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Social And Cultural Influences On Nontraditional Students' Decision To Seek Higher Education, Mose Bullington
Social And Cultural Influences On Nontraditional Students' Decision To Seek Higher Education, Mose Bullington
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The purpose of this study was to determine some of the social and cultural influences on nontraditional students' decisions to seek higher education. The thesis of this project is that nontraditional students are reacting to changes in the occupational structure of the United States. The six propositions of social exchange theory developed by George Homans were used to guide the research. A questionnaire was distributed to the entire population of full-time nontraditional undergraduate students at a comprehensive university in the Southeast. A total of 430 students over the age of 25 responded to the questionnaire. Frequency distributions and crosstabulations were …
The Process Of Identity Change From Entitled Controller To Batterer, Evelyn Powell
The Process Of Identity Change From Entitled Controller To Batterer, Evelyn Powell
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The primary purpose of this research was to investigate any catalysts to changes in self-concept that may have occurred among thirteen men who had been labeled as batterers by the courts and who were about to graduate from the Project to End Abuse through Counseling and Education (PEACE), a court-mandated batterers' intervention program, in Nashville, Tennessee. It is deemed necessary for a batterer to first recognize himself as such before he is able to stop battering. The second purpose of this research was to document the men's attitudes about PEACE and how it affected them. Within the framework of symbolic …
Keeping The "Shiny Side Up" And The "Hammer Down": The Subculture Of American Truck Drivers, David Fields
Keeping The "Shiny Side Up" And The "Hammer Down": The Subculture Of American Truck Drivers, David Fields
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The purpose of this research is to provide a comprehensive description of the trucking subculture. In addition to detailing the material and nonmaterial aspects of and the process of being socialized into the trucking subculture, this thesis provides a profile of the contemporary American truck driver including demographics, work activities, attitudes, opinions and illegal activities.
Influence Of Viewing Dramatic Television And Perceived Risk Of Victimization On Crime-Specific Fear, Eric Barth
Influence Of Viewing Dramatic Television And Perceived Risk Of Victimization On Crime-Specific Fear, Eric Barth
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The purpose of this study is to examine the predictability of the fear of property and personal crime in relation to viewing dramatic or violent television. The study was carried out using the viewpoint that the viewing of violence, which is symbolically communicated through the medium of television, does affect the fear of crime. A questionnaire was administered in the spring of 1998 to students of a mid-South regional university. The sample consisted of 619 undergraduate students. Descriptive statistics, bivariate correlations, and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. The results of this study suggest that watching violent television …
Coping With Jealousy: Effects Of Personality, Gender And Intensity Of Jealousy, Tisha Thompson
Coping With Jealousy: Effects Of Personality, Gender And Intensity Of Jealousy, Tisha Thompson
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The present researcher focused on how subjects cope with jealousy in 6 different situations. A scale was developed to assess how jealous subjects would be in the 6 situations and how likely they were to use 13 different coping methods. Principal components analysis yielded 3 coping components. The researcher investigated the relationship between personality and coping style, finding that different personality types, using Costa and McCrae's 5-factor model, coped differently with jealousy. The researcher also examined the relationship between gender and coping style. Results suggested that females use coping methods to save the relationship with their partner and males tend …
Gender Differences In College Students' Attributions For Success And Failure, Anna Hutton
Gender Differences In College Students' Attributions For Success And Failure, Anna Hutton
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Attributions for success and failure have been the topic of much research. One area of focus is that of gender differences. Research has produced highly inconsistent results, but many believe that differences exist in the way men and women attribute success and failure. The present study was designed to identify differences in the ways college men and women make attributions for success and failure and to determine whether there are gender differences in attributions for success and failure in ego-involved areas. Three hundred and ninety undergraduate students completed the Collegiate Attributions Scale. Results showed that (a) college students are more …
The Process Of Career Decision-Making In Women: The Decision To Obtain A Nontraditional Occupation, Paula Houston
The Process Of Career Decision-Making In Women: The Decision To Obtain A Nontraditional Occupation, Paula Houston
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis examines the differences of experiences in working-class and middleclass women's lives due to childhood gender-role socialization and current situations in their lives. The purpose of the study is to examine how past and present experiences influenced four groups of women in making career decisions: 1) owners of nontraditional (male-type) businesses, 2) owners of traditional (female-type) businesses, 3) non-owners of nontraditional (male-type) businesses, and 4) non-owners of traditional (female-type) businesses. Both social and cognitive processes were examined for clues. In-depth interviews were conducted with a total of twenty women to examine their Childhood and current experiences of gender socialization. …