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Desistance in the Transition to Adulthood: The Roles of Marriage, Military, and Gender
(2011-08-08)
Research is needed on desistance from crime using samples of males and females. Through the use of three waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data which represents a diverse and ...
Personality, Conflict, And Conflict Resolution
(1993)
This study probed the hypothesis that individual differences in agreeableness are related to patterns of interpersonal conflict. Participants (N = 124) were assigned partners, and then asked to solve jointly two social ...
The Effects of Differential Labels, Format of Questionnaire, Gender of Target and Gender of Respondent on Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men
(1987)
Two studies were conducted in which gender of respondent, label of target (lesbian/gay or homosexual), sex of target, format t of questionnaire and participants' reference groups (operationally defined by the sexual ...
The Effects of Parenting Styles on Children's Eating Habits
(1995)
This study examined whether parenting styles have an effect on children's eating habits using a sample of 263 participants (61 male, 202 female). Eating habits were measured using the Eating Attitudes Test (Garner & ...
Aggression, Self-Esteem, and Perceived Threat
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Based on a study by Bushman and Baumeister (1998), we hypothesized that high global self-esteem and high collective self-esteem should be predictive of greater aggressive. We also hypothesized that participants with high ...
Does the gender of the professor affect the structuring of the design studio?
(1998)
A large gender difference exists in the percentage of male and female students enrolled in architecture schools. Roughly one-third of architecture students are females while about half of the student population at large ...
Unwanted Sexual Activity Among Males
(1986)
Recent research has found that many women are being forced or persuaded to engage in unwanted sexual activity. Are men ever forced or persuaded to engage in unwanted sexual activity? If so, how often, and why?
In a pilot ...
Accuracy in Interpersonal Perception
(1990)
The extent to which gender and self-monitoring correlated with the ability to detect deceit in interpersonal interactions was examined. 20 men and women were videotaped while describing someone they liked and someone they ...
Pets, Empathy and Moral Development
(1991)
This study explored the relationship between current and childhood pet ownership/bonding, and current levels of empathy and moral reasoning. The subjects completed the Mehrabian and Epstein Emotional Empathy Scale (1972), ...
Interpersonal Problem Solving in Third and Fifth Graders: Sex, Grade, and Friendship Effects
(1995)
This study examines the relationship between friendship and the types of problem solving strategies, emotional reactions, and the intensity of the emotional reaction to hypothetical dilemmas. Third and fifth grade children ...