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Willis, Diane S.; Wishart, Jennifer G.; Muir, Walter J. – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2010
Overall life expectancy for women with intellectual disabilities (ID) is now significantly extended, and many will live long enough to experience menopause. Little is known about how carers support women with ID through this important stage in their lives. This study investigated carer knowledge of how menopause affects women with ID under their…
Descriptors: Health Education, Females, Mental Retardation, Health Promotion
Twenge, Jean M. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2011
This author became intrigued by the idea that her generation, who had grown up reaping the benefits of second-wave feminism, might differ from previous generations in their attitudes toward women. What was unclear was how this period of progress might have combined with feminist backlash in affecting subsequent generations' responses to typical…
Descriptors: Females, Attitudes, Gender Issues, Feminism
Hammel, Laura R. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2008
Although strides recently have been made to facilitate the understanding of relational aggression and its consequences, one significant limitation has been the lack of research on long-term impact. Through a grounded theory approach, this study examines how resiliency behaviors exhibited by victims of relational aggression during their adolescent…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Aggression, Females, Bullying
Cheung, Fanny M.; Halpern, Diane F. – American Psychologist, 2010
How do women rise to the top of their professions when they also have significant family care responsibilities? This critical question has not been addressed by existing models of leadership. In a review of recent research, we explore an alternative model to the usual notion of a Western male as the prototypical leader. The model includes (a)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Models, Females
Coutinho, Savia A. – College Student Journal, 2007
The research reported in this article investigates whether promiscuity plays a role in same-sex and opposite-sex friend selection. Since same-sex friends share strong similarity and spend time with their friends' mates or potential mates, it becomes important to select same-sex friends who will not be sexual rivals. One way to determine rivalry in…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Friendship, Selection, Sexuality
Bardone-Cone, Anna M.; Weishuhn, Amanda S.; Boyd, Clarissa A. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2009
This study had 2 primary aims: (a) to examine the unique relations between maladaptive and adaptive dimensions of perfectionism and bulimic symptoms and (b) to test an interactive model of perfectionism and perceived weight status for bulimic symptoms in a sample of African American female undergraduates. The sample consisted of 97 women at Time 1…
Descriptors: Females, Eating Disorders, Interaction, African American Students
Notter, Megan L.; MacTavish, Katherine A.; Shamah, Devora – Family Relations, 2008
Much resilience research has focused on childhood, despite a growing understanding that resilience is a lifelong process. Adulthood is characterized by turning points that might support a movement toward resilience; yet, such opportunities are not evenly distributed across social class and geographic location. Employing a life course perspective,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Social Class, Geographic Location, Females
Koert, Emily; Borgen, William A.; Amundson, Norman E. – Career Development Quarterly, 2011
The authors investigated the strategies that helped or hindered 10 immigrant women workers to do well with change that affected their work. A total of 182 incidents were extracted and grouped into 9 categories: personal beliefs/traits/values, taking action, skills/education, personal challenges, self-care, relationships/support,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Females, Employed Women
Sherman, Whitney H.; Wrushen, Barbara Rivers – Journal of School Leadership, 2009
This qualitative study elucidated differences and commonalities among eight practicing women secondary leaders from different ethnic backgrounds. Its purpose was to add to the existing body of knowledge on women leaders in general and to contribute to the dearth of research on minority women leaders and women in the secondary leadership role in…
Descriptors: Females, Leadership, Principals, Ethnic Diversity
Altinyelken, Hulya Kosar – International Journal of Educational Research, 2009
This article is based on a qualitative study that explored educational challenges and coping mechanisms of internal migrant girls whose families moved from the rural areas in the east to the western parts of Turkey. The study revealed that internal migrant girls have encountered a number of challenges that influence their educational achievement…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Coping, Foreign Countries, Migration
Clauss-Ehlers, Caroline S. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2008
This investigation presents 1) a literature review concerning how adversity and resilience influence the development of youth from diverse cultural backgrounds; 2) an examination of measures of resilience with regard to cultural factors that relate to the nature of coping and resilience among young adults from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds;…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Young Adults, Coping, Cultural Influences
Marsee, Monica A.; Frick, Paul J. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
The current study examined the distinction between reactive and proactive aggression in a sample of detained girls (N = 58) aged 12 to 18. This study employed a self-report measure of aggression that was designed explicitly to assess both the forms that aggression takes (i.e., relational and overt), as well as the functions that aggression serves…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Females, Aggression, Self Control
Hawkins, Stephanie R.; Graham, Phillip W.; Williams, Jason; Zahn, Margaret A. – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2009
According to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from 1991 to 2000, arrests of girls increased more (or decreased less) than arrests of boys for most types of offenses. By 2004, girls accounted for 30 percent of all juvenile arrests. However, questions remain about whether these trends reflect an actual increase in girls' delinquency or…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Females, Delinquency Prevention, Prevention
Schilling, Tammy A. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2008
This research examined resilience processes in context through a narrative case study of Tasha, a young African-American woman who grew up in a poverty-ridden area of a mid-sized city in the Southeast. Personal and external data are analyzed and interpreted in terms of contextually defined themes of adversity (i.e., intersectionality of social…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, African Americans, Females, Urban Youth
Laux, John M.; Salyers, Kathleen M.; Jones, Amy L. – Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, 2007
This study found a statistically significant inverse relationship between defensiveness and female college students' Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (M. L. Selzer, 1971) and CAGE (J. A. Ewing, 198 ) scores. Female college students who produce negative screening scores were more defensive than those whose alcohol use screens were positive.…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Screening Tests, Drinking