Constance L Shehan
Biographic Data
| ID | 78813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance L Shehan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance L |
| FAMILY NAME | Shehan |
| SIGNATURE | SHEHAN C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 210 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Inequalities in Marriage
In heterosexual marriages, spouses often experience gender‐based differences in rights and responsibilities, particularly in the areas of power and decision‐making; access to and control over household resources; allocation of time to paid employment, household labor, and childcare; and likelihood of experiencing severe violence at the hands of their partner. A major source of these differences lies in the patriarchal authority that is culturally…
Encyclopedia of Family Studies
Wedding Rituals - Encyclopedia Entry in The Wiley Encyclopedia of Family Studies
Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies
A Note of Appreciation
The inconsistent mediating effects of psychosocial work characteristics on the education-health relationship
Greedy Homes and the Demands They Add to Work-Family Conflict
Gender Equality is the sixth volume in the Real Utopias Project, a series of workshop conferences sponsored by the A. E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change at the University of Wiscon sin. The purpose of the project is to propose realistic, institutionally-based solutions to social problems. Workshop participants— all of whom are distinguished scholars—are asked to engage in a serious discussion of rad ical alternat…
Exchange and Resource Theories
The Longitudinal Effects of Spirituality on Stress, Depression, and Risk Behaviors Among Men with HIV Infection Attending Three Clinics in the Southeastern United States
We examined the associations of two measures of spirituality (i.e., spiritual growth and religious coping) and perceived stress, depression, hazardous alcohol use, and use of tobacco and illicit drugs over time among men who had tested positive for HIV. Data were collected from 226 men at baseline, 197 at a 12‐month follow‐up, and 184 at a 24‐month follow‐up. There were significant time by spiritual growth interactions found for both perceived st…
Responding to and Retreating from the Call
Inequalities in Marriage
Women and men typically experience different rights and responsibilities in marriage, in spite of widespread beliefs in marital equality. These differences led sociologist Jesse Bernard (1972) to coin the phrase “his and her marriages.” Gender‐based patterns of marital inequality have existed historically in the US and other western nations, though they have declined somewhat in recent decades, and they persist in other parts of the globe, as wel…
Product Review
Care for the Caregiver
Through the Eyes of the Child
Feeding the Flock and the Family
In this paper, we focus on the ministry, an occupation in which a juxtaposition of three salient structural characteristics poses special challenges for women in balancing their work and family roles. In our study of ordained clergy women, we examine the impact of itineracy (i.e., repeated relocation of the clergy required by the United Methodist Church) and of being female in a male-dominated profession, particularly one that has traditionally b…
The Gender of Sexuality
The Changing Circumstances of Children's Lives
Race, Gender, and Work
Social Contexts and Social Learning in Sexual Coercion and Aggression
Scot B. Boeringer, Constance L. Shehan, Ronald L. Akers, Social Contexts and Social Learning in Sexual Coercion and Aggression: Assessing the Contribution of Fraternity Membership, Family Relations, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Jan., 1991), pp. 58-64
Marital Status and Personal Happiness
This report analyzes General Social Survey data from 1972 through 1989 on the personal happiness of married and never-married individuals. Earlier studies (Glenn and Weaver, 1988) had reported a significant decrease in the difference between these two categories, with the advantage of the married progressively declining from 1972 through 1986. This article shows that the process reversed somewhat during the latter part of the 1980s, with the effe…
Women in Age-Discrepant Marriages
This research seeks to identify salient sociodemographic correlates of women's likelihood of marrying outside the normative age patterns. The data were drawn from the Public Use Sample of the 1980 Census. Logistic regression analyses show that Black women are significantly more likely than White women to be in age-heterogamous marriages. Marital history appears to be the strongest predictor of age-discrepant marriages - remarried subjects exhibit…
Religious Heterogamy, Religiosity, and Marital Happiness
Constance L. Shehan, E. Wilbur Bock, Gary R. Lee, Religious Heterogamy, Religiosity, and Marital Happiness: The Case of Catholics, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Feb., 1990), pp. 73-79
Education and Job Satisfaction
The match between workers' expected and actual job conditions has long been recognized as one determinate of job satisfaction. Research has suggested that education is an important variable in conditioning the kinds of expectations workers bring to the workplace. Interestingly, recent studies have found evidence that when job conditions do not correspond with educational attainment, the net effect of education on levels of worker satisfaction is …
Social and Biological Aspects of Parenting
Marriages and Families
A Residue of Tradition
This study compares the amount of time dual-career husbands and wives spend in housework, relative to their same-sex counterparts in other dual-earner and single-earner households. Data on 1,565 white couples drawn from the 1976 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics were entered into a multiple regression analysis of husbands' and wives' weekly hours of housework. Across couple types, wives spent considerably more hours in housework than hus…
The Family Life Cycle and Spouses' Time in Housework
Previous research has shown the changing degree to which spouses are involved in work and family roles over the course of married life. Drawing on those major life-cycle trends, this study tests hypotheses that link variation in husbands' and wives' participation in housework to stages of the family life cycle. We expected that women would spend less time in housework before and after childbearing stages, while their husbands would spend more tim…
A Residue of Tradition
This study compares the amount of time dual-career husbands and wives spend in housework, relative to their same-sex counterparts in other dual-earner and single-earner households. Data on 1,565 white couples drawn from the 1976 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics were entered into a multiple regression analysis of husbands' and wives' weekly hours of housework. Across couple types, wives spent considerably more hours in housework than hus…
Marital Status and Personal Happiness
This report analyzes General Social Survey data from 1972 through 1989 on the personal happiness of married and never-married individuals. Earlier studies (Glenn and Weaver, 1988) had reported a significant decrease in the difference between these two categories, with the advantage of the married progressively declining from 1972 through 1986. This article shows that the process reversed somewhat during the latter part of the 1980s, with the effe…
Expected Versus Actual Work Roles of Women
This paper examines the impact of women's long-range work plans for mid life on actual work behavior at that age for a cohort of women who were 35 in 1980. We hypothesized that work plans would significantly affect actual behavior at mid life, and moreover, would modify the effects of many variables typically associated with women's employment. Our findings indicate plans did influence subsequent behavior, largely reflecting the realization of pl…
Religious Heterogamy, Religiosity, and Marital Happiness
Constance L. Shehan, E. Wilbur Bock, Gary R. Lee, Religious Heterogamy, Religiosity, and Marital Happiness: The Case of Catholics, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Feb., 1990), pp. 73-79
Education and Job Satisfaction
The match between workers' expected and actual job conditions has long been recognized as one determinate of job satisfaction. Research has suggested that education is an important variable in conditioning the kinds of expectations workers bring to the workplace. Interestingly, recent studies have found evidence that when job conditions do not correspond with educational attainment, the net effect of education on levels of worker satisfaction is …
Women in Age-Discrepant Marriages
This research seeks to identify salient sociodemographic correlates of women's likelihood of marrying outside the normative age patterns. The data were drawn from the Public Use Sample of the 1980 Census. Logistic regression analyses show that Black women are significantly more likely than White women to be in age-heterogamous marriages. Marital history appears to be the strongest predictor of age-discrepant marriages - remarried subjects exhibit…
Wives' work and psychological well-being
World War II and Its Effect on the Sex Differential in Arrests
A common explanation for the decrease in the sex differential in arrests during World War II attributes it to a change in female sex-role behavior. Because of the wartime equalization of sex roles, particularly of expanding occupational roles of women, female arrest rates began to approach male rates. Two alternative explanations appear equally plausible: (1) changes in the sex-age structure of the population at risk and (2) changes in official r…
The inconsistent mediating effects of psychosocial work characteristics on the education-health relationship
Feeding the Flock and the Family
In this paper, we focus on the ministry, an occupation in which a juxtaposition of three salient structural characteristics poses special challenges for women in balancing their work and family roles. In our study of ordained clergy women, we examine the impact of itineracy (i.e., repeated relocation of the clergy required by the United Methodist Church) and of being female in a male-dominated profession, particularly one that has traditionally b…
Care for the Caregiver
Family Scholarship
This article outlines and presents support for the thesis that family scholarship is largely shaped by sociodemographic changes in the family. It presents several additional alternative explanations for trends in the substantive foci of family scholarship. These include: serendipity; personal interest; proliferation and the changing composition of the body of researchers; social movements; key scholars; interaction between researchers and practit…
Inequalities in Marriage
In heterosexual marriages, spouses often experience gender‐based differences in rights and responsibilities, particularly in the areas of power and decision‐making; access to and control over household resources; allocation of time to paid employment, household labor, and childcare; and likelihood of experiencing severe violence at the hands of their partner. A major source of these differences lies in the patriarchal authority that is culturally…
Responding to and Retreating from the Call
The Changing Circumstances of Children's Lives
Depression and the Social Dimensions of the Full-Time Housewife Role
This article examines the determinants of depression among a sample of 528 married, white housewives residing in the southeastern U.S. The multiple regression analysis reveals that low total family income, dissatisfaction with family life and the housewife role, and few extra-familial social contacts are significantly associated with depression. A major finding is that the impact of social contacts in reducing depression is conditioned by the hou…
Differential effects of industrial and worker resources on women's wages
Jobs, gender, and self‐efficacy in multiple contexts
This paper focuses on the social psychological correlates of being in an occupation that is sex‐typed against one's own gender‐i.e., cross‐sex incumbency in sex‐typed occupations. Male and female high school teachers and university professors are compared in terms of global self‐esteem as well as in three context‐specific dimensions of self‐efficacy. While no differences in global self‐esteem were revealed, a number of significant differences did…
Working Couples
World War II and Its Effect on the Sex Differential in Arrests
A common explanation for the decrease in the sex differential in arrests during World War II attributes it to a change in female sex-role behavior. Because of the wartime equalization of sex roles, particularly of expanding occupational roles of women, female arrest rates began to approach male rates. Two alternative explanations appear equally plausible: (1) changes in the sex-age structure of the population at risk and (2) changes in official r…
Fox Vivian C. And Quitt Martin H., Loving, Parenting, and Dying
Wives' work and psychological well-being
Jobs, gender, and self‐efficacy in multiple contexts
This paper focuses on the social psychological correlates of being in an occupation that is sex‐typed against one's own gender‐i.e., cross‐sex incumbency in sex‐typed occupations. Male and female high school teachers and university professors are compared in terms of global self‐esteem as well as in three context‐specific dimensions of self‐efficacy. While no differences in global self‐esteem were revealed, a number of significant differences did…
Expected Versus Actual Work Roles of Women
This paper examines the impact of women's long-range work plans for mid life on actual work behavior at that age for a cohort of women who were 35 in 1980. We hypothesized that work plans would significantly affect actual behavior at mid life, and moreover, would modify the effects of many variables typically associated with women's employment. Our findings indicate plans did influence subsequent behavior, largely reflecting the realization of pl…
Family Scholarship
This article outlines and presents support for the thesis that family scholarship is largely shaped by sociodemographic changes in the family. It presents several additional alternative explanations for trends in the substantive foci of family scholarship. These include: serendipity; personal interest; proliferation and the changing composition of the body of researchers; social movements; key scholars; interaction between researchers and practit…
From Sun to Sun
Depression and the Social Dimensions of the Full-Time Housewife Role
This article examines the determinants of depression among a sample of 528 married, white housewives residing in the southeastern U.S. The multiple regression analysis reveals that low total family income, dissatisfaction with family life and the housewife role, and few extra-familial social contacts are significantly associated with depression. A major finding is that the impact of social contacts in reducing depression is conditioned by the hou…
Differential effects of industrial and worker resources on women's wages
Marriages and Families
A Residue of Tradition
This study compares the amount of time dual-career husbands and wives spend in housework, relative to their same-sex counterparts in other dual-earner and single-earner households. Data on 1,565 white couples drawn from the 1976 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics were entered into a multiple regression analysis of husbands' and wives' weekly hours of housework. Across couple types, wives spent considerably more hours in housework than hus…
The Family Life Cycle and Spouses' Time in Housework
Previous research has shown the changing degree to which spouses are involved in work and family roles over the course of married life. Drawing on those major life-cycle trends, this study tests hypotheses that link variation in husbands' and wives' participation in housework to stages of the family life cycle. We expected that women would spend less time in housework before and after childbearing stages, while their husbands would spend more tim…
Social and Biological Aspects of Parenting
Education and Job Satisfaction
The match between workers' expected and actual job conditions has long been recognized as one determinate of job satisfaction. Research has suggested that education is an important variable in conditioning the kinds of expectations workers bring to the workplace. Interestingly, recent studies have found evidence that when job conditions do not correspond with educational attainment, the net effect of education on levels of worker satisfaction is …
Religious Heterogamy, Religiosity, and Marital Happiness
Constance L. Shehan, E. Wilbur Bock, Gary R. Lee, Religious Heterogamy, Religiosity, and Marital Happiness: The Case of Catholics, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Feb., 1990), pp. 73-79
Social Contexts and Social Learning in Sexual Coercion and Aggression
Scot B. Boeringer, Constance L. Shehan, Ronald L. Akers, Social Contexts and Social Learning in Sexual Coercion and Aggression: Assessing the Contribution of Fraternity Membership, Family Relations, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Jan., 1991), pp. 58-64
Marital Status and Personal Happiness
This report analyzes General Social Survey data from 1972 through 1989 on the personal happiness of married and never-married individuals. Earlier studies (Glenn and Weaver, 1988) had reported a significant decrease in the difference between these two categories, with the advantage of the married progressively declining from 1972 through 1986. This article shows that the process reversed somewhat during the latter part of the 1980s, with the effe…
Women in Age-Discrepant Marriages
This research seeks to identify salient sociodemographic correlates of women's likelihood of marrying outside the normative age patterns. The data were drawn from the Public Use Sample of the 1980 Census. Logistic regression analyses show that Black women are significantly more likely than White women to be in age-heterogamous marriages. Marital history appears to be the strongest predictor of age-discrepant marriages - remarried subjects exhibit…
Race, Gender, and Work
The Changing Circumstances of Children's Lives
The Gender of Sexuality
Feeding the Flock and the Family
In this paper, we focus on the ministry, an occupation in which a juxtaposition of three salient structural characteristics poses special challenges for women in balancing their work and family roles. In our study of ordained clergy women, we examine the impact of itineracy (i.e., repeated relocation of the clergy required by the United Methodist Church) and of being female in a male-dominated profession, particularly one that has traditionally b…
Through the Eyes of the Child
Product Review
Psychology (30 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)