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Feb 3, 2015 - Original Murray Collection
McClelland, David C.; Franz, Carol, 1992, "Life Patterns Project: Follow-up of Patterns of Child-rearing, 1987-1988", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AJHKU6, Harvard Dataverse, V8, UNF:3:m9aXJFiHOofwwj/K+YaR2A== [fileUNF]
In 1951, mothers of 5-year-old children in the Boston area were interviewed about their own and their husbands' parenting practices for a study by Sears, Maccoby, and Levin, Patterns of Child Rearing, 1951-1958 (Log# 00235). The children of these mothers were re-contacted for follow-up by different researchers four times since the original study. T... |
Feldman, Harold; Feldman, Margaret, 1987, "The Effect of Welfare Women's Working on Their Families, 1969-1972", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QXXBFL, Harvard Dataverse, V2
This study was designed to study low-income mothers and their work, particularly how employment affects home and personal life and in what ways, if any, current family structure is a barrier to employment. The sample was drawn from current and closed (6 months to 3 years) New York state welfare lists. In the first wave (1969-1970), women who had at... |
Ginzberg, Eli; Yohalem, Alice, 1978, "Life Styles of Educated Adult Women, 1961-1974", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4DLXNV, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:dv1yzCbSZDi+KHM5L7IlXw== [fileUNF]
The major purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine factors that influenced the life patterns of a group of highly educated women. The study focused primarily on the role of work in the women's lives. Data were collected in two waves: from 1961 to 1963, and in 1974. The first wave of data collection consisted of a mailed questionnaire sent... |
Lawrence Kohlberg (Deceased), 1980, "Longitudinal Study of Moral Development, 1955-1977", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VQRMPK, Harvard Dataverse, V4, UNF:3:fvrQ1drT4Su8cMoECO6Nqw== [fileUNF]
This 20-year longitudinal study was undertaken to trace developmental changes in children's moral reasoning. Initial data collection (Time 0) was begun in 1955-1956, with interviews conducted every three to four years thereafter. Sixty of the 96 participants were interviewed at least twice. The original sample consisted of 72 boys selected from two... |
Ybarra, Lea, 1977, "Chicano Families and Women's Roles, 1977", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ICWHVF, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:wkHv/rp5Iyx/fccRKRtOfg== [fileUNF]
This study was designed to examine the effects of economic, social, educational, and cultural factors on the family structure of the Chicano family in order to provide a more comprehensive view of the Chicano family than other studies which had been conducted at the time. Fifty Chicano couples in Fresno, CA participated in intensive interviews whic... |
Ridley, Jeanne Clare, 1981, "Social and Psychological Factors Affecting Fertility, 1941", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZNAYGN, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:MCzbUL8GPZ7hNHsPGKK6VQ== [fileUNF]
This study investigated motivations behind fertility patterns to ascertain the extent to which the number of children couples had deviated from the ideal, and to discover how socioeconomic and psychological factors influenced decisions about the number of children desired. The data were collected in 1941, under the sponsorship of the Council of Soc... |
Kaminer, Wendy; Moore, Elizabeth, 1988, "Women Volunteering, 1984", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0YMDFQ, Harvard Dataverse, V3
This data set contains open-ended, unstructured interviews with 45 women, described in a book by Kaminer, "Women Volunteering: The Pleasure, Pain, and Politics of Unpaid Work from 1830 to the Present." The interviews explore the relationships among volunteering, feminism, and family life for women in the 1980s. The participants vary in age, ethnici... |
Ybarra, Lea, 1980, "California Valley Oral History Project, 1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5JMCDB, Harvard Dataverse, V3
The purpose of this study was to attempt to fill a gap in knowledge of past and contemporary Chicano family values and beliefs, and to gain a female perspective on the understanding of family life. The sample consisted of 51 Chicanos (22 women and 29 men) who had been living in the San Joaquin Valley for over thirty years. Single interviews were co... |
Constance, Ahrons, 2001, "Binuclear Family Study, 1979-2000", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7LI5FH, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:5:tmhUsi69n+r8SBj7q9lbbA== [fileUNF]
This longitudinal study explored how families respond to and manage divorce and remarriage. Participants were assessed on four occasions beginning in 1979 over a period of twenty years. The focus was mainly on positive outcomes following divorce, such as building a binuclear family, quality of the custody and co-parental arrangement, and remarriage... |
Jul 31, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Henry A. Murray Research Archive; Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, 2022, "Coping and Adaptation in Older Black Women, 1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VI5RWA, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:+6toPglxXDFS2p01aBiVOQ== [fileUNF]
The goal of this study was to describe the coping styles used by a sample of well-educated, achieving, aging African American women and a comparison group of White women to investigate the degree to which they exhibited successful psychological adaptation to aging. The sources of data for the project were oral history transcripts included in the co... |
