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Selected Dimensions of Self-concept and Educational Aspirations of Married Women College Graduates, 1970

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Selected Dimensions of Self-concept and Educational Aspirations of Married Women College Graduates, 1970
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OU1WYW
 
Creator Lipman-Blumen, Jean
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This study investigated the factors related to the educational aspirations of college-educated women who were themselves, or who were married to, Harvard graduate students.



In January, 1968, a questionnaire was mailed to 2,393 Harvard graduate students' wives and 355 married women enrolled as graduate students at Harvard University. The return rates were 65% for the wives of graduate students, and 79% for the married women graduate students. The 52-page Life Plans Questionnaire assessed educational aspiration; self-esteem; female role ideology; generalized conception of academic ability; self-assessment of graduate school potential; recalled perceptions of adolescent family relations; high school teachers', high school peers', college instructors', and college peers' evaluations of respondents' academic ability; competence and satisfaction in three major role areas: wife, housekeeper, and mother; orientation to mode of achievement satisfaction; socioeconomic status and occupation; maternal employment; adolescent loneliness; stability of self-concept; and college experience.



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Subject Social Sciences
 
Type field study