Millicent E Poole
Biographic Data
| ID | 93441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Millicent E Poole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Millicent E |
| FAMILY NAME | Poole |
| SIGNATURE | POOLE M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Intercultural Dialogue in Action within the University Context: A Case Study
Competencies for professionals and managers in the context of educational reform
Important workforce competencies for managers and professionals were identified separately for males and females through a sequence of interviews, content analysis, accessing expert opinion and statistical factoring procedures. Interviews of thirty‐two professionals and managers and a subsequent content analysis led to the development of a list of important skills, knowledge and attitudes which formed the basis for separate male and female compet…
Age differences in adolescent future-oriented goals, concerns, and related temporal extension in different sociocultural contexts
Role Reward and Role Stress in Managerial and Professional Women
The importance of balancing personal and work demands has become increasingly relevant in recent years as large numbers of women move into the labour market full time. The present study was designed to examine differences in role rewards and stress amongst a group of 163 managerial and professional women. Subjects completed a questionnaire about the stress and rewards associated with their work and family roles. Although no significant difference…
Role Reward and Role Stress in Managerial and Professional Women
Career Orientations in Women from Rural and Urban Backgrounds
This study examines career orientations in women from rural and urban backgrounds, using a longitudinal data set collected over a period of 10 years, from 1973-1982. When first contacted, respondents were 18 years of age. The final data collection in 1982 resulted in a sample of some 1300 women. The longitudinal data was analyzed using LISREL structural equation modeling and was guided by a theoretical framework developed by Krumboltz (1981), whi…
A Contextualist Model of Professional Attainment: Results of a Longitudinal Study of Career Paths of Men and Women
This study investigates the importance, in adolescence, of motivational, contextual, and demographic variables in predicting professional attainment in the early stages of career development. Using a synthesis of two theories; the Levinson Life Cycle and the Astin Theory of Career Choice, longitudinal data derived from approximately 3,000 adolescent students over a 10-year period from final year secondary school through to the age of 27 was analy…
Determining career orientations in women from different social-class backgrounds
Adolescents' self-perceptions of competence in life skill areas
Orientations to the future: A comparison of adolescents in Australia and Singapore
Adolescent Leisure Activities: Social Class, Sex and Ethnic Differences
It has been suggested that leisure is increasingly important to quality of life, and that patterns of awareness of and participation in leisure activities are established in adolescence. A study of 520 fifteen‐year‐olds mapped their awareness of leisure opportunities in school and community, explored patterns in the forms of leisure they see as possible for themselves, and examined differences in awareness associated with sex, social class and et…
Work and leisure relationships: An exploration of life possibilities during adolescence
Adolescent Perceptions of Family Cohesiveness, Autonomy and Independence in Australia and Singapore
An important developmental task of adolescents in Western cultures is to become more autonomous and to learn to make decisions. In Eastern cultures, however, autonomy may be seen as less critical than the maintenance of family cohesiveness. In this study, samples of 15-year olds from two contrasting cultures, Australia and Singapore, were asked questions concerning decision ma king in the home, family cohesiveness, and their desire for autonomy a…
Realities and Constraints: Pathways For Female School Leavers
This article analyses the pathways open to female; leavers as they make the transition from school to work or to post‐secondary education. Trends which have social significance are investigated in terms of participation rates, employment patterns, representation across areas in post‐secondary education, and status attainment within employment. Four types of explanations for the sex‐differentiated pathways found were explored: sex‐role socializati…
Decade differences in rural adolescents' views of life possibilities
Turntaking in Family Interaction
An examination of turntaking in 80 family triads was undertaken using the Defining Issues Test, to determine whether linkages would occur between same-sex or cross-sex parent-child systems. Contrary to expectations, no differences emerged in families with a male or female adolescent
Social Class-Sex Contrasts in Patterns of Cognitive Style: A Cross-Cultural Replication
In a cross-cultural replication of an Australian study, multiple discriminant function analysis was used on responses of a sample of 79 Californian adolescents (classified on an SES/Life Style index) to determine whether their pattern of cognitive functioning differed on a battery of cognitive style tests along a social-class/sex dimension. On Function I, middle-class (M) and working-class (W) boys displayed broad estimates of category width, whi…
Who stays? who leaves? an examination of sex differences in staying and leaving
Adolescents' Perceptions of Family Decision-Making and Autonomy in India, Australia and the United States
As part of an ongoing investigation of the possibilities adolescents have for exercising choice, groups of high school boys and girls in small towns in India, the United States, and Australia responded to set of questions about their own autonomy. They indicated whether a variety of decisions about their actions and plans were primarily made by their mother, their father, another family member, someone outside the family, or themselves, and they …
Elaboration of Linguistic Code and Verbal-Processing Strategies: Interdomain Analyses
This study investigated the relationship between linguistic code elaboration and verbal processing strategies. Individual, structured interviews were administered to a sample of 48 male and 48 female adolescents, aged between 15 and 16 yr., to obtain measures in two domains, linguistic and verbal. Interdomain relationships were explored by means of principal component analysis and canonical correlation. The pattern of relationships between the tw…
Social Class, Sex and Linguistic Coding
It was hypothesized that specific styles of linguistic coding would be evident along the dimensions of both social class and sex. Individual structured interviews were undertaken with 96 sixteen-year-olds, divided into equal social class/sex groups. The verbatim transcripts were examined along selected aspects of linguistic coding: structure, elaboration, prepositional and pronominal usage, and speech disruptions. Discriminant function analysis, …
Exploration of Relationship Inherent in Linguistic, Cognitive and Verbal Processing Domains
Interdomain relationships among linguistic, cognitive, and verbal processing modes were explored using principal component analysis. The data, obtained from 15- and 16-yr.-olds via individual structured interviews and a cognitive style test battery, yielded a complexity dimension. This dimension reflected explicit/analytic to non-reflective/categorical modes of processing and appeared to link all three domains (linguistic, cognitive and verbal)
Challenging Stereotypes of Creativity in School and Leisure
44 students were selected from 1,000 metropolitan sixth-graders as “highly creative” on the basis of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and were asked to complete a diary covering one week of their school and leisure time activities. Some anticipated differences between various categories of creative children emerged, but the differences were explicable at a prima facie level. In their leisure activities the creative sample did not appear to…
Social Class and Sex Contrasts in Verbal Processing Styles
S ummary . It was hypothesised that specific styles or verbal processing would be characteristic of 96 high school students drawn from different social class/sex groups. Such distinctive patterns of functioning, it was posited, could be largely explained by earlier socialisation experiences. Individual structured interviews were transcribed verbatim and six dimensions of verbal processing examined: categories of processing; modes of expression; v…
Inner-Centeredness of Highly Creative Adolescents
The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking were administered to 1,000 metropolitan sixth-graders from whom 4% were selected as being “highly creative.” Miller's tests for locus of control and of evaluation were also given to this latter group and to a control group. Significant differences on the locus of evaluation measure were found between the “high creatives” and a control group, but the differences between the groups were not significant on the…
Orientations to the future: A comparison of adolescents in Australia and Singapore
Age differences in adolescent future-oriented goals, concerns, and related temporal extension in different sociocultural contexts
Social Class, Sex and Linguistic Coding
It was hypothesized that specific styles of linguistic coding would be evident along the dimensions of both social class and sex. Individual structured interviews were undertaken with 96 sixteen-year-olds, divided into equal social class/sex groups. The verbatim transcripts were examined along selected aspects of linguistic coding: structure, elaboration, prepositional and pronominal usage, and speech disruptions. Discriminant function analysis, …
A Comparison of Oral and Written Code Elaboration
Data obtained from 80 first year university students of middle-class and working-class origin were used to explore aspects of the relationships between oral and written language systems. Subjects participated in a group testing situation (written) and an individual interview (oral). The analysis, based on code elaboration theory, compared oral and written language protocols along the dimensions of structural complexity, language elaboration, verb…
A Contextualist Model of Professional Attainment: Results of a Longitudinal Study of Career Paths of Men and Women
This study investigates the importance, in adolescence, of motivational, contextual, and demographic variables in predicting professional attainment in the early stages of career development. Using a synthesis of two theories; the Levinson Life Cycle and the Astin Theory of Career Choice, longitudinal data derived from approximately 3,000 adolescent students over a 10-year period from final year secondary school through to the age of 27 was analy…
Adolescent Perceptions of Family Cohesiveness, Autonomy and Independence in Australia and Singapore
An important developmental task of adolescents in Western cultures is to become more autonomous and to learn to make decisions. In Eastern cultures, however, autonomy may be seen as less critical than the maintenance of family cohesiveness. In this study, samples of 15-year olds from two contrasting cultures, Australia and Singapore, were asked questions concerning decision ma king in the home, family cohesiveness, and their desire for autonomy a…
Determining career orientations in women from different social-class backgrounds
Adolescents' Perceptions of Family Decision-Making and Autonomy in India, Australia and the United States
As part of an ongoing investigation of the possibilities adolescents have for exercising choice, groups of high school boys and girls in small towns in India, the United States, and Australia responded to set of questions about their own autonomy. They indicated whether a variety of decisions about their actions and plans were primarily made by their mother, their father, another family member, someone outside the family, or themselves, and they …
A Comparison of the Factorial Structure of Written Coding Patterns for a Middle-Class and a Working-Class Group
The present study was designed to compare the factorial structure of written coding patterns for a middle-class and a working-class group. Nineteen indices of written code elaboration were correlated for two groups of 40 subjects. The resulting correlation matrices yielded six factors (middle-class) and seven factors (working-class). Four common factors emerged—Syntax, Adverbial Elaboration, Personal Reference and Uncommon Linguistic Forms. The r…
Adolescents' self-perceptions of competence in life skill areas
Adolescent Leisure Activities: Social Class, Sex and Ethnic Differences
It has been suggested that leisure is increasingly important to quality of life, and that patterns of awareness of and participation in leisure activities are established in adolescence. A study of 520 fifteen‐year‐olds mapped their awareness of leisure opportunities in school and community, explored patterns in the forms of leisure they see as possible for themselves, and examined differences in awareness associated with sex, social class and et…
Who stays? who leaves? an examination of sex differences in staying and leaving
Social Class and Code Elaboration in Written Communication
The present study sought to test the tenability of Bernstein's socio-linguistic theory of ' elaborated' and restricted' coding orientations at the tertiary educational level, and in an Australian socio-cultural context. Differences in overall coding orientation were established for working-class and middle-class groups. In contrast to previous studies in the area, the social class groups were not contrasted on single coding dimensions, but in the…
Competencies for professionals and managers in the context of educational reform
Important workforce competencies for managers and professionals were identified separately for males and females through a sequence of interviews, content analysis, accessing expert opinion and statistical factoring procedures. Interviews of thirty‐two professionals and managers and a subsequent content analysis led to the development of a list of important skills, knowledge and attitudes which formed the basis for separate male and female compet…
Work and leisure relationships: An exploration of life possibilities during adolescence
Realities and Constraints: Pathways For Female School Leavers
This article analyses the pathways open to female; leavers as they make the transition from school to work or to post‐secondary education. Trends which have social significance are investigated in terms of participation rates, employment patterns, representation across areas in post‐secondary education, and status attainment within employment. Four types of explanations for the sex‐differentiated pathways found were explored: sex‐role socializati…
Social Class and Sex Contrasts in Verbal Processing Styles
S ummary . It was hypothesised that specific styles or verbal processing would be characteristic of 96 high school students drawn from different social class/sex groups. Such distinctive patterns of functioning, it was posited, could be largely explained by earlier socialisation experiences. Individual structured interviews were transcribed verbatim and six dimensions of verbal processing examined: categories of processing; modes of expression; v…
The creativity/self-concept relationship reviewed: An australian longitudinal perspective
Comparison of the Factorial Structure of Oral Coding Patterns for a Middle-Class and a Working-Class Group
The present study was designed to compare the factorial structure of oral coding patterns for a middle-class and a working-class group in terms of a Bernstein derived thesis of greater differentiation and specificity for middle-class subjects because of their ability to manipulate more of the semantic and structural resources of language. Twenty-eight indices of oral coding elaboration were obtained from 40 middle-class and 40 working-class terti…
Social Class Differences in Language Predictability
S ummary . Two cloze tests were constructed from speech interviews encoded by 80 university students of middle‐class and working‐class origin. In an experimental situation, 55 tertiary subjects were asked to ‘fill in’ the missing cloze deletions of passages presented aurally. It was predicted, within the Bernstein elaborated‐restricted coding model, that working‐class passages would be easier to decode because of their higher lexical and structur…
Changes in Religious Attitudes and Behaviour Among Students at the University of New England
Intellectual Style and Achievement of Arts and Science Undergraduates
S ummary . An investigation of the quality of passes attained by 101 Arts and Science students who entered the University of New England in 1968, indicated that while convergent bias was associated, in both faculties, with more high level passes in first year, there was no difference in the relative success of convergers and divergers in second year. At the same time, it was found that among these students the relationship between choice of facul…
A Rationale for Teaching Communication Skills to the Culturally Deprived
This paper presents a theoretical rationale for explaining the learning and achievement weaknesses noted in ‘culturally deprived’ children. Based on a theory of social competence which reveals schools as denying the validity of such children's experiences and ignoring the different competences they bring with them to the learning situation, the model suggests new teaching strategies which develop ‘first‐order’ communication outputs as a prerequis…
Social Class and Code Elaboration in Written Communication
The present study sought to test the tenability of Bernstein's socio-linguistic theory of ' elaborated' and restricted' coding orientations at the tertiary educational level, and in an Australian socio-cultural context. Differences in overall coding orientation were established for working-class and middle-class groups. In contrast to previous studies in the area, the social class groups were not contrasted on single coding dimensions, but in the…
Social Class Differences in Language Predictability
S ummary . Two cloze tests were constructed from speech interviews encoded by 80 university students of middle‐class and working‐class origin. In an experimental situation, 55 tertiary subjects were asked to ‘fill in’ the missing cloze deletions of passages presented aurally. It was predicted, within the Bernstein elaborated‐restricted coding model, that working‐class passages would be easier to decode because of their higher lexical and structur…
A Comparison of the Factorial Structure of Written Coding Patterns for a Middle-Class and a Working-Class Group
The present study was designed to compare the factorial structure of written coding patterns for a middle-class and a working-class group. Nineteen indices of written code elaboration were correlated for two groups of 40 subjects. The resulting correlation matrices yielded six factors (middle-class) and seven factors (working-class). Four common factors emerged—Syntax, Adverbial Elaboration, Personal Reference and Uncommon Linguistic Forms. The r…
Structured or General Enrichment Programmes for Preschool Children
The burgeoning interest in preschool education is not without its problems. Not least of these are issues relating to an educational philosophy to guide the types of programmes developed in preschools for different groups of children (especially those labelled ‘socio‐culturally’ disadvantaged). In addition, there are problems of implementation connected with the financing of the preschool movement, and the provision of adequate numbers of profess…
Comparison of the Factorial Structure of Oral Coding Patterns for a Middle-Class and a Working-Class Group
The present study was designed to compare the factorial structure of oral coding patterns for a middle-class and a working-class group in terms of a Bernstein derived thesis of greater differentiation and specificity for middle-class subjects because of their ability to manipulate more of the semantic and structural resources of language. Twenty-eight indices of oral coding elaboration were obtained from 40 middle-class and 40 working-class terti…
A Comparison of Oral and Written Code Elaboration
Data obtained from 80 first year university students of middle-class and working-class origin were used to explore aspects of the relationships between oral and written language systems. Subjects participated in a group testing situation (written) and an individual interview (oral). The analysis, based on code elaboration theory, compared oral and written language protocols along the dimensions of structural complexity, language elaboration, verb…
Inner-Centeredness of Highly Creative Adolescents
The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking were administered to 1,000 metropolitan sixth-graders from whom 4% were selected as being “highly creative.” Miller's tests for locus of control and of evaluation were also given to this latter group and to a control group. Significant differences on the locus of evaluation measure were found between the “high creatives” and a control group, but the differences between the groups were not significant on the…
The creativity/self-concept relationship reviewed: An australian longitudinal perspective
Exploration of Relationship Inherent in Linguistic, Cognitive and Verbal Processing Domains
Interdomain relationships among linguistic, cognitive, and verbal processing modes were explored using principal component analysis. The data, obtained from 15- and 16-yr.-olds via individual structured interviews and a cognitive style test battery, yielded a complexity dimension. This dimension reflected explicit/analytic to non-reflective/categorical modes of processing and appeared to link all three domains (linguistic, cognitive and verbal)
Challenging Stereotypes of Creativity in School and Leisure
44 students were selected from 1,000 metropolitan sixth-graders as “highly creative” on the basis of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and were asked to complete a diary covering one week of their school and leisure time activities. Some anticipated differences between various categories of creative children emerged, but the differences were explicable at a prima facie level. In their leisure activities the creative sample did not appear to…
Social Class and Sex Contrasts in Verbal Processing Styles
S ummary . It was hypothesised that specific styles or verbal processing would be characteristic of 96 high school students drawn from different social class/sex groups. Such distinctive patterns of functioning, it was posited, could be largely explained by earlier socialisation experiences. Individual structured interviews were transcribed verbatim and six dimensions of verbal processing examined: categories of processing; modes of expression; v…
Elaboration of Linguistic Code and Verbal-Processing Strategies: Interdomain Analyses
This study investigated the relationship between linguistic code elaboration and verbal processing strategies. Individual, structured interviews were administered to a sample of 48 male and 48 female adolescents, aged between 15 and 16 yr., to obtain measures in two domains, linguistic and verbal. Interdomain relationships were explored by means of principal component analysis and canonical correlation. The pattern of relationships between the tw…
Social Class, Sex and Linguistic Coding
It was hypothesized that specific styles of linguistic coding would be evident along the dimensions of both social class and sex. Individual structured interviews were undertaken with 96 sixteen-year-olds, divided into equal social class/sex groups. The verbatim transcripts were examined along selected aspects of linguistic coding: structure, elaboration, prepositional and pronominal usage, and speech disruptions. Discriminant function analysis, …
Turntaking in Family Interaction
An examination of turntaking in 80 family triads was undertaken using the Defining Issues Test, to determine whether linkages would occur between same-sex or cross-sex parent-child systems. Contrary to expectations, no differences emerged in families with a male or female adolescent
Social Class-Sex Contrasts in Patterns of Cognitive Style: A Cross-Cultural Replication
In a cross-cultural replication of an Australian study, multiple discriminant function analysis was used on responses of a sample of 79 Californian adolescents (classified on an SES/Life Style index) to determine whether their pattern of cognitive functioning differed on a battery of cognitive style tests along a social-class/sex dimension. On Function I, middle-class (M) and working-class (W) boys displayed broad estimates of category width, whi…
Who stays? who leaves? an examination of sex differences in staying and leaving
Adolescents' Perceptions of Family Decision-Making and Autonomy in India, Australia and the United States
As part of an ongoing investigation of the possibilities adolescents have for exercising choice, groups of high school boys and girls in small towns in India, the United States, and Australia responded to set of questions about their own autonomy. They indicated whether a variety of decisions about their actions and plans were primarily made by their mother, their father, another family member, someone outside the family, or themselves, and they …
Realities and Constraints: Pathways For Female School Leavers
This article analyses the pathways open to female; leavers as they make the transition from school to work or to post‐secondary education. Trends which have social significance are investigated in terms of participation rates, employment patterns, representation across areas in post‐secondary education, and status attainment within employment. Four types of explanations for the sex‐differentiated pathways found were explored: sex‐role socializati…
Decade differences in rural adolescents' views of life possibilities
Adolescent Leisure Activities: Social Class, Sex and Ethnic Differences
It has been suggested that leisure is increasingly important to quality of life, and that patterns of awareness of and participation in leisure activities are established in adolescence. A study of 520 fifteen‐year‐olds mapped their awareness of leisure opportunities in school and community, explored patterns in the forms of leisure they see as possible for themselves, and examined differences in awareness associated with sex, social class and et…
Work and leisure relationships: An exploration of life possibilities during adolescence
Adolescent Perceptions of Family Cohesiveness, Autonomy and Independence in Australia and Singapore
An important developmental task of adolescents in Western cultures is to become more autonomous and to learn to make decisions. In Eastern cultures, however, autonomy may be seen as less critical than the maintenance of family cohesiveness. In this study, samples of 15-year olds from two contrasting cultures, Australia and Singapore, were asked questions concerning decision ma king in the home, family cohesiveness, and their desire for autonomy a…
Psychology (32 works) · Developmental psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works)