Dena B. Targ

• Purdue University West Lafayette

Using Becker's theory of commitment, national longitudinal data on 1961 college graduates are analyzed to determine the effects of early work orientation and the situational attributes of full-time work experience, husband's attitude and income, and number of children on the probability of 1968 employment among white married women. Work orientation...

In the last two decades, there has been a notable increase in the number of families in which grandparents are raising grandchildren. During the same time frame, academic journals representing a number of family-focused disciplines have published articles on the situation of these grandparents. Many of these articles include implications for family...

The experiences of women and men workers displaced from jobs in 1989 by three plant closings in Indiana were examined. The focus was on three interrelated hypotheses concerning gender differences in the economic, psychological, and social effects of job loss. Questionnaires were sent to workers shortly after the closings and twelve months after the...

The experiences of women and men workers displaced from jobs in 1989 by three plant closings in Indiana were examined. The focus was on three interrelated hypotheses concerning gender differences in the economic, psychological, and social effects of job loss. Questionnaires were sent to workers shortly after the closings and twelve months after the...

The authors contend that employer-initiated workplace policies should be considered as part of the patchwork that constitutes U.S. family policy. To provide a background, historical evidence of employer-initiated policies intentionally used as family policies is summarized. The view is then explicated that failure to take economic conditions and wo...

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Reports the results of a study of a plant closing in Indiana. Data were obtained from displaced workers, union officials, community social service agencies, and small business owners.

Using questionnaire and interview data, we discuss displaced worker responses to the closing of their plant.

Examines the social and psychological effects of job loss due to a plant closure for female and male workers in a single plant.

We examine a broad range of effects of a plant closing on a community and its displaced workers. We report the results from questionnaire data from displaced workers and from continuously employed workers. We also report information obtained from interviews with town leaders, small businesses, and professionals in the central business district.

Empirical analysis of the social networks from which mental patients are embedded prior to hospitalization. Examines how the properties of social networks influence the decision to commit, continued contact with the hospitalized person, and release from the hospital.

A conceptual-theoretical examination of the two dominant views of mental illness (disease and deviance) and consideration of social network approach to the topic.