Examines the differences in interpersonal relationship orientation between students identified as stars and as isolates. (Author)

Examines the effectiveness of a values-clarification process with high school students. (Author)

This article discusses several important validation issues involved in teacher certification and presents a six-stage model for determining the job-relatedness of any screening test used for selecting or certifying teachers. This model is illustrated with examples from the research related to the National Teacher Examinations. (Author)

The Inpatient Scale of Minimal Functioning (ISMF)--based on revised scoring of the Social Breakdown Syndrome Gradient Index (SBSGI) item pool--is described as a means of overcoming inherent problems in the SBSGI scoring procedure. The ISMF possesses greater reliability, with an increment in concurrent validity as compared to SBSGI. (Author)

This paper reports the findings of a study of 3193 British industrial workers which suggest that, when individually measured and analyzed, task attributes relate in different ways and in varying degrees to worker dissatisfaction. Validity may depend upon how job specialization is measured. (Author)

This research project ascertained personality profiles of rehabilitation clients. Three personality inventories were used. Results indicated state agency rehabilitation clients are characterized by differential patterns of personality characteristics. The taxonomic procedure used was profile analysis, and data was based on self-report. (NG)

This study assesses the incidence and social correlates of the female form of the Chameleon Syndrome--an accommodative response to an environment perceived as hostile to inappropriate sex role behavior--among a sample of 3200 American adolescents. (Author)

This paper reports a test of Easterlin's (1973) hypothesis that marital fertility is more a function of relative than actual income. Results indicate actual income exercised a significant positive effect on marital fertility at all points in time while relative income did not. (Author)

Serial rote learning was examined as a function of sex, verbal ability, and stimulus presentation rate among 64 individuals aged 60-79 years. At the fast pacing speed, the men with average verbal skills produced fewer responses and performed less well than their female counterparts. (Author)

A content analysis of the best adolescent literature of the Twentieth Century was undertaken to determine the types, extent, and importance of older characters. The findings indicated that older persons were not underrepresented but were under underdeveloped and peripheral to the major action of the books. (Author)

The goal of this study was to identify relationships among the counseling behaviors of practicum trainees and the supervision behaviors of their supervisors during a one-semester counseling practicum. Trained judges rated several variables from audiotapes. Empathy levels of the supervisors had no apparent effect on the trainees. (Author)

The author reports that 9- and 12-minute distance runs proved to be significantly correlated with maximum oxygen uptake and that the runs were suitable tests of the distance running ability of elementary school boys and girls. (GW)

One of the few controlled studies of the influence of sex bias on social workers' judgments produces dramatic findings that contradict the contentions of other studies of the subject. The study finds consistent pro-female, anti-male bias among the sampled social workers. (Author)

The objective of this paper is to investigate the consequences of early, on time, and late marriage in the lives of white women who are members of an historically significant cohort (birthdates 1925-29) in the 1970 National Fertility Study. (Author)