Examines "alcohol myopia" (an increased use of alcohol in the face of increased negative consequences of use) in freshman college women with or without sorority pledge status. Increased alcohol use and alcohol myopia were present in the sorority pledge group. Both groups showed anomalous myopic behavior as alcohol use increased. (RJM)

Friends, family members, and others considering a partnership in the camping business should examine the compatibility of their values, attitudes, and personal work styles. Business arrangements between camp co-owners should cover issues of money and power, guidelines for unexpected situations, and planning for the partnership's end. Drawing up a…

Applicability of the Social Cognitive Career Theory was tested with data from 278 undergraduates (56% business majors). Social cognition variables (computer self-efficacy, self-efficacy beliefs, outcome expectations) were strongly related to interest information technology careers. Mastery experiences and affective state significantly predicted…

Examines a model of alcohol use based on the theory of planned behavior, and expectancy theory on the influence of parents and peers with older adolescents and young adults. Results suggest that, during adolescence, decisions to consume alcohol are rational, based on the consideration of the positive consequences of alcohol use; however, the…

In post-World War II United States, women were caught between competing patriotic, economic, cultural, and psychological ideologies dictating their behavior. Differences between these expectations and challenges to behavioral norms provoked tensions in women's education that lasted until the women's movement of the 1960s. (Contains 25 references.)…

Nursing faculty initiated a partnership with a homeless shelter through which nursing students experienced community nursing and health promotion. Lessons learned from partnership development included the importance of ongoing dialogue and negotiation and clarification of expectations and responsibilities. (SK)

Examined effects of cultural mistrust on Black college students (N=120) expectations about counselor credibility and counselor competence and willingness to see someone like described counselor for counseling. Found subject mistrust level and counselor race interacted significantly on several dependent variables; highly mistrustful Blacks regarded…

Administered seven instruments measuring college students' (N=253) perceptions and expectations of counseling. Used factor analysis to identify six interpretable factors, three for perceptions and three for expectations with no overlap between perceptions and expectations. Recommends further research into effects of gender, age, race, culture,…

Project Transition screens, trains, and places welfare recipients in fast food restaurant jobs. Training focuses on employee responsibility for managers' expectations and on behavior that will raise those expectations of new employees. (SK)

A study examined the role of meaning, familiarity with the task, and sex-stereotypic personality disposition in college students' success expectancy. It found no evidence for sex-related personality disposition to lower success expectancy, suggesting a need to examine how meaning and familiarity can affect college students' success. (MSE)

A study was conducted to isolate monitoring of test performance from other forms of monitoring and determine the effect of taking a test on expectations about performance. Results were consistent with claims that developmental changes in self-regulation could be tied to developmental changes in monitoring of performance and predicting performance.…

Categorized types of consequences associated with corrective behavioral feedback messages anticipated by group members during first meeting of counseling group. Group members (N=286) wrote corrective feedback messages they would be unwilling to communicate in groups and completed form describing potential consequences of communicating corrective…

Evaluated older widows (N=95) at two months, six months, and one year following the death of their spouse. Found that expectancy of death was not related to adjustment to bereavement; widows who had rehearsed widowhood fared no better that widows who did not rehearse. (Author/ABL)

The study examined whether classroom context cues in videotapes showing a nonhandicapped and a learning disability expectancy would affect evaluation bias of 80 elementary-school teachers. Results suggest that teachers hold initial biases about the behavior of learning-disabled students but take into account the classroom context when rating…

Examined the role of interpersonal expectations in rejected children's social difficulties. Results indicated that rejected children can make better impressions on peers when they expect interpersonal success. (RH)