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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Family decision-making"”.
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Family decision making in convention participation
The results of this study show that family members influenced the decisions linked to convention travel to Las Vegas. As a secondary result of this study, family decision making in convention participation appeared to be slightly husband-dominant even though spouses perceived spousal equality in …
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Family decision making and sex role attitudes in the context of selection of a vacation destination
The purpose of this research is to investigate family decision making and more specifically, how decisions are made and what factors might impact them. Sex role attitudes have been related to household role behaviors and they are believed to be linked to decision influences within the family. This …
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In search of a better life: a history of Korean migration to Cape Town
… Korean immigrants' motivations for migrating, family decision-making and their life experiences in South Africa.
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Influence in decision-making: perspectives of adolescent ethical food consumption
… processes and factors which affect influence in family decision-making, with a focus on how adolescents attempt to influence ethical food decision-making and consumption choices in their families. The study explores family microenvironment and the implications they might have for our existing …
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Sex-role congruence: Marital satisfaction and household division of labor
… in the data as more husband dominated in the family decision-making process than families of the Modern/Modern type. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.).
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The Differential Effect of Anticipated Work-Family Conflict on the STEM Major Embeddedness of Men and Women
… to which anticipated conflicts between work and family life (AWFC) are negatively related to students’ embeddedness in their STEM majors, especially the STEM embeddedness of women. The hypothesized model was tested using structural equation modeling in Mplus-7 with a sample of 218 STEM students …
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Essays in the economics of retirement income security and household decision-making
The first essay of this thesis studies within-family decision making regarding investment in income protection for surviving spouses using a simple and tractable Nash-bargaining model. A change in US pension law (the Retirement Equity Act of 1984) is used as an instrument to derive predictions from …
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House of Men v. House of Women: Gender Domination and Relational Issues among Heterosexual Couples
This study attempted to determine whether gender dominance in a household created conflicts within future heterosexual relationships as to courtship, marriage, finances, and child rearing. 150 people responded from a pool of 450 to a ten-question survey.
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Sibling relations in Protestant middle-class Ulster families, c.1850-1900
… than previously recognised. This thesis mines family correspondence from a sibling perspective and uses additional sources such as newspapers, censuses, testamentary, medical, and political records to trace the lived experiences of Ulster Protestant middle-class families. <br/><br/>Sibling …
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Family Communication About End-of-Life Decisions
… nearing the end of life there are difficult decisions to be made about medical care and treatment. However, persons with life-threatening illness are commonly incapacitated, leaving the responsibility for making critical end-of-life decisions to family. To date, research on end-of-life …
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The role of social media in the empowerment of Muslim women in their holiday decision-making in the UK
… are equally playing an important role in the family decision-making, particularly in holiday decision-making. By understanding the needs of the Muslim women tourists, tourism marketers can effectively and efficiently interact with Muslim women tourists, respond to their questions, and …
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A comparison of mothers' attitudes and perceptions using two methods of Adlerian parent education
While some sub-cultures oppose the traditional family arrangements as being irrelevant in contemporary society, it is the traditional family that still affords its individual member the best opportunity to learn attitudes and values that will prepare them to function effectively in a democratic …
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Negotiation of migratory and educational strategies of Polish families in Athens
… of children’s education for the process of family strategy formation. Characteristic of the Polish community in Athens seems to be liquidity of their strategies: their educational and migratory projects were often changing and being modified. Migratory and educational strategies seem to …