In article <Annette_Van-1909940032330001 at cis-ts3-slip4.cis.brown.edu>,
Annette_Van at Brown.edu (Annette M. Van) writes:
>RE-ENTRY WOMEN
>>- ARE YOU 40 YEARS OLD OR OLDER?
>- HAVE YOU RECENTLY RETURNED TO SCHOOL?
>- ARE YOU IN A LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP OF AT LEAST 3 YEARS?
>> My name is Ann-Catrin Van, M.A. and I am a doctoral student at
>California School of Professional Psychology fulfilling a dissertation
>requirement. I am interested in how couples are affected by the changes in
>their relationship which occurs when a woman re-enters school.
>> Participation would require the completion of questionnaires by both
>partners, which would take approximately 30 minutes. [snip]
I hate to say this Ann-Catrin, but you may be seriously biasing your results by
requiring the completion of the questionnaires by BOTH partners--that assumes
you have access to both partners and that they still are partners. Sadly,
easily a third to half of the couples I have known where the woman went back
to school after more than a year or two out of school/in the work force/at
home ended up divorced.
I would love to hear the results of your work when you have them--especially if
they prove the people I know to be the exception rather than the rule, as I have
found this observation to be incredibly depressing!
