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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"life roles"”.
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Student expectations of future life roles
Work and family are the two most significant life domains for most individuals (Greenhaus, Collins & Shaw, 2003). Compositional and structural changes in the work and family domains over the past few decades such as: dual-earner couples and single working parents, the decline of traditional gender …
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A Study of Career and Achievement Motivation; Three Life Roles of Worker, Homemaker, and Student; And Sex Differences for Young Adults
… clusters of selected antecedent factors and life roles were examined to determine the best predictors of dimensions of career and achievement motivation for young adult women and men. Second, dimensions of career and achievement motivation and antecedents to these motivations were used to …
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The Relationship Among Gender, Gender Role Attitudes, and the Anticipated Commitment to Career, Marriage, Family, and Housework
… and participants' anticipation of future life roles (career, marriage, family, and homecare) were examined. Participants consisted of 297 single college students between the ages of 17-29 years (M = 20). Females reported significantly (p< .01) more egalitarian gender role attitudes than …
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Anticipated Life Role Salience and Career Decision-Making Difficulties
… career choice may affect their future family life, as well as how their family life may affect their career. Research has shown that undergraduate students may alter their vocational aspirations or adjust their future family plans to avoid work-family role conflict thus implying that students …
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The work and family role orientations of STEM students
… in the future can expect to partake in two life roles as adults: a work role and family role. This study investigated the life role salience of students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (N = 191) and examined the extent to which their gender role ideology and …
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Leaving journalism: Self-identity during career transition for female former Kentucky reporters
… did leaving the field of journalism affected the life narratives of female former Kentucky reporters. </p> <p>Method: Three former Kentucky female reporters were interviewed to gather data on their experiences, including how leaving journalism affected their personal and professional …
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Experiences of nontraditional college students in a music education program
… students (25 years of age or older with multiple life roles) majoring in music education. Four participants reported their university program experiences and reasons for pursuing music education in adulthood. Themes related to persistence in college were identified, such as barriers and sources of …
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A case study investigation of employed mothers' workplace formal social networks.
… designed to assist women in managing multiple life roles. This study presents research using a case study framework, specifically aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of how and to what extent social networks for working mothers impact their participants with regard to effectiveness, value …
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Made in Machismo: Discovering Gender Patterns in Migration Process
… one's self-perception, societal treatment, and life roles. The textbook definition of an immigrant is a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. Still, the motives and consequences of human mobility are shaped by various factors, such as customary rules based on gender …
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Evaluating Speech Usage in Daily Activities in Typical Adults
… their speech to meet communication demands in life roles. Documenting speech usage is critical in clinical work to plan relevant intervention goals for clients. It is also an important research variable for studying relationships between communication disorders and quality of life. The Levels …
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The effects of career guidance on learner motivation in rural high schools at Umzinyathi District
… Beginning early in a learner’s academic life, the connection between what is being learned in school, future careers and life roles should become an explicit part of everyday learning in the schools. School work can be meaningless and results in poor learner motivation and …
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The effects of athletic scholarships on motivation in sport
… athletes were also assessed. Gender, life roles, and sport experience were also examined in relation to scholarship status. Basketball players from four Ontario (n = 70) and seven U.S. Division I universities (n = 46) were examined. All athletes completed a set of demographic …
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The effects of social role attitudes on the planning behavior of First Nations mothers
… expectations of First Nations mothers in four life roles, the sociodemographic attributes of mothers and families, and their planning behaviors were explored. Forty First Nations mothers with school aged children responded to the survey through First Nations organizations and affiliations. The …
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Expanding the evidence of endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke: patient–centered outcomes, population–level impact, and patients presenting with mild stroke symptoms
… ability and capacity to engage in meaningful life roles after EVT. In a population–based analysis, adult patients undergoing EVT spent on average more than one week longer at home within the first 90 days compared with patients receiving medical treatment. Home?time was used as a novel, …
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Expanding the evidence of endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke: patient–centered outcomes, population–level impact, and patients presenting with mild stroke symptoms
… ability and capacity to engage in meaningful life roles after EVT. In a population–based analysis, adult patients undergoing EVT spent on average more than one week longer at home within the first 90 days compared with patients receiving medical treatment. Home‐time was used as a novel, …
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Work-life interaction of Setswana speaking police officers : a phenomenological study
Work and family constitutes the dominant life roles for most adults in contemporary society. In that, work may be interrupted by family and family may be interrupted by work. Work often generates ambivalent feelings; it can create both positive feelings (e.g. gives energy, enables development) and …
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Parenting After Stroke
… younger adults due to the disruption in their life course at a time focused on employment, family routines, and childcare responsibilities. Beyond paid employment, there is a paucity of research on resuming meaningful life roles such as parenting. Any impairment from stroke can make it …
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Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and the Formation of the "Mendelssohnian" Style
… by no means new to our century; even during her lifetime, Fanny received letters alluding to the possibility that some of her music was masquerading as Felix's. But how could this supposition even be possible?</p><p>Complicating our reception of Hensel's works and our knowledge of her influence …
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Self-Management of Physical Activity in African Americans and Hispanics with Multiple Sclerosis: Mixed Methods
… physical energy. For AF, the fear of losing life roles and daily functioning was motivation to persevere and do any PA given the opportunity. In contrast to many studies on AF, this study showed AF with MS do not need social support from family or friends to do PA because they view it as …
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The prevalence and characteristics of chronic musculoskeletal pain in adult triathletes in South Africa
… effect thereof on participation on meaningful life roles in athletes. The role of physiotherapy in treating people with chronic pain is to minimise disability associated with pain, in both athlete and non-athlete populations.