Data from 305 confidential anonymous 50-item questionnaires on pornography were completed by students at East Carolina University and analyzed to provide the basis for this study. Over 90 percent (92.4%) reported ever having looked at pornography with over forty percent (43.1%) reporting doing so between one and two times a week. Significant…

Purpose: Although the nursing facility transition literature is growing, little research has analyzed the characteristics of individuals so assisted or compared participants to those who remain institutionalized. This article describes an analytic method that researchers can apply to address these knowledge gaps, using the Arkansas Passages…

The focus of this study was on examining two assumed components of adolescent autonomy-individuation and perceiving parents as people and the validity of their measurement. Participating in the study were 67 students in grades 9 and 11 (ages 14-17 years) and 118 college students (ages 18-27 years). Each student completed two measures of…

A spectrophotometric study of the acid-base equilibria of 8-hydroxyquinoline-5-sulfonic acid to describe the multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares algorithm (MCR-ALS) is described. The algorithm provides a lot of information and hence is of great importance for the chemometrics research.

This article discusses a Foucauldian-inspired strategy applied to the analysis of the production of truths about psychopathology, sexuality and young people. Drawing on an interpretation of Foucault's genealogical tactics, this strategy involves the deployment of four angles of scrutiny: discontinuity, contingency, emergences and subjugated…

Work performed during the 1978-1980 SAGE contract to develop improved national estimates from survey data is reported. Three areas of effort are covered in this paper: (1) the use of longitudinal merges combined with relational edits to detect reporting or encoding errors; (2) the use of longitudinal merges together with special follow-up surveys…

Data reexamination is a critical component for any study. The complexity of the study, the time available for data base development and analysis, and the relationship of the study to educational policy-making can all increase the criticality of such reexamination. Analysis of the error levels in the National Institute of Education's Instructional…

Demonstrates the falsity of the notion that sequential strategies permit the separation of age, cohort, and time-of-measurement contributions to developmental change. (JMB)

The author discusses the emergence of multivariate statistical methods, presents selected methods (functional and structural) and their applications, and discusses some practical guidelines and limitations concerning their use in health research. (MJB)

This paper reports on case study that investigated the development of mainly tacit and mainly explicit components of knowledge of area measurement of a student-pair. The research covered two terms or periods of the students' learning of the subject: when they were aged 11 to 12 and when they were aged 12 to 13. The data analysis was based on…

The paper examines the various ways that qualitative researchers can use and interpret numbers, official statistics, and other quantitative data. It puts forth the position that qualitative researchers, in their quest for understanding, have too often viewed official statistics with only a cursory or descriptive analysis without deeper reflection…