This research investigated the application of the balance concept to predict the dynamic relationships among: (1) the sociometric ranking of each participant's behavior by his team members: (2) his self-rating; and (3) the agreement between these two evaluations. (Author/PD)

This article reviews the differences between two types of workshops and a control group on the development of positive interviewing skills. An assertiveness training group, combined with the presentation of interviewing skills and a didactic group, were the two treatments. (Author)

As measured by a variety of dependent variables, assertion training was effective in modifying assertive behavior but ineffective with aggressive behavior in a group of low-assertive but aggressive college women. (Author)

Three competing hypotheses are tested regarding determinants of husband's (vs wife's) participation in 12 selected household/child-care activities. The research utilized interview responses of husbands, although it compares responses of both husbands and wives in a proportionate stratified area-probability sample from adjacent midwestern cities.…

This study demonstrates that the actual percentage of persons dying in nursing homes and extended care facilities far exceeds the commonly held five percent. (Author)

To test the relationship between risk-taking and creativity, 10 groups of four undergraduates were administered the Choice Dilemma Questionnaire and a subtest of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. This was followed by the standard group process noted to result in a risky shift, and then by post-testing. (Author)

A sociolinguistic analysis of the communicative performances and social interactions of four mentally retarded adults was conducted. (Author)

Thirty-four boys and 30 girls in grades 2 and 3 were given a measure of conceptual tempo (the Design Recall Test) and a measure of level of aspiration. (Author/CL)

This study found that the families of schizophrenics contend with formidable emotional burdens and recommend that social supports and services be created to help minimize their distress. (Author)

Physiological, psychological, and spiritual outcomes of jogging are presented and documented along with the description of a treatment-training, experimental jogging course that was carried out in a counselor education program. Guidelines for starting a jogging program are presented. (Author)

A counseling center in an inner-city community serving an essentially minority population with a staff of middle-class professionals provided the opportunity to examine empirically whether the values of one group were indeed different from the values of the other. Results indicate qualitative and quantitative differences on the Rokeach Value…

It can be concluded from the results of the two studies described here that value similarity between client and therapist is related to therapists' ratings of client improvement. This phenomenon can be expected in therapies irrespective of theoretical orientation. (Author)

Relationships between family size, intelligence, and expected education were examined. The zero-order correlations were negative as expected. However, after other relevant variables were controlled, family size had a negligible association with intelligence and expected education. (Author)

The use and function of imitation were examined for seven children in the early syntactic period of language acquisition, from 1-3 to 1-5 years old. (Author/SBH)

Studied with 10 Ss (ages 5-10 years) receiving speech therapy for stuttering were the reasons why some words were abruptly stuttered for the first time in the course of successive readings and the kinds of stimuli that play a role in stuttering. (Author/MH)