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Vaillant, George E.; McArthur, Charles C.; Bock, Arlie, 2025, "Grant Study of Adult Development, 1938-2000", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/48WRX9, Harvard Dataverse, V5, UNF:6:FfCNPD1m9jk950Aomsriyg== [fileUNF]
The purpose of this study was to examine how a sample of men adapt to life. The original researchers perceived medical research to be too heavily weighted in the direction of disease, and designed the study to chart the ways in which a group of promising men coped with their lives over a period of time. As the study progressed, some data were colle... |
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... |
Romer, Nancy, 2024, "Fear of Success in School Age Males and Females, 1973", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WRQ3QI, Harvard Dataverse, V4
This research was a replication of the behavioral and nonbehavioral aspects of Horner's fear of success work, using preadolescent males and females as participants. It aimed to determine at what point in chronological development motive-to-avoid-success imagery in projective stories was related to performance decrements in competitive situations, a... |
Sep 22, 2024 - Original Murray Collection
Thomas, David A., 2003, "Minority Executives in Corporate America, 1993", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LE374E, Harvard Dataverse, V3
The purpose of this study was to understand the processes of development and advancement that produce minority executives by examining the cultures, orientations toward executive development, and approach to promoting racial diversity in management of three major U.S. organizations. The participants were employees at three major U.S. companies. The... |
Thompson, Laura Maud, 1997, "Indian Personality, Education, and Administration Research: Hopi Study, 1942-1944", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UFS1V4, Harvard Dataverse, V3
The Indian Education, Personality, and Administration Research was initiated in 1941 by the United States Department of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The project was set up as a joint project of the United States Office of Indian Affairs and the University of Chicago's Committee on Human Development. The aim of the project wa... |
Osherson, Samuel D., 1992, "Patterns of Midlife Career Development Project, 1977-1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZC7WXC, Harvard Dataverse, V4, UNF:3:R1Sl9hcQANgF9Q+rIiMZJA== [fileUNF]
Samuel Osherson conducted the Patterns of Midlife Career Development Project in order to understand adaptation to occupational changes in midlife and its relation to adolescent career preparedness. The objectives of the study were to understand both the stressors and changes of midlife experienced by highly educated professional men and the way tho... |
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... |
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... |
