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Garland, Howard – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1977
Males and females read descriptions of a male or female worker who succeeded or failed as a manager or secretary. Subjects responded with impressions of the worker, causal attributions for his/her success or failure, and evaluations of the likelihood of a number of positive and negative consequences for the worker. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Failure, Office Occupations, Research Projects
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Falbo, Toni – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1977
A study (N = 60) was conducted to investigate the relationship between sex, the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, and measures of social influence. It was found that regardless of the subject's sex, masculine and androgynous persons received more positive peer evaluations than feminine persons. (Author)
Descriptors: Androgyny, College Students, Peer Evaluation, Research Projects
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Walker, Alexis J.; And Others – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1987
Examined role position and interdependence in 135 pairs of student women and their mothers and 119 pairs of middle-aged women and their mothers. Results suggest that except for younger pairs where married daughters and their mothers are less interdependent than single daughters and their mothers, interdependence is unrelated to role positions.…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, College Students, Daughters
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Alpert, Judith Landon; And Others – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1980
Minimal sex differences were found between male and female college students' perceptions of the following roles and role combinations: worker; spouse; parent; worker-spouse; and worker-parent. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: College Students, Employed Parents, Feminism, Life Style
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Scott, Ruth; And Others – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1977
Students' attitudes toward women and changes in those attitudes after taking a women's studies course were studied. The Spence Attitude Toward Women Scale was administered to 354 undergraduate students at two midwestern institutions. Results showed attitudes toward women became more liberal after taking a women's studies course. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, College Students, Research Projects
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Badenhoop, M. Suzanne; Johansen, M. Kelly – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1980
Result of this study indicated that reentry women were more self-motivated, with higher educational goals, and higher grade point averages. Reentry women made less use of student services. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Development, College Students, Counseling Effectiveness, Delivery Systems
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Altman, Sydney L.; Grossman, Frances K. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1977
Maternal employment, perceived maternal satisfaction and goodness of mothering, and sex role conceptions were studied as they relate to future life plans of college senior women (N=51). Daughters of working mothers scored higher on career orientation than did daughters of nonworking mothers. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Students, Employed Women, Females
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Cole, David; And Others – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1977
College students (N=1250) starting introductory courses in thirteen academic disciplines were asked to predict their grade in the course. Results showed that overall, males predicted higher grades for themselves than did females. This held true for entering freshmen as well as for those with previous college experience. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, College Freshmen, College Students