The failure of two vocational counseling interventions to generate tangible results suggests that counselors need to become experts in job-seeking skills and pass this knowledge on to their counselees. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the vocational development process of tenth-grade disadvantaged students can be facilitated through deliberate intervention in the form of supplementary learning experiences. (Author)

Young and middle-aged adults contrast with aged adults in their reactions to sudden economic expansion in a small town favored by many as their retirement community. During anthropological research in this community, conflicts between various age strata were noted to be more intense when persons are strangers. (Author)

This report presents an experimental study in which changes in marijuana attitudes and smoking intentions were attempted using the formal communication approach. Several "currently useful generalizations" derived from past research and the present study are suggested. (Author)

This study revealed practitioners place greatest importance on those variables usually associated with a more "active" approach to counseling while the educators identify more closely with those variables associated with a more "passive" approach to counseling. (Author)

This article describes the Denver Vocational Guidance Institutes as they operated from 1966 to 1972, presents the results of a long-term follow-up study, and discusses the generalizability of the training format. (Author)

A questionnaire surveying more than 1,000 business, political, education, and military supervisors revealed that they valued skill performances and human relations as the two most critical components of subordinate success. (Author)

This piece analyzes a central and neglected issue: do survey-feedback designs simply encourage respondents to make "unrealistic" demands for organization resources to ameliorate unattractive features of work? (Author)

Relationships among organizational factors, personal difference variables, and job satisfaction and stress is reviewed. The relationships of job satisfaction and job stress to organizational factors are examined for a sample of minority professional personnel. These relationships are studied using the personal variables of race, type-A…

Subjects in a T-group tend to decrease reactive attributions. They are perceived as having learned to act, rather than observe and react. T-group change is conjecture. Some learning transfer from group to external environment is expected. (MFD)

The study was to obtain information on student attitudes in making administrative plans and decisions reciprocal with the needs and beliefs of students. Results indicated tolerance for private activity, moderate disregard of rules and traditional mores, and rejection of extreme behaviors. Administrative implications were discussed. (Author)

A national survey indicates Black freshman enrollment has increased from three percent in 1969 to five percent in 1976, down from six percent in 1973. Non-Black minority enrollment remains at less than two percent for any group. Private schools have more special programs and retain more minority students. (Author)

This study sought information regarding levels of cross-cultural interaction, barriers to successful interaction, and methods by which to increase interaction. The results are discussed in light of the need to promote intensive interpersonal interaction and open communication between American and foreign students. (Author)

Black parents' difficulties in adjusting to their first child were slightly greater than and somewhat different from difficulties reported in the prior studies of white parents, but their difficulties were not of crisis proportions. (Author)

Mortality is lower for married persons than for nonmarried persons; lower for married persons with children than for those without children; and lower for nonmarried persons who are household heads than for those who are not heads. Two explanations are considered. (Author)