Karen Altergott
Biographic Data
| ID | 225887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Altergott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Altergott |
| SIGNATURE | ALTERGOTT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender and Family Status Across the Life Course
The family context is considered as it impacts involvement in culturally defined categories of leisure: active, passive, entertainment, social leisure and TV-viewing as well as total leisure are considered. How does family context, which varies across the life course, constrain leisure? Does family context have the same impact for men and women and for married and unmarried? These issues are examined for a subset of a national sample of adults (N…
The Unmarried in Later Life
Age, gender and daily life
Qualities of daily life and suicide in old age
Worlds We Rarely Visit
Transitions and Social Change
Behavioral Companionship in Marriage
The concept of marital interaction has several different theoretical and operational definitions in the extant literature. Behavioral companionship, consisting of shared activities involving copresence, is the focus of the research presented here. A secondary analysis of a time-budget data set is presented to allow for assessment of the differences in companionship for three nations and the relative effects of work role allocation in the family, …
Age, gender and daily life
Gender and Family Status Across the Life Course
The family context is considered as it impacts involvement in culturally defined categories of leisure: active, passive, entertainment, social leisure and TV-viewing as well as total leisure are considered. How does family context, which varies across the life course, constrain leisure? Does family context have the same impact for men and women and for married and unmarried? These issues are examined for a subset of a national sample of adults (N…
Behavioral Companionship in Marriage
The concept of marital interaction has several different theoretical and operational definitions in the extant literature. Behavioral companionship, consisting of shared activities involving copresence, is the focus of the research presented here. A secondary analysis of a time-budget data set is presented to allow for assessment of the differences in companionship for three nations and the relative effects of work role allocation in the family, …
Transitions and Social Change
Worlds We Rarely Visit
Qualities of daily life and suicide in old age
The Unmarried in Later Life
Age, gender and daily life
Gender and Family Status Across the Life Course
The family context is considered as it impacts involvement in culturally defined categories of leisure: active, passive, entertainment, social leisure and TV-viewing as well as total leisure are considered. How does family context, which varies across the life course, constrain leisure? Does family context have the same impact for men and women and for married and unmarried? These issues are examined for a subset of a national sample of adults (N…
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (2 works) · Geography (2 works)