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Mar 12, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Zuckerman, Diane M., 1983, "Self-Esteem and Life Goals of College Women and Men, 1978", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/R64CET, Harvard Dataverse, V2
These data were collected to assess the educational goals, career goals, and marital/parenthood plans of students attending a coeducational Seven Sisters college, and to determine the extent to which these goals are related to demographic background, self-esteem, and enrollment in women's studies courses. The sample consisted of 244 women and 62 me...
Feb 26, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Sears, Robert R., 1980, "Identification and Child Rearing, 1958", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/611N2L, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:3:HWFo6qs9ag9mcOe37ZZhRg== [fileUNF]
This research was undertaken to explore the process of identification in young children as it relates to the development of sex-role stereotyping, adult role formation, self-control, self-recrimination, prosocial forms of aggression, guilt feelings, and other expressions of conscience. The study tested the intercorrelations among various behaviors...
Feb 21, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Engel Archive Committee of the University of Rochester, 1997, "The Monica Study, 1953-1995", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CFCKDB, Harvard Dataverse, V5
The Monica Study is perhaps the single largest prospective case study ever conducted, including 42 years of film, video, interview, and psychological testing data of an individual and 15 of her family members. It documents the life of Monica, an American woman born with congenital atrasia of the esophagus who was fed by a gastric fistula until 2 ye...
Feb 21, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Heath, Douglas H., 1997, "The Study of Adult Development, 1960-1985", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DYK8DS, Harvard Dataverse, V2
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine how a sample of men adapt to life over time. The researcher examined the meaning of competence and psychological maturity of college men, their course and causes through the adult years, and the difference between males and females through their maturation. Through the middle years, this study h...
Feb 21, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Suarez-Orozco, Carola; Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo, 1997, "Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents, 1992", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/U3IEQT, Harvard Dataverse, V3
This study was designed to systematically examine the similarities and differences of experience among four groups of adolescents: Mexicans (born of Mexican parents and residing in Mexico), Mexican immigrants (born of Mexican parents in Mexico and now residing in the United States), second-generation Mexican Americans (born and raised in the United...
Feb 21, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Luker, Kristin, 1992, "Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, 1984", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LZA88O, Harvard Dataverse, V4
The purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing the attitudes of pro-choice and anti-abortion activists and to weigh individual commitments to the abortion debate. The study examines the values and moral beliefs of activists on both sides of the abortion issue. Both pro-choice and anti-abortion activists were interviewed, including men...
Feb 21, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Healey, Donna E., 1980, "Attitudes, Status, and Psychological Functioning of Women in Egalitarian and Traditional Marriages, 1978", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YKZATL, Harvard Dataverse, V3
These data were collected in order to compare the attitudes and psychological functioning of wives in traditional and egalitarian marriages. Participants were obtained by using the friendship pyramid method, and all were married with at least one child under the age of six. All the women were nominated as either traditional or egalitarian; the 60 w...
Feb 21, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Weiss, Robert S.; Murray, Parkes, C., 1984, "Harvard Bereavement Study, 1965-1966", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DCJ1QV, Harvard Dataverse, V3
This longitudinal study was designed to explore how bereavement affects the emotional and social lives of those who have lost a spouse and to examine the course of recovery from bereavement and the social or psychological factors that facilitate or impede that recovery. The participants were Boston widows and widowers under the age of 45 whose spou...
Feb 20, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Barnes, Bonnie Mueller; Endicott, Jean, 1980, "Premenstrual Mood and Behavior Changes, 1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NHXZAJ, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:hUuSDw8MeanhqZVnYa/cjg== [fileUNF]
The purpose of this research was to examine the variety of changes in behavior, mood, and physical condition that appear during the premenstrual period; to differentiate the various symptoms that appear premenstrually; to provide a description of the dimensions of change; and to provide for typological categorization of the clinical features of the...
Feb 17, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Ratliff, Elyse Sutherland, 2022, "Follow-Up Study on the Development of Achievement-Related Motives, 1979", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KWMWPT, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:lxXxf/1troDbrb5OgEs6eA== [fileUNF]
This study was undertaken as a follow-up of Romer's research on the development of achievement-related motives (see Romer, Log# 00030). The research was an attempt to replicate and extend Romer's original investigation of developmental aspects of motivation and performance. The participants were White, middle-class male (N=60) and female (N=54) hig...
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