Deirdre D Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 96754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deirdre D Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deirdre D |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hope College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 281 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Mother's Work History in the Construction of Adult Daughter's Worker-Mother Discursive Strategies
This study explores how adult daughters perceive their mothers' worker-mother identities and compares these perceptions to their own worker-mother identities. Interviews were conducted with 98 mothers, stratified by employment status, with one or more children under the age of five. Results indicate that adult daughters reflect on their mothers' worker-mother identities when constructing their own maternal identities. Adult daughters' narratives …
Cognitive Acrobatics in the Construction of Worker–mother Identity
Constructing the “Good Mother”
Moms Hating Moms
Undermining Mothers
Mother wars, the pitting of at-home and employed mothers against each other, domi-nate public discourse. Mother roles are contested and, as a result, mothers are inun-dated with contradictory messages that affirm a particular mother role and simulta-neously condemn a mother for achieving it. This content analysis explores 4 maternal contradictions in contemporary women’s magazines: (a) mothers are selfish/selfless; (b) mothers should foster indep…
Invisible Mothers
Adolescents'Motivations for Viewing Graphic Horror
This study identifies four motivations adolescents report for viewing graphic horror films: gore watching, thrill watching, independent watching, and problem watching. On the basis of a uses and gratifications model of media effects, it is argued that viewing motivations are predictors of responses to graphic horror. This study also seeks to extend Zillmann's excitation-transfer model of media effects to predict under what conditions viewing-gene…
Constructing the “Good Mother”
Cognitive Acrobatics in the Construction of Worker–mother Identity
Invisible Mothers
Moms Hating Moms
Undermining Mothers
Mother wars, the pitting of at-home and employed mothers against each other, domi-nate public discourse. Mother roles are contested and, as a result, mothers are inun-dated with contradictory messages that affirm a particular mother role and simulta-neously condemn a mother for achieving it. This content analysis explores 4 maternal contradictions in contemporary women’s magazines: (a) mothers are selfish/selfless; (b) mothers should foster indep…
Adolescents'Motivations for Viewing Graphic Horror
This study identifies four motivations adolescents report for viewing graphic horror films: gore watching, thrill watching, independent watching, and problem watching. On the basis of a uses and gratifications model of media effects, it is argued that viewing motivations are predictors of responses to graphic horror. This study also seeks to extend Zillmann's excitation-transfer model of media effects to predict under what conditions viewing-gene…
Mother's Work History in the Construction of Adult Daughter's Worker-Mother Discursive Strategies
This study explores how adult daughters perceive their mothers' worker-mother identities and compares these perceptions to their own worker-mother identities. Interviews were conducted with 98 mothers, stratified by employment status, with one or more children under the age of five. Results indicate that adult daughters reflect on their mothers' worker-mother identities when constructing their own maternal identities. Adult daughters' narratives …
Adolescents'Motivations for Viewing Graphic Horror
This study identifies four motivations adolescents report for viewing graphic horror films: gore watching, thrill watching, independent watching, and problem watching. On the basis of a uses and gratifications model of media effects, it is argued that viewing motivations are predictors of responses to graphic horror. This study also seeks to extend Zillmann's excitation-transfer model of media effects to predict under what conditions viewing-gene…
Undermining Mothers
Mother wars, the pitting of at-home and employed mothers against each other, domi-nate public discourse. Mother roles are contested and, as a result, mothers are inun-dated with contradictory messages that affirm a particular mother role and simulta-neously condemn a mother for achieving it. This content analysis explores 4 maternal contradictions in contemporary women’s magazines: (a) mothers are selfish/selfless; (b) mothers should foster indep…
Invisible Mothers
Moms Hating Moms
Constructing the “Good Mother”
Cognitive Acrobatics in the Construction of Worker–mother Identity
Mother's Work History in the Construction of Adult Daughter's Worker-Mother Discursive Strategies
This study explores how adult daughters perceive their mothers' worker-mother identities and compares these perceptions to their own worker-mother identities. Interviews were conducted with 98 mothers, stratified by employment status, with one or more children under the age of five. Results indicate that adult daughters reflect on their mothers' worker-mother identities when constructing their own maternal identities. Adult daughters' narratives …
Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Identity (music (4 works) · Ideology (4 works)