The population of older women consists of relatively healthy, educated, nonpoor, native-born women, not employed and not living with a spouse. Women's involvement in significant activities is limited and there are impediments to their greater participation. Social gerontologists should design new opportunities engaging older women in socially…

Using the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale to measure self-concept, and self-reports for family structure and family conflict, no significant differences in self-concept scores of children from intact, single-parent, reconstituted, or other types of families were found. Self-concept scores were significantly lower for children reporting…

Assesses how similar same-sex friends are in their level of moral development. Results indicate significant relationships only for male-female dyads. The functions of different dyadic friendships are discussed, including Piaget's and Kohlberg's ideas that peers have a role in promoting cognitive growth. (Author/BEF)

Charles G. Overberger, the vice-president for research at the University of Michigan, comments on the problems involved in the federal sponsoring of research at universities. (SJL)

A comprehensive validation study involving 50 regular primary classes was conducted of the Program for Academic Survival Skills (PASS), a consultant based, teacher mediated program for student classroom behavior. (Author)

The research and development activities of industrial arts professors, which they had initiated or concluded during the last five years, were the object of the study. Data reported and analyzed were gathered through responses to a four-page questionnaire sent to all current members of the ACIATE. (AG)

Colorado State University students responded to a 19-item questionnaire concerning their use of alcoholic beverages. Results indicated a large majority of the students used alcoholic beverages, most students felt that drinking never interfered with their academic work, and alcoholic beverages played an important role in the social aspects of…

Psychoneurotic or personality disordered patients (N=94) received four months of analytically oriented psychotherapy, behavior therapy, or waiting list treatment. Neither active treatment was more effective than the other with any type of symptom (including affective ones), although both were more consistently effective than the waiting list.…

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) can be viewed as communicating information about the self to a tester or institution. The findings support the view that the MMPI acts mainly as a medium for the transmission of self-concept information and that self-concepts mediate and organize specific item responses. (Author)

Subjects (N=240) participated in brief encounter group experiences that varied the amount of physical contact in the structured exercises. These included no-touch, moderate-touch, and high-touch conditions. Results on the scales were consistent with behavioral data in showing the positive effects of increased physical contact. (Author)

Subjects listened to a taped therapy interview while the client asserted her situation caused her problems and were told either that the client was chronic or being seen for the first time. Experimental subjects assumed the role of either the counselor or the client. Implications are drawn for the diagnostic process. (Author)

The paper reports research on the effects of patient's case history on the psychiatrist's evaluation of patient symptoms. The hypothesis that case histories indicating mental illness would lead to greater emphasis on present symptoms indicating mental illness was not confirmed. (NG)

A study of matched groups of college women shows that women in coresidential settings have higher self-esteem, less stereotyped conceptions of sex roles, and better relationships with men and women. (Author)

Several trends are noted which may lead future cohorts of older persons to belong to voluntary associations to a greater extent than current cohorts. This study presents detailed age profiles of membership in 16 types of associations. Various patterns of age differences in belonging to associations are identified and discussed. (Author)

The increasing extent of interracial marriage between three racial groups. White, Negro, and Other Races, and the variations from state to state, is examined by using sample marriage record data from the U.S. Marriage Registration Area for the years 1963-1970. (Author)