Presents a report on the process and procedures of determining generic occupational skills and clusters of occupations for optimal occupational training needs. Data collected from workers and their supervisors representing 37 different occupations. Respondents indicated whether specific skills were prerequisite for a job and whether those skills…

Male and female blacks and whites responded to two sex role inventories. Black women have more traditional sex role attitudes in the home environment than white women but the same sex role attitudes about working. Black and white women are more liberal in their sex role attitudes than men. (Author)

This study compares the relative predictive powers of job attachment and job satisfaction with respect to turnover among a sample of public employees and examines individual and job-related influences on both attitudes. Attachment was a more effective predictor of turnover than satisfaction. Implications are drawn for research in vocational…

Male subjects (N=96), defensive externals, congruent externals, and internals, participated in a level of aspiration task under either "game" or "test" instructions. As predicted, congruent externals showed significantly more realistic striving behavior in the test condition. (Author)

Undergraduates (130 males, 112 females) completed the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and the S-R Inventory of General Trait Anxiousness (S-R GTA). The intercorrelations among the five scales from the SSS and the four scales from the S-R GTA were computed and compared. Findings were consistent with rational and theoretical notions. (Author)

Kunce, Ryan, and Eckelman have reported some promising evidence on an index for predicting violent behavior derived from differential Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) characteristics. The present study is an attempt to replicate their findings. Results of this study were unsuccessful. (Author)

Death anxiety did not appear to be related to any of a number of demographic and personal variables which might have been expected to be correlates. It was, however, found to be associated with reports of personal reactions and preferences in a situation directly related to death--funerals. (Author)

The activity theory of aging, originally constructed on the basis of American research and tested predominantly in the USA, asserts an individual's life satisfaction is directly related to his degree of social interaction or level of activity. This theory was found to be relevant in the English context. (Author)

Describes the National Science Foundation's (NSF) program designed to replace the Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) program. (SL)

Describes a research course for undergraduate students based on an adversary model system, which involves conflict between the research student and (1) the judgment of other experts in the field and (2) temporal constraints. (JR)

In this exploratory study, 94 elderly persons, in seven senior service centers and one nursing home, were interviewed to identify and ascertain the meaning of cherished possessions in later years. Lack of cherished possessions was associated with low life satisfaction scores, a suggested indicator of poor adjustment to old age. (Author)

To determine whether the failure of previous studies to find a difference between the performance of children and adults in picture recognition tasks might be due to the number, selective content, and organization of the pictures used, 153 children at five ages (5.9 to 21.9 years old) viewed 150 slides. (Author/CL)

A study involving 14 stutterers (mean age 20.7 years) was conducted to determine the effect of sentence length on the frequency of stuttering. (Author/SBH)

A study involving 40 nursery school and kindergarten children was conducted to obtain information on how preschool children understand the following three aspects of spoken sentences: word patterns; word regularities, and word relationships. Available from: Journal of Practical Approaches to Developmental Handicap, 3304-33rd Street N.W., Calgary,…