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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"general social survey"”.
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Interrelations Between Religiosity, Mental Health, and Children
… mental health, and children. The first uses the General Social Survey to perform the first large-N, non-convenience-sample analysis of the relationship between belief in God and sense of purpose. Using logistic regression analysis I find that there is a positive association, expanding our …
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Emotional Health, Well-Being, And Religion as Quest
… orientation quest and well-being using the 1998 General Social Survey. In addition to the religious orientation quest the extrinsic and intrinsic religious orientations were also investigated. Analysis of the data indicated that there was a slight negative association between quest and general …
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Is Gay Really Gay?: A Heterosexual/homosexual Quality Of Life Comparison
… heterosexual and homosexual respondents using General Social Survey data from 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. Analyses of quality of life are performed in an effort to compare the heterosexual and homosexual population of the United States. The three main areas which are explored in the analysis …
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Trust in doctors: Is there a black-white difference?
… in doctors. This study uses data from the 2002 General Social Survey and ordinary least squares regression to reexamine this issue. It was expected that blacks are less likely to trust their doctors than whites either before or after controlling for other predictors of trust. The results of the …
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Individualized religious styles : a latent class analysis of religion and its implications for political attitudes and family formation outcomes.
… a new classification system. Data come from the General Social Survey, 2016. Analyses from the 2016 General Social Survey identify six latent classes: Actives, Monthly Attenders, Affiliated Attending Doubters, Affiliated Non-Attenders, Transcenders and Non- Believers. The results indicate that …
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Assessing public opinion toward homelessness in the United States
… study is a secondary data analysis of the 2002 General Social Survey (GSS), which has a sample size of 3,000 non-institutionalized English speaking adults. Bivariate logistic regression and multivariate logistic regression were used to analyze the data.
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Determinants of Attitudes and Perceptions Concerning Married Women in the Labor Force
… in the labor force. This study analyzes the 2002 General Social Survey (GSS) to determine what types of individuals believe in traditional versus nontraditional sex roles for mothers. The entire sample within the 2002 GSS was analyzed as well as subsets for married individuals. The significant …
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Agents of Socialization: Effects on the Attitudes and Beliefs of African Americans on Interracial Marriages
Using the 2 000 General Social Survey I analyzed appropriate variables to assess the effects of agents of socialization in relation to the attitudes and beliefs of African Americans toward interracial marriages. Socialization theory was examined and used as a framework to guide this current study. …
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Public Opinion and the Introduction of Congressional Environmental Legislation, 1973-2002
… Using public opinion data gathered by the General Social Survey from 1977 to 2002, this work examines correlations between how the public views the environment in each and the number of bills introduced in the U.S. House and Senate addressing environmental issues. The findings indicate that …
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Up in Smoke: Two Theoretical Perspectives on the Future of Marijuana Law in the United States
… in the United States is creating a true state of social anomie for U.S. citizens. Using survey data from the General Social Survey from the University of California, Berkeley, binary logistical regression is employed to find which of the independent variables compiled, age, income, race, region, …
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Up in Smoke: Two Theoretical Perspectives on the Future of Marijuana Law in the United States
… in the United States is creating a true state of social anomie for U.S. citizens. Using survey data from the General Social Survey from the University of California, Berkeley, binary logistical regression is employed to find which of the independent variables compiled, age, income, race, region, …
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Why is the South so Conservative? A Marxian Analysis of Alienation, Religion, and Political Ideology Among Poor Southern White Voters
… available and test it by using data in the General Social Survey of 1998. I will construct a concept of class based on the interaction of alienation and income. I will then test it by running multiple linear regressions to see if the hypothesized relationships of positive correlations exist …
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How do American's think about the enviornment and what does it mean for public policy: A re-assessment
<p>Research within the social sciences has attempted to explain what individuals perceive, why they perceive it the way that they do and what are their attitudes, intentions and behavior. This issue is at the root of the contention that surrounds many environmental issues, with individuals worrying …
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Social distances of white Americans to racial and ethnic minorities
This thesis examines social distances of white Americans to racial and ethnic minority groups by investigating how whites feel toward African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans. Three questions guide the study: (1) What is the relative order of whites' social distances to major …
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The Influence of Religiosity and Fundamentalism on White Protestants' Attitudes Toward Women's Issues
… women's issues. Analysis of data from the 1996 General Social Survey was implemented to ascertain the dependent variables: the Attitude toward Abortion Scale, the Women in Politics Scale, the Familial Roles Scale, the Attitude toward the Women's Movement Scale, Biology as a Reason for Women …
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Beauty Pageant Mothers: Demographics, Motivations, and Family Structure
… and through observation. The population surveyed was mothers with daughters sixteen years old or under. Questionnaires were distributed at six national pageants in five states with a total of 134 respondents. The questionnaire probed a variety of areas concerning the child's involvement, …
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This Land is (not) Your Land: Racial Boundaries and American Appropriation in the Formation of Attitudes about Immigrants
… to test this premise. Using the 2004& 2014 General Social Survey (n=1760), I test the association between race, American Appropriation, and immigrant hostility. Regardless of race, those who grant importance to American Appropriation are likely express hostility towards immigrants. …
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Is Wealth Green? Examining the Relationship Between Wealth and Environmental Conservation
… to environmental groups," from both the General Social Survey and the World Values Survey. The results strongly refute Huber's national-level theory, with evidence that wealthy nations are actually less efficient at using land, but on an individual level the evidence suggests that the …
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Ethno-racial groups and occupational attainment: Influence of human capital and social capital.
The purpose of this thesis using cycle 14 of the General Social Survey (2000) is to analyze the predictors of occupational attainment of ethno-racial groups in Canada, with a particular focus on the influence of human capital and social capital. Ethnic inequality has been the focus of a gamut of …
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Detrimental Determinants: The Impacts of Neoliberalism on Pro-Environmental Behaviors
… change in the past 30 years has beckoned the social sciences to illuminate and address the complex phenomena underlying actions that impact the environment. While many studies have considered salient indicators of pro-environmental behavior (PEB) in the United States, little research has …
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