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Olsen, Duane A.; And Others – 1986
Analysis of secondary data from 1980-85 revealed economic, demographic, social, and psychological effects of the current "farm crisis" on rural communities in Nebraska. Agriculturally dependent counties were found to have a widening income disparity with state and metropolitan county averages, declining retail sales, slower increase in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Community Change, Economic Change, Medical Services
Westermeyer, Joseph; And Others – 1988
This paper, the second in a series, focuses on the content of the diagnostic interview, in a clinical context, with refugee patients who have been victimized by physical violence. It is organized around a list of 11 introductory questions that will facilitate discussion of traumatic events in the patient's past. The questions focus on: (1)…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Clinical Diagnosis, Counselor Training, Cross Cultural Training
Martin, Harold P. – 1977
The biologic and developmental problems of abused children are usually thought of etiologically in relation to the physical trauma which has been suffered. Indeed, physical trauma can cause death, brain damage, developmental delays and deviations in personality development. The environment in which the abused child grows and develops is a most…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Emotional Adjustment
McDowell, Earl E.; And Others – 1978
A multivariate study focused on external relationships between (a) demographic variables and (b) psychological sex roles and communication apprehension variables. It also investigated differences among psychological sex types and biological sex types with respect to social desirability, speech apprehension, and listening apprehension at the junior…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Milliken, W. James; Whaples, Gene C. – 1978
A study was done to determine if work values of the Maryland Cooperative Extension Service faculty were related to Herzberg's job satisfaction elements. The design was ex post facto, exploratory field research. Subjects included 273 extension faculty members. A mail questionnaire composed of Hughes and Flowers'"Values for Working" and an…
Descriptors: Administrators, Agricultural Education, Extension Agents, Field Studies
AMBLER, ROSALIE K.; RICKUS, GEORGE M. – 1967
SEVEN HUNDRED SEVEN NAVAL AVIATION TRAINEES FROM THREE STAGES OF TRAINING WERE ADMINISTERED AN ANONYMOUS QUESTIONNAIRE THAT ASKED THEM TO GIVE THEIR OWN DEFINITION OF MORALE. THEY WERE THEN INSTRUCTED TO RATE THEIR OWN MORALE ON A TEN-POINT SCALE USING THEIR DEFINITION AS A FRAME OF REFERENCE. A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE DEFINITIONS IDENTIFIED THE…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Change, Environmental Influences, Flight Training
SCHULMAN, JEROME L.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THIS MONOGRAPH RELATES RESULTS OF A STUDY WHICH WAS UNDERTAKEN TO ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THREE QUESTIONS--TO WHAT EXTENT DO EIGHT TECHNIQUES COMMONLY USED TO DIAGNOSE BRAIN DAMAGE CO-VARY, TO WHAT EXTENT DO THE VARIOUS BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS THAT OCCUR WITH BRAIN DAMAGE CO-VARY, AND TO WHAT EXTENT DO THE DIAGNOSTIC MEASURES, SINGLY OR IN GROUPS, PREDICT…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Clinical Diagnosis
Olswang, Steven G.; Cohen, William D. – 1979
The findings are presented of two research studies designed to identify the causes of perceived inefficient and ineffective performance by administrators in institutions of higher education. The first study examined operational dissonance among the three levels of academic administrators (chairpersons, deans, and provosts) in complex…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Administrators
Mechanic, David – 1978
Students' reactions to preliminary Ph.D. examinations are investigated in this study examining responses to stress and techniques of adaptation. The applications of stress in a social science context are discussed and elements of successful social adaptation are examined. A study of 20 graduate students taking departmental written examinations…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Books, Coping
Harris, Roma M.; Highlen, Pamela S. – 1977
The relationship between external reinforcement of behavior and depression is explored. Specifically, the psychological study measures the role of cognition in depression by comparing decision-making problems, lack of assertiveness, and perceptions of control in male and female undergraduate college students and psychiatric patients. It was…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Hetherington, E. Mavis; And Others – 1975
An investigation of changes in functioning of mothers and fathers following divorce is presented in this paper. Subjects were 24 white middle class boys and 24 girls and their divorced parents, from homes in which custody had been granted to the mother, and the same number of children and parents from intact homes. A multimethod approach,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis, Divorce
Kowatrakul, Surang; And Others
The purposes of this study were: (1) to develop measures of the need for achievement in 4-5-year-old children, and (2) to discover the psychosocial origins of need for achievement. The hypotheses regarding the second purpose were that middle and lower socioeconomic status (SES) mothers of children characterized by high need for achievement would…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Achievement Rating, Blacks, Expectation
Greenberg, Jerrold S. – 1976
This paper describes a course called the Psychosocial Component in Health Education, which is offered as part of the health education program at the State University of New York at Buffalo--a graduate program for school and community health educators. In this particular 16-week course, students must write a research paper on one specific health…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Course Descriptions, Field Experience Programs, Graduate Study
Dubin, Samuel S., Ed.; And Others – 1974
The book contains papers presented at a July 1973 conference sponsored by the Engineering Foundation of New York City, the American Psychological Association, and the Engineering Foundation for Professional Development. The papers examine the psychological and motivational changes which occur in midcareer engineers (Approximately age 40), with…
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Behavior Change, Conference Reports
Romero, Carol E. – 1974
In order to evaluate the treatment of death in children's literature, and to compile a bibliography of books related to this theme, four areas of a child's relation to death were explored. The first area of investigation was of concepts of death evidenced at the child's various developmental stages, as documented in numerous psychological studies.…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Child Psychology, Childhood Attitudes
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