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LaFee, Scott – School Administrator, 2012
The typical superintendent these days is male (though the percentage of female superintendents is steadily rising, now accounting for one in four, according to AASA's 2010 decennial study of the superintendency), in his 40s and almost always married with children. When educators become superintendents, the issues of family dynamics and related…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Superintendents, Women Administrators, Family Work Relationship
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Lin, I-Fen; Fee, Holly R.; Wu, Hsueh-Sheng – Family Relations, 2012
Using data from the 2004 wave of the National Long-Term Care Survey, we examined how negative and positive caregiving experiences differ by caregivers' gender and relationship to care recipients. We further considered how their caregiving experiences are affected by caregivers' demographic characteristics, care recipients' problem behavior and…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Risk, Data Analysis, Surveys
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Abrahamson, Iona; Hussain, Rafat; Khan, Adeel; Schofield, Margot J. – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
Despite infidelity being a highly traumatic experience, not all couples end their relationship after discovery of the affair. The present study provides insights into the experience of couples who remained together after having experienced infidelity by one partner. Narrative inquiry methods were used to undertake and analyze in-depth interviews…
Descriptors: Altruism, Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Marriage
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Roxburgh, Susan – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
This article examines whether there is an association between depression and parental time pressure among employed parents. Using a sample of 248 full-time employed parents and using the stress process framework, I also examine the extent to which gender, socioeconomic status, social support, and job conditions account for variation in the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Employed Parents, Depression (Psychology)
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Voordouw, Jantine; Antonides, Gerrit; Fox, Margaret; Cerecedo, Inmaculada; Zamora, Javier; de la Hoz Caballer, Belen; Rokicka, Ewa; Cornelisse-Vermaat, Judith; Jewczak, Maciej; Starosta, Pawel; Kowalska, Marek L.; Jedrzejczak-Czechowicz, Monika; Vazquez-Cortes, Sonia; Escudero, Cano; de Blok, Bertine Flokstra; Dubois, Anthony; Mugford, Miranda; Frewer, Lynn J. – Social Indicators Research, 2012
This study estimates the effects of food hypersensitivity on individuals' perceived welfare and well-being compared to non-food hypersensitive individuals. Study respondents were recruited in the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and UK. The difference in welfare between food hypersensitive respondents and those asymptomatic to foods was estimated using…
Descriptors: Spouses, Health, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Piller, Ingrid; Lising, Loy – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
Australia is one of the world's largest beef exporters. However, meat processing jobs are widely considered undesirable and are increasingly filled with employer-sponsored migrant workers on temporary long-stay visas. Against this background, our paper explores the role of language in the employment and migration trajectories of a group of meat…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment, Temporary Employment, Food Processing Occupations
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Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Gerstorf, Denis; Willis, Sherry L.; Schaie, K. Warner – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Development does not take place in isolation and is often interrelated with close others such as marital partners. To examine interrelations in spousal happiness across midlife and old age, we used 35-year longitudinal data from both members of 178 married couples in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Latent growth curve models revealed sizeable…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Psychological Patterns, Spouses, Marital Satisfaction
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Schneider, Daniel – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011
I examine the contested finding that men and women engage in gender performance through housework. Prior scholarship has found a curvilinear association between earnings share and housework that has been interpreted as evidence of gender performance. I reexamine these findings by conducting the first such analysis to use high-quality time diary…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Females, Housework, Males
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Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011
Economic theories predict that women are more likely to exit the labor force if their partners' earnings are higher and if their own wage rate is lower. In this article, I use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 2,254) and discrete-time event-history analysis to show that wives' relative wages are more predictive of their exit than are…
Descriptors: Wages, Spouses, Females, Employment Patterns
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Naylor, Mavis E.; Lee, Bonnie K. – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2011
This phenomenological study aimed at understanding the experiences of women living with intimate partners with substance abuse problems. Findings show that the five participants' family-of-origin experiences centrally influenced their degree of awareness of their responses to their intimate partners' addictive behaviors. Experiences leading to…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Females, Interpersonal Relationship, Experience
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Dias, Diana; Sa, Maria Jose; de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Maria – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
Portuguese higher education is changing, with a significant impact on academic careers, reinforcing the academic "estate." The focus of this paper is the analysis not only of the gender differences per se, but it also relates them to other variables such as the higher education subsystem, career positioning, the sociocultural background…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Background
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Bibou-Nakou, I.; Tsiantis, J.; Assimopoulos, H.; Chatzilambou, P. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2013
The present paper uses a qualitative method in order to study the ways in which bullying is discursively organized among young adolescent students in relation to the family factors related to it. Only a few studies have linked aspects of parenting and family functioning to bullying through the use of students' discourses despite the fact that…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Early Adolescents, Bullying
Shin, Min Young – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Problem: The first problem of this study was to determine the relationship between the clergy family stress scores as measured by the Clergy Family Inventory (CFLI) and the specified predictor variables of social support among Korean-American Baptist pastors. The specified predictor variables included tangible support, appraisal support,…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Clergy, Social Support Groups, Family Problems
Keenan, Lisa A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Projections estimated that nontraditional student enrollment in post-secondary education would increase by 19% as compared to traditional student enrollments of 10% from 2006 through 2017. Adult students were less likely to complete a college degree compared to traditional students, and drop-outs cost taxpayers billions of dollars in lost taxes.…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Spouses, Student Motivation, Academic Persistence
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Wickrama, Thulitha; Bryant, Chalandra M. – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
This study examined (a) associations between body mass index (BMI) and depressive symptoms in African American husbands and wives, (b) transactional associations between husbands and wives in this relationship, and (c) mediating and moderating role of couples' behavioral closeness in this association. Data came from a sample of 450 African…
Descriptors: Spouses, Body Weight, Body Composition, Depression (Psychology)
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