In their voices: The childhood origins of Lebanese professional women's dreams.
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Title
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In their voices: The childhood origins of Lebanese professional women's dreams.
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Identifier
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AAI3074633
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identifier
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3074633
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Creator
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Chartouni, Vanessa Adib.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Anderson J. Franklin
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Date
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2003
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical | Women's Studies
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to explore the earliest influences on Lebanese professional women's Dreams (Levinson, 1978). A focus was placed on achieving a deeper understanding of the Dream's origins in childhood. There was an examination of how the Dream initially developed and who influenced its nature, what the earliest precursors to the Dream looked like, and what ways Lebanese cultural and societal values impacted the development of the earliest precursors to the Dream.;Nine Lebanese professional women from the ages of thirty-one to forty-eight were interviewed using semi-structured, in depth interviews designed to elicit the early experiences leading to the formation and implementation of the origin of their Dreams. All of the women were born and raised in Lebanon and completed at least a portion of their college education there.;The findings of this study strongly supported Kathryn A. Furst's (1983) conclusion that there are significant childhood precursors to the Dream, and these childhood precursors were identified, described, and operationally termed the "Young Dream". From a very young age, all of the women in this study imagined themselves occupying a professional role in the future. The data suggested that the women's family environments and the nature of their relationship with each parent seemed to have the most salient impact on the development of the Young Dream.;There were some observations regarding the unique and important effects that the women's relationships with both their fathers and mothers had on the development of the Young Dream: (1) despite some ambivalence regarding gender role definitions, direct and explicit support from fathers during childhood was a critical factor in the initial development of Lebanese professional women's occupational aspirations; (2) the women in this sample deeply admired and identified with their mothers in many respects, and their Young Dreams consisted of future imaginings of themselves in occupational roles, not simply because they did not want to live the sorts of lives their mothers did, but because they wanted more than their mothers had.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
