TCRM Paper Session 4 - (Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

100-01: Conceptualization of Socially-Constructed Birth Expectations
Tara Wyatt

Summary
This working paper will propose the development of a theoretical framework that can be used to examine the phenomena of Socially-Constructed Birth Expectations, which refers to the cultural, historical, and social perceptions of birth, real or imagined, for the purpose of constructing birth expectations. The integration of life course as a guiding theory and conceptual assumptions drawn from the work of Vygotsky's social constructionism seek to explain the negative psychosocial implications of a crisis during birth on the mother.

100-02: Personal Level Predictors of Status and Role Identity Characteristics: The Example of Fathering
Gonul Hilal Kuscal, Kari Adamsons

Summary
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Discussants: Ray Petren, Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, David Bell

Moderator: Daniel Puhlman