Marital adjustment over the family life cycle is reexamined using data from probability samples of married couples studied in coordinated research projects in three different states--Iowa, Ohio, and Georgia. A total of 1,584 respondents completed the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Scale and responded to questions about stage of the family life…

A multivariate "school process" model is evaluated to explore some of the ways in which social background and schooling influences combine to affect subjective school outcomes. Four rates of subjective orientation are considered: educational plans, self-conceptions of competence, intellectualism, and satisfaction with school. The analysis, based…

A project designed to increase positive teacher actions utilized five fifth-grade teachers as subjects. Each of the five teachers was observed teaching on five different days; each observation was conducted approximately one week apart for a period of 30 minutes. The first two observations provided baseline data since the teachers were not aware…

The use of reciprocal behavior contracts with families of behavior-problem adolescents was investigated. Most family contracting to date has involved one-way contracts; that is, the child agrees to certain responsibilities for which he will be reinforced by the parents. A reciprocal contract requires the parents, in addition to the child, to agree…

This is the report of a longitudinal study that followed a sample of women from their senior year in college in 1967 to their widely dispersed lives in 1970. The study focuses on their occupational and educational aspirations and experiences, and the determinants of these. Of the initial sample of 200 women, 152 were relocated and equally…

An anonymous questionnaire was administered to a representative sample of incoming freshmen at the University of Maryland, College Park (N=491; 53 percent male, 47 percent female). Data were compared with previous surveys at Maryland (Horowitz and Sedlacek, 1973; Fago and Sedlacek, 1974 a,b) and analyzed by percentages, chi-square, F and Friedman…

Three outcome studies were conducted in order to evaluate various treatment procedures for subjects experiencing dating anxiety. The treatment procedures of specific focus was a skills training package using modeling, behavioral rehearsal, feedback, and in vivo practice as major components. The data from two studies indicates the skills training…

A model for the prediction of marital adjustment is proposed which presents selected social background factors (e.g., education) and interactive factors (e.g., Bienvenu's Communication scale, Hurvitz' Role Inventory, Dean's Emotional Maturity and Commitment scales, Rosenberg's Self-Esteem scale) in order to account for as much of the variance in…

This study focuses on the process which goes on between husbands and wives in helping one another deal with problems and tensions. The husband-wife helping process is envisioned as a moderator of the relationship between the experiencing of pressures and strains in life and work situations and reports of personal satisfaction and well-being.…

This report provides a technical-level analysis, discussion, and summary of five experiments in applied behavior analysis. Experiment 1 examined the token economy as a basis for motivating inmate behavior; Experiment 2 examined the relationship between magnitude of token reinforcement and level of inmate performance; Experiment 3 introduced a…

The results of this study were a series of propositions dealing with the cost-effectiveness of instructional technology. The propositions were developed by collecting and sythesizing existing studies on the subject through use of a propositional inventory research design. Approximately three hundred studies were reviewed and evaluated in terms of…

A shortened version of the final report of a Federally-funded developmental curriculum research project, the publication presents the findings of a workshop (University of Northern Iowa, 1973) for the purpose of identification of job tasks for entry-level office occupations from research-based materials. Studies by Lamb (Mary Lou), Lanham (Frank…

This volume is the third in a series based on a national sample of women who were 30-44 years of age when they first interviewed in mid-1967. The data for this third report were derived from personal interviews conducted in the summer of 1971. The report focuses on two problems which women in the labor force are likely to encounter, the first…

Creativity has been conceptualized as either cognitive or affective, and an analysis of research has indicated that these two approaches are incompatible. In this study, a rapprochement was attempted between two theoretical approaches using procedures recommended by Cronbach and Meehl (1955). First, a construct of creativity was formulated, then…

Thirteen groups of 11-19 year old boys, stratified by age, race, socio-economic class, and attendance of racially segregated or integrated schools served as subjects (N=185). Measures of the relative importance of the past, present, and future were derived from a story completion and story productions. Attitudes toward the three time divisions…