The Youth Center Research Project studied the effectiveness of two different treatment programs with 983 adjudicated delinquents assigned by random procedures to two institutions, one of whose programs was based on transactional analysis and the other on the principles of behavior modification. (Author)

In a sample of 1622 students in college for three years, 24 percent indecisive students were found and compared with vocationally decisive students (having majors) using precollege measures of achievement, aptitude, and interest. Measures of interest differentiation were of particular concern. Most important to vocational indecision, however, was…

The purpose of the present study was to determine if differences in perception exist among subgroups of interest on a junior college campus. Perceptions are influenced by one's standing in the college structure. Academic status and success of students are particularly important variables to understand student perception. (Author)

Campus judicial affairs administrators were asked to project the future status of 18 legal issues affecting higher education. The respondents foresaw changes in residency requirements, search and seizure, and in the legal protection afforded students attending private institutions. Entrance of due process into the territory of scholastic affairs…

This article discusses changing life styles by examining U.S. Census data available about living arrangements and marital status. (EJT)

The first article in this column describes the observation strategies designed to train high school students to reliably conduct classroom observations. The second article examines the influence of classroom reading material and five basic reading series on the career development of children in the second, fourth, and sixth grades. (HMV)

Depression and marital maladjustment measures were taken of all couples attending a clinic. A significant correlation between depression and marital maladjustment was found for self-report data and was replicated by therapists' ratings. Marital ratings of either spouse were related to men's depression ratings, and minimally related to women's.…

Student personnel functions were the issues in many student protests during the last decade, leading to changes in the regulations, policies, and procedures through which the programs are administered. In the present study, empirical data were collected to determine which functions had been the object of protest, change, or both. (Author)

The hypothesis tested was that authoritarian personalities prefer the natural sciences (specifically biology and chemistry) and nonauthoritarian personalities choose the social sciences and humanities (specifically, psychology and philosophy). (Author)

Differences in developmental trends of symptomatology between 30 adopted children and a matched control group of biological children, all referred to a child guidance clinic and reared within the kibbutz communal educational system, are examined. Results indicate that kibbutz adoptees' symptoms show a specificity different from city adopted…

This study tested the predictive ability of MMPI scales to identify United States Air Force Academy freshmen who were "high risk" for problems of emotional adjustment and subsequent separation from the Academy. Rate of attrition and problems in emotional adaptation leading to separation were significantly greater in the high-risk group…

The generalization can be drawn from the study that young, upper caste farmers with medium-to large-size farms should be contacted to test new farm practices in their fields in order to convince the majority that agricultural production can be improved and raised. (Author/BP)

Secondary school counselors were asked to predict the academic success and choose an appropriate career for four hypothetical cases. Results from analyses of variance and covariance showed that variation in sex and ethnic group designation did not produce variations in counselor evaluations. (Author)

Data from the 1985 Living Standards Survey in Peru were studied in this analysis of non-farm family businesses from the informal sector in order to categorize 2,735 family enterprises and to explain the earnings per hour of family labor. Most of the existing research on the self-employed uses the individual as the unit of analysis; however, this…

A study reviewed 88 doctoral dissertations written during a 4-year period in the 1980s on the use of feedback for performance improvement. The purpose was to sugget applications of the findings to teaching improvement in postsecondary education, and to determine the extent to which faculty development centers contribute to this research.…