Longitudinal analyses were performed on changes in life satisfaction among a sample of 378 community residents, aged 46-70. There were no significant changes in the mean life satisfaction scores for any age-sex cohort and no significant differences between the sexes, although there were some individual changes. (Author)

This study investigated the feelings and concerns of 64 elderly persons, as revealed by a projective instrument, in relation to number and sex of siblings. The number and proportion of female siblings were found to have a greater influence than male siblings on the elderly's feelings and concerns. (Author)

Determinants of grant-getting are explored for a national sample of over 5,000 faculty in all types of fields and senior institutions of higher education. Findings indicate a major dependence of grant-getting on productivity, a secondary impact by interfield favoritism, and minor influence by situational and personal status factors. (Author/LBH)

This article describes a study in which six academic and 25 shop courses offered in a special vocational high school were grouped into five clusters for each sex. Predictor tests were given to successive cohorts of entering ninth-grade students. (Author)

This study ascertained whether significant differences in levels of the counselor offered necessary and sufficient conditions of client-centered counseling can occur when the one-to-one relationship is ethnically different compared with the counseling relationship which counselor and client are of the same ethnic identify. Race was not an…

This study describes and compares visual encoding processes and copying performance of normal children and children with perceptual and neurological disabilities viewing the Bender-Gestalt designs. Designs of the neurologically impaired children were significantly different from those of either of the other two diagnostic groups. (Author)

The use of Adlerian group counseling, supplemented with homework in the form of contracts, is a viable approach for ameliorating long term and immediate social and personal adjustment of elementary school children. This study demonstrates children within a group possess resources which they can use to modify their behavior. (Author)

The relationship of cognitive and emotional factors to concurrent fields of interest and future vocational preferences were examined in 1,000 Israeli high school children. Divergent thinking, anxiety, occupational preference, and fields of intellectual interest were measured. A strong and significant negative correlation was found between manifest…

The study examined the hypothesis that the greater the correspondence between vocational needs and job reinforcement, the higher the level of job satisfaction. A job rewards questionnaire was administered to 60 social workers and 85 social workers responded to vocational needs and job satisfaction questionnaires. Results support the hypothesis.…

Ethnic preferences of black and white college students were measured using subjects' ratings of employment applications of either Afro-Americans, Asian-Americans, or Whites. The data revealed that whites preferred white applicants and blacks preferred black applicants across all categories. (Author)

Compared to control group data obtained under standard instructions, subjects (N=72) asked to fake replies to the Howarth Personality Questionnaire in the way they felt Machiavellian individuals would honestly respond scored significantly higher on Ascendance-Dominance, Trust vs Suspicion and Impulsiveness, and significantly lower on Superego,…

The purpose of this study was to survey and determine the internship facilities that would give consideration to applicants from non-APA-approved programs in counseling and guidance and counseling psychology. Results indicate that from the sample of 109, 33 will consider non-APA-approved counseling and guidance and counseling psychology students.…

This paper focuses upon patterns of alcohol abuse and permissiveness among a sample of 230 high school students residing in a U.S. military community in Europe. Patterns of abuse are seen as symptomatic of the military life style and the homogeneity of the environment surrounding the respondents. (Author)

The study measured the effectiveness of a drug counselling program to achieve behavioral, attitudinal and informational change of the participants. Significant changes were found in responses to knowledge inventories on medical and legal aspects of drug abuse and on behavioral dimensions of increased listening skills and ability to analyse…

This investigation focused on the effects of busing white children (N=116) away from their neighborhood schools and is not a study of the effects of desegregation. Evidence indicates no significant differences between bused and nonbused, white, fifth and sixth graders concerning achievement, attendance, self-concepts, and perceptions of school…