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Nov 3, 2014
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...
Sep 28, 2014
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...
Sep 22, 2014
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...
Sep 14, 2014
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...
Sep 14, 2014
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...
Sep 10, 2014
Ware, Norma C., 1992, "Women in Science Concentrations, 1983-1987", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OEWKBD, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:slKSznFDzVgfMNty8Zg6wQ== [fileUNF]
This survey was designed to study the rate of persistence in science fields by undergraduate students who considered majoring in the sciences during their senior year in high school. The factors associated with this persistence were examined for both women and men. In the summer of 1983, a sample of 300 women and 300 men who had expressed an intere...
Aug 26, 2014
Cynthia Allen, 2018, "Career Plans and Life Patterns of College-Educated Women: A Twenty-Year Follow-up Study, 1983", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XTEFJ5, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:s25LVgaZISEisRfFXZYPxA== [fileUNF]
This study is a follow-up of Barnett's 1963 study (Log# 69) of vocational planning of college women. The purpose of the follow-up was to compare the stated vocational and life plans of three groups of seniors at Radcliffe College with their actual career and life patterns twenty years later.
Aug 6, 2014 - Murray Research Archive Dataverse
Nadelson, Carol C.; Notman, Malkah T., 1983, "Tufts Medical School Alumni, 1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4YM40I, Harvard Dataverse, V3
These data were collected in 1980 to provide a comparison set of data to the materials collected from the Study of Harvard Medical School Alumni (see Notman and Nadelson, 00628). The purpose was to examine specialty choice, experiences in medical education, and patterns of life decisions of medical school alumni. Men and women who had graduated bet...
Aug 3, 2014
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
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...
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