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A comparison of the personal and social adjustment of 38 never-married women and 38 married women

Creator:

Baker, Luther Galloway, Jr.

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A survey of scholarly and popular contemporary literature reveals two persisting stereotypes regarding the nature of women. First is the theory that woman is inferior to man and that since she is the "negative" of man's masculine nature, she cannot develop her humanity to the fullest extent without fusion with...

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deliver her." The future, held Miss Anthony, was to be an "Epoch of Single Women." (93, p. 70) How
Sociability, constraints, network involvement, and the self-esteem of older women

Creator:

Ames, Sheila A. (Sheila Ann)

Abstract:

The major purpose of this exploratory study was to develop an explanatory model of self-esteem and to interpret the model using the Social Exchange framework. To this end, a main effects and an interaction model emerged which offer promise toward understanding the components of self-esteem. This study examined 325 individual...

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Dissertation

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self-esteem of older women AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF SHEILA A. AMES for the degree of DOCTOR OF