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A Description and Analysis of Selected Demographic and Socio-economic Characteristics of United States Manufacturing and Retail Trade Cities : 1950 and 1960 (open access)

A Description and Analysis of Selected Demographic and Socio-economic Characteristics of United States Manufacturing and Retail Trade Cities : 1950 and 1960

This is a descriptive study of functional specialization in cities and its relation to certain social, economic and demographic variables.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Heathington, Ronald W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Levels of Social Participation of Retired with Non-Retired Persons by Selected Role Categories (open access)

Comparison of Levels of Social Participation of Retired with Non-Retired Persons by Selected Role Categories

The relationship between work status (working and retired) and the degree of formal and informal social participation among elderly respondents sixty to sixty-nine years of age was studied and analyzed. A national probability sample of 735 elderly Americans provided the major data source. Elaboration model was used to further understand and explain the relationship between work status and the degree of formal and informal social participation. Ten control variables were introduced: work status of spouse, marital status, occupational status, family income, satisfaction with health, size of kinship network, race, gender, and size of community of residence. Indices of formal and informal social participation were constructed.
Date: May 1981
Creator: Khullar, Gurdeep S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation of the Relationship Among Occupational Opportunities for Women, Marriage, and Fertility (open access)

An Investigation of the Relationship Among Occupational Opportunities for Women, Marriage, and Fertility

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship among the following variables: occupational opportunities for women, career participation, percentage married by specific age groups, and fertility. The areal units of analysis are the one-hundred largest standard metropolitan statistical areas in the United States in 1970. The independent variables are occupational opportunities for women and career participation of women, and the dependent variables are percentage married by specific age groups and fertility. The objectives are (1) to substantiate earlier findings that there is a negative relationship between occupational opportunities for women and fertility, (2) to include career participation as one dimension of occupational opportunities for women, (3) to compare the relationship and predictive ability of occupational opportunities for women and career participation in terms of the dependent variables of percentage married by specific age groups during regression analysis in order to determine its influence on fertility, and (4) to test propositions concerning the assumption that female labor-force participation does not necessarily inhibit fertility. The findings of the study indicate that there is a negative correlation between occupational opportunities for women and the percentage married by specific age groups and a negative correlation between work opportunities and fertility. Specifically, female-median …
Date: May 1977
Creator: Ross, Patricia A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Association of Masculinity Scores with Five Measures of Adjustment at the Gainesville State School for Delinquent Youths (open access)

Association of Masculinity Scores with Five Measures of Adjustment at the Gainesville State School for Delinquent Youths

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining the effects of masculinity on achievement. The California Psychological Inventory Fe Scale is used to measure masculinity. Results from this scale are compared with results on five measures of adjustment; Wechsler I.Q. scores, the Gainesville State School point system, and three scales constructed for this study to measure aspects of adjustment. The findings of this study fail to support the proposition that masculinity affects adjustment. The instrument used in this study to measure masculinity may be culturally biased. Further research is needed in this area using a number of measures of masculinity to determine masculinity's effects on adjustment.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Kurtz, Howard A.
System: The UNT Digital Library