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Plomin, Robert; DeFries, John C.; Fulker, David W., 2025, "Colorado Adoption Project, 1976-2002", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BCDSEU, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:6:qAMSTgoXlIX2kOD7zwELnA== [fileUNF]
The Colorado Adoption Project (CAP), begun in 1976, is a longitudinal adoption study that examines genetic and environmental influence on behavioral development. Investigators employed a "full" adoption design by collecting data from the adoptive and biological parents, the adoptees and matched control parents and their children. The entire data se... |
McClelland, David C., 1984, "Follow-Up of the Children of the Patterns of Child Rearing Subjects, 1977-1978", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Z7E69N, Harvard Dataverse, V5, UNF:3:9M8uuMhUlK9OvhsIUBsQww== [fileUNF]
Of the 379 children who had participated in the Sears, Maccoby, and Levin (1951-1952) "Patterns of Child Rearing" study, 118 (58 females, 60 males) were reinterviewed and retested in 1978. Forty of these participants were from the original working-class sample, and 78 from the middle-class sample. At the time of the original study the participants... |
Coltrane, Scott; Valdez, Elsa, 1999, "Dual-Earner Chicano Families, 1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/R8BC1O, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:SoGGlqoihICxS50NSyUDlg== [fileUNF]
The purpose of the study was to correct for omissions in previous studies of dual-career minority families, as well as to examine how gender, employment, and cultural ideals combine to influence life in Latino families. Between 1987 and 1992, twenty dual-earner Chicano couples from southern California were selected using a snowball sampling techniq... |
Fiske, Marjorie Lowenthal; Thurnher, Majda T.; Chiriboga, David A., 1991, "Longitudinal Study of Transitions in Four Stages of Life, 1968", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BCQSQ8, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:3:6DUekPowSthqZC4Xbw0UMQ== [fileUNF]
This is a longitudinal study of adults in four pretransitional stages (i.e., anticipating and preparing for normally occurring life cycle changes). The study searches out commonalities and differences in coping processes among persons about to undergo four very different types of transition, and also aims to contribute to the understanding of gradu... |
Aug 17, 2023 - Original Murray Collection
Belle, Deborah, 1981, "Stress and Families Project, 1981", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QUTY2O, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:xOuUDVBY/2nvGFVnbeL/kw== [fileUNF]
The Stress and Families Project was undertaken to investigate the relationship between life situation and mental health among low-income mothers, the group at greatest risk for depression. This longitudinal research project was interdisciplinary in approach and involved interview and observation data on mothers, children, and fathers. The participa... |
Foltz, Deane (Coombs), 1982, "Postponement of the First Birth: Patterns of Childbearing in an Educated Group of Women, 1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6CNQRI, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:ruNGYwh+v6y8vZO/UO6/BQ== [fileUNF]
This follow-up study was designed to investigate women's childbearing choices, specifically factors which influence the timing of the first birth. The study involved both the secondary analysis of data collected by Hoffman in 1974, and the collection of follow-up data in 1980 from Hoffman's participants. Hoffman's 1974 study was a follow-up of Horn... |
Grossman, Frances K., 1987, "Pregnancy and Parenthood Project, 1975-1981", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HMV0ZB, Harvard Dataverse, V4, UNF:3:+m0SnS0uiMmzXq+Hg19b6g== [fileUNF]
The purpose of this longitudinal study was: (1) to increase understanding of the process of childbearing, (2) to identify factors early in pregnancy that are predictive of future problems with childbirth and child rearing, and (3) to compare the experiences of first-time parents with those of parents who already have children. Initially, approximat... |
Newberger, Carolyn Moore, 1983, "Parental Conceptions of Children and Childrearing, 1975 and 1981", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/B4Z8TW, Harvard Dataverse, V2
This research was undertaken to investigate the organization and development of parents' awareness of their children as people, the parent-child relationship, and the parental role. In the mid-1970s, 53 parents from a broad cross-section of social and family backgrounds were interviewed. An age-stratified sample of 16 children was also interviewed.... |
Chester, Nia Lane, 1986, "Coping with Early Parenthood, 1979-1984", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ONTWZ9, Harvard Dataverse, V5, UNF:3:bM8+O2UmpxNp1pn6dcHrVw== [fileUNF]
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine the adjustment to new parenthood and to investigate the particular stresses common to new parents. The later data collections focused on occupational satisfaction with preschool children. In 1976-1977, a group of new and expectant parents participated in a larger two-year longitudinal study exam... |
Bozett, Frederick W., 2024, "Children of Gay Fathers, 1985", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/D24VWO, Harvard Dataverse, V3
The purpose of this research was to discover how children cope with having a gay father. Participants were 19 children of gay fathers, living in Iowa City, IA, Oklahoma City, OK, or San Francisco, CA. Of the children, 13 were female and 6 were male. The children's ages ranged from 14 to 35. Data were collected through in-depth, unstructured intervi... |
