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Culpepper, Dawn; Lennartz, Courtney; O'Meara, KerryAnn; Kuvaeva, Alexandra – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2020
Faculty members with families face well-documented challenges in managing the demands of work and life. However, we know less about the experiences of single faculty members. Using agency as a theoretical framework, we assessed whether faculty members have different experiences in enacting agency in work-life balance based on their partner status,…
Descriptors: Family Work Relationship, Role Conflict, College Faculty, Women Faculty
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Alkhattabi, Mona – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2016
Today, in association with rapid social and economic changes, there is an increasing level of demand for distance and online learning programs. This study will focus on identifying the main motivational factors for choosing a web-based distance-learning program. Moreover, it will investigate how these factors relate to age, gender, marital status…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology
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Copur, Zeynep; Safak, Sukran; Terzioglu, Gunsel; Dodder, Richard A. – Journal of Family Issues, 2009
This study examines the validity and reliability of the Perceptions of Adequacy of Resources inventory--developed for American society--in a sample from Turkey and determines the correlations between perceived adequacy of resources and selected socioeconomic and family composition characteristics in Turkey. Participants of this study consist of…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Income, Family Life, Foreign Countries
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Lis, Lea DeFrancisci; Wood, William C.; Petkova, Eva; Shatkin, Jess – Academic Psychiatry, 2009
Objective: Mentorship is an important component of graduate education. This study assessed the perceptions of general psychiatry chief residents regarding the adequacy of mentorship provided during training. Methods: The authors surveyed 229 chief residents participating in the APA National Chief Residents Leadership Program in 2004 and 2005. The…
Descriptors: Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Study, Mentors, Marital Status
Martin, Bill – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
People's life pathways are no longer as predictable as they were in the second half of the 20th century. It is no longer as simple as moving from school to work, probably via tertiary education, to living independently, then getting married and starting a family. Changes in how people combine education with life-course transitions will influence…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Vocational Education, Skill Development, Education Work Relationship