Research has indicated that premature termination of therapy is sometimes due to a conflict in goal and outcome expectations between therapists and family members of clients. The present study requested both therapists and parents of child clients to complete questionnaires to determine if there is congruence between therapist and parental…

This report analyzes data from the parent and student components of the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 to investigate family educational involvement in secondary education. It examines whether parental involvement influences the educational achievements of high school seniors. By utilizing multiple involvement indicators for the…

Although elementary, junior high, and senior high schools are perceived as different, their differences are essentially ignored when organizational theorists characterize schools as loosely linked systems. Such systems share two characteristics: absence of shared goals and decentralization of power. To facilitate development of a more…

Gerontologists and others working with the elderly have tended to treat them according to their chronological age. In order to compare retired professionals' perceived expectations of retirement with their subsequent realization, to discover possible discrepancies, and to examine the adequacy of current pre- and post-treatment counseling programs…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of alcohol on aggressive behavior in male social drinkers. (Editor)

The present study hypothesized that counseling with the Goal Attainment Scaling evaluation procedures would improve the conduct of counseling. The Shostrom Personal Orientation Inventory, Children's Locus of Control Scale, a Consumer Satisfaction Questionnaire, and behavioral measures were used to assess outcome. Results were in the hypothesized…

Study examines the perceptions of the role of an elementary classroom teacher from the responses of administrators, parents, teachers, school board directors, and elementary education professors to a Likert-type instrument. Findings indicated that all groups of respondents differed significantly in their perceptions of the role of an elementary…

This research studies and measures in what direction and how students will change when some degree of expectancy in human relationships is changed. Results of data analysis indicate that manipulation in the affective domain in a classroom setting can have significant results for achievement scores, mental health, and IQ. (Author/PC)

Subjects who value such job characteristics as "getting a felling of accomplishment, fair company policies, trying out their own ideas, doing work without feeling it is morally wrong, making their own decisions, (and) planning work with little supervision" tend to have higher aspirations and expectations, but lower goal deflection. (Author)

Language is both a reflection of the status quo and a factor in perpetuating the status quo. People use language to encode their own experiences; memories are the encoded versions of reality. People learn how to characterize their experience by seeing how others characterize their own and others' experiences. When asked to talk about successful…

Research suggests that males tend to have a more positive attitude toward computers than do females; that males outnumber females in computer camps; and that males have greater access to, and report more frequent use of, computers at home than do females. It has been suggested that these findings may be based on sex role differences and not on…

Two samples of parents and one of teachers were interviewed to determine (1) what parents of early adolescents believe about adolescence as a developmental period and what they expect for their own adolescents' development; (2) junior high school teachers' beliefs about adolescent development; (3) evidence for the effects of personal experience…

Fairy tales dramatize a widely held presumption that children are at high risk of abuse in stepfamilies. The idea seems almost accepted as fact, yet it has never been adequately tested. This paper provides detailed information about life in blended and stepfamilies. Sections focus on (1) stepmothers; (2) children's views of their stepmothers; (3)…

To foster individual development, educators must seek the gifts in every child, in those not demonstrating academic abilities as well as in the most brilliant. Instead of stifling thinking, creativity, and interest development, educators must encourage these behaviors. Currently, a big discrepancy exists between the child's potential and what…

Findings of previous scientific decision-making literature are reviewed in an effort to specify a model depicting the many facets of the individual military enlistment decision. Theories and/or models reviewed include decision theory, social judgment theory, information integration theory, conjoint measurement/unfolding theory, cognitive decision…