Heidi Lyons
Oakland University
16 Papers
55 Citations
Heidi Lyons is an academic researcher from Oakland University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Casual & Life course approach. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 16 publications. Previous affiliations of Heidi Lyons include Bowling Green State University & University of Rochester.
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Young Adult Casual Sexual Behavior Life-Course-Specific Motivations and Consequences
TL;DR: It is found that sexual pleasure and substance use remain the most common reasons for participating in casual sex, however, young adults report motives that are associated with the young adult stage in the life course including too busy for commitment, geographic mobility, and feeling too young to be tied down.
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Predictors of Heterosexual Casual Sex Among Young Adults
TL;DR: It is found that young adults enrolled or who graduated from 4-year educational institutions reported fewer casual sex partners on all three measures compared to participants without a high school degree and those with some college experience.
Marriageable Women: A Focus on Participants in a Community Healthy Marriage Program.
TL;DR: The concept of marriageable women is introduced-the notion that certain limitations may make women poor marriage partners, such as economic constraints, mental and physical health issues, substance use, multiple partner fertility, and gender distrust.
Rural children are more likely to live in cohabiting-couple households
William P. O’Hare,Wendy D. Manning,Meredith Porter,Heidi Lyons +3 more
- 01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that rural children are more likely to be in cohabiting households than urban children than Urban children (7 percent compared with 4 percent, respectively), while urban children are slightly more likely than rural children to live in single mother families (18 percent in urban areas compared with 16 percent in rural areas).
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A Collective Effort to Improve Sociology Students’ Writing Skills:
TL;DR: The authors describe a collective effort to improve students' writing skills by using sociologists at all types of higher education institutions to improve student's writing skills, and present a set of guidelines for improving students' skills.
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