Reduced intellectual performance in the elderly was conceptualized as an experiential dificit that can be reversed by training relevant component skills. Female elderly subjects (N=60) participated in three phases of the experiment: Training, Immediate Posttest, and Delayed Posttest. Training was geared at strengthening covert self-monitoring…

Hypotheses concerning clergymen's enjoyment of their pastoral contacts with older parishioners are examined. The hypotheses test the ideas that ministers do not enjoy pastoral contacts with the elderly and that these contacts reflect the clergymen's ageist preferences and concern with instrumental over expressive values. Results are discussed.…

Electroencephalograms of 20 alcoholics and 20 nonalcoholics were obtained. Data indicated that alcoholics produced less alpha than nonalcoholics. In one training condition subjects were given accurate biofeedback, whereas in the other condition subjects were given random (noncontingent) feedback. Accurate biofeedback did not result in greater…

So as to compare the results of the WISC and WISC-R, instruments were administered to 58 children. All IQs were significantly higher on the WISC, with the Performance difference being greater than the verbal difference. Regression equations were obtained to predict WISC-R IQs from WISC scores. (Author)

This article reports on a national survey regarding the number of elementary school counselors. Results indicate that the number of elementary school counselors has been increasing nationally (although some states show a decrease in numbers) and that certification requirements continue to be an important requirement for employment of counselors.…

A mobile home park serving senior citizens in a large urban area was studied in anthropological perspective. The community study method permits an analysis of this park as an intermediate type of senior citizen residence. The park avoids the worst features of senior citizen life but engenders other problems. (Author)

This article presents research on what social workers actually do. Results indicate that about 51 percent of the reported behavior is direct service or clinical in nature and that about 64 percent of the reported behavior requires professional training to perform. (HMV)

Variables important in predicting female contraception usage were found to be those which involved dyadic commitment, conditions of love, self-esteem, and father's occupation (social class). The best predictors of male contraception usage involved experience in dating and internalization of role models via mother's and father's permissiveness.…

Examines the vocational aptitude patterns of males and females and Blacks and Whites. Work samples from the Micro-TOWER System of Vocational Evaluation were used to assess verbal, numerical, clerical perception, motor, and spatial aptitudes. Many differences were revealed of which counselors should be aware. (Author)

This investigation examines the relationship of managers' descriptions of organizational climate to their participation in informal helping interactions at work. Three distinct aspects of organizational climate, derived from Likert and Argyris, were related to several areas of helper and helpee behavior and disclosure of problems and help-seeking…

Demonstrated that reference groups which were not membership groups were significantly associated with self-image. Focusing on architectural students, it showed that although reference to artists was not dominant for most of the subjects, a significant difference exists between self-images of students who referred to artists and those who did not.…

Examines the relationship between the preretirement life-style of adult men, and both the degree of planning for the retirement years and the decision to retire early. Socioeconomic status, health, involvement in expressive-type organizations, job satisfaction, and degree of leisure orientation were associated with preretirement attitudes. (Author)

Documents age differences in the relative importance of intristic work satisfactions as determinants of the individual's sense of global well-being. It appears that, toward the end of the period of labor force participation, the satisfaction men derive from work is transferred from the actual experience of work to its consequences. (Author)

The study investigated the effects of sentence structure on the number of error sentences and response latency in a sentence-repetition task with 40 female college students. Ss repeated short- and long-test sentences containing either a single self-embedded or right-branching subject-focus on object-focus relative clause. (Author)

This study investigates changes in child behavior following a clearly defined program of Adlerian Family Counseling, using a control group of families who did not participate in counseling. (Author)