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Residential setting and parent-adolescent relationships during the college years
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-04)
The relationship of residential setting (living with parents vs. living away from home while attending college) and gender with late adolescents' perceptions of their relationships with parents was examined. Four hundred ...
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 ...
Disability Transitions for Older Persons with Arthritis
(Sage Publications, 1992)
This article reports changes over 2 years in physical, activities of daily living (ADL), and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) disabilities for older U.S. adults with arthritis, compared to those without ...
Survival Curves, Prevalence Rates, and Dark Matters Therein
(Sage Publications, 1991)
Survival curves are a visual aid to help us think about interrelationships between chronic morbidity, disability, and mortality. Prevalence rates indicate a population's morbidity and disability status at given times. The ...
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 ...
Susceptibility to Peer Pressure as an Explanatory Variable for the Differential Effectiveness of an Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program in Elementary Schools
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1992-08)
A school-based alcohol misuse prevention program had differential effects on students' susceptibility to peer pressure, depending on prior experience with alcohol. These effects paralleled those on alcohol use and misuse, ...
Women, men, and osteoarthritis
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995-12)
Objectives and Methods. Gender differences in the prevalence and impact of arthritis are discussed, using data and analytic results from national health surveys. Results. Most cases of arthritis are osteoarthritis, an ...
Studying living arrangements of the elderly: Lessons from a quasi-qualitative case study approach in Thailand
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-09)
The present study explores aspects of living arrangements of the elderly in Thailand and how they relate to intergenerational support exchanges as revealed by a quasi-qualitative case study approach. The study describes ...
Elementary Structures in the Nepal Himalaya: Reciprocity and the Politics of Hierarchy in Ghale-Tamang Marriage
(Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Pittsburgh), 1990-04)