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The Microdemographic Community-Study Approach
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 1991)
Survey methods have been criticized for producing unreliable, invalid data and for failing to provide contextual information to test complex causal hypotheses. We discuss a technique that combines survey and ethnographic ...
Self-Selection, Socialization, And Distinctive Military Values: Attitudes of High School Seniors
(Sage Publications, 1987)
It has long been accepted that military personnel share a set of beliefs, sometimes characterized as promilitary values, which are distinctive from those of civilians. This report focuses on whether such differences arise ...
Quality improvement and hospital financial performance
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006-11)
The objective of this study was to examine the association between the scope and intensity of Quality improvement (QI) implementation in hospitals and organizational performance. A sample of 1,784 community hospitals was ...
Does Enlistment Propensity Predict Accession? High School Seniors' Plans and Subsequent Behavior
(Sage Publications, 1998)
This article examines how high school seniors' plans or "propensity" to serve in the armed forces relate to their actual enlistment. Longitudinal data were used from more than M 33.000 participants in the Monitoring the ...
Propensity to Serve in the U.S. Military: Temporal Trends and Subgroup Differences
(Sage Publications, 1999)
Data from the Monitoring the Future project, a study of high school seniors (and since 1991, eighth and tenth graders) are used to define six recruitment periods in America's all-volunteer military force, characterized by ...
Unraveling the Relationship of Distress Levels Within Couples: Common Stressors, Empathic Reactions, or Crossover via Social Interaction?
(Sage Publications, 1998)
Using structural equation modeling analyses we examined the correlation in levels of depression symptoms within couples to determine whether the underlying mechanism is due to common stressors, empathic reactions, or ...
The Courtship Process and Adolescent Sexuality
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 1990)
This article examines adolescent sexuality within the context of a life course developmental model and considers the causal interrelationships of sexual behavior with dating, courtship, and planning for marriage. Data from ...