Gloria W Bird
Biographic Data
| ID | 136106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gloria W Bird |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gloria W |
| FAMILY NAME | Bird |
| SIGNATURE | BIRD G W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reinventing the Enemy's Language
A Closer Look at Self-image in Male Foster Care Adolescents
Using the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire, this study attempted to determine the differences between 58 male adolescents in foster care and their peers in the normal population and to establish if there are characteristics of the adolescents' background or foster care experience related to specific domains of self-image. Characteristics from foster care history included number of placements and length of time at the current placement. Individual b…
"The Exaggeration of Despair in Sherman Alexie's "Reservation Blues
A prolific writer, Sherman (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene) has become an enigma on the literary scene in only few years' time. Most reviewers-as far from the rural reservation setting as they come-have heaped praise upon Alexie' s work as representative of contemporary reservation life. Philip Patrick, who works and writes in New York, and whose commentary otherwise on the absence of music in novel about music is perceptive, makes the characteristic clai…
Towards a Decolonization of the Mind and Text 1
I chose to be a writer in girlhood because books rescued me. They were the places where I could bring the broken bits and pieces of myself and put them together again, the places where I could dream about alternative realities, possible futures. They let me know firsthand that if the mind was to be the site of resistance, only the imagination could make it so. To imagine, then, was a way to begin the process of transforming reality. All that we c…
Searching for Evidence of Colonialism at Work
In reading Native American literature in a so-called post-colonial context, I find it good for perspective to remember that I am working within a system of relationships between the colonizer and the colonized. One point on which post-colonial theorists appear to agree, as the German-published Helen Tiffin1 has recently pointed out, is that day to day realities of colonized peoples were in large part generated for them by the impact of European d…
Close Dating Relationships among College Students
Data from 280 first-year college students in serious dating relationships were examined. Differences in relationship dimensions, negotiation styles and use of coping strategies were identified between participants in violent and non-violent relationships and between males and females. Multivariate analysis of covariance techniques revealed significant effects for gender and use of violence on the dependent research variables. No interaction effec…
Violence in Dating Relationships
An Exploratory Path Analysis of the Stress Process for Dual-Career Men and Women
An exploratory model of the stress process for dual-career women and men is presented and tested by path analysis. Distress, a global measure of somatic symptomatology, is the stress outcome measure. Results indicate that the men and women sampled are psychologically vested in both professional and family roles. Additionally, the women, all of whom are employed full-time, report no significant associations between having younger children and role…
A Comparison of Role Strain and Coping Strategies by Gender and Family Structure among Early Adolescents
This study examined differences in peer and family role strain and use of coping strategies by gender and family structure using data from a sample of 203 eighth-grade early adolescents. Post hoc ANOVA results indicated significant differences among early adolescent males and females on level of role strain experienced as family members and in use of Social Support and Ventilation factors as coping strategies. Female adolescents experienced signi…
Stress among Early Adolescents in Two-Earner Families
This study investigated the emotional stress reported by early adolescents in two-earner families in family, peer, and student roles. Data were collected from 173 eighth-grade adolescents (79 males and 94 females) and their two-earner parents. Role strain, coping strategies, psychological resources, and parental work characteristics were examined as determinants of adolescent emotional stress. Gender also was included in the analyses as a control…
Children's Participation in Family Tasks
This study was designed to investigate the determinants of mothers' and fathers' reports of children's participation in family tasks. Results indicate that across task categories, sibling structure, gender-role orientation, age of oldest child, and family size are more often related to mothers' reports of children's participation. Among fathers, reports of children's task participation are more often influenced by age of oldest child, sibling str…
Determinants of Body Image in Women at Midlife
40 middle-aged women, 35 to 55 yr. of age, participated in a study of the relation between satisfaction with body image, importance of body image, self-esteem, and mastery. Findings indicated that women with higher satisfaction with body-image tended to place more importance on body image. Those women also reported higher self-esteem and mastery of life events
Work and Family Life
Career Satisfaction among Dual-Career Administrators
This study, based on responses from 69 dual-career college and university administrators, examined the relationship between perceived career satisfaction and (a) career salience, (b) career demand, and (c) use of eight role-management strategies. Analysis showed that career salience, career demand, and use of the strategy of organization jointly explained 39% of the variance in career satisfaction
Determinants of Mobility in Two-Earner Families
2 recently emerging US mobility trends are that 1) families with employed wives are less migratory than families with nonemployed wives especially when the wifes job attachment is strong and 2) more career-oriented wives are initiating family moves with husband and children following. This study examines demographic predictors--age wifes employment status the number of children education and income--of family mobility as well as attitudinal predi…
Satisfaction in Family, Employment, and Community Roles
The relationships between family type (one career, career earner, and dual career) and satisfaction in family, employment and community roles, rated on a scale from 0 to 10, were examined using responses from 166 couples. No differences were found in role satisfaction among husbands by family type. Among wives, there were significant differences in rated satisfaction for employment and community roles. Regardless of family type, wives rated satis…
Determinants of Family Task Sharing
This study, based on data from a sample of 166 couples, explores the relationship between degree of family task sharing and (a) sex-role orientation, (b) role salience, (c) income and (d) family type. The results suggest that wives and husbands indicate different explanatory models for family task-sharing behavior. For wives, it is most often income and family type that seem to translate into increased task sharing. For husbands, it is sex-role o…
Determinants of Family Task Sharing
This study, based on data from a sample of 166 couples, explores the relationship between degree of family task sharing and (a) sex-role orientation, (b) role salience, (c) income and (d) family type. The results suggest that wives and husbands indicate different explanatory models for family task-sharing behavior. For wives, it is most often income and family type that seem to translate into increased task sharing. For husbands, it is sex-role o…
An Exploratory Path Analysis of the Stress Process for Dual-Career Men and Women
An exploratory model of the stress process for dual-career women and men is presented and tested by path analysis. Distress, a global measure of somatic symptomatology, is the stress outcome measure. Results indicate that the men and women sampled are psychologically vested in both professional and family roles. Additionally, the women, all of whom are employed full-time, report no significant associations between having younger children and role…
Determinants of Mobility in Two-Earner Families
2 recently emerging US mobility trends are that 1) families with employed wives are less migratory than families with nonemployed wives especially when the wifes job attachment is strong and 2) more career-oriented wives are initiating family moves with husband and children following. This study examines demographic predictors--age wifes employment status the number of children education and income--of family mobility as well as attitudinal predi…
A Comparison of Role Strain and Coping Strategies by Gender and Family Structure among Early Adolescents
This study examined differences in peer and family role strain and use of coping strategies by gender and family structure using data from a sample of 203 eighth-grade early adolescents. Post hoc ANOVA results indicated significant differences among early adolescent males and females on level of role strain experienced as family members and in use of Social Support and Ventilation factors as coping strategies. Female adolescents experienced signi…
Close Dating Relationships among College Students
Data from 280 first-year college students in serious dating relationships were examined. Differences in relationship dimensions, negotiation styles and use of coping strategies were identified between participants in violent and non-violent relationships and between males and females. Multivariate analysis of covariance techniques revealed significant effects for gender and use of violence on the dependent research variables. No interaction effec…
Stress among Early Adolescents in Two-Earner Families
This study investigated the emotional stress reported by early adolescents in two-earner families in family, peer, and student roles. Data were collected from 173 eighth-grade adolescents (79 males and 94 females) and their two-earner parents. Role strain, coping strategies, psychological resources, and parental work characteristics were examined as determinants of adolescent emotional stress. Gender also was included in the analyses as a control…
A Closer Look at Self-image in Male Foster Care Adolescents
Using the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire, this study attempted to determine the differences between 58 male adolescents in foster care and their peers in the normal population and to establish if there are characteristics of the adolescents' background or foster care experience related to specific domains of self-image. Characteristics from foster care history included number of placements and length of time at the current placement. Individual b…
Children's Participation in Family Tasks
This study was designed to investigate the determinants of mothers' and fathers' reports of children's participation in family tasks. Results indicate that across task categories, sibling structure, gender-role orientation, age of oldest child, and family size are more often related to mothers' reports of children's participation. Among fathers, reports of children's task participation are more often influenced by age of oldest child, sibling str…
Satisfaction in Family, Employment, and Community Roles
The relationships between family type (one career, career earner, and dual career) and satisfaction in family, employment and community roles, rated on a scale from 0 to 10, were examined using responses from 166 couples. No differences were found in role satisfaction among husbands by family type. Among wives, there were significant differences in rated satisfaction for employment and community roles. Regardless of family type, wives rated satis…
Determinants of Family Task Sharing
This study, based on data from a sample of 166 couples, explores the relationship between degree of family task sharing and (a) sex-role orientation, (b) role salience, (c) income and (d) family type. The results suggest that wives and husbands indicate different explanatory models for family task-sharing behavior. For wives, it is most often income and family type that seem to translate into increased task sharing. For husbands, it is sex-role o…
Determinants of Mobility in Two-Earner Families
2 recently emerging US mobility trends are that 1) families with employed wives are less migratory than families with nonemployed wives especially when the wifes job attachment is strong and 2) more career-oriented wives are initiating family moves with husband and children following. This study examines demographic predictors--age wifes employment status the number of children education and income--of family mobility as well as attitudinal predi…
Career Satisfaction among Dual-Career Administrators
This study, based on responses from 69 dual-career college and university administrators, examined the relationship between perceived career satisfaction and (a) career salience, (b) career demand, and (c) use of eight role-management strategies. Analysis showed that career salience, career demand, and use of the strategy of organization jointly explained 39% of the variance in career satisfaction
Determinants of Body Image in Women at Midlife
40 middle-aged women, 35 to 55 yr. of age, participated in a study of the relation between satisfaction with body image, importance of body image, self-esteem, and mastery. Findings indicated that women with higher satisfaction with body-image tended to place more importance on body image. Those women also reported higher self-esteem and mastery of life events
Work and Family Life
A Comparison of Role Strain and Coping Strategies by Gender and Family Structure among Early Adolescents
This study examined differences in peer and family role strain and use of coping strategies by gender and family structure using data from a sample of 203 eighth-grade early adolescents. Post hoc ANOVA results indicated significant differences among early adolescent males and females on level of role strain experienced as family members and in use of Social Support and Ventilation factors as coping strategies. Female adolescents experienced signi…
Stress among Early Adolescents in Two-Earner Families
This study investigated the emotional stress reported by early adolescents in two-earner families in family, peer, and student roles. Data were collected from 173 eighth-grade adolescents (79 males and 94 females) and their two-earner parents. Role strain, coping strategies, psychological resources, and parental work characteristics were examined as determinants of adolescent emotional stress. Gender also was included in the analyses as a control…
Children's Participation in Family Tasks
This study was designed to investigate the determinants of mothers' and fathers' reports of children's participation in family tasks. Results indicate that across task categories, sibling structure, gender-role orientation, age of oldest child, and family size are more often related to mothers' reports of children's participation. Among fathers, reports of children's task participation are more often influenced by age of oldest child, sibling str…
Close Dating Relationships among College Students
Data from 280 first-year college students in serious dating relationships were examined. Differences in relationship dimensions, negotiation styles and use of coping strategies were identified between participants in violent and non-violent relationships and between males and females. Multivariate analysis of covariance techniques revealed significant effects for gender and use of violence on the dependent research variables. No interaction effec…
Violence in Dating Relationships
An Exploratory Path Analysis of the Stress Process for Dual-Career Men and Women
An exploratory model of the stress process for dual-career women and men is presented and tested by path analysis. Distress, a global measure of somatic symptomatology, is the stress outcome measure. Results indicate that the men and women sampled are psychologically vested in both professional and family roles. Additionally, the women, all of whom are employed full-time, report no significant associations between having younger children and role…
Searching for Evidence of Colonialism at Work
In reading Native American literature in a so-called post-colonial context, I find it good for perspective to remember that I am working within a system of relationships between the colonizer and the colonized. One point on which post-colonial theorists appear to agree, as the German-published Helen Tiffin1 has recently pointed out, is that day to day realities of colonized peoples were in large part generated for them by the impact of European d…
Towards a Decolonization of the Mind and Text 1
I chose to be a writer in girlhood because books rescued me. They were the places where I could bring the broken bits and pieces of myself and put them together again, the places where I could dream about alternative realities, possible futures. They let me know firsthand that if the mind was to be the site of resistance, only the imagination could make it so. To imagine, then, was a way to begin the process of transforming reality. All that we c…
"The Exaggeration of Despair in Sherman Alexie's "Reservation Blues
A prolific writer, Sherman (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene) has become an enigma on the literary scene in only few years' time. Most reviewers-as far from the rural reservation setting as they come-have heaped praise upon Alexie' s work as representative of contemporary reservation life. Philip Patrick, who works and writes in New York, and whose commentary otherwise on the absence of music in novel about music is perceptive, makes the characteristic clai…
A Closer Look at Self-image in Male Foster Care Adolescents
Using the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire, this study attempted to determine the differences between 58 male adolescents in foster care and their peers in the normal population and to establish if there are characteristics of the adolescents' background or foster care experience related to specific domains of self-image. Characteristics from foster care history included number of placements and length of time at the current placement. Individual b…
Reinventing the Enemy's Language
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Coping (psychology (3 works)