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Item A comparative study of transitional role strain in reentry women students(Texas Tech University, 1988-05) Menger, Geraldine MThe problem under investigation was the analysis of role strain experienced by married reentry women students as they functioned in their multiple roles of student-wife-mother-worker. Participating in the research were 480 reentry women enrolled in a major university and a community college situated in West Texas. The study included a profile of the average reentry student and analyses of student reentry motives and problems encountered. Significant relationships were observed between role strain and several variables including multiple roles, self-esteem, employment, and spouse support. There was no significant difference in the degree of role strain experienced by university women or community college women, nor between graduate and undergraduate students. Data indicate reentry women are concerned with time management and fatigue, and the effect of college demands on marital and family relationships.Item A path analytic investigation of interrole conflict and organizational commitment related to performance ranking(Texas Tech University, 1996-12) Chadwick, ColleenRole theory can serve as a valuable conceptual framework to understand how an individual functions in the work and family domains. The challenge for any individual is to manage multiple roles to achieve balance. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of multiple roles, interrole conflict, multiple role balance, and organizational commitment to performance ranking. The sample consisted of 344 County Extension agents in Texas. Family role, personal interest/self-development role, job role, interrole conflict, multiple role balance and organizational commitment were assessed using 4-point Likert scales. Exploratory factor analysis was used to identify the underlying patterns of responses to the 51 questionnaire items. Multiple role balance and interrole conflict were found to be intercorrelated, and were intergraded into one latent exogenous variable, interrole conflict. The five latent exogenous variables were defined by fifteen indicator variables, and the one manifest endogenous variable was determined by performance ranking. The path analytic study was conducted using SAS^R CALIS. Results indicated that the personal interest/self-development role had a positive relationship with interrole conflict. There was a significant positive relationship found between job role and organizational commitment. Time commitment was the strongest predictor of both family role and personal interest/self-development role, but was the weakest predictor of the job role. This suggested that Extension Agents devoted necessary time to fulfill job responsibilities at the sacrifice of time for family and self. These findings were congruent with previous empirical studies.Item An exploration of role-related identity in India-born Indian women living in the United States and Anglo-American women(Texas Tech University, 2002-08) Ramaswamy, Mangala GThe current study examined the differences in role-related identity between India-born Indian women living in the U.S. and the Anglo-American women. Identity patterns between the two groups of women were observed in the family (wife, mother), work, and homemaking roles. Erikson's psychosocial theory and the individualistic/collectivistic ideologies seen in the two groups of women form the framework for the present study. The present research seeks to explore the extent to which these cultural differences might be reflected in the role-related identities of the two groups of women. The sample consisted of 30 India-born Indian women living in the U.S. and 30 Anglo-American women. All respondents were married. The respondents completed a questionnaire consisting of demographic information after which a lengthy interview based on women's lives and how they carried out the important roles in their lives were conducted. Interviews were transcribed at a later time and rated by two trained raters. Interviews were rated for salience and flexibility dimensions. Within the salience dimension, interview responses regarding each role were rated for motivation, affect, effect on self-evaluation, and time commitment. Past and present/future flexibility responses within each role were rated for reflectiveness and behavioral change. For the current research only motivation (degree of importance and reasons for involvement in the role) and affect (degree of affect and type of affect) within the salience dimension was analyzed for the wife, mother, worker and homemaker roles. The results indicate similarities and differences between the two groups of women. Differences between the two groups of women were observed in the degree of affect associated with the wife role and reasons for involvement and type of affect associated with the mother role. Differences between the two groups of women were also observed in their degree of importance to the work role, reasons for involvement in the worker role, and the degree of importance to the homemaking role. Similarities were observed in the degree of importance associated to the wife and mother roles, degree of affect associated with the mother, worker, and homemaker roles, reasons for involvement associated with the wife role, types of affect associated with the wife, worker, and homemaker roles, and reasons for involvement in the homemaker role.Item Juggling between maternal and student role : multiple role adaptation among women who are re-entering school in Taiwan(2003-05) Lin, Li-ling; Walker, Lorraine Olszewski