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English
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Achievement and Religiosity as Perceived by Fifty-five Mormon Women with Doctoral Degrees
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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Ed.D.
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The purpose of this study was to allow doctoral-degree holding Mormon women to define and discuss achievement and religiosity in their own terms. Questionnaires were mailed to 137 subjects whose names were drawn from the speakers' lists of the Women's Conference at Brigham Young University and/or the Sunstone Symposium of the Sunstone Foundation. The 55 acceptable responses were categorized, analyzed, and used to develop questions for follow-up interviews, which were held with ten women. The findings were that, for these highly-educated women, "achievement" is the accomplishment of personal and professional goals; that accomplishing goals brings a sense of achievement--as does successful mothering and mentoring; that "being religious" means having integrity between belief and action; and that expressions of religious commitment are quite diverse.