Date of Award:
5-1997
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Human Development and Family Studies
Department name when degree awarded
Family and Human Development
Committee Chair(s)
Scot M. Allgood
Committee
Scot M. Allgood
Committee
Shelley Lindauer
Committee
Brent Miller
Abstract
This research explored the association between positive employment outcome (getting a job above poverty wage) and several intake variables for women in transition. The variables (self-esteem, anxiety and/or depression, pretreatment change, family functioning, community/social support, and counseling and assertiveness classes) were identified from the literature for their probable association with positive employment outcome. The intervention of taking an assertiveness class was statistically associated with positive employment outcome. The other variables appear to be linked to positive employment outcome in the direction hypothesized, although none of them reached statistical significance.
The demographic variables of family size and employment status at intake were significantly associated with positive employment outcome. A discriminant analysis indicated that women with larger family size and greater self-esteem who are unemployed and take an assertiveness class were more likely to experience positive employment outcome.
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Recommended Citation
Higley, Kathryn, "Predictors of Employment for Women in a Life Transition" (1997). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2405.
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