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Direct linkJones, Willis A. – Research in Higher Education, 2010
Social Integration has been found by several scholars to have a significant impact on the subsequent institutional commitment and retention of college students. Few of these scholars, however, have attempted to examine whether social integration has a different impact on female students as compared to male students. This paper presents the results…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Integration, School Holding Power, Student Attitudes
Bowl, Marion, Ed.; Tobias, Robert, Ed.; Leahy, Jennifer, Ed.; Ferguson, Graeme, Ed.; Gage, Jeffrey, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning" reflects on current debates and discourses around gender and education, in which some academics, practitioners and policy-makers have referred to a crisis of masculinity. This book explores questions such as: Are men under-represented in education? Are women outstripping men in terms of…
Descriptors: Females, Educationally Disadvantaged, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
Peled, Einat; Sacks, Ilana – Family Relations, 2008
The purpose of the present study was to learn about the self-perception of women who live with alcohol-addicted partners. It was hoped that avoiding to label the women in advance as codependent would facilitate a better understanding of their lives and self-perceptions. The qualitative naturalist methodology used was based on a feminist framework.…
Descriptors: Females, Self Concept, Alcoholism, Interpersonal Relationship
Brown, Lyn Mikel; Tappan, Mark B. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2008
In this chapter we explore the phenomenon of "girls fighting like guys" by listening to adolescent girls' justification for physical fighting with other girls. We argue that physical girlfighting is a particular kind of gendered performance--a performance of identity that expresses, at least in part, an answer to the question, "Who am I?"--that…
Descriptors: Females, Early Adolescents, Sexual Identity, Masculinity
Mayhew, Matthew J.; Caldwell, Rebecca J.; Hourigan, Aimee J. – NASPA Journal, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of curricular-based interventions housed within first-year success courses on alcohol expectancies and high-risk drinking behaviors. Specifically, we longitudinally assessed 173 students enrolled in one of ten first-year success courses, including five that received the alcohol intervention and…
Descriptors: College Students, Intervention, Grade Point Average, Scores
Hope, Andrew – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2007
Whilst the association of risk with schools is predominately a negative one, fostering images of potential dangers, this paper draws upon a socio-cultural counter-discourse to explore the perceived benefits of certain risk taking activities within educational establishments. Using research data on school Internet "misuse" it is argued…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Internet, Risk, Student Behavior
Delligatti, Nina; Akin-Little, Angeleque; Little, Steven G. – Psychology in the Schools, 2003
Current prevalence rates of Conduct Disorder (CD) in girls may be an underestimate due to inappropriate diagnostic criteria, biased perceptions by those responsible for reporting problematic behavior, and differential social constraints for each gender. Relatively few published studies of CD and related behaviors in girls exist. Available evidence…
Descriptors: Intervention, Incidence, Females, Substance Abuse
