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The ontogeny of career identities in adolescence
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010)
Exploration and identity formation are primary developmental tasks during adolescence and the transition to adulthood. Yet little is known about occupational identity formation and growth during this period of life. In ...
Social Work Theories and Practice with Battered Women: A Conflict-of-Values Analysis
(Sage Publications, 1987)
In the 1970s, wife abuse became a concern of sociologists, feminists, and family theorists. The new perspectives they brought to the problem, which focused more on social factors than on individual pathology, challenged ...
Battered Women's Coping Strategies and Psychological Distress: Differences by Immigration Status
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-06)
People are rarely passive, and battered women are no exception. This study investigated the types of coping strategies women of Japanese descent (both Japan-born and U.S.-born) chose and their perceived effectiveness in ...
Focus groups as a qualitative method for crosscultural research in social gerontology
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-04)
The focus group approach for collecting qualitative data can be usefully applied in social gerontological studies, both in a single setting and cross-culturally. The experiences of the research terms participating in the ...
The Decline of Remarriage: Evidence From German Village Populations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
(Sage Publications, 1985)
Family reconstitution data for fourteen German village populations permit the examination of remarriage during the eighteenth and nineteenth cen turies. The results provide compelling evidence for a secular decline in the ...
Forms of communication: A cross-cultural comparison of older married couples in the USA and Japan
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-03)
Interviews were conducted with 24 older couples in the USA and Japan. Spouses participated in a causal conversation during which they discussed their marital history. The dialogue between the spouses was examined in relation ...
Introduction
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-04)
This special issue of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology contains a series of articles on the living arrangements of the elderly in four Asian countries (the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand) as revealed ...
Conceptual and lexical hierarchies in young children
(Elsevier, 1989-10)
Linguistic form and conceptual level both play a role in the structure of adult lexical hierarchies. The present studies examined how these factors might affect acquisition. In their linguistic form, labels can be single ...