Young Adults' Anticipated Identity Importance of Career, Marital, and Parental Roles: Comparisons of Men and Women with Different Role Balance Orientations.

Kerpelman, Jennifer L.; Schvaneveldt, Paul L.

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ERIC Number: EJ596438

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Young Adults' Anticipated Identity Importance of Career, Marital, and Parental Roles: Comparisons of Men and Women with Different Role Balance Orientations.

Kerpelman, Jennifer L.; Schvaneveldt, Paul L.

Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, v41 n3/4 p189-217 Aug 1999

Reports results from two studies, involving 1,267 and 147 college students that explored students' role-balance expectations for their future career, marital, and parental identities. Results from both studies provide evidence that contradicts previous assumptions about gender differences in expectations for work and family roles. (SLD)

Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Expectation, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Work Relationship, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology), Role, Sex Differences

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Research supported by Grant NCARS05814 from the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service and Grant SBR-9616361 from the National Science Foundation.