Donna Dempster‐mcclain
Biographic Data
| ID | 120976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Dempster‐mcclain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna |
| FAMILY NAME | Dempster‐mcclain |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLAIN D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 321 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
W illiams, R obin M ., Jr . (1914–2006)
Robin M. Williams Jr. (1914–2006) tracked some of the most challenging social issues of contemporary society. He devoted his career and writing to studies of intergroup tensions, race relations, war and peace, ethnic conflict, and altruism and cooperation. Born in 1914 he earned a BS (1933) from North Carolina State, MS (1935) from NC State and University of North Carolina and MA (1939) and PhD (1943) from Harvard. He began his long and scholarly…
Special Reviewers
A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society
Their Mother's Daughters? The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes in a World of Changing Roles
Phyllis Moen, Mary Ann Erickson, Donna Dempster-McClain, Their Mother's Daughters? The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes in a World of Changing Roles, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 281-293
The Effects of Childhood Family Stress on Women's Depressive Symptoms: A Life Course Approach
This study uses a life course approach to observe the interaction between stressful childhood events and recent undesirable events to predict depressive symptoms in women. Data are from a community sample ( N = 205) of adult daughters from the Cornell Women's Roles Project, aged 26-58 years. Results indicate that women who experienced mild stressors during childhood are less likely to have depressive responses to undesirable events than are those…
Women's Caregiving: Changing Profiles and Pathways
This study draws on panel data from a random sample of 293 wives and mothers, interviewed in 1956 and 1986, to: (1) examine changes in women's caregiving experiences across four different birth cohorts, and (2) assess the likelihood of women becoming caregivers. Women born in the late 1920s and early 1930s reported more episodes of caring for members of an older generation, for disabled children, and for more than one person at a time than women …
Cohort Differences in the Transition to Motherhood: The Variable Effects of Education and Employment Before Marriage
Although research has found that educational attainment is a major predictor of age at first childbirth, this association may not be consistent across cohorts. In this article, we examine the adult transitions of four cohorts of married white women (N = 306), born between 1907 and 1933, including in our life course model not only education but also employment before marriage. As hypothesized, employment before marriage is the best predictor of th…
Women's Return to School Following the Transition to Motherhood
Journal Article Women's Return to School Following the Transition to Motherhood Get access Ellen M. Bradburn, Ellen M. Bradburn Coe College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Phyllis Moen, Phyllis Moen Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Donna Dempster-McClain Donna Dempster-McClain Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Caregiving and Women's Well-being: A Life Course Approach
This study demonstrates the utility of incorporating a life course, role context approach in investigations of the ties between particular roles and psychological well-being, using the links between women's caregiving and well-being as a case in point. We draw on panel data from a random sample of 293 women interviewed in 1956 and 1986, considering both current role occupancy and the duration of caregiving as well as a number of factors that may …
Successful Aging: A Life-Course Perspective on Women's Multiple Roles and Health
Panel data from a sample of 313 women who were wives and mothers in 1956 and were interviewed both in 1956 and in 1986 are used to consider the pathways that lead to health and social integration. Possible relationships were explored between the number, duration, timing, and episodes of various nonfamily roles throughout adult-hood and subsequent health and multiple-role occupancy. It was found that occupying multiple roles in 1956, participating…
Motherhood, Multiple Roles, and Maternal Well-Being: Women of the 1950s
This study examined the effects of social integration (number of roles occupied) on the psychological well-being of American women who were wives and mothers of young children in the 1950s. The sample, drawn from a 1956 data archive, consisted of 358 married mothers with children under age 13 who lived in upstate New York. The authors focused on two measures of psychological well-being, self-esteem and general life satisfaction, and three measure…
Social Integration and Longevity: An Event History Analysis of Women's Roles and Resilience
This paper investigates the implications of multiple roles for the longevity of women. Drawing on a two-wave 30-year panel study of 427 wives and mothers in upstate New York we use event history techniques to test the effects of both the number and the nature of roles on the duration of womens lives. We find that social integration defined by the number of roles occupied promotes longevity but that one form of integration--membership in a volunta…
Moonlighting Husbands: A Life-Cycle Perspective
This study examines the extent and correlates of moonlighting at various stages in the life course for employed husbands (N = 2,118) in the United States in the mid-1970s. Using data from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1976-1977 waves), the study found that 21% of the husbands held two jobs, a figure substantially higher than official estimates. In estimating the likelihood of moonlighting, using a range of individual, family, and j…
Employed Parents: Role Strain, Work Time, and Preferences for Working Less
This research, analyzing data from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey, examines the work-time preferences of 224 dual-earner couples with children aged 12 and under. Approached from the perspective of role strain, the study hypothesizes that six factors are related to an employed parent's stated preference for fewer work hours: gender, family obligations, current work hours, perceived work-family interference, occupational status, andjob flexi…
Their Mother's Daughters? The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes in a World of Changing Roles
Phyllis Moen, Mary Ann Erickson, Donna Dempster-McClain, Their Mother's Daughters? The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes in a World of Changing Roles, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 281-293
Successful Aging: A Life-Course Perspective on Women's Multiple Roles and Health
Panel data from a sample of 313 women who were wives and mothers in 1956 and were interviewed both in 1956 and in 1986 are used to consider the pathways that lead to health and social integration. Possible relationships were explored between the number, duration, timing, and episodes of various nonfamily roles throughout adult-hood and subsequent health and multiple-role occupancy. It was found that occupying multiple roles in 1956, participating…
Social Integration and Longevity: An Event History Analysis of Women's Roles and Resilience
This paper investigates the implications of multiple roles for the longevity of women. Drawing on a two-wave 30-year panel study of 427 wives and mothers in upstate New York we use event history techniques to test the effects of both the number and the nature of roles on the duration of womens lives. We find that social integration defined by the number of roles occupied promotes longevity but that one form of integration--membership in a volunta…
Caregiving and Women's Well-being: A Life Course Approach
This study demonstrates the utility of incorporating a life course, role context approach in investigations of the ties between particular roles and psychological well-being, using the links between women's caregiving and well-being as a case in point. We draw on panel data from a random sample of 293 women interviewed in 1956 and 1986, considering both current role occupancy and the duration of caregiving as well as a number of factors that may …
Employed Parents: Role Strain, Work Time, and Preferences for Working Less
This research, analyzing data from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey, examines the work-time preferences of 224 dual-earner couples with children aged 12 and under. Approached from the perspective of role strain, the study hypothesizes that six factors are related to an employed parent's stated preference for fewer work hours: gender, family obligations, current work hours, perceived work-family interference, occupational status, andjob flexi…
Women's Caregiving: Changing Profiles and Pathways
This study draws on panel data from a random sample of 293 wives and mothers, interviewed in 1956 and 1986, to: (1) examine changes in women's caregiving experiences across four different birth cohorts, and (2) assess the likelihood of women becoming caregivers. Women born in the late 1920s and early 1930s reported more episodes of caring for members of an older generation, for disabled children, and for more than one person at a time than women …
Women's Return to School Following the Transition to Motherhood
Journal Article Women's Return to School Following the Transition to Motherhood Get access Ellen M. Bradburn, Ellen M. Bradburn Coe College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Phyllis Moen, Phyllis Moen Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Donna Dempster-McClain Donna Dempster-McClain Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
The Effects of Childhood Family Stress on Women's Depressive Symptoms: A Life Course Approach
This study uses a life course approach to observe the interaction between stressful childhood events and recent undesirable events to predict depressive symptoms in women. Data are from a community sample ( N = 205) of adult daughters from the Cornell Women's Roles Project, aged 26-58 years. Results indicate that women who experienced mild stressors during childhood are less likely to have depressive responses to undesirable events than are those…
Cohort Differences in the Transition to Motherhood: The Variable Effects of Education and Employment Before Marriage
Although research has found that educational attainment is a major predictor of age at first childbirth, this association may not be consistent across cohorts. In this article, we examine the adult transitions of four cohorts of married white women (N = 306), born between 1907 and 1933, including in our life course model not only education but also employment before marriage. As hypothesized, employment before marriage is the best predictor of th…
Motherhood, Multiple Roles, and Maternal Well-Being: Women of the 1950s
This study examined the effects of social integration (number of roles occupied) on the psychological well-being of American women who were wives and mothers of young children in the 1950s. The sample, drawn from a 1956 data archive, consisted of 358 married mothers with children under age 13 who lived in upstate New York. The authors focused on two measures of psychological well-being, self-esteem and general life satisfaction, and three measure…
Moonlighting Husbands: A Life-Cycle Perspective
This study examines the extent and correlates of moonlighting at various stages in the life course for employed husbands (N = 2,118) in the United States in the mid-1970s. Using data from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1976-1977 waves), the study found that 21% of the husbands held two jobs, a figure substantially higher than official estimates. In estimating the likelihood of moonlighting, using a range of individual, family, and j…
Employed Parents: Role Strain, Work Time, and Preferences for Working Less
This research, analyzing data from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey, examines the work-time preferences of 224 dual-earner couples with children aged 12 and under. Approached from the perspective of role strain, the study hypothesizes that six factors are related to an employed parent's stated preference for fewer work hours: gender, family obligations, current work hours, perceived work-family interference, occupational status, andjob flexi…
Social Integration and Longevity: An Event History Analysis of Women's Roles and Resilience
This paper investigates the implications of multiple roles for the longevity of women. Drawing on a two-wave 30-year panel study of 427 wives and mothers in upstate New York we use event history techniques to test the effects of both the number and the nature of roles on the duration of womens lives. We find that social integration defined by the number of roles occupied promotes longevity but that one form of integration--membership in a volunta…
Moonlighting Husbands: A Life-Cycle Perspective
This study examines the extent and correlates of moonlighting at various stages in the life course for employed husbands (N = 2,118) in the United States in the mid-1970s. Using data from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1976-1977 waves), the study found that 21% of the husbands held two jobs, a figure substantially higher than official estimates. In estimating the likelihood of moonlighting, using a range of individual, family, and j…
Motherhood, Multiple Roles, and Maternal Well-Being: Women of the 1950s
This study examined the effects of social integration (number of roles occupied) on the psychological well-being of American women who were wives and mothers of young children in the 1950s. The sample, drawn from a 1956 data archive, consisted of 358 married mothers with children under age 13 who lived in upstate New York. The authors focused on two measures of psychological well-being, self-esteem and general life satisfaction, and three measure…
Successful Aging: A Life-Course Perspective on Women's Multiple Roles and Health
Panel data from a sample of 313 women who were wives and mothers in 1956 and were interviewed both in 1956 and in 1986 are used to consider the pathways that lead to health and social integration. Possible relationships were explored between the number, duration, timing, and episodes of various nonfamily roles throughout adult-hood and subsequent health and multiple-role occupancy. It was found that occupying multiple roles in 1956, participating…
Women's Caregiving: Changing Profiles and Pathways
This study draws on panel data from a random sample of 293 wives and mothers, interviewed in 1956 and 1986, to: (1) examine changes in women's caregiving experiences across four different birth cohorts, and (2) assess the likelihood of women becoming caregivers. Women born in the late 1920s and early 1930s reported more episodes of caring for members of an older generation, for disabled children, and for more than one person at a time than women …
Cohort Differences in the Transition to Motherhood: The Variable Effects of Education and Employment Before Marriage
Although research has found that educational attainment is a major predictor of age at first childbirth, this association may not be consistent across cohorts. In this article, we examine the adult transitions of four cohorts of married white women (N = 306), born between 1907 and 1933, including in our life course model not only education but also employment before marriage. As hypothesized, employment before marriage is the best predictor of th…
Women's Return to School Following the Transition to Motherhood
Journal Article Women's Return to School Following the Transition to Motherhood Get access Ellen M. Bradburn, Ellen M. Bradburn Coe College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Phyllis Moen, Phyllis Moen Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Donna Dempster-McClain Donna Dempster-McClain Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Caregiving and Women's Well-being: A Life Course Approach
This study demonstrates the utility of incorporating a life course, role context approach in investigations of the ties between particular roles and psychological well-being, using the links between women's caregiving and well-being as a case in point. We draw on panel data from a random sample of 293 women interviewed in 1956 and 1986, considering both current role occupancy and the duration of caregiving as well as a number of factors that may …
The Effects of Childhood Family Stress on Women's Depressive Symptoms: A Life Course Approach
This study uses a life course approach to observe the interaction between stressful childhood events and recent undesirable events to predict depressive symptoms in women. Data are from a community sample ( N = 205) of adult daughters from the Cornell Women's Roles Project, aged 26-58 years. Results indicate that women who experienced mild stressors during childhood are less likely to have depressive responses to undesirable events than are those…
Their Mother's Daughters? The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes in a World of Changing Roles
Phyllis Moen, Mary Ann Erickson, Donna Dempster-McClain, Their Mother's Daughters? The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes in a World of Changing Roles, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 281-293
A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society
Special Reviewers
W illiams, R obin M ., Jr . (1914–2006)
Robin M. Williams Jr. (1914–2006) tracked some of the most challenging social issues of contemporary society. He devoted his career and writing to studies of intergroup tensions, race relations, war and peace, ethnic conflict, and altruism and cooperation. Born in 1914 he earned a BS (1933) from North Carolina State, MS (1935) from NC State and University of North Carolina and MA (1939) and PhD (1943) from Harvard. He began his long and scholarly…
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 works) · Life course approach (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (4 works) · Economics (3 works)