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Peer reviewedRoss, Catherine E. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1991
Examined data from 809 Illinois residents surveyed in 1985. Found marriage had trade-offs for women's sense of control: it increased it by increasing household income, but it decreased it, probably by decreasing autonomy. With household income held constant, nonmarried women had highest sense of control of any group. For men, marriage had less…
Descriptors: Family Income, Locus of Control, Marriage, Personal Autonomy
Peer reviewedHuyck, Margaret Hellie – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1991
Explored sense of control and personal and spousal evaluations of major life domains. Findings from 101 men and 127 women aged 43 to 76 revealed no gender differences and minimal age differences in levels of sense of control or evaluation of life domains. Evaluations contributing to sense of control varied by gender and by age within gender group.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Life Events, Locus of Control, Middle Aged Adults
Download full textZelazek, John R. – 1986
Interactions between learning styles, gender, and life cycle stages of graduate students were investigated. Six learning styles were identified through use of the Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Styles Scales: avoidant, collaborative, dependent, competitive, independent, and participant. Life cycle stages were based on Levinson's theory of the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Groups, Cognitive Style, Females
Knoblach, Robin; Chambliss, Catherine – 1989
One of the fastest growing social and economic trends in the latter half of this century has been the entry of women into the labor force, especially women with children. How a mother's working outside the home affects her children is far from clear. This study examined the relationship between maternal employment status and sex-role concept,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Employed Parents, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
Tiffany, Phyllis G. – 1983
Adolescent determination of behavior can be viewed as the result of perceived locus of control. To investigate adolescent perceptions of control in terms of age, loci of control (internal or external), situations (community and home), and direction of control (from or over the environment), 909 adolescents (345 males, 564 females), aged 11-19,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Behavior Development
Peer reviewedRing, Mary Milleret; Reetz, Linda – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2000
A survey of 35 middle school students with learning disabilities found that students receiving moderate accommodations and adapted grades attributed their highest grade more to effort than did students receiving minimal accommodations and no adapted grades. Boys attributed the factor of teacher helpfulness significantly higher than girls for…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Achievement, Grading, Individual Power
