This article summarizes findings from a recent study of 451 Career Technical Education (CTE) and non-CTE students as drawn from seven high schools supported by an area career technical center. One aspect of this study examined each group's academic standing and their socioeconomic status, including the household living arrangements and the family…

Orienting responses to visual and auditory stimuli were compared in 3 cohorts of preterm infants born between 1977 and 1987. The sample consisted of 128 infants born between 1977 and 1979, 129 infants born between 1980 and 1983, and 94 infants born between 1984 and 1987. The sample was divided into one group of 140 infants born between 25- and…

A study explored the question of whether there is an adversary press, by examining the recent trends in adversarial attitudes among newspaper journalists in the United States. Using a differentiation model for delineating the nature and boundaries of American adversarial journalism, the study re-analyzed the data from two national surveys. The…

The concept of family life cycle has become increasingly prominent in the study of family development--the formation, maintenance, change, and dissolution of marriage and family relations. An evaluation of this concept is accomplished by examining the relationships between three possible stratification schemes: stage of the family life cycle,…

Used cohort method of analysis to examine teenage suicide in Texas. Beginning with suicide rates for white males aged 15-19 in 1945, suicide rates were calculated and plotted for five-year age cohorts entering late teenage years. Analysis confirmed rising risk factor associated with age group. Cohort patterns for suicide revealed recent…

Examines age variations in perceptions of the emotional character of decades of the twentieth century (N=150 adults). Results showed that the emotional character of individual decades sometimes differs significantly as a function of age. Older adults viewed the century as more pleasurable and less distressing than younger adults. (JAC)

College freshmen of both sexes in the classes of 1976 and 1986 were compared on the basis of individual items (problems) reported on a checklist. Results focus on class and sex differences in personal development, living conditions, social activities, social, personal, and interpersonal relations, home and family, morals, adjustment to college,…

Reconstructs social indicators of activity patterns at age 17. Respondents (N=662) were asked to recall various features of daily life at that age. The results indicated a secular decline in the time adolescents spend in family and household settings and with parents nearby. (Author/JAC)

Analyzed the 1972-1980 General Social Surveys to develop models accounting for changes in patterns of marital structure over time. Results did not indicate that the young and least educated contribute disproportionately to increased family instability. Cohort membership and educational attainment must be considered. (JAC)

This report provides guidance and documentation for users of the public release for the combined base-year and first follow-up data of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002). It provides extensive documentation of the content of the data files and how to access and manipulate them. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to ELS:2002. It…

The purpose of this study was to identify: the success and retention rates of basic skills students, and the rates of basic skills students' progress from basic skills courses to college level courses, and ultimately, transfer level courses. The study chose its cohorts from the semester of fall 1994. Essentially, four cohorts were identified:…

Studied the backgrounds and adjustment patterns of 118 Black male prisoners to measure the impact of a college education on offenders, ex-offenders, and the never-incarcerated. Results suggested the college students were more aggressive and more highly motivated, while non-students tended to be more insecure and had a lower self-image. (JAC)

Examined the socioeconomic determinants of the timing of remarriage for young women (N=238). While socioeconomic and demographic variables are only moderately useful predictors of remarriage, not taking into account background factors can lead to significant misstatements of the importance of various factors for interpreting the likelihood of…

Investigated the effects of a provocation on aggression for three types of alcohol users. The results indicated that the provocation elicited significantly more feelings of hostility and verbal aggression. However, there were no significant level effects, nor a significant interaction between level of drinking and presence of a provocation.…

Reports that four out of five cohorts maturing between the ages of 61-64 years to 65-68 years exhibited an increase in their use of television for process rather than for content. (GT)