
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Chiriboga, David A.; Thurnher, Majda – Journal of Divorce, 1980
Results suggest that characteristics of the marital lifestyle may impede or facilitate adjustment to marital separation, although salient characteristics may vary for men and women, and change with age. The existence of separate avenues for self-expression constitutes a major resource in coping with the transition to singlehood. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Coping
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Skinner, Denise A. – Family Relations, 1980
Although acknowledging stressful aspects of dual-career living, most participants defined their life-style positively. Achieving a balance between the advantages and disadvantages of the lifestyle appears to be the overriding concern of most dual-career couples. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Coping, Family (Sociological Unit)
Goff, Susan B. – 1978
Factors which mediate the life decisions of college men and women were examined. Undergraduates (N=107) completed questionnaires about career and family plans, notions of success and failure, integration of two potentially conflicting roles, and the relationship between personal values, life goals, and choices. Results indicated that: (1) women…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Career Choice, Career Development, College Students
Skinner, Denise A.; McCubbin, Hamilton I. – 1982
The Dual Employed Coping Scales (DECS) were developed to measure coping behaviors and patterns of dual-employed families. The original DECS (58 self-report items) was administered to a sample of 60 individuals in dual-employed families. In another study, in which 69 dual-employed couples completed the DECS and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Coping, Dual Career Family, Employed Parents
Jackson, Linda J.; Hawkins, Raymond C. – 1980
The hypothesis that negative emotional life states accompanying life stresses are associated with overeating and weight gain cannot be adequately tested solely by laboratory analogue studies. Naturalistic, short-term longitudinal designs are needed in which individuals susceptible to mood eating can be identified prior to a stressful event and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Body Weight
Bachman, Jerald G.; And Others – 1980
Numerous background factors are related to licit and illicit drug use, including educational experiences, employment experiences, and lifestyle orientation indicators. Results from five nationally representative surveys of high school seniors from 1975-1979 were used to document the degree to which such factors are correlated with measures of drug…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Drug Abuse, Drug Use, Educational Experience
Nathanson, Constance A. – 1978
If social roles rather than biological destiny are responsible for sex differences in disease, then employed women should show patterns of illness similar to those of employed men, and different from those of housewives. Recent national mortality and morbidity data, however, do not indicate whether employed women are sicker or healthier than…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Disease Incidence, Employment Level, Family Influence
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Harris, Shanette M. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1992
Examines how African-American alternative masculine behaviors are expressed within same-sex peer groups and friendships. It is proposed that African-American males have adopted an alternative style of masculinity to cope with social and interpersonal pressures, even though it can sometimes be dysfunctional and associated with negative…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black History, Black Youth, Blacks
Cytrynbaum, Solomon; And Others – 1978
A systematic review and critique of the work of midlife researchers and theorists such as Gould, Vaillant, Jung, Newman and Levinson, among others, indicates that: (1) a midlife transition period exists from approximately 35 to 55 and lasts as many as 10 years for both men and women; (2) a series of unique and fundamental biological, psychosocial,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Age, Behavior Patterns