A study investigated the effects of mass media, interpersonal communication, and sociolinguistic background on adults' political, cultural, and economic attitudes and agendas. Data for the study came from two earlier research efforts: one conducted in Minnesota, involved 414 adults who were interviewed concerning their media use, interpersonal…

A study of how participation in English elective programs affected student achievement was conducted in four Florida high schools, two with traditional and two with elective English programs. Subjects were 495 high school seniors who had attended their schools for at least three years. Subject variables included academic aptitude, sex, grade point…

Experimental measures to identify individuals at high risk of drug use can be developed from study data. Negative side effects of identification efforts can be lessened or eliminated by the use of unobstrusive measures in the monitoring process. Regarding heroin use, different measures are suggested to monitor the following variables: academic…

The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the advantages of path analysis for the exposition of results in data analytic papers. Probably the greatest advantage is that it provides a means by which the nature of the problem may be handily summarized. The method of path analysis, although conceived over sixty years ago by Sewell Wright, has only…

A study was designed to investigate the possibility that college students who participate in career decision-making (CDM) programs differ from the general college population in ways unrelated to their CDM status. This exploratory hypothesis was tested by determining, first, whether a regression equation could be constructed using readily available…

This paper synthesizes much of the literature concerning physician/patient communication as it relates to patient compliance. Using the theoretical perspective that deals with belief, attitude, intention, and behavior (a perspective generated by Martin Fishbein and Icek Ajzen), a new theoretical orientation for predicting patient compliance is…

A general procedure is presented for generating code values for a qualitative variable in multiple linear regression analyses that result in directly interpretable estimates of interest. The basic approach, in viewing ANOVA as a multiple regression problem, is to derive quantitative code values for the various levels of the qualitative ANOVA…

Data on faculty incomes, both base and supplemental, are summarized. Sources of supplemental income are described, and income variables are related to characteristics of individual faculty members, their institutions, and their disciplines. The analysis was based upon the l975 survey of the American Professoriate (Ladd and Lipset, 1975) which…

Selection of workers for counseling programs is a process which occurs everywhere, but little research has been done on this issue. Traditional methods of selection--self-selection, interviews and/or recommendations and psychological testing--have fallen short on issues of reliability and validity. A behavioral measure which placed…

An analytical field study of 20 students whose first grade low readiness scores contrasted sharply with their ninth grade academic achievement sought to ascertain what variables were associated with such differences. Interview and standardized test data were used to determine the relationships between student development and five nonschool…

Based on the assumption that the variables used in diffusion of information studies in developing nations are subject to Western bias, theoretically complex, difficult to compare across cultures, and difficult to operationalize, a study was undertaken to test the predictive ability of simpler demographic variables. The data were drawn from a…

This research addressed the relationship of alternative social class measures (based on occupation) for elementary attendance areas in Kansas City, Missouri, with the median achievement of sixth graders on standardized tests. Correlation, regression, and multivariate analyses were used to study the relationships between school achievement and…

Research on nuclear families has reported support for an hypothesized inverse relationship between power and role-taking accuracy. Family members who are in subordinate (dependent) power positions are better able to predict attitudes and behavior of other family members than are those in relatively more powerful and independent positions. This…

An important issue with regard to film audience is the salience individuals attribute to a variety of film-specific variables which, in turn, determine their particular movie-going experience. This study details the results of an investigation of the importance of 28 potentially influential variables in movie attendance decisions. Respondents to…

Data from 80 junior high school students who completed the Assessment of Language and Reading Maturity (ALARM) test battery were used to delineate elements within the concept of mature reading comprehension. Stepwise multiple regression analyses were performed on the 15 ALARM test factors to isolate both the principal elements and the "trace…