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McDaniel, Susan | Reconceptualizing the nuptiality/fertility relationship in Canada in a new age | First comes love; then comes marriage; along comes Joanie with a baby carriage. This straightforward temporal sequence so long taken for granted in North America may no longer be valid. With marriage rates declining, birth rates at an historic low, births occurring outside legal marriage, and dramat... | Marriage; Family; Feminist | 1989 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Reexamining the economic costs of marital disruption for women | Changes in labor force participation and returns may have lessened divorce's traditionally severe economic consequences for women. Method. We use recent data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to analyze the economic well-being of women whose marriages ended between the firs... | | 2001 |
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Yu, Zhou | Regional disparities in homeownership trajectories: impacts of affordability, new construction, and immigration | In contrast to the 1980s, we find substantial increases in the homeownership rates of young adults in the 1990s. Focusing on the younger half of the baby boom generation, aged 35 to 44 in 2000, we explore the factors that caused steeper trajectories into homeownership in some ... | Demographics; Homeownership; Immigration | 2005 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Reported attitudes of Edmonton women towards abortion | Abortion is a topic that many Canadians feel strongly about and one that has attracted a lot of public attention and debate in the past few years. Much of this attention can be attributed to the reactions of various people and organizations to the new amendments to the Canadian criminal code passed ... | | 1976 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Residential territories: cues to burglary vulnerability | Newman's work on defensible space and Altman's work on territoriality were used to formulate a hypothesis that certain design elements enhance or reflect residential territoriality and thereby influence burglars' target selections. Specifically, evidence on the links from real and symbolic barriers... | Burglary; Residences; Territoriality; Homes | 1985 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Review of the economics of family time use | Time is a limited resource. Yet, it is also the one resource with which all individuals are equally endowed on any given day. Why then is there such wide variation in how each of us chooses to use that time? What factors guide our decisions about time spent working versus time spent with family and... | | 1998 |
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Smith, Ken R.; Zick, Cathleen D. | Risk of mortality following widowhood: age and sex differences by mode of death | This study examines how spouses' deaths from sudden or lengthy illnesses differentially affect the mortality risks of surviving widows and widowers by age. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find the mortality risk differs by gender, age, and type of widowhood. For nonelderly ( < 65) wido... | Risk of mortality; Widowhood; Sex differences; Role theory | 1996 |
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Diener, Marissa L. | Role of prenatal expectations in parents' reports of infant temperament | The associations were examined among parents' characteristics, their prenatal expectations for and postpartum perceptions of infant temperament, and observers' ratings of temperament. During pregnancy and at 3 months postpartum, 70 primiparous women and their husbands completed several mood and anx... | | 1995 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Seniors and portrayals of intra-generational and inter-generational inequality in the Globe and Mail | In this article, we examine how seniors are portrayed in the Globe and Mail. Thirty articles published in 2004 were selected and thematically analysed. Seniors were discussed in six different contexts, including family, work/retirement, community networks, scientific studies of population, social a... | | 2006 |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Sex, contraception and childbearing among high-risk youth: do different factors influence males and females? | During adolescence, many young people begin to experiment with new roles. One important area of exploration is sexual activity, which involves a certain amount of risk-taking. | | 1998 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Sexual harassment in Canadian academe: explorations of power and privilege | Sexual harassment is one of the ways in which women in academe experience inequities. Knowledge about and understanding of sexual harassment is increasing, perhaps even dramatically. Empirical research on sexual harassment in Canada, and particularly in the universities, is an important contributor... | Intimidation; Authority; Powerlessness | 1991 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Shifting fortunes in a changing economy: trends in the economic well-being of divorced women* | Income losses resulting from marital disruption have traditionally contributed to high rates of poverty for single women. This paper explores trends in the economic consequences of divorce using data from the 1980-2001 Current Population Survey March Demographic Supplement. Divorce still adversel... | Divorce; Separation; Finances; Financial independence | 2003-10-01 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Single parenthood: policy apartheid in Canada | Policy discussions regarding single parents often move to income maintenance issues. While the risk of poverty for single mothers with dependent children is high, attention devoted largely to the policy challenges of income maintenance for single mothers may have two unfortunate consequences. Firs... | Single mothers; Social policy; Canada | 1993 |
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Salari, Sonia Lynne | Social and environmental infantilization of aged persons: observations in two adult day care centers | This study examines the social environments, staff behavior, and social interaction of elderly clients in two adult day care centers. Goffman's (1961) description of the psycho-social effects of the "total institution" is used as a framework for conceptualizing the effects of "partial institutions" ... | Infantilization | 2001 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Social bases of neonatal and postneonatal mortality: an ecological analysis of Alberta, Canada | Canada's steady downward trend in mortality in the twentieth century has not been matched by a similar decline in infant mortality. This paper examines, by reference to census divisions in Alberta, the degree to which neonatal and postneonatal mortality are related to environmental factors. Although... | Death; Exogeneous; Rates | 1981 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Social cohesion and gender: reflections on tendencies and tensions | Social cohesion, in various guises, has become a topic of great interest in recent years -- to policy, to sociologists and other social scientists, and to the public. The knit of social fabric is dependent on relationality, on social caring and connectedness, on a sense of social cohesion. Questio... | Social cohesion; Gender; Diversity; Inequality | 2003 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Social reconstruction of sexual assault by women victims: a comparison of therapeutic experiences | In this study, the conventionally accepted view of sexual violence against women as manifested by traditional therapy is contrasted with the feminist perspective represented by feminist therapy and feminist self-help groups for victims of sexual assault. The focus of the research is on the ways in ... | Sexual violence; Feminist self-help; Feminist counselling | 1986 |
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Fan, Jessie Xiaojing | Sociodemographic and environmental correlates of active commuting in Rural America | Purpose. This research investigated participation rates in 3 modes of active commuting (AC) and their sociodemographic and physical environmental correlates in rural America. Methods. The 2000 Census supplemented with other datasets were used to analyze AC rates in percentage of workers walking, bik... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Thanks for nothing: changes in income and labor force participation for never-married mothers since 1982 | This study examines whether the changing social and economic characteristics of women who give birth out of wedlock have led to higher family incomes. Using Current Population Survey data collected between 1982 and 2002, we find that never-married mothers remain poor. They have made modest econom... | Motherhood; Single Mothers; Income; Population surveys | 2006-07-26 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Thanks for nothing: income and labor force participation for never-married mothers since 1982 | We examine the changing social and economic characteristics of women who give birth out of wedlock. Using Current Population Survey data collected between 1982 and 2002, we find that never-married mothers remain impoverished. Their income growth over these years was modest despite substantial gains ... | | 2011 |
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Caserta, Michael; Lund, Dale A. | Toward the development of an inventory of daily widowed life (IDWL): guided by the duel process model of coping with bereavement | The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement (Stroebe & Schut, 1999) suggests that the most effective adaptation involves oscillaton between two coping processes: loss-orientation (LO) and restoration-orientation (RO). A 22-item Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL) was developed to measure t... | Bereavement; Grief reaction; Widowhood; Psychological orientation; Adaptation, Psychological | 2007-07 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Trends in Americans food-related time use: 1975-2006 | Objective: To describe how the time spent in food-related activities by Americans has changed over the past 30 years. Design: Data from four national time diary surveys, spanning 1975-2006, are used to construct estimates of trends in American adults' time spent in food-related activities. Multivari... | | 2010-01-01 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Trends in the intergenerational transmission of divorce | Numerous researchers have shown that the children of divorce are disproportionately likely to end their own marriages (e.g., Amato 1996; Amato and Booth 1991; Bumpass, Martin, and Sweet 1991; Glenn and Kramer 1987; Kulka and Weingarten 1979; McLanahan and Bumpass 1988; Mueller and Pope 1977; Pope a... | | 1999 |
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Qin, Xianhong; Wei, Dennis Yehua; Yu, Zhou; Xiong, Ning | Urbanization, Suburbanization, and Population Redistribution in Urban China: A Case Study of Nanjing | This paper analyzes the urbanization and suburbanization of Nanjing, an ancient capital and a new Tier-1 city in China, from 1990 to 2015. We use on China's census and survey microdata and the shift-share methods to examine population redistribution and spatial expansion in the city. The results sh... | Urbanization; Suburbanization; Migration; Population Redistribution; Nanjing, China | |
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Brown, Barbara B.; Werner, Carol M. | Using accelerometer feedback to identify walking destinations, activity overestimates, and stealth exercise in obese and nonobese individuals | Accelerometer output feedback might enable assessment of recall biases for moderate bouts by obese and nonobese individuals; accelerometry might also help residents recall destinations for moderate-intensity walking bouts. Methods: Adult residents' 1-week accelerometer-measured physical activity and... | Accelerometer feedback; Walking destinations; Activity overestimates; Stealth exercise; Recall bias; Obese individuals; Nonobese individuals | 2008 |