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Aug 22, 2024 - Original Murray Collection
Lachman, Margie E.; James, Jacquelyn Boone, 1997, "Health and Personal Styles, 1989", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XPDRPY, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:4:6,128:JQ7LFr4Kr/rtPpeRmC8WYKF5lqJFuAPIrWiSMNDOR44= [fileUNF]
This study, funded by the National Institute on Aging and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development, examined the role of lifestyle as a mediator of relations between multiple dimensions of sense of control and various aspects of health in order to see if individuals with stronger beliefs i... |
Woman's Day Magazine; Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, 1995, "Woman's Day Survey, 1984", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FG4FKP, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:YAGG3DnvVv1gCQQHOQKVnA== [fileUNF]
The Woman's Day Survey, conducted jointly by Woman's Day Magazine and the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women in 1984, is a major survey of women's political attitudes. Over one hundred sixteen thousand women completed an 83-item, precoded questionnaire distributed in Woman's Day Magazine, at the time the largest response ever to a magaz... |
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... |
Shneidman, Edwin S., 1987, "Zilboorg-Friedman Archives, 1936-1941", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PHMLKB, Harvard Dataverse, V3
These data were collected for several years, beginning in 1939, by members of the Committee for the Study of Suicide at the request of Mayor LaGuardia of New York. The committee undertook a comprehensive study of suicide as a social and psychological phenomenon after an unusually high number of New York City policemen committed suicide between 1934... |
Franklin, Diane W., 2005, "Correlates of Participation and Non-participation in the Women's Liberation Movement, 1972-1974", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8EJQHM, Harvard Dataverse, V3
This study examines the correlates of participation in the women's liberation movement, particularly with regard to self-concept and the marital-power relationship. The data were collected between 1972 and 1974. Respondents were 85 couples married at least two years; the wives were matched on four variables: age, education, number of children, and... |
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... |
May 26, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Lowe, Candace, 1985, "Young Adults' Contraceptive Practices: An Investigation of Influences, 1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/748X72, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:yDZGj7OeeZudYqvGwQvkww== [fileUNF]
This study was done in Fall of 1980 and focused on contraceptive risk taking among college students. It used a model incorporating both social psychological and informational factors in contraceptive nonuse to identify influences that might be amenable to intervention through public policy. The sample consists of 283 college students, aged 18-22, f... |
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... |
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... |
Dec 16, 2013 - Original Murray Collection
Fox, Margaret Louise, 1980, "Unmarried Adult Mothers: A Study of the Parenthood Transition from Late Pregnancy to Two Months Postpartum, 1978-1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JUWLAM, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:moxUfRugEUPCLeijLdWaHw== [fileUNF]
This exploratory study was undertaken to investigate the factors affecting adaptation to motherhood among single new mothers. The aim of this study was to identify the social and psychological factors which contribute to positive adaptation to motherhood within a population of white, middle-class, adult women. Twenty unmarried White women who were... |
