Age and the gender gap in the sense of personal control

By C. Ross, J. Mirowsky. 2002

211 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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In Demography

1. A. Barrett
2. J. Mirowsky
3. C. Ross
4. Deborah A. Small

In General Health Professions

1. J. Mirowsky
2. C. Ross
3. A. Barrett
4. Baruch Fischhoff
5. Deborah A. Small
6. M. Eamon
7. Joongbaeck Kim

In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. Mirowsky
2. Deborah A. Small
3. C. Ross
4. Baruch Fischhoff
5. A. Barrett
6. J. Lerner
7. Joongbaeck Kim
8. Eran Halperin

Citations in the corpus

• Judged Terror Risk and Proximity to the World Trade Center (2003, background): “Such individuals might also be attuned to distance-related factors enhancing perceived control (Ross and Mirowsky, 2002).”
• Gendered experiences in midlife: Implications for age identity (2005, background): “Lower status group members, including women and the elderly, have lower perceived control (Mirowsky, 1995; Ross & Mirowsky, 2002); moreover, the gender difference appears to expand over the adult life course (Ross & Mirowsky, 2002).”
• Life Course Trajectories of Perceived Control and Their Relationship to Education1 (2007, background): “When viewed in the aggregate across groups it yields an imprint of structured inequality (Almond and Verba 1963; Andrisani 1978; Geis and Ross 1998; Kohn and Slomczynski 1990; Mirowsky and Ross 1983, 1990, 2003a, 2003b; Mirowsky, Ross, and Van Willigen 1996; Ross and Mirowsky 1992, 2002).”