Work values, measured by Super's Work Value Inventory, indicate that females rate extrinsic values relating to personal work environment as more important, while males prefer intrinsic values such as stimulation, independence, and creativity. Differences appear to reflect differences in intensity of response rather than marked differences in value…

It is clear that educational aspiration and parental influence have a significant bearing on the success of opportunity-program students. The phenomena and mechanisms of the variables examined here point to a clearer understanding of ways in which they seem to manifest themselves in the college experience of the student. (Author)

This article compares undergraduates of the seventies with those of the sixties as to their beliefs about institutions, themselves, and others. (Author)

Couples who were married 50 or more years were interviewed about what they felt were the most important factors in happy marriage. Their marital satisfactions were assessed over the stages of the family life cycle. Indices of their marital adjustment and personality were examined using a self-perceived, other comparison technique. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine if rural widows (N=103) could be classified into three levels of loneliness on the basis of one or more of 16 physical, social, and psychological variables. A multiple discriminant analysis derived two factors that differentiated among levels of loneliness. (Author)

A group of 32 two-profession couples in three different age groups with children were interviewed together to determine if there was a relationship between their employment pattern and their distribution of family involvement at home. (Author)

The effects of wives' employment status on wives' and husbands' evaluations of their own marital adjustments are examined in two recent national surveys. (Author)

Data were collected by personal interview on shopping roles, information processing, food stamp and coupon use, store brand purchases, mispricing and product unavailability experiences, and with familiarity with fair trade practices. Implications and directions for further research are suggested. (Author)

Age, education, income, and satisfaction with decisions made were the significant variables in perceiving life events as positive or negative, while action taking was strongly associated with well-being in old age. (Author)

A survey of the elderly Pueblo Indians in the state of New Mexico revealed demographic differences between the sample and the general population of elderly, particularly in living arrangements and life-style. The results suggest a need for follow-up research on values and adjustment to aging in Indians. (Author)

While very few of the respondents were without very close ties of any kind, those with extensive primary-group resources were more likely to be women rather than men, younger rather than older, married rather than single, and in high- rather than low-status occupations. (Author)

Data revealed that the Canadian Vocational Readiness Package for Girls appears to be an excellent program for meeting the special vocational counseling needs of today's female adolescent. (Author)

Examines three theoretical perspectives relative to prediction of life satisfaction following retirement. Hypotheses derived from crisis, continuity, and consistency theories were examined with regard to pre- and post-retirement satisfaction scores of 114 male respondents. In general, expectational disconfirmations relative to retirement did not…

Experiments tested biased-scanning hypothesis that high financial inducement leads to greater cognitive contact with counterattitudinal arguments and thus to greater attitude change. No differences in biased scanning or attitude change were observed as a function of financial inducement. Results were interpreted in framework of reactance and…

To investigate effects of pain cues on behavior, responses of high and low aggressive boys were followed either by pain cues or by nonpain cues. Overall, pain cues facilitated the rate of responding more than nonpain cues. More responses were made by high aggressive boys than by low aggressive boys. (Author)