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Bhutoria, Aditi; Vignoles, Anna – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2018
Policymakers have invested significant resources in financial education to improve financial literacy of the poor, reduce bad financial decision-making, and increase take-up of financial services and products. Yet, there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of such interventions, especially in developing countries. This paper provides evidence…
Descriptors: Money Management, Intervention, Females, Poverty
Riggs, Ronald C.; And Others – 1978
The incidence and extent of irrational beliefs in the obese were investigated as well as subsequent changes in such beliefs as a result of participation in a self-monitored weight control program. Subjects were 53 females who were a minimum of 10 pounds and an average of 32 pounds overweight. The obese sample was administered the Irrational…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Beliefs, Body Weight, College Students
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Haaken, Janice – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1993
Analysis of Al-Anon and Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) organizational literature shows women's articulation of and responses to the problems of codependence from the 1950s to the 1980s. Progressive appropriation of feminist ideals, a critique of the family, and a disease-based model of family dysfunction characterize understanding of…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Comparative Analysis, Counseling, Family Problems
Sharma, Satish; Anstey, Eleanor – 1981
Using the perspective of sociology and social welfare, the report focuses on issues and concerns by considering the concepts and underpinnings of personal development, social development, community development, women's issues, rural social welfare, and self-help. Contexts are the social development and social welfare of total societies as well as…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations