Psychological, attitudinal, and socio-demographic correlates of economic well-being of mature women

Journal of Women and Aging

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 37-53

  Caputo, Richard K ^a  

^a BARRY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011214106     PISSN: 08952841     EISSN: 15407322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J074v09n04_04     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Axinn, J. & Stem, M.J. (1988). Dependency and poverty: Old problems in a new world. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books/D.C. Heath and Company.
2. Bergman, B.R. (1986). The economic emergence of women. New York: Basic Books.
3. Boor, M. (1974). Dimensions of internal-external control and marital status, sex, age, and college class. Journal of Social Psychology’, 94, 145-46.
4. Burkhauser, R.V. & Duncan, G.J. (1988). Life events, public policy, and the economic vulnerability of children and the elderly. In J.L. Palmer, T. Smeed- ing, & B.B. Torrey (Eds.), The vulnerable (pp. 55-88). Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press.
5. Caputo, R.K. (1995). Gender and race: Employment opportunity and the American economy. Families in Society, 76, 239-247.
6. Center for Human Resource Research. (1995). NLS Handbook 1995. Columbus: Ohio State University.
7. Coe, R.D. (1981). A preliminary empirical examination of the dynamics of welfare use. In M.S. Hill & J.N. Morgan (Eds.), Five thousand American families- patlerns of economic progress. Vol. 9; Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan.
8. Danziger, S. & Gottschalk, P. (1995). America unequal. New York: Russell Sage Foundation/Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
9. Duncan, G.J. (1984). Years of poverty years of plenty: The changing economic fortunes of American workers and families. Ann Arbor, Ml: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
10. Fuchs, V.R. (1988). Women's quest for economic equality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
11. Gottschalk, P., McLanahan, S., & Sandefur, G.D. (1994). The dynamics and intergenerational transmission of poverty and welfare participation. In S.H. Danziger, G.D. Sandefur, & D.H. Weinberg (Eds.), Confronting poverty: Prescriptions for change (pp. 85-108). New York: Russell Sage Foundation/Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
12. Holden, K.C. (1997). Social security and the economic security of women: Is it fair? In E.R. Kingson & J.H. Schulz (Eds.), Social security in the 21st centuiy (pp. 91-104). New York: Oxford University Press.
13. Hudis, P.M. (1977). Commitment to work and wages: Earnings differences of black and white women. Sociology of Work and Occupations, 4, 123-146.
14. Joe, V.C. (1971). Review of the internal-external construct as a personality variable. Psychological Reports, 28, 619-640.
15. Kreps, J. & Clark, R. (1975). Sex, age, and work: The changing composition of the labor force. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
16. Marmor, T.R., Mashaw, J.L., & Harvey, P.L. (1990). Americas misunderstood welfare state: Persistent myths, enduring realities. New York: Basic Books.
17. McDaniel, S.A. (1989). Women and aging: A sociological perspective. Journal of Women & Aging, 1, 47-67.
18. Moen, P. (1992). Women 's two roles: A contemporary dilemma. Westport, CT: Aubum House.
19. Morgan, L.A. (1989). Economic well-being following marital termination: A comparison of widowed and divorced women. Journal of Family Issues, 10(1), 86-101.
20. Quadagno, J. (1988). The transformation of old-age security: Class and politics in the American welfare state. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
21. Quadagno, J. & Quinn, J. (1997). Does social security discourage work? In E.R. Kingson & J.H. Schulz (Eds.), Social security in the 21s' century (pp. 127-146). New York: Oxford University Press.
22. Rotter, J.B. (1966). Generalized Expectations for Internal Versus External Control Reinforcement. Psychological Monographs General and Applied 80(1), Whole No. 609.
23. Rotter, J.B. (1975). Some Problems and Misconceptions Related to the Construct of Internal versus External Control of Reinforcement. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 43, 56-67.
24. Rubin, R.M. & Koelin, K. (1996). Elderly and nonelderly expenditures on necessities in the 1980s. Monthly Labor Review, 119, 24-31.
25. Schulz, J.H. (1995). The economics of aging. Sixth edition; Dover, MA: Aubum House Publishing Company.
26. Smolensky, E., Danziger, S., & Gottschalk, P. (1988). The declining significance of age in the United States: Trends in the well-being of children and the elderly since 1939. In J.L. Palmer, T. Smeeding, & B.B. Torrey (Eds.), The vulnerable (pp. 29-54). Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press.
27. Spain, D. & Bianchi, S.M. (1996). Balancing act: Motherhood, marriage, and employment among American women. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
28. Tomaskovic-Devey, D. (1993). Gender & racial inequality at work: The sources & consequences of job segregation. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press.
29. Treas, J. & Torrecilha, R. (1995). The older population. In R. Farley (Ed.) State of the union: America in the 1990s, Vol. II, Social trends, pp. 47-92. II Vols.; New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
30. U.S. Bureau of the Census. (1993). Current Population Reports, Series P60-185, Poverty in the United States, 1992. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
31. U.S. Social Security Administration. (1993). Annual Statistical Supplement, 1993 to the Social security bulletin. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
32. U.S. Social Security Administration (1995). Annual statistical supplement, 1995 to the Social security bulletin. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
33. Watson, Jane M. (1981). A Note on the Dimensionality of the Rotter Locus of Control Scale. Australian Journal of Psychology, 33, 319-330.
34. Weaver, D.A. (1994). The work and retirement decisions of older women: A literature review. Social Security Bulletin, 57(1), 3-24.
35. Wolfe, A. (1996). Marginalized in the middle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.