Item Detail
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29798
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2
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0
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English
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Familial, Socioeconomic, and Religious Behavior : A Comparison of LDS and Non-LDS Women
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 1994
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25
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2
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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169-183
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To understand how Mormon women are resolving these competing forces, this essay examines relationships among familial, socioeconomic, and religious roles. If employment rates and family patterns of LDS women are similar to national averages then we would conclude that they have accommodated. On the other hand, higher rates of marriage and larger family sizes along with lower employment rates would indicate that LDS women are guided by a different set of values. In addition, the emphasis placed on familial roles in the LDS culture may create greater perceived incompatibility between familial and socioeconomic roles. This would lead to a stronger negative correlation between family variables such as marriage and children and socioeconomic variables such as education and employment among Mormons. Finally, to the degree that Mormonism effectively promotes a famialistic role model for women, we would expect positive correlations between attachment to Mormonism (as measured by frequency of church attendance and family variables) and negative correlations between frequency of church attendance and socioeconomic variables. [From the text]