A study was conducted with students in grade 9 in two Ontario schools, with one group receiving six periods of drug education and the control school none at all. The peer-oriented program led to more knowledge about drugs, but no differences in the use of drugs or in attitudes. (Author)

The Resident Environment Adaptation Program (REAP) is a five-stage service designed to enable students to heighten the match between their needs and their residence hall environment. In addition to a description of the program, the article includes pilot project conclusions and further recommendations for development. (Author)

Adolescents' attitudes toward aged were positive, regardless of age. Contact with grand-parents and more positive attitudes were found in middle class compared to lower class, and among whites compared to nonwhites. Questionnaires were given to all 9th and 12th grade students in a rural high school (N=413). (Author)

This study showed how nominal grouping could be used by administrators in higher education to formulate relevant and cost-effective programs for employee development and motivation that maximized the performance of educational secretaries and administrative assistants (N=25). (Author)

Effects of marital status on morale relative to five covariates were examined with 232 widowed and 363 married women aged 45-74. Lower morale scores found among the widowed may be partly attributable to other factors commonly associated with this status and not due to the role of widowhood per se. (Author)

Tests the hypothesis that patients who were contacted more often by their relatives would stay a shorter time in the hospital. Results support the hypothesis. (Author)

The present study analyzed the components of assertive behavior. Assertiveness problems were conceptualized in terms of a task analysis of the topography of competent responding. Subjects (N=101) who spanned the range of assertiveness responded to three sets of situations requiring refusal of an unreasonable request. (Author)

Three groups of judges (31 naive college undergraduates, 29 inexperienced graduate student trainees, and 26 experienced professional persons) viewed ten 1-minute videotaped samples of child behavior. Results indicated significant group differences in number of bases used for judging and in the use of insufficient evidence as a base. (Author)

Relationships between self-esteem and cognitive biases involved in processing self-relevant information are studied. Male (N=49) and female (N=52) college students completed a series of self-esteem measures, participated in an anagram-solving task, and then answered questions concerning their standards for successful achievement and their…

This paper ascertains the degree to which occupational sex-stereotyping is differentially found at different social class levels. Education is found to be strongly correlated with sex-stereotyping of 15 different occupations. Income level, on the other hand, is significantly related to such stereotyping in only two of the 15 cases. (Author)

This study investigated relationships between academic and nonacademic indices of college success and four indices of occupational success of Army officers. Subjects were 103 U.S. Military Academy graduates from the Class of 1962. Results indicated three of the four criteria were significantly predicted. (Author)

Examines the occupational aspirations of adolescent women. Subjects were 149 eleventh graders. Results indicate that many teenage females still subscribe to traditional sex-role values in their occupational aspirations. (Author)

Two surveys of ninth-grade black adolescents, one in 1963 and in 1973, were conducted in two metropolitan areas in the southeast using the same procedures to determine adolescent attitudes toward working wives as a threat to the marital relationship. Results are discussed. (Author)

Ambulatory geriatric patients (N=370) were rated on the Geriatric Rating Scale and results factor analyzed. The scale was found to be composed of three factors: Withdrawal/Apathy, Antisocial Disruptive Behavior, and Deficits in Activities of Daily Living. The results help explain some of the findings regarding sex differences in previous research.…

Described is the approach used by the parents of a 5-year-old deaf boy to teach him to read. (Author/SBH)