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  • Body awareness as related to clothing interest of college men and women

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    Paeth, Linda Kirk
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    The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between clothing interest and body awareness, between clothing interest and selected demographic variables for college men and women, and between body awareness and selected demographic variables for college men and women. To assess these relationships two measures were used. Body awareness,...
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    introductory psychology courses. Participants in the study were young college men and women predominantly

  • The relationship of time orientation to selected clothing variables measured among tenth and twelfth grade high school girls

    Creator:
    Dersch, Fay Avis
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    The purpose of the study was to investigate relationships among time orientation, clothing influentials, importance of selected garment characteristics, sources of clothing information, and clothing values. The measures developed for the study were a clothing influential measure, a garment characteristic measure, and a source of clothing information measure. Two measures...
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    peer group (Ryan, 1966, p. 275). Clothing and appearance are two ways he can get this approval so he

  • Perception of clothing clues by five-, nine-, and thirteen-year-olds

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    Butzer, Peggy A.
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    The significance of dress in a first encounter situation has been demonstrated empirically: clothing serves as a vehicle for communicating information from one person to another. Thus, it is influential in affecting the formation of first impressions. This study was undertaken to explore the elements of dress that are most...
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    intensive study. As Ryan (1966, p. 195) pointed out, though, it is often assumed that what is significant

  • Consumers of used clothing

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    Richardson, Susan Ogawa
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    The study was undertaken to investigate characteristics of consumers of used clothing and the outlets in which used clothing is sold. The investigation of consumer characteristics involved demographic factors such as sex, age, educational level, employment status, family composition, income level, user of clothing purchased, use of clothing, reasons for...
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    involves low income adopters, especially young, who are assumed to adopt creative styles. Tarde (1903

  • Clothng behavior of adolescents in an economically disadvantaged rural community

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    Snyder, Janet Lovseth
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    This thesis is a study of the clothing behavior of disadvantaged adolescents in a rural community as it relates to the factors of social class, security level, peer acceptance and self-selection of clothing. This study was selected because very little research in clothing behavior has been done in disadvantaged rural...
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    indicated position and responsibility. Ryan (1966, p. 229) stated, The most important requisite of

  • Innovators and non-innovators in furniture purchase compared on their creativity, change orientation, and social participation

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    O'Toole, Kathy Sue
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    The study determines and compares the characteristics of innovators (defined as purchasers of wood furniture of similar line, curve, mass, function, and cost). Null hypotheses were written predicting that there would be no difference between innovation in purchase of furniture and age, creativity, social participation, socio-economic level, exposure to mass...
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    also conducted significant studies. Ryan and Gross (1943) studied the diffusion of Hybrid Seed corn in

  • Satisfaction with clothing and personal appearance related to self-esteem and participation in activities among full-time homemakers

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    Olstrom, Janet Marie
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    The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationships among satisfaction with clothing, satisfaction with physical appearance, concern over weight, self-esteem, and participation in leisure-time activities among a sample of full-time homemakers. To test these relationships, five measures were used. Satisfaction with clothing was measured by comparing the actual...
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    society. Glenn and Walters (1966) summarize this by stating: . . today's young bride may find she is

  • Success in a clothing construction course and self esteem in a women's penal institution

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    Hall, Terry Lynn
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    The purpose of this study was to examine self-perceived success as experienced in a learning environment, and its association with self esteem. The relationships between pretreatment-self esteem, posttreatment-self esteem, and perceived success experienced in a five-week clothing construction course were investigated. Measures of perceived sewing ability, perceived success, and course...
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    (Ryan, 1966, p. 2). Theories concerning this relationship have been studied and tested by social

  • Perception of clothing clues : its relation to liking for the clothing by the viewer and similarity to the clothing worn by the viewer

    Creator:
    Shields, Edith A.
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    Perception between people is part of the process of nonverbal communication. Person perception including body, facial expression, facial features, and clothing is part of the process that results in the formation of impressions of persons by each other. The purpose of this study was to investigate clothing perception and develop...
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    of the costume that are most noted in making these evaluations. As Ryan (1966, p. 28) asked: "What

  • Perceived attractiveness and perceived support of the feminist movement

    Creator:
    Laughlin, Mildred Ruth
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    This study was designed to provide additional information to determine: what difference variance in perceived attractiveness made in perceived support of the feminist movement; what difference type of garment worn made in perceived support of the feminist movement; relationship between the judgments regarding perceived support of the feminist movement and...
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    (Ryan, 1966, p. 2). A survey of litera- ture on the related concepts of personal traits, popularity