The self in relation to others: Concerns about death.
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Title
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The self in relation to others: Concerns about death.
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Identifier
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AAI9108083
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identifier
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9108083
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Creator
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Brown, Jody.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Douglas Kimmel
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Date
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1990
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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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The present research was designed to examine, first, whether people with systematically different relationships to the power structure of the social order, as manifested in gender, race, and class, have systematically different notions of the self-in-relation-to-others? Specifically, do women, people of color, and members of the working class focus on more interpersonal issues involving attachment and connection in constructing meaning in their world? Correspondingly, do men, whites and members of the middle and upper classes focus on more intrapersonal issues involving autonomy and separation in their constructions of reality?;Second, do people with systematically different notions of the self-in-relation-to-others have systematically different concerns about death? Specifically, do people who are primarily oriented toward interpersonal issues focus on the death of the other and loss? Correspondingly, do people who are primarily oriented toward intrapersonal issues focus on the death of the self and missed accomplishments?;A Death Concerns Scale (DCS), focusing on Inter/Intrapersonal concerns was constructed, using 230 college students. Its reliability and validity were evaluated. The DCS and three personality measures were used to test the hypotheses on a separate sample of 255 college students.;There was a highly significant effect for gender. Women scored more interpersonally than men on both the personality measures and on the DCS. There were no significant effects for race or for occupational status in general.;Separating out mother's and father's occupational status, there was a significant effect for mother's occupational status--respondents whose mothers had high status occupations had higher intrapersonal scores on the DCS than respondents whose mothers had low status occupations. There was a significant gender by occupational status interaction effect on the DCS for father's occupation. Females with high status fathers, had higher intrapersonal scores than females with low status fathers. In contrast, males with high status fathers had lower intrapersonal scores than males with low status fathers.
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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.
