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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 ...
An Approximate Test for Homogeneity of Correlated Correlation Coefficients
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-03)
This paper develops and evaluates an approximate procedure for testing homogeneity of an arbitrary subset of correlation coefficients among variables measured on the same set of individuals. The sample may have some missing ...
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 ...
Marriage on the Public Policy Agenda: What Do Policy Makers Need to Know from Research?
(2004)
For the last 30 years, encouraging employment has been the primary focus of U.S. anti-poverty policies. More recently, however, promoting the formation and maintenance of “healthy marriages” has emerged as a central feature ...
Appendices to Fomby, Paula, Joshua A. Goode, Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu, and Stefanie Mollborn (2019). “Adolescent Technology, Sleep, and Physical Activity Time in Two U.S. Cohorts.” Youth & Society.
(Sage, 2019-07-30)
The advent of Internet-enabled mobile digital devices has transformed U.S. adolescent technology use over the last decade, yet little is known about how these changes map onto other health-related behaviors. We provide a ...
Changes in Subjective and Objective Measures of Economic Well-Being and Their Interrelationship among the Elderly in Singapore and Taiwan
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-03)
Social environmental impacts on survey cooperation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-05)
Social environmental influences on survey cooperation are explored using data from six national household surveys in the United States matched to 1990 decennial census data. Consistent with the past literature on prosocial ...