This study investigates the relation of varying amounts of career information on levels of career choices of seventh-grade students. (Author)

The predictive significance of select variables on survival was ascertained among community-living aged of working class background. Sex and performance of daily routines were found to be better initial discriminators, while age and a perceptual style variable termed field dependence/independence were found to have better long-range predictive…

An exploratory group-treatment program using stress-management and interpersonal-skills training was developed to reduce job-interview stress and provide relevant skills to welfare-rehabilitation clients. Results yielded a significant relative superiority in interview assertiveness for treatment clients; however, no differential decrease in…

Numerous researchers have found that drug education programs produce little or no apparent change in students' attitudes. The present paper points out possible reasons for such findings. Suggestions are made for some methodological alternatives, and a study in which such methods were effectively used is discussed. (Author)

Studied 759 married pairs at different points in their life cycles. When they were compared in terms of such factors as preferred division of labor between spouses, actual family role enactment, marital decision-making, and attitudes about "alternative family forms," similarities across different age groups were far more important than…

The article not only establishes the salient dimensions of self-concept in adults, but also considers whether these dimensions change over time. Data were gathered from a 70-item adjective checklist, administered twice, with a five-year interval. Data revealed that dimensional change was too often ignored. (LPG)

This study evaluates the impact of personal-social counseling upon student behavior change. The primary concern was a measure of the effect of a counselor-initiated humanistic-intervention paradigm upon identified personal-social problem areas of nonreferred Black junior high school students. (Author)

Activity group guidance is a method that may help counselors bring new vitality into their schools by integrating the affective and the cognitive and by helping students learn by doing. (Author)

This study was designed to investigate attitudes concerning marital perceptions and life satisfaction of middle-aged husbands and wives, who were in one of two periods of life. Results indicated that counseled and noncounseled samples of middle-aged couples were significantly different from one another in certain respects. (Author)

A "person-thing" career motivation continuum was tested as a model for structuring this investigation of the personal characteristics and career influences of women in mathematics who entered teaching or nonteaching careers. Women mathematicians who choose to teach were hypothesized to be more person-oriented in career development.…

The spontaneous speech of 12 Black children (18-36 months) was evaluated to identify the existence of distinctive Black English features. (Author/CL)

A profoundly retarded 28-year-old female was trained to avoid an aversive but harmless shock to the foot by withdrawing the foot upon presentation of a visual cue. (Author/SBH)

The "Getaway Special" is NASA's semiofficial program for low-budget researchers, who can arrange bookings for their own space experiments on regular flights of the space shuttle. Information about arranging for NASA to take individual experiment packages is presented. (LBH)

Describes changes to be made in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) system of peer review approving grants for research proposals. (SL)

The author sees as requiring attention: (1) the design of the health education delivery system; (2) the building of sound research programs and research utilization processes; and (3) the establishment of a shared philosophical and ethical basis for health education policies. (MJB)