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The Attitudes Of Blue Collar Adolescents Towards Employment Of Women And Child Rearing Practices, Blain Richard Morgan
The Attitudes Of Blue Collar Adolescents Towards Employment Of Women And Child Rearing Practices, Blain Richard Morgan
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Purpose was to collect and sample the attitudes of "blue collar" adolescents toward the employment of women and child rearing practices. Data were from 304 adolescents whose father s fit the requirements of being "blue collar." A questionnaire was administered that asked for attitudes and reactions to questions related to the employment of a woman through the normal stages of a family cycle and for attitudes related to child rearing practices.
The attitudes of the "blue collar" adolescents were then compared to findings recorded in a similar study that dealt with the attitudes of rural adolescents toward the employment of …
Male Roles As Perceived By Children Of Employed And Non-Employed Mothers, Mary Jane Williams Swapp
Male Roles As Perceived By Children Of Employed And Non-Employed Mothers, Mary Jane Williams Swapp
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study was done to determine whether maternal employment affected the child's perception of male roles. The study was designed to see if the child viewed the male in a more negative or positive way or if he perceived the male as taking more instrumental or expressive roles when the child's mother was employed. The hypotheses predicted that there would be no difference in the children's perceptions of male roles between mother-employed and mother-not-employed groups, and that there would also be no difference between the sexes on children's perceptions of male roles .
The questionnaire was designed with some parts …
Effects Of Sensori-Motor Reinforcement On Alphabet Letter Discrimination Tasks, Leona Magnus Peters
Effects Of Sensori-Motor Reinforcement On Alphabet Letter Discrimination Tasks, Leona Magnus Peters
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Recent research studies indicate the importance of sensory input in the development of perceptual skills. Learning the alphabet, an abstract symbol system, is considered a perceptual task. The major purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of a visual experience reinforced by a sensori-motor experience in improving the ability of kindergarten pupils to perceive the configuration of alphabet letters and the order of these letters in a word.
Two separate kindergarten classes were selected as the experimental and control groups. The learning task was individualized through the use of each subject's own name.
Each subject in both groups …