This study determined regional differences in the prevalence of cohabitation, the reported willingness to cohabit, and the extent of probable parental awareness. The study also compares cohabitants and noncohabitants with regard to their desire to marry and have children, and their willingness to engage in a number of nontraditional life styles.…

This research investigated the relationship between early childbearing and marital instability. Women with large families and those with no children were the most likely to experience disruption. The lowest dissolution rates were found for those with moderate numbers of children. (Author)

When compared with a group of clients who had received work adjustment services and a placebo treatment (personal hygiene training), experimental clients given Personal Achievement Skills (PAS) and work adjustment services reported greater gains on self-ratings of life perspective (optimism), work-related attitudes, and goal attainment. (Author)

The perceived mental health needs of adolescents were measured by questionnaire to groups of teenagers, parents, community child guidance personnel, self-help groups, police and court related people, school personnel, mental health administrators and area board members. (Author)

Discriminant function analyses involving two vocational interest inventories to differentiate majors of college graduates supported the definition of three dimensions: Business Contract vs. Science, Business Detail vs. Arts, and Service vs. Technical. The implementation of such a three-dimensional scheme for counseling high school students is…

Determined if one's generalized expectancy about locus of control affects the way in which a disabled person is evaluated by a nondisabled person. Internal subjects did not differentiate between the disabled and the nondisabled employee, whereas external subjects did make such a differentiation. (Author)

Despite the apparent universality of the jealousy phenomenon, communication in couples is inhibited by the social disapproval associated with its occurrance, and consequently discrepancies such as those evidenced in this study may pass entirely unobserved. As a result, jealousy problems remain unresolved and may serve to trigger further…

The Performance Scale of the WISC-R was administered to 59 prelingually deaf children attending a state-supported day school program. The results compare favorably with those found by Wechsler with the standardization sample. (Author)

Results indicated that the clock-light cueing device is an effective instrument in helping to reduce the time spent in disruptive behavior in the classroom. Decreasing the time spent in undesirable behaviors in a classroom does not necessarily decrease the frequency of these behaviors. (Author)

An experimental condition consisting of explicit timing of the students' five-minute composition period, self-scoring, and public posting of highest scores was introduced, removed, and reintroduced. The introduction of the experimental condition led to marked increase in the number of words written by all students. (Author)

The current funding of research in Australia's universities is examined, including the recent forces that have changed the research system and resource allocation, allocations by field, expenditures per researcher by field, and measures of and emphasis on productivity. Prospects for research in the late 1980s are discussed. (MSE)

The institutionalization of faculty development policy and activities is compared for Australia, Great Britain, the United States, West Germany, and Sweden. The factors that precipitated the trend in each country are examined, and it is concluded that the reward systems in each country favor faculty research performance over teaching. (Author/MSE)

It is argued that Britain's University Grants Committee (UGC) could and should have assessed the quality of teaching as well as of research in its allocation of resources to universities. (Author/MSE)

Describes examples of outstanding videodiscs, summarizes evidence on effectiveness of videodisc as a teaching tool, and discusses factors associated with design of effective videodisc for instruction. Such factors include interactivity, visual design, organization, active participation, metaphors and models, personality, and a team approach. (MBR)

University-based weapons laboratories are often assumed to be objective, scientific organizations with no direct financial stake in a particular weapons system, but they are in fact dependent on weapons systems for their continued funding and existence, sometimes lobbying in violation of federal policy. (MSE)