Doctoral thesis of Philosophy: Factors that influence middle class women’s financial capability: An Australian study

The thesis investigates the nature of this developmental process by employing a constructivistinterpretive research methodology and using qualitative research methods. The empirical data was drawn from group discussions and face-to-face interviews with two distinct cohorts of women. The first cohort comprised twenty-two participants, of which five were adolescent women aged fourteen to sixteen years. The thesis focused only on examining those women who were financially successful and not others. This thesis was anchored to factors that influenced financial capability and the role of socialisation, including socialisation theory, in this process.