The Theory of Work Adjustment is based on the concept of correspondence between individual and environment. Achieving and maintaining correspondence with the environment are basic motives of human behavior. Work represents a major environment to which most individuals must relate. Correspondence is then the individual fulfilling the requirements…

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether sport preference is a random phenomenon or a phenomenon related to specific factors in the background and environment of the participant. In addition, the study explored the feasibility of forming a framework for the systematic analysis of this phenomenon by interrelating findings from…

This survey presents the highlights (not an inventory) of the environmental studies, capabilities, and instrumentalities on the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) campuses. The CIC institutions include the University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of…

This publication is intended to develop a baseline publication on the quality of human environment and is designed to point out some crucial issues that must be considered in relation to the environmental management issue. Part I includes four articles. The first suggests man's role in relation to ecological science. The second is study of the…

In-house and extramural research being conducted under the Federal Interagency Energy/Environment Research and Development Program was described at the recent National Conference on Health, Environmental Effects, and Control Technology on Energy Use. Programs to develop control technology and survey health and ecological effects are now underway.…

This study investigated the hypothesis that low reading achievement may be related to noise interference. Reading scores of children in classrooms near train tracks were lower than scores of children whose classrooms were quieter. Score differences may be due to children's blockage of all sounds in a noisy environment. (Author/MR)

Techniques in geochemistry continue to improve in sensitivity and scope. The exciting areas of geochemistry still include the classical fields of the origin of the elements and objects in space, but environmental crisis problems are important as well. (Author/BB)

It was found that there were differences in students' perception of their schools' environment when schools were classified as either large or small. Large elementary schools seemed to have less influence on students' perception than did small schools. Students in small schools perceived a closer, warmer relationship with their schools. (Author/NQ)

Reports the results of an international census of tropical ecologists. The report is an attempt to overcome communication problems among researchers. (BB)

By focusing on career development research concerning adolescents and young adults, this study illustrates the way in which Bronfenbrenner's ecological model is useful in providing a framework for career development research. (PN)

This paper is concerned with problems in assessing the behavior of trace substances introduced into natural systems, sampling models of five classes that might be used in the study of contaminants are reviewed. Adaptation of an industrial experimentation method and techniques used in economic geology to ecological sampling is recommended.…

Through their environments, children are exposed to a wide variety of substances that provide a risk to children's health. This report provides information to the public on the work of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) related to children's health protection, summarizing initiatives undertaken since the publication of "The EPA…

The Methods Standardization Branch of the Environmental Protection Agency, National Environmental Research Center, has undertaken a program to standardize methods used in measuring air pollutants covered by the national primary and secondary air quality standards. This paper presents the results of a collective test of the method specified for…

Discusses a conference held to develop ways of generalizing about the man-environment interaction by considering this interaction cross-culturally. Presentations consider human characteristics, environments, mechanisms linking people and environments, and the effect of environment on people. (Author/DN)

The broad objective of this study then, is to attempt to discover whether a set of environmental variables presumably of significance for cognitive growth, generates similar factor structures across groups of varying socioeconomic status. (Author)