Women in the Middle Years, 1979-1980 (doi:10.7910/DVN/QIOGZF)

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Women in the Middle Years, 1979-1980

doi:10.7910/DVN/QIOGZF

Harvard Dataverse

2008-03-21

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Grace K. Baruch; Rosalind C. Barnett, 1982, "Women in the Middle Years, 1979-1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QIOGZF, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:lvVjHk5bmmiR7eJ5S8kvfQ== [fileUNF]

Women in the Middle Years, 1979-1980

doi:10.7910/DVN/QIOGZF

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Grace K. Baruch

Rosalind C. Barnett (Brandeis University)

Rosalind C. Barnett

Harvard Dataverse

Murray Research Archive

1982

1982

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QIOGZF

Social Sciences

mra, 101-500, female, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, White, middle, working, 1, yes, Women and work, Mental health, Family, Marriage, Women, Divorce

The purpose of this study was to define psychological well-being in women aged 35 to 55, and to examine its relation to age, income, education, health, work, and family status. <br /><br /> A disproportionate random sample (N=238) was selected to include women from the following four family statuses: never married, married with children, married without children, and divorced with children. All never married and divorced women were employed, as were about one-half of the married women. The employed women were equally distributed by occupational prestige (Siegel, 1971) into high, medium, and low groupings. Participants were all Caucasian, and were residents of a town in the greater Boston area. The response rate was 76%. Data were collected by personal interview. <br /><br /> The structured survey instrument was developed empirically, based on content analysis of lengthy open-ended interviews about the rewarding and problematic aspects of the various domains of the participants' lives. These initial interviews are not available at the Murray Research Archive. The structured interviews comprised scales with equal numbers of "reward" and "concern" items for each domain covered. Major domains included work, marriage, homemaking, children, and the self. Income and health were also assessed. <br /><br /> The Murray Archive holds additional analogue materials for this study (paper interview data for 231 participants). If you would like to access this material, please apply to use the data.

1979-1980

1979-

United States

individuals

field study

quota sample

interview

Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University

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Submission of the following <a href= "http://murray.harvard.edu/application target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study.<p><b>Follow-up permitted; all contact of subjects must involve the data contributor.</b><br /> <b>The contributor retains all copyright.</b></p>

• Number of cases: 238

• No. of variables per record: 465

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data File for Study in Tab Delimited Format

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Describes contents of each box of a paper data set

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00621Baruch-Barnett-CodebookAddendum.pdf

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Clarifications of discrepancies in the data files

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00621Baruch-Barnett-Data.por

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Data for Study in SPSS Portable Format

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00621Baruch-Barnett-MemoOfAgreement.pdf

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Legal agreement between data depositor and Murray Archive

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00621Baruch-Barnett-PaperDataInventory.pdf

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Inventory of data on each participant and measures

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00621Baruch-Barnett-StudyDescription.pdf

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Overview: abstract, research methodology, publications, and other info.

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Baruch and Barnett - Women in the middle years.pdf

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Black Questionnaire for this study

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