Home management is the planning, controlling and evaluating
of family resources to attain the goals of a family. Since making
decisions and relating them to each other is an important part of
planning, decision making is an essential part of home management.
The purpose of this study was to test...
This study was designed to identify and describe home management
tasks, perceived managerial competency, and related social,
psychological, and economic consequences for a sample of retired
couples.
Managerial tasks were defined as essential, periodic activities
which (1) sustain the living patterns of a person or family in a common
household,...
This study was designed (1) to identify and describe young
homemakers' problems through expressed difficulties in homemaking
activities, (2) to investigate the relationship between the expressed
problem areas and the homemakers' length of marriage,
family composition, employment status and family income, and
(3) to determine additional homemaking information young homemakers...
This study investigated the level of available resources, the
use of available resources, and the degree of planning and personal
perception of the situation of four female heads of households under
60 years old and four households with male heads over 65 years old.
The study was conducted in the...
The purpose of this thesis was to identify and compare the
housing costs for two groups of mobile home households. The groups
selected were households in mobile homes on individual sites and
households in mobile homes on sites in mobile home parks. Interview
schedules designed for collecting data for this...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the home remodeling
being done during a period of varying economic conditions. A
population of owner-occupants who had purchased building permits to
spend $100 or more remodeling between 1965 - 1970 was collected
from the files of the Building Inspector's Office, Department...
The purpose of this study was to examine the use of consumer
credit by teenagers in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Data for the study
were obtained from a questionnaire administered to junior and senior
students in Klamath Union and Henely High Schools. Of the 295
questionnaires administered, 285 were tabulated and...