Gary Kiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 219401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Kiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Kiger |
| SIGNATURE | KIGER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Exploring the Relationship Between Types of Family Work and Marital Well-Being
We use an expanded definition of family work and test its association with marital well-being. Using a gender perspective, we examine the role of the respondent's and partner's performance of family work for both husbands and wives. Data are taken from a sample of couples with dependent children under age 18 (N = 96), and separate regression equations are estimated by gender. Though housework is cited as one of the most contentious issues reporte…
His and Her Perspectives
Tending to the Emotions of Children
Scholars, recognizing emotion work as a type of domestic labor, have examined whether domestic labor theories explain emotion work. Few studies, however, have investigated the predictors of emotion work with children. In this study, the authors examine the usefulness of 3 domestic labor theories (i.e., time availability, relative resources, and gender ideology) in explaining relative emotion work with children. Data are from a random sample of co…
Does it Take a Village to Make a Marriage? Exploring the Relationship between Community and Marital Satisfaction
This paper explores the relationship between community and marital satisfaction using evidence from Utah. To do so, we analyze the effects of three sets of independent variables on marital satisfaction: demographic variables (number of children, education, household income, age, and religious affiliation), neighborhood quality (neighborhood assessment and perceptions of informal helping at the neighborhood level), and community integration (use o…
Sociologist as Dean and Dean as Sociologist
Emotion-Work Performance Among Dual-Earner Couples
This study compares four theories of domestic labor in their ability to predict relative emotion-work performance among dual-earner couples. Specifically, the authors investigate the effects of gender ideology, time availability, relative resources, and crossover factors on the dependent variable of relative emotion-work performance using seemingly unrelated regression. The analysis is performed on data from a random sample ( N = 156) of dual-ear…
Examining the 'Neglected Side of the Work-Family Interface
This study extends previous research by Dilworth by examining antecedents of both positive and negative family-to-work spillover-a long-neglected area of research. It also uses an extended definition of domestic labor that includes emotion work and status enhancement. Using data from a random sample of dual-earner couples, the study found gender differences and similarities in the antecedents of family-to-work spillover. For both men and women, f…
His, hers, or ours? Work-to-family spillover, crossover, and family cohesion
Using the contagion model of spillover and crossover, this study examines gender differences in the effects of workplace characteristics (e.g., hours worked in the paid-labor force, job satisfaction, work flexibility, perception of partner's work–family spillover) on family cohesion among a random sample of dual-earner couples. Important gender differences were found among respondents: the crossover effect is stronger among men, while women's per…
Family Work Performance and Satisfaction
Using data taken from a random sample of married and cohabiting couples (N =96), we examine the factors associated with a couple's division of unpaid family work. We extend the usual analyses by testing, in addition to gender ideology and relative resource factors, the role of a partner's emotion-work performance. We find that all three perspectives are relevant to the discussion of unpaid family work: gender ideology and relative resources are a…
Domestic Labor and Marital Satisfaction
Using questionnaire data from 96 couples, we examined the relationship between respondents' domestic-labor performance, domestic-labor satisfaction, and marital satisfaction. We analytically separated the dimensions of domestic labor (i.e., household tasks, emotion work, and childcare) and ran separate analyses for men and women. We found that the amount of labor performed is associated with satisfaction with emotion work and childcare arrangemen…
Differences in Work-to-Family and Family-to-Work Spillover Among Professional and Nonprofessional Workers
We examine work-to-family and family-to-work spillover for professional and nonprofessional members of dual-earner couples. Separate analyses (multiple analysis of variance [MANOVA]) are conducted for men and women. We include variables in our model that help us understand differences between workers, including age of respondent, number of children, occupational status, employment status, and an interaction effect between children and work hours.…
Evaluating The Use Of Group Interviews To Select Students Into Teacher-Education Programs
This study presents findings on the reliability and validity of a group-assessment interview procedure designed to evaluate the verbal, interpersonal, and leadership qualities of students applying to a teacher-education program. We examine whether (a) the group-assessment process predicts future student-teaching performance, (b) the group-assessment scores are reliable across raters, and (c) the group-assessment interview is a better predictor of…
Coming Unglued? Workplace Characteristics, Work Satisfaction, and Family Cohesion
Many studies that make use of the spillover model of work and family cite anecdotal stories about how a reduction in work-family spillover will directly enhance family relations. The authors argue that while work-family fit is certainly important, this relationship is complex; there are more basic processes in a marital relationship that mediate the association between work-family spillover and family functioning. This paper focuses on the effect…
A Social Development Model of Serious Delinquency
Working Hard and Hardly Working
This article examines the effect of domestic labor, gender ideology, work status, and economic dependency on marital satisfaction using data obtained from self-administered questionnaires for 156 dual-earner couples. Analytic distinctions were drawn among three aspects of domestic labor: household tasks, emotion work, and status enhancement. The effects of each of these elements of the division of domestic labor on marital satisfaction were teste…
Moral discourse on domestic labor
This paper responds to a recent article by Ahlander and Bahr (1995) N.R.AhlanderK.S.Bahr Beyond Drudgery, Power, and Equity: Toward an Expanded Discourse on the Moral Dimensions of Housework in Families Journal of Marriage and the Family 57 1995 54 68[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] on moral dimensions of housework in families. The purpose of this paper is to point out important ways in which Ahlander and Bahr’s work represents a…
Teachers' attitudes about language diversity
Juggling multiple roles
Performing multiple roles does not necessarily lead to the occurence of strain in everyday life. We examined the work and family factors that have been hypothesized in the research literature to influence the occurence of stress among working mothers. Results indicated that a partner's work-family spillover and dissatisfaction with child-care arrangements in the family were associated with perceived stress. Sense of control, then, was an importan…
Interpreting the Zola Legacy in Sociology
Intergroup Relations
This paper examines the relationship between self-image and political action in the deaf community. Self image has two components: personal identity and social identity. The two are inextricably intertwined. Self image is associated with political action largely through identifying oneself as a member of a particular group and then perceiving that one's group is receiving an inequitable share of resources compared to some other reference group. T…
Language Attitudes of Teachers Scale (Lats)
This article examines the attitudes of 191 regular classroom teachers from three states toward children who are limited in their English proficiency (LEP). The 13-item Language Attitudes of Teachers Scale (LATS) was developed to investigate teachers' attitudes about linguistic diversity among their students. A principal components analysis produced three factors tentatively labeled Language Politics, LEP Intolerance, and Language Support. Interna…
The Disability Business
Disability Simulations
This paper examines issues of theory, methods and ethics in the use of disability simulations. Much of the educational, rehabilitation and counseling literature encourages teachers and counselors to use simulations to reduce prejudice toward persons with disabilities. However, the disability simulation literature reveals that: (a) there is typically a failure to consider the relationship between social/behavioral science theory and simulation des…
Contemporary Measures of Attitudes toward Blacks
This paper reports the development of two scales to measure racial attitudes in contemporary society. Racial attitudes are difficult to assess in modern society since these negative attitudes are often masked by rationalizations that purportedly do not have to do with racial prejudice. The scales reported here are adapted from earlier racial attitude scales-specifically, the "Social Distance Scale" (Bogardus, 1933; Westie, 1953) and the "Social S…
Gender, academic performance and university athletes
This paper investigates gender differences in academic performance among university athletes at an NCAA Division I school. Using regression analysis, the findings suggest that background scholastic achievement variables and race influence university academic performance for student athletes, but sport participation measures and race are negatively related to university academic performance for males only. The consequences of inequalities between …
Working Hard and Hardly Working
This article examines the effect of domestic labor, gender ideology, work status, and economic dependency on marital satisfaction using data obtained from self-administered questionnaires for 156 dual-earner couples. Analytic distinctions were drawn among three aspects of domestic labor: household tasks, emotion work, and status enhancement. The effects of each of these elements of the division of domestic labor on marital satisfaction were teste…
His and Her Perspectives
Teachers' attitudes about language diversity
His, hers, or ours? Work-to-family spillover, crossover, and family cohesion
Using the contagion model of spillover and crossover, this study examines gender differences in the effects of workplace characteristics (e.g., hours worked in the paid-labor force, job satisfaction, work flexibility, perception of partner's work–family spillover) on family cohesion among a random sample of dual-earner couples. Important gender differences were found among respondents: the crossover effect is stronger among men, while women's per…
Juggling multiple roles
Performing multiple roles does not necessarily lead to the occurence of strain in everyday life. We examined the work and family factors that have been hypothesized in the research literature to influence the occurence of stress among working mothers. Results indicated that a partner's work-family spillover and dissatisfaction with child-care arrangements in the family were associated with perceived stress. Sense of control, then, was an importan…
Examining the 'Neglected Side of the Work-Family Interface
This study extends previous research by Dilworth by examining antecedents of both positive and negative family-to-work spillover-a long-neglected area of research. It also uses an extended definition of domestic labor that includes emotion work and status enhancement. Using data from a random sample of dual-earner couples, the study found gender differences and similarities in the antecedents of family-to-work spillover. For both men and women, f…
Domestic Labor and Marital Satisfaction
Using questionnaire data from 96 couples, we examined the relationship between respondents' domestic-labor performance, domestic-labor satisfaction, and marital satisfaction. We analytically separated the dimensions of domestic labor (i.e., household tasks, emotion work, and childcare) and ran separate analyses for men and women. We found that the amount of labor performed is associated with satisfaction with emotion work and childcare arrangemen…
Emotion-Work Performance Among Dual-Earner Couples
This study compares four theories of domestic labor in their ability to predict relative emotion-work performance among dual-earner couples. Specifically, the authors investigate the effects of gender ideology, time availability, relative resources, and crossover factors on the dependent variable of relative emotion-work performance using seemingly unrelated regression. The analysis is performed on data from a random sample ( N = 156) of dual-ear…
Family Work Performance and Satisfaction
Using data taken from a random sample of married and cohabiting couples (N =96), we examine the factors associated with a couple's division of unpaid family work. We extend the usual analyses by testing, in addition to gender ideology and relative resource factors, the role of a partner's emotion-work performance. We find that all three perspectives are relevant to the discussion of unpaid family work: gender ideology and relative resources are a…
The Relative Effects of Gender, Race, and Sport on University Academic Performance
This paper investigates the relative effects of gender, race, and type of sport (revenue vs. nonrevenue sport) on academic performance among university athletes. Using regression analyses, the study demonstrates that race is the strongest predictor of university academic performance. Gender, race, and type of sport also influence intervening variables such as secondary school academic achievement, financial assistance, and intensity of involvemen…
Moral discourse on domestic labor
This paper responds to a recent article by Ahlander and Bahr (1995) N.R.AhlanderK.S.Bahr Beyond Drudgery, Power, and Equity: Toward an Expanded Discourse on the Moral Dimensions of Housework in Families Journal of Marriage and the Family 57 1995 54 68[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] on moral dimensions of housework in families. The purpose of this paper is to point out important ways in which Ahlander and Bahr’s work represents a…
Exploring the Relationship Between Types of Family Work and Marital Well-Being
We use an expanded definition of family work and test its association with marital well-being. Using a gender perspective, we examine the role of the respondent's and partner's performance of family work for both husbands and wives. Data are taken from a sample of couples with dependent children under age 18 (N = 96), and separate regression equations are estimated by gender. Though housework is cited as one of the most contentious issues reporte…
Tending to the Emotions of Children
Scholars, recognizing emotion work as a type of domestic labor, have examined whether domestic labor theories explain emotion work. Few studies, however, have investigated the predictors of emotion work with children. In this study, the authors examine the usefulness of 3 domestic labor theories (i.e., time availability, relative resources, and gender ideology) in explaining relative emotion work with children. Data are from a random sample of co…
Intergroup Relations
This paper examines the relationship between self-image and political action in the deaf community. Self image has two components: personal identity and social identity. The two are inextricably intertwined. Self image is associated with political action largely through identifying oneself as a member of a particular group and then perceiving that one's group is receiving an inequitable share of resources compared to some other reference group. T…
Does it Take a Village to Make a Marriage? Exploring the Relationship between Community and Marital Satisfaction
This paper explores the relationship between community and marital satisfaction using evidence from Utah. To do so, we analyze the effects of three sets of independent variables on marital satisfaction: demographic variables (number of children, education, household income, age, and religious affiliation), neighborhood quality (neighborhood assessment and perceptions of informal helping at the neighborhood level), and community integration (use o…
Sociologist as Dean and Dean as Sociologist
Differences in Work-to-Family and Family-to-Work Spillover Among Professional and Nonprofessional Workers
We examine work-to-family and family-to-work spillover for professional and nonprofessional members of dual-earner couples. Separate analyses (multiple analysis of variance [MANOVA]) are conducted for men and women. We include variables in our model that help us understand differences between workers, including age of respondent, number of children, occupational status, employment status, and an interaction effect between children and work hours.…
Economic Transformations and the Processing of Hyperactive School Children
Hyperactive behavior as a medically defined social problem is examined, in order to emphasize the role of political economy as it applies to social problems research. Much of the research on hyperkinesis tends to adopt an ahistorical, symbolic interactionist perspective and fails to account for the structural bases of social control practices. Structural (economic and legal) determinants are examined which influenced the emergence and development…
Economic Transformations and the Processing of Hyperactive School Children
Hyperactive behavior as a medically defined social problem is examined, in order to emphasize the role of political economy as it applies to social problems research. Much of the research on hyperkinesis tends to adopt an ahistorical, symbolic interactionist perspective and fails to account for the structural bases of social control practices. Structural (economic and legal) determinants are examined which influenced the emergence and development…
The Relative Effects of Gender, Race, and Sport on University Academic Performance
This paper investigates the relative effects of gender, race, and type of sport (revenue vs. nonrevenue sport) on academic performance among university athletes. Using regression analyses, the study demonstrates that race is the strongest predictor of university academic performance. Gender, race, and type of sport also influence intervening variables such as secondary school academic achievement, financial assistance, and intensity of involvemen…
Community Services for the Mentally Retarded
Gender, academic performance and university athletes
This paper investigates gender differences in academic performance among university athletes at an NCAA Division I school. Using regression analysis, the findings suggest that background scholastic achievement variables and race influence university academic performance for student athletes, but sport participation measures and race are negatively related to university academic performance for males only. The consequences of inequalities between …
Contemporary Measures of Attitudes toward Blacks
This paper reports the development of two scales to measure racial attitudes in contemporary society. Racial attitudes are difficult to assess in modern society since these negative attitudes are often masked by rationalizations that purportedly do not have to do with racial prejudice. The scales reported here are adapted from earlier racial attitude scales-specifically, the "Social Distance Scale" (Bogardus, 1933; Westie, 1953) and the "Social S…
Disability Simulations
This paper examines issues of theory, methods and ethics in the use of disability simulations. Much of the educational, rehabilitation and counseling literature encourages teachers and counselors to use simulations to reduce prejudice toward persons with disabilities. However, the disability simulation literature reveals that: (a) there is typically a failure to consider the relationship between social/behavioral science theory and simulation des…
The Disability Business
Language Attitudes of Teachers Scale (Lats)
This article examines the attitudes of 191 regular classroom teachers from three states toward children who are limited in their English proficiency (LEP). The 13-item Language Attitudes of Teachers Scale (LATS) was developed to investigate teachers' attitudes about linguistic diversity among their students. A principal components analysis produced three factors tentatively labeled Language Politics, LEP Intolerance, and Language Support. Interna…
Interpreting the Zola Legacy in Sociology
Intergroup Relations
This paper examines the relationship between self-image and political action in the deaf community. Self image has two components: personal identity and social identity. The two are inextricably intertwined. Self image is associated with political action largely through identifying oneself as a member of a particular group and then perceiving that one's group is receiving an inequitable share of resources compared to some other reference group. T…
Juggling multiple roles
Performing multiple roles does not necessarily lead to the occurence of strain in everyday life. We examined the work and family factors that have been hypothesized in the research literature to influence the occurence of stress among working mothers. Results indicated that a partner's work-family spillover and dissatisfaction with child-care arrangements in the family were associated with perceived stress. Sense of control, then, was an importan…
Teachers' attitudes about language diversity
Moral discourse on domestic labor
This paper responds to a recent article by Ahlander and Bahr (1995) N.R.AhlanderK.S.Bahr Beyond Drudgery, Power, and Equity: Toward an Expanded Discourse on the Moral Dimensions of Housework in Families Journal of Marriage and the Family 57 1995 54 68[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] on moral dimensions of housework in families. The purpose of this paper is to point out important ways in which Ahlander and Bahr’s work represents a…
Working Hard and Hardly Working
This article examines the effect of domestic labor, gender ideology, work status, and economic dependency on marital satisfaction using data obtained from self-administered questionnaires for 156 dual-earner couples. Analytic distinctions were drawn among three aspects of domestic labor: household tasks, emotion work, and status enhancement. The effects of each of these elements of the division of domestic labor on marital satisfaction were teste…
Coming Unglued? Workplace Characteristics, Work Satisfaction, and Family Cohesion
Many studies that make use of the spillover model of work and family cite anecdotal stories about how a reduction in work-family spillover will directly enhance family relations. The authors argue that while work-family fit is certainly important, this relationship is complex; there are more basic processes in a marital relationship that mediate the association between work-family spillover and family functioning. This paper focuses on the effect…
A Social Development Model of Serious Delinquency
Evaluating The Use Of Group Interviews To Select Students Into Teacher-Education Programs
This study presents findings on the reliability and validity of a group-assessment interview procedure designed to evaluate the verbal, interpersonal, and leadership qualities of students applying to a teacher-education program. We examine whether (a) the group-assessment process predicts future student-teaching performance, (b) the group-assessment scores are reliable across raters, and (c) the group-assessment interview is a better predictor of…
Differences in Work-to-Family and Family-to-Work Spillover Among Professional and Nonprofessional Workers
We examine work-to-family and family-to-work spillover for professional and nonprofessional members of dual-earner couples. Separate analyses (multiple analysis of variance [MANOVA]) are conducted for men and women. We include variables in our model that help us understand differences between workers, including age of respondent, number of children, occupational status, employment status, and an interaction effect between children and work hours.…
Domestic Labor and Marital Satisfaction
Using questionnaire data from 96 couples, we examined the relationship between respondents' domestic-labor performance, domestic-labor satisfaction, and marital satisfaction. We analytically separated the dimensions of domestic labor (i.e., household tasks, emotion work, and childcare) and ran separate analyses for men and women. We found that the amount of labor performed is associated with satisfaction with emotion work and childcare arrangemen…
His, hers, or ours? Work-to-family spillover, crossover, and family cohesion
Using the contagion model of spillover and crossover, this study examines gender differences in the effects of workplace characteristics (e.g., hours worked in the paid-labor force, job satisfaction, work flexibility, perception of partner's work–family spillover) on family cohesion among a random sample of dual-earner couples. Important gender differences were found among respondents: the crossover effect is stronger among men, while women's per…
Family Work Performance and Satisfaction
Using data taken from a random sample of married and cohabiting couples (N =96), we examine the factors associated with a couple's division of unpaid family work. We extend the usual analyses by testing, in addition to gender ideology and relative resource factors, the role of a partner's emotion-work performance. We find that all three perspectives are relevant to the discussion of unpaid family work: gender ideology and relative resources are a…
Emotion-Work Performance Among Dual-Earner Couples
This study compares four theories of domestic labor in their ability to predict relative emotion-work performance among dual-earner couples. Specifically, the authors investigate the effects of gender ideology, time availability, relative resources, and crossover factors on the dependent variable of relative emotion-work performance using seemingly unrelated regression. The analysis is performed on data from a random sample ( N = 156) of dual-ear…
Examining the 'Neglected Side of the Work-Family Interface
This study extends previous research by Dilworth by examining antecedents of both positive and negative family-to-work spillover-a long-neglected area of research. It also uses an extended definition of domestic labor that includes emotion work and status enhancement. Using data from a random sample of dual-earner couples, the study found gender differences and similarities in the antecedents of family-to-work spillover. For both men and women, f…
Does it Take a Village to Make a Marriage? Exploring the Relationship between Community and Marital Satisfaction
This paper explores the relationship between community and marital satisfaction using evidence from Utah. To do so, we analyze the effects of three sets of independent variables on marital satisfaction: demographic variables (number of children, education, household income, age, and religious affiliation), neighborhood quality (neighborhood assessment and perceptions of informal helping at the neighborhood level), and community integration (use o…
Sociologist as Dean and Dean as Sociologist
Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (8 works) · Work (physics (8 works) · Emotional Labor in Professions (7 works)