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Slagsvold, Britt; Sorensen, Annemette – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2008
High sense of control is related to benefits in many aspects of life, and education is known to be strongly related to sense of control. In this article we explore why women tend to feel a lower sense of control than men, and why the sense of control tends to be lower among the elderly than among younger people. In particular we explore the role…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Differences, Educational Attainment, Locus of Control
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Hansen, Thomas; Slagsvold, Britt; Moum, Torbjorn – Social Indicators Research, 2009
The study explores and distinguishes links between parental status (childless persons, parents with residential children, and empty nest parents) and a range of psychological well-being outcomes in midlife and old age. Data are from the first wave of the Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation (NorLAG) study (n = 5,189). We separate outcomes…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Life Satisfaction, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
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Bjerkedal, Tor; Kristensen, Petter; Skjeret, Geir A.; Brevik, John I. – Intelligence, 2007
The present paper reports the results of a within and between family analysis of the relation between birth order and intelligence. The material comprises more than a quarter of a million test scores for intellectual performance of Norwegian male conscripts recorded during 1984-2004. Conscripts, mostly 18-19 years of age, were born to women for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Siblings, Marital Status