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Book Review: The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-Structuralism, and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa. Helen Malson.
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
Racial Stereotypes and Gender in Context: African Americans at Predominantly Black and Predominantly White Colleges
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-07)
In this study, relationships among stereotype expectations, gender, and academic self-concept and performance of African American students in predominantly White and predominantly Black college contexts were examined. ...
The Role of Husbands’ and Wives’ Emotional Expressivity in the Marital Relationship
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-05)
The current investigation was designed to examine the role of positive and negative emotional expressivity in the marital relationship. Data from 58 married couples were used to assess spouses’ levels of emotional expressivity ...
Psychiatric comorbidity in older adults with bipolar disorder
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006-06)
Introduction Comorbidity patterns and correlates among older adults with bipolar disorder (BPD) are not well understood. The aim of this analysis was to examine the prevalence of comorbid PTSD and other anxiety disorders, ...
Essentialism, Culture, and Beliefs About Gender Among the Aravanis of Tamil Nadu, India
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the gender beliefs of the Aravanis, a transgender community in Tamil Nadu. Gender transgression and gender transformation (attempts to change gender) tasks were used to examine ...
War-Related Trauma and Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Adult Kosovar Refugees
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-04)
Since 1999, almost 16,000 Kosovar refugees have entered the United States. Few studies have investigated trauma and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in this population. We conducted a caseworker-assisted ...
Gender Differences in Interest and Knowledge Acquisition: The United States, Taiwan, and Japan
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-08)
The relationship between interest and knowledge was investigated in a representative sample of 11th grade students from cultures that differ in the strength of their gender-role stereotypes and their endorsement of ...
Child Sexual Abuse, Peer Sexual Abuse, and Sexual Assault in Adulthood: A Multi-Risk Model of Revictimization
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-04)
This study explored the predictors and consequences of sexual assault occurring after the age of 16 years in a nonclinical sample of women. Child sexual abuse occurring before the age of 16 years was the only predictor of ...
Resisting Gendered Smoking Pressures: Critical Consciousness as a Correlate of Women's Smoking Status
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-08)
Gender is one of the social structures, along with social class and ethnicity, that shapes women's smoking behaviors. We examined how different responses to gender pressures (internalization and resistance) relate to ...