Psychological benefits derived from gardening, a leisure activity intimately involved with the natural environment, are examined. Three areas of benefits (tangible outcomes, primary gardening experiences, and sustained interest) were identified and related to the kind of garden, attitudinal, and role variables. (BL)

Two northern Canadian communities, Flin Flon and The Pas, are studied to ascertain social and psychological factors influencing perception of pollution and willingness to engage in corrective action. In spite of overwhelming, contrary evidence, residents felt environmental contamination was not a problem and were not prepared to contend with it.…

New efforts in career education focus largely upon the idea of work, and its multiple and related forms, without indicating an awareness that sexist prejudices still pervade the entire curriculum and are subtly reflected in the attitudes of the school personnel. (Author/CB)

Study sought to measure the relationship between the preference for complexity-asymmetry on the Welsh Figure Preference Tests and the degree of differentiation of form on a figure drawing task. Data indicated that passive appreciative behaviors were quite distinct from active manipulative behaviors in art learning experiences. (Author)

Telephone interviews were conducted with 12 experienced blind adults to determine the strategies and techniques they employed in locating point, linear, and areal symbols and in following a track on a pseudo-map. (GW)

Interview with Miss Marcia Saunders, principal of Regina High School for girls in Hyattsville, Md., and Associate Member of NCEA's regional board for secondary education (Editor/CB)

Outlines standardized excuses offered by administrators resistant to change, and offers alternative solutions'' to counter the excuses. (SP)

The research on aging in a Valley Zapotec community in Mexico reported here takes into consideration the broad socio-cultural context through which life is experienced and the social psychological significance of developmental changes as these apply to people in maturity and old age. (Author)

The accuracy of memory for the position of a spot in a plain visual field was measured. The variables manipulated were: duration of presentation; length of retention period; presence or absence of distracting activity. (Author)

Study compared therapists' and adult laymen's descriptions of two children supposedly undergoing therapy for psychological problems. (Authors/CB)

Five experienced articulation judges scored the tape-recorded responses of four first and second grade children with articulatorily deviant /r/s under two response arrangement conditions. (Author)