This study used descriptive data from the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Child Outcome Study to identify predictors of involvement among nonresident fathers of young children who receive welfare, and the relationship of father involvement to child outcomes. Participating were 693 mothers and children ages 3 to 5 in Fulton County,…

This study examined the relationship of the five-factor model of personality (extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and intellect) to college student adjustment. Using a sample of 200+ undergraduate students at a large public university, it was found that emotional stability correlated positively with goal…

This study examined the adjustment process of 727 students who transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in fall 1994 or fall 1995. The Transfer Students' Questionnaire (TSQ) was organized into three main sections: social demographics, perceptions of the community college experience, and perception of the UCLA experience. The…

Several theories are examined suggesting that stress associated with modernization is responsible for excesses of accidental injuries among American Indians. A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New York, 1971. (FF)

Describes a social studies program at the Bryant Youth Educational Support Center for socially or emotionally maladjusted children whose purpose is to develop a caring attitude, a concept of the nature of role in school behavior, and an experimental attitude towards coping with problems on the part of the students. (AN)

Lists summaries dealing with specific aspects of reading research, including bibliographies, syntheses of research, and critiques of research. (VJ)

An investigation was conducted pertaining to the relationship of students' grade point average and subcomponents of alientation, powerlessness, normlessness, and social isolation. The results indicate that (a) normlessness is the prime component of alientation for secondary school students and (b) normlessness is significantly related to…

Described are the effects of using experiential methods, or sensory experience, in a summer group therapy program with seven blind adolescents. The group therapy objective is increased personal and social adjustment by the blind students. (CB)

The purpose of this investigation was to identify the relationship between individual selection of important persons and conformity, and to identify the relationship between frequency of selection and rank order weight frequency." (Author)

Graduates of compensatory early childhood programs in Knox County, Kentucky demonstrated few differences when compared with matched subjects in first grade. (WY)