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Author: Pearce, Lisa D.
Resulting in 4 citations.
1. Davis, Shannon N.
Pearce, Lisa D.
Adolescents' Work-Family Gender Ideologies and Educational Expectations
Sociological Perspectives 50,2 (Summer 2007): 249-271.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/sop.2007.50.2.249
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: University of California Press
Keyword(s): Attitudes; Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Family Structure; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Gender Differences; Religion; Religious Influences; Self-Esteem

Much empirical research has been devoted to examining how early life socialization and experiences shape adolescent aspirations. This article adds to this body of research by examining adolescent educational expectations at a crucial developmental stage with a focus on ideational processes. The authors test hypotheses derived from the Eccles et al. model of achievement-related choices regarding links between the previously neglected concept of work-family gender ideology and expected educational attainment. Using recent survey data from children of a nationally representative sample of women in the United States, the authors demonstrate a positive relationship between gender egalitarianism views of gendered work and family roles makes one more likely to desire a college education and a graduate or professional degree, although the relationship is stronger for girls than for boys. The authors' findings suggest the pivotal role of work-family gender ideologies in shaping adolescents' educational expectations and more generally highlight the importance of ideology and worldview in the construction of status attainment goals.
Bibliography Citation
Davis, Shannon N. and Lisa D. Pearce. "Adolescents' Work-Family Gender Ideologies and Educational Expectations." Sociological Perspectives 50,2 (Summer 2007): 249-271.
2. Pearce, Lisa D.
Religion's Role in the Shaping of Self-Image, Aspirations, and Achievement in Youth (2005—2010)
Presented: Washington, DC, William T. Grant Foundation Mixed Method Workshop, October 2009
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: William T. Grant Foundation Mixed Method Workshop
Keyword(s): Achievement; Attitudes; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Educational Aspirations/Expectations; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth); Religion; Religious Influences; Self-Esteem; Self-Perception

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This research explores relationships between religion and self-image, educational/career aspirations, and educational achievement in youth. Religion is conceptualized as multi-dimensional, and the focus is on how religious ideologies, practices, and salience are related to how youth perceive themselves and prepare for their futures. Survey analyses of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children and Young Adults (NLSY79C), the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), and the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) will be combined with semi-structured interview analysis and in-depth case studies from the NSYR to shed light on these questions from multiple angles. Findings will suggest the extent to which the same factors selecting youth into religious involvement predict more positive outcomes, highlight which dimensions of religion seem to carry the most weight, and describe how these processes may vary based on race/ethnicity or gender.
Bibliography Citation
Pearce, Lisa D. "Religion's Role in the Shaping of Self-Image, Aspirations, and Achievement in Youth (2005—2010)." Presented: Washington, DC, William T. Grant Foundation Mixed Method Workshop, October 2009.
3. Pearce, Lisa D.
Davis, Shannon N.
How Early Life Religious Exposure Relates to the Timing of First Birth
Journal of Marriage and Family 78,5 (October 2016): 1422-1438.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12364/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Age at First Marriage; Cohabitation; Family Size; First Birth; Religious Influences

This article examines intermediary processes explaining how religious socialization and involvement early in life are related to the timing of first births for women in the United States. The theory of conjunctural action forms the basis for hypotheses for how religious schemas and materials operate to influence birth timing. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data and event history methods, the study finds evidence for expected family size, work-family gender ideology, educational attainment and enrollment, cohabitation, and age at marriage as mediators of associations between early life religious exposure (affiliation and attendance) and the timing of nonmaritally and maritally conceived first births. These findings corroborate other research identifying the long reach of religious socialization and involvement in youth, elucidate some of the pathways for these connections, and motivate further work to understand linkages between religion and family behaviors in the United States.
Bibliography Citation
Pearce, Lisa D. and Shannon N. Davis. "How Early Life Religious Exposure Relates to the Timing of First Birth." Journal of Marriage and Family 78,5 (October 2016): 1422-1438.
4. Pearce, Lisa D.
Davis, Shannon N.
Religion, Work-Family Gender Ideology, and Fertility
Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meetings, March-April 2006
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Family Formation; Fertility; Gender Differences; Religion; Religious Influences

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Given evidence suggesting (1) that religiosity and work-family gender ideology are related to childbearing; and (2) variance in religious institutions' promotion of gendered patterns of family organization, this paper explores whether work-family gender ideology is a mechanism through which religious affiliation and/or practice influences childbearing. Using NLSY79 data, we evaluate how childhood religious affiliation, adult religious service attendance, and attitudes towards gendered family roles relate to the hazard of first premarital and marital births. We find that work-family gender ideologies somewhat mediate the elevated risk of a premarital birth for those raised Evangelical Protestant but not the negative relationship between religious service attendance and the risk of a premarital birth. Work-family gender ideology is negatively related to timing of first marital birth and does not mediate observed religion-fertility relationships. Our findings further elucidate relationships between religion and family formation and how attitudes toward gendered family organization might factor in the process.
Bibliography Citation
Pearce, Lisa D. and Shannon N. Davis. "Religion, Work-Family Gender Ideology, and Fertility." Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meetings, March-April 2006.