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Stewart, Abigail J. Longitudinal study of the life patterns of college-educated women.

Title: Longitudinal study of the life patterns of college-educated women. 1979.

This is a longitudinal study of the class of 1964 at a prestigious women's college in the eastern United States. A major purpose of the study was to determine the effects of personality and situation on the life outcomes of college-educated women. In the fall of 1960, Thematic Apperception Tests (TATs) were administered to virtually all freshmen (N=244), yielding the initial personality variables. No other data were collected at this time. In 1974, 10 years after graduation, the first follow-up of the class of 1964 was conducted. A Life-Patterns Questionnaire, containing both open-ended and precoded questions, was sent to all members of the initial sample for whom addresses could be obtained from the Alumnae Office (N=210). This questionnaire elicited information regarding background, college experience, activities since graduation, and future aspirations. Responses were obtained from 122 of the original respondents. Later in 1974, telephone interviews were conducted with about half of the second wave participants who had completed and returned the questionnaire. The interviews were semistructured and open-ended, and focused on stressful life periods. In 1976 and 1979, further follow-ups were conducted. Measures used for the follow-ups included an open-ended Recent Activities Questionnaire, a Recent Life Changes Questionnaire, and a health questionnaire. The questionnaires included precoded items regarding health and life changes during the preceding two years. Computer-accessible data from all waves are available. Available raw data include TATs for the class of 1964 and open-ended questions for the 1974 and 1976 follow-ups.

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Stewart, Abigail J. Follow-up of A new case for the liberal arts.

Title: Follow-up of A new case for the liberal arts. 1977.

These data were collected as a follow-up of the study conducted by Winter, McClelland, and Stewart in 1974 (archived separately, Winter, McClelland, & Stewart, A531). In late 1977, a Life-Patterns Questionnaire was mailed to all members of the Class of 1975 from the Ivy College sample (69 males and 49 females). The response rate was approximately 70% for the total sample. The Life-Patterns Questionnaire contained both open-ended and precoded questions. The questionnaire elicited background information, college experiences, activities since graduation, and future aspirations. Most of the items were drawn from the original Life-Patterns Questionnaire used in Stewart's 1960-1979 study. All data have been acquired in computer-accessible form. Original responses to the open-ended questions have also been acquired.

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Radcliffe College. Henry A. Murray Research Center. Records of the Henry A. Murray Research Center, 1976-1988 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the Henry A. Murray Research Center, 1976-1988 (inclusive).

Records contain organization reports and minutes, including the dedication and original inventory of data resources; correspondence; financial records; conference and workshop materials; handbooks and working papers; information on special projects and grants.

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Stewart, Abigail J. Decision making in college seniors.

Title: Decision making in college seniors. 1979.

This study was undertaken as part of a larger research project exploring situationally induced affective development. This particular part of the project focused on the relationship between emotional maturity and the planning styles of students. The purpose was to determine whether several personality constructs were related to the style with which people make decisions. Approximately 40 male and 40 female seniors at Boston University, selected randomly from the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Engineering, participated in this study. Also sampled were students who had shown exceptionally high promise in high school and had been awarded full scholarships at the university as "trustee scholars." At the first testing session, participants wrote stories to four Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) pictures, and completed a variety of measures of cognitive and affective development and decision-making strategy, as well as a demographic questionnaire. Three weeks later, all of the participants were interviewed. The interviews focused on how and why the student chose his/her particular major and how and why the student had decided upon his/her plans for the next year. Particular emphasis was placed on the influence of early experiences, important others, experiences as college students, reasons for any changes in major or vocational plans, and future goals. Both raw and computer-accessible data are available.

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Winter, David G. A new case for the liberal arts.

Title: A new case for the liberal arts. 1978.

The major purpose of this study was to discern the distinctive effects of a liberal arts education by comparing first year students and seniors at three kinds of colleges: "Ivy College," "State Teacher's College, " and "Community College" (pseudonyms). In order to test the findings about the effects of a liberal education across institutions, some of the measures were also administered at seven other colleges across the country. In the fall of 1974, representative samples of both graduating seniors (second-year students at Community College) and first-year students at three colleges (n=396, half female, half male) were administered the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and several traditional and new aptitude tests designed to assess cognitive skills. These include the Analysis of Argument, the Test of Thematic Analysis, the Uses of Objects, the Meanings of Words, Learning New Material, and Concept Attainment. A questionnaire that elicited demographic information and college expectations and experiences was also administered. In 1978, a follow-up was conducted of the then current senior class (first-year students in 1974) at Ivy College. Ninety-one of the original participants were included in the follow-up, and 47 new seniors were added to the sample. The follow-up included many of the same measures as the original study. These data are available for analysis and are archived with the original data. In the same year, another follow-up was conducted by Dr. Stewart. It consisted of a Life-Patterns Questionnaire sent to the Ivy College class of 1975 (seniors at the original data collection). These data are also available for analysis and are archived separately (see Stewart, A534). The Murray Center holds raw data from the TATs, Test of Thematic Analysis, and Analysis of Argument from the three college comparison. Computer-accessible data for all measures are available at the Murray Center.

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Stewart, Abigail J. Experience-induced affective development in children and adults.

Title: Experience-induced affective development in children and adults. 1978.

The purpose of this short-term longitudinal study was to test a theory of experience-induced affective development which links individuals' subjective experience with their external environmental changes. It investigated the role of transitional experiences in producing substantial affective changes in both children and adults. Data were collected from individuals who were about to experience a life change, who had very recently experienced a life change, or who had experienced a life change fairly recently and had made some adaptation to it. The original sample consisted of 62 young children (kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grades), 341 school children (5th through 10th grades), 126 college students, 26 subjects who were engaged to be married, 60 newly married participants, 40 expectant parents, and 41 new parents. These participants were chosen to represent major life transitions around school, work, marriage, and parenthood. There was a high response rate in the follow-up. The two waves of data collection were conducted over three years. The new parents sample was followed up two more times by another researcher. These data are archived separately (see Chester, A640). Participants were administered four Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) cues, a basic facts questionnaires, interviews, and questionnaires including the Feffer Role-taking Task, the Kelly Role Repertory Grid, Who Am I?, and several personality inventories. The Murray Center holds raw and computer-accessible data from both data collections.

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Chester, Nia Lane. Coping with early parenthood.

Title: Coping with early parenthood. 1984.

The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine the adjustment to new parenthood and to investigate the particular stresses common to new parents. The later data collections focused on occupational satisfaction of mothers with preschool children. In 1976-1977 a group of new and expectant parents participated in a larger two-year longitudinal study examining the adjustment to major life transitions (see Stewart, A529). In 1979-1980 the current researcher recontacted the sample. Thirty-one women and 24 men participated, all white, predominantly middle class, and in their late 20s and early 30s. The average age of the participants' only or oldest child was 28 months. In 1984, this sample was contacted for the fourth time. Twenty women and seven men participated. The first two waves are described in the Stewart abstract (A529). In the third wave an open-ended interview schedule was employed to assess the new parent experience. Topics covered included satisfaction with parenting, expectations, difficulties, family size, response to hypothetical situations, division of household labor, work, activities and interests, life satisfaction, and advice for other parents. The participants also responded to four Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) picture cues, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Kelly Role Repertory Grid, and the Personal Attributes Questionnaire. The 1984 data collection focused on occupational patterns and satisfactions of the women who were employed outside the home during their children's preschool years. A mailed questionnaire assessed the impact of children on job involvement, and future work plans. The impact of personality variables, such as motivation and self-definition, and situational characteristics, such as income, child care, attitudes of spouse, and level of job, were also assessed. Data from the first two waves are available from the Stewart data set. Raw, audio, and computer data from the third wave (1979-1980) are archived separately. Raw and computer data from the fourth wave (1984) are available as well.

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