The present study examined the effects of varying meaningfulness of response terms (low, medium, and high) in paired-associate learning of five-or seven-item lists over five trials with both experimenter-paced and self-paced conditions. The subjects were two groups of elderly adults, 61-75 and 76-92. (Author)

This article examines leadership from the perspective of administrators of homes for the aging. The article points out that most educational institutions have become enamored of linear thinking, quantification, and scientism. On the other hand, intuition, feelings and sesitivity -- the essence of human relations training -- have tended to become…

Offers a typology for viewing love as the development of interpersonal relationships in five stages. As a typology, the author believes it has implications for both counseling and teaching purposes. In teaching, both clarity and precision can be gained, whereas in counseling, greater understanding and awareness may be generated. (Author)

Examines the independent and joint effects of variations in eye contact and social status on the way in which job applicants tend to be perceived in employment interviewing situations. The key dependent variable is the interviewer's perception of how well the applicant is suited for a job requiring self-confidence. (Author)

The religious instituations seem to be experiencing an exodus of young people from active participation, but those who leave are not rejecting life, they are simply looking for answers from different sources. Guidance counselors have opportunities to assist the young people who come to them in several ways. (Author)

In this detailed clinical study of 20 military offenders participating in the Air Force retraining program, three types of offenders were identified: (1) neurotic; (2) immature yet socially conforming; and (3) antisocial. Findings suggest a continuity between personality patterns exhibited by juvenile delinquents and the patterns in adult…

The Reiss Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Scale was administered to 51 male and 54 female undergraduates. Factor analysis revealed three major factors: intercourse with affection, kissing with affection, and nonaffectional sexual activity. It is suggested that permissiveness be defined as lack of affection. (Author)

Relationships of job satisfaction and job productivity to work values of beginning workers who graduated from public vocational education programs were investigated. Workers with intrinsic work value orientation seem to be more satisfied with their job and are more productive than are those with extrinsic work value orientation. (Author)

Recent public concern for consumer access to records motivated this study of NASW members to determine existing agency policies on this issue. The majority of respondents indicated that their agencies had a policy, written or unwritten, and that most policies allowed access. (Author)

From a sample of 40 children's books on death, the concept of death was classified and elucidated, utilizing relevant literature in philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Death was viewed most often as temporary; it was also treated as an inevitable event. (Author)

Undergraduates (34 males and 34 females) completed four scales of attitudes toward death including the Death Concern Scale, Templer Death Anxiety Scale, Tolor and Reznikoff Death Anxiety Scale, and Fear of Death and Dying Scale. Four scales showed moderate commonality reflecting 35 percent variance for males and females. (Author)

Examined differences in self-concept between alcoholic and non-alcoholic adults on physical self, moral-ethical self, personal self, family self, social self, and self-criticism as measured by the Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS). There were significant differences between means obtained by alcoholics and non-alcoholics on all sub-tests of the…

Based on a study of 120 United States households, two methodological issues underlying research concerning family role and authority are examined: incongruency in husband-wife responses and coherence of authority patterns across a range of family decisions and tasks. Question ambiguity is a major source of incongruity in husband-wife response.…

WISC-R and SES data were collected on 122 learning disabled children. Questions were: Is there a relationship between SES and IQ test scores? Is pattern of subtest scores independent of SES? Is Verbal-Performance IQ test score discrepancy independent of SES? Results supported affirmative answers to all three questions. (Author)

Relation of male adult age and performance on memory for designs was determined by analyzing three cross-sectional samples, two longitudinal samples, and within-cohort comparisons of men born in same period, tested at different times. Results indicate age declines in memory-for-designs performance but only small vocabulary change. (Author)