RE-ENTRY WOMEN STUDENTS: VARIABLES INVOLVED IN THE DECISION TO RETURN TO SCHOOL.
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Title
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RE-ENTRY WOMEN STUDENTS: VARIABLES INVOLVED IN THE DECISION TO RETURN TO SCHOOL.
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Identifier
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AAI8611323
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identifier
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8611323
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Creator
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ATLAS, SHIRLEY S.
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Contributor
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Florence L. Denmark
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Date
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1986
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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, Social
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Abstract
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To investigate variables involved in the decision to return to school, 191 re-entry women completed a questionnaire and the Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. The sample was divided into four groups: new students, advanced students, ex-students, and non-students; eight volunteers from each group were interviewed by the author.;Demographic data indicated that subjects were significantly more likely to be students if they had graduated from high school with an academic diploma, if they were presently married, and if their husbands had gone to college. Responding to the question, "What was happening in your life when you first thought about returning to school?", advanced and ex-students were most apt to list a concern-for-self life event, new students a concern-for-others event, and non-students might name either one. Although the correlations were not statistically significant, the advanced and the ex-students had, on the average, the most internal LOC scores and the most concern-for-self responses, while the new students had the most external LOC scores and the most concern-for-others responses. Since the subjects with the most internal scores were also the oldest, two questions arose: is there a relationship between LOC and age, or LOC and stage of motherhood?;Interview data produced three life patterns: (1) In high school, subjects converged in their goals of marriage and motherhood; in the intervening years, subjects had diverged into the four groups; at re-entry, subjects re-converged by advising high school girls to postpone marriage until training for a career or profession has been completed. (2) In high school, concern for self is sole concern; during young married years, concern for others dominates concern for self; at re-entry, concern for self increases and begins to dominate concern for others. (3) In high school, subjects' personal goals focused on the future relationships of marriage and motherhood; at re-entry, subjects have difficulty setting goals that focus mainly on themselves.
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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.
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Program
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Psychology
