Utilizing 1966 and 1968 data, this study investigated the dynamics of occupational aspiration employing the following variables: socioeconomic status of family of origin; race (White and non-White); residence; occupational knowledge; level of occupational aspiration in sophomore year; level of perceived goal-blockage as sophomore; and level of…

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A force analysis of the variables that affect the future of higher education suggests that higher education will probably increase its undergraduate emphasis on student development. Some actions that student personnel administrators can take to increase that emphasis are suggested. (Author)

The author asserts that school counselors should involve the teaching staff in counseling functions. He describes how he worked with the English department and other staff members at his school to implement career education. (EJT)

The author describes programs at her school designed to extend the outreach of counseling services. Programs for human relations, assertive training, relaxation training and communications skills are described briefly. (EJT)

Results of testing job perceptions and vocational interests point out similarities and differences between British Careers Officers and American rehabilitation counselors. Included are comparisons on: 1) job perception; 2) primary tasks; 3) ideal job tasks; 4) job satisfaction; 5) role conflict; 6) psychometric data; and 7) vocational interests.…

This study compared the perceptions of commuting and residential students about pressures, sources of help, and psychological services on a college campus. The two populations differed in their responses to questions about all three areas of investigation. (Author)

This paper examines role attitude-behavior congruence for seven family roles. Findings based on data from 1154 married men and women indicate where role attitude-behavior incongruence exists, both married men and women express egalitarian role attitudes, but this egalitarianism is not generally reflected in role behaviors. (Author)

Hypotheses about sex differences and inter-social role and intra-work role conflict were tested in a university setting. Results indicate that inter-role conflict is primarily a function of the number of social roles held. There was no number of social roles by sex interaction. (Author)

Sex role theory and role development are reviewed in this discussion of what home economists can do to help adults adopt a more flexible view of role-related behaviors. (TA)

Results indicate a significant relationship between several motor performance variables and perceptual cognitive style in athletes. (JD)

The purpose of this study was to determine if reaction time in the peripheral visual field and size of the functional visual field were altered by augmented levels of physical stress while performing on a bicycle ergometer. (JD)

Black, Chicano, and Anglo students from segregated and integrated schools perceived their ethnic groups as being less differentiated than outgroups. Students in integrated schools perceived outgroups as somewhat less differentiated than students in segregated schools. Intergroup contact, except between highly dissimilar groups, was not an…