Joan Jurich
Biographic Data
| ID | 138952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Jurich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Jurich |
| SIGNATURE | JURICH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Parent–Child Relationships in the Twilight Saga
One source of cultural messages for adolescents is the novel. According to Reader Response Theory, readers interact with the text to construct meaning. This process makes novels an effective tool for facilitating parent–child communication. The current qualitative study examined the parent–child relationships portrayed in The Twilight Saga. Five themes emerged through inductive analyses. This article includes a comparison of the themes in the nov…
My Kids Are More Important Than Money
Focusing on the uncertainty of low-income mothers' lives, this qualitative study examined the family experiences of 57 Appalachian low-income mothers. With scarce economic resources, mothers forged identities that expressed the centrality of motherhood, concentrated their activities within traditional family expectations, and made decisions that often resisted federal welfare reform expectations for work and family. Work and family policies that …
Courtship Violence Among College Students
Correlates of Self-Esteem Among College Students Offspring from Divorced Families
This research examines whether factors found to be relevant to children's adjustment following parental divorce do indeed have a significant relationship to the self-esteem of young adult college students who have experienced parental divorce during childhood or adolescence. These factors include gender, social class, age at the time of parental divorce, remarriage of the custodial mother, the amount of contact between the non-residential father …
Size of Community of Residence as a Predictor of Attitudes toward Extramarital Sexual Relations
Five national surveys collected by the National Opinion Research Center between 1973 and 1980 were employed to investigate the relationship between attitudes toward extramarital sexual relations and a group of predictor variables that included variables identified in previous research and a measure of size of community of present residence. The results indicate that size of community was strongly and directly related to extramarital attitudes, al…
The Relationship of Modernity of Sex Roles to Pregnancy Planning
This study investigates the relationship of modernity of sex roles to pregnancy planning. Scanzoni's Modernity of Sex Roles instrument was administered to 59 primiparous women who had given birth in a metropolitan midwestern hospital. Discriminant function analysis found six of the Scanzoni items to significantly discriminate between planners and nonplanners. The findings are discussed in terms of the measurement properties of the Scanzoni instru…
Changing Families
Courtship Violence Among College Students
My Kids Are More Important Than Money
Focusing on the uncertainty of low-income mothers' lives, this qualitative study examined the family experiences of 57 Appalachian low-income mothers. With scarce economic resources, mothers forged identities that expressed the centrality of motherhood, concentrated their activities within traditional family expectations, and made decisions that often resisted federal welfare reform expectations for work and family. Work and family policies that …
Size of Community of Residence as a Predictor of Attitudes toward Extramarital Sexual Relations
Five national surveys collected by the National Opinion Research Center between 1973 and 1980 were employed to investigate the relationship between attitudes toward extramarital sexual relations and a group of predictor variables that included variables identified in previous research and a measure of size of community of present residence. The results indicate that size of community was strongly and directly related to extramarital attitudes, al…
The Relationship of Modernity of Sex Roles to Pregnancy Planning
This study investigates the relationship of modernity of sex roles to pregnancy planning. Scanzoni's Modernity of Sex Roles instrument was administered to 59 primiparous women who had given birth in a metropolitan midwestern hospital. Discriminant function analysis found six of the Scanzoni items to significantly discriminate between planners and nonplanners. The findings are discussed in terms of the measurement properties of the Scanzoni instru…
The Relationship of Modernity of Sex Roles to Pregnancy Planning
This study investigates the relationship of modernity of sex roles to pregnancy planning. Scanzoni's Modernity of Sex Roles instrument was administered to 59 primiparous women who had given birth in a metropolitan midwestern hospital. Discriminant function analysis found six of the Scanzoni items to significantly discriminate between planners and nonplanners. The findings are discussed in terms of the measurement properties of the Scanzoni instru…
Changing Families
Size of Community of Residence as a Predictor of Attitudes toward Extramarital Sexual Relations
Five national surveys collected by the National Opinion Research Center between 1973 and 1980 were employed to investigate the relationship between attitudes toward extramarital sexual relations and a group of predictor variables that included variables identified in previous research and a measure of size of community of present residence. The results indicate that size of community was strongly and directly related to extramarital attitudes, al…
Correlates of Self-Esteem Among College Students Offspring from Divorced Families
This research examines whether factors found to be relevant to children's adjustment following parental divorce do indeed have a significant relationship to the self-esteem of young adult college students who have experienced parental divorce during childhood or adolescence. These factors include gender, social class, age at the time of parental divorce, remarriage of the custodial mother, the amount of contact between the non-residential father …
Courtship Violence Among College Students
Parent–Child Relationships in the Twilight Saga
One source of cultural messages for adolescents is the novel. According to Reader Response Theory, readers interact with the text to construct meaning. This process makes novels an effective tool for facilitating parent–child communication. The current qualitative study examined the parent–child relationships portrayed in The Twilight Saga. Five themes emerged through inductive analyses. This article includes a comparison of the themes in the nov…
My Kids Are More Important Than Money
Focusing on the uncertainty of low-income mothers' lives, this qualitative study examined the family experiences of 57 Appalachian low-income mothers. With scarce economic resources, mothers forged identities that expressed the centrality of motherhood, concentrated their activities within traditional family expectations, and made decisions that often resisted federal welfare reform expectations for work and family. Work and family policies that …
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)