Uses Straus's Conflict Tactics Scale to show that couple data may be used for the evaluation of scale items and for the assessment of the validity of frequency estimates of violence and its relationship with other variables. Results showed that aggregate husband-wife data cannot substitute for couple data. (JAC)

Exposed 39 students with liberal or conservative sexual attitudes to information suggesting a prevailing norm of sexual liberalism and asked them to respond to attitude measures while their attention was or was not self-directed by a mirror. Results indicated self-awareness enhanced conformity to social standards for conservative subjects. (JAC)

Used Holland's congruency, consistency, and differentiation terms to predict job satisfaction within a single occupation. Based on the responses of 126 registered nurses, the congruence hypothesis was confirmed. Consistency and differentiation hypotheses were partially supported. The additive relationship among congruence, consistency, and…

College students took the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) during freshman orientation. Follow-up data were obtained in their senior year. Comparisons between congruent and incongruent students suggested that congruent students were more satisfied and differentiated than incongruent students, and they perceived themselves to be more…

Hong Kong student teachers (n=59) were surveyed before and after a physical education practicum in secondary schools. Though their image of teaching was primarily nurturing, their actual classroom practices mixed apprenticeship and transmission approaches, which are more teacher than learner centered. (Contains 24 references.) (SK)

Examined agreements between physicians and patients on major goals and topics discussed during outpatient medical visit. Found concordance to be significantly greater for younger patients and their physicians than for older patients and their physicians on major goals and major medical topics discussed during primary care interview. (Author/NB)

Examined work values relationships of 155 female college students and their mothers, 84 male college students and their mothers, and 79 male college students and their fathers. Found significant differences existed in the level of espoused work values between same-sex as well as opposite-sex parent/student pairs. (ABL)

Assessed relationship between pay-for-performance perceptions and pay satisfaction among 104 hospital employees. Results indicated positive relationship between pay-for-performance perceptions and pay-raise satisfaction, pay-level satisfaction, and overall pay satisfaction even after effects of salary level, salary increases, performance ratings,…

Examined congruence and differentiation in Black and White restaurant proprietors (N=40) and hospital aides (N=40). Results showed Black proprietors to be less congruent than White proprietors, and Black aides to be less differentiated than White aides. Found no racial differences on Holland's measure of consistency. (Author/ABL)

This study investigated the claim that memory for scenes is qualitatively similar in children and adults. The effects of three schema-related processes on scene memory were tested with 5- to 7-year-old and adult subjects. Both children and adults used two of these processes (added unexpected object effect and congruency effect) but not the third…

Notes, when client, counselor, and those in client's relevant environments hold differing conceptions of disability, and hence conflicting expectations of the rehabilitation process, that process may be impeded. Proposes an approach to conceptualizing this potential problem using Hershenson's model of faith, logic, and power as successive…

Includes "Introduction" (McDaniels, Watts); "Frank Parsons: Promoter of a Progressive Era" (Watts); "Parsons' Contribution to Career Counseling" (Jones); "Light, Information, Inspiration, Cooperation" (Spokane, Glickman); "Parsons' Contribution to Career Assessment" (Zytowski, Swanson);…

Explores the self-reported psychological adjustment for congruent, incongruent, and moderately congruent employed female ministers (N=227). Results indicate that the three groups varied in psychological adjustment as assessed by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Congruent ministers tend to be psychologically healthier than…

Examined mother-adolescent congruence in reports of adolescent sexual behavior and communication about sex in 745 African American adolescents (ages 14-17). Found that adolescent perceptions and reports were more predictive of adolescent sexual behavior than maternal reports. Mothers underestimated their teens' sexual activity, and teens…

Israeli paratroopers (n=267) completed measures of group importance, role satisfaction, vocational interests, and somatic complaints. Group importance correlated with satisfaction and somatic complaints; congruence with environment did not. Congruence interacted with group importance to enhance satisfaction. (Contains 29 references.) (SK)