Compared intrachild variability of five-year-old children on the Primary Mental Abilities Test when subjects reached their fifth birthday after completing at least two years of preschool enrichment. Conclusions, although qualified on the basis of limited sample size, revealed wider intrachild variability with minority children. (Author)

Investigated teacher responses to consultant's efforts to foster either a collaborative or an expert consultation relationship via a quasi-experimental study. Eight teachers were exposed to a collaborative approach, and seven to an expert. Teacher satisfaction with consultation and the extent of their implementation of the recommendations were the…

The results of this survey of Arizona counselors seem to dispel the belief that practicing secondary counselors lack contact with the world of work, and suggest further research in this area. (Author)

This study sought to determine what differences, if any, exist in the way students from different geographic regions weight the importance of ten career-related values. (Author)

This article addresses the issue of the stereotypes surrounding fraternities and sororities at a small private college in Oregon. The hypothesis that students who pledge have a higher affiliation need than "independent" students is not supported. (Author)

At the University of Iowa, a 5 percent random sample of the student population was surveyed concerning their use of alcohol. Of the student respondents, 33 percent reported a concern for the consequences of their drinking, and an equal proportion know of a student friend whom they thought had a drinking problem. (Author)

A number of ability tests were administered to 187 male job applicants ranging in age from 20 to 53 years. When test performance was compared across age groups, no significant differences were found. The findings are discussed in connection with the generally negative stereotype of the aging worker. (Author)

The authors hypothesized that the individual's significant others are crucial to the development of preretirement attitudes and postretirement adjustment. The data upheld both the predicted relationships. (Author)

The Socialist Revolution has brought dramatic changes in Chinese social institutions. This paper investigates how older Chinese have fared in this massive reorganization of Chinese society. The study concludes that the aged have largely maintained their traditionally high status in both the countryside and the urban sector. (Author)

The Sheltered Care Environment Scale (SCES) measures the social environment of sheltered care settings, as perceived by residents and staff. This instrument was developed and tested in a sample of 40 facilities representing the breadth and variety of currently existing congregate housing for the elderly. (Author)

This study was designed to determine if a leadership and self-development workshop for women could change participants' attitudes toward leadership and individual issues which are identified with the concerns of women. The workshop differed from traditional leadership training in its emphasis on self-development for women. (Author)

Issues related to individual and family life are studied as they vary across stages of the family life cycle. Strong relationships are found between stages in family life cycle and a number of such issues. Further analysis indicates that the major dimensions of the cycle are children and length of marriage. (Author)

Extended kinship among Chicanos is explored through intensive open-ended interviews with four cases of three generations of Mexican-descent families. "La familia chicana" is posited as a modified extended or kin-integrated family extending over time and space from Mexico at the turn of the century to present day industrial America. (Author)

Investigates several sets of personality and attitudinal variables to assess their relationship to one clear-cut example of sex-role behavior, namely, labor-force participation on the part of married women, and corrects some methodological limitations of earlier studies. (Author)

Investigated impact of interactions with kin on social integration in old age. A nonrandom sample of aged Baganda in Uganda was interviewed concerning perceptions of loneliness and social isolation. Results show that the majority of subjects did not view old age as a period of loneliness or isolation. (Author)