The senior demographic group is growing rapidly. Family decision-making research has frequently examined relationships between husbands and wives across stages and subdecisions. To supplement previous research, this study examines how different roles’ influence over the decision-making stages when the senior tourist participates in a group package tour. A total of 293 senior tourists from Taiwa...

Do husbands and wives have the same view of the family’s financial situation? This research shows that when couples are asked separately about finances, very different views emerge of income and wealth. Quantifying the gap between husbands’ and wives’ financial statements shows half of all couples provide family income values that differ by more than 10% and net worth values that differ by more...

FOLEY, KRISTEN MADSEN. Multivariate Spatial Temporal Statistical Models for Applications in Coastal Ocean Prediction. (Under the direction of Montserrat Fuentes and Lian Xie.) Estimating the spatial and temporal variation of surface wind fields plays an important role in modeling atmospheric and oceanic processes. This is particularly true for hurricane forecasting, where numerical ocean models...

This is a sociological study of twenty urban families in Greater London and it forms part of a research project shared between the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and the Family Welfare Association. The families studied were "ordinary families" and this concept was used in clarifying the project to the subjects of the research as they were gradually accumulated. Data was sought about the...