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Constance L. Shehan
Researcher at University of Florida
Publications - 47
Citations - 1946
Constance L. Shehan is an academic researcher from University of Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Family life & Social change. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 47 publications receiving 1893 citations.
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A Residue of Tradition: Jobs, Careers, and Spouses' Time in Housework
TL;DR: Dual-career couples were not found to be more egalitarian than other couples in their allocation of time to household labor, and consequences for the extent of viability of the dual-Career family form are discussed.
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Marital Status and Personal Happiness: An Analysis of Trend Data.
TL;DR: The authors analyzes General Social Survey data from 1972 through 1989 on the personal happiness of married and never-married individuals and shows that the effect of marriage on happiness returning to fairly typical levels in 1987 and 1988 after several years of relatively minimal differences in the early part of the decade.
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The Family Life Cycle and Spouses' Time in Housework.
TL;DR: The authors found that women would spend less time in housework before and after childbearing stages, while their husbands would spend more time in domestic labor during periods of least occupational involvement, that is, early in their employment career and after retirement.
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Exchange and Resource Theories
TL;DR: The social exchange framework was formally advanced in the work of sociologists George Homans (1961) and Peter Blau (1964a) and the work by social psychologists John Thibaut and Harold Kelley (1959) as discussed by the authors.
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Social Contexts and Social Learning in Sexual Coercion and Aggression: Assessing the Contribution of Fraternity Membership
TL;DR: In this paper, a social learning theory of deviant behavior was used to identify the process through which fraternity membership may be correlated with sexual aggression and found that fraternities are significantly more likely than "independents" to engage in nonphysical coercion and to use drugs and alcohol as a sexual strategy but do not differ significantly in their use of physical coercion.