This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with the following topics: (1) verbal interpersonal communication between community volunteers and prisoners; (2) pharmacist-patient communication skills; (3) communication attachment; (4) the definition, maintenance, and spanning of boundaries in a nursing service department; (5) the role of communication in economic and social development in the less developed countries; (6) communication in collective bargaining negotiations; (7) interpersonal communication and the organizational newcomer; (8) the effects of persuasive communication and self-esteem on changing attitudes of preservice elementary school teachers toward teaching chemical changes; (9) ethical attitudes toward communication acts in American society; (10) physicians' use of compliance-gaining message strategies and their effect on patient medical communication satisfaction and adherence to treatment regimen instructions; (11) listening factors in the work environment; (12) ordinary arguments; (13) communication aspects of patient placement and careers in two nursing homes; (14) education communication efficiency; and (15) communication in a committed community. (FL)