Moving from high school into young adulthood is a critical developmental transition, a time of both continuity and discontinuity in health and well-being. How well one negotiates this transition, as evidenced by one's course of well-being and substance use, depends in part on historical cohort, gender, and life-path. Using U.S. national panel data…

The first section of this report describes the context in which America's children live, such as changes in children's family settings and living arrangements. The report indicates that although the majority of children live with two married parents, 32 percent do not. In 2003, 23 percent of children lived with only their mothers, 5 percent lived…

Bargaining that makes available facilities for satisfaction of workers' basic needs can contribute to increased productivity, which in turn enhances competitiveness. Such bargaining can be an effective means of extending and reinforcing national economic planning. (SK)

Compared the personal and social resources and psychological well-being of 438 elderly parents and 103 childless people. Results showed both groups reported similar resources; children did not assure life satisfaction, less loneliness, or greater acceptance of death. The atypical status of the childless did not affect well-being. (WAS)

The Life Change Unit Rating Scale for College Students, included in this article, was developed to be used as a teaching tool in the discussion of stress and as a measuring device to determine the amount of stress caused through life changes and life events. (CJ)

Examines the structure of the Philadelphia Geriatric Center (PGC) Morale Scale using a multiple indicator structural equation model. Based on the 1968 National Senior Citizens Survey, the model is consistently replicated across four subsamples. The claim that the PGC Morale Scale is multidimensional is only appropriate for first-order factors.…

Studied the influence of the physical and social environment on the well-being of 224 elderly adults. Environmental predictors of well-being were entered into five separate multiple linear regression anlayses. Well-being for this sample was associated with living in well-maintained residential neighborhoods outside the city center. (Author/JAC)

Measured the degree of religious commitment of rural elderly (N=259) and the contribution religion makes to their feelings of loneliness, anxiety about death, meaning in life, and well-being. Found religious commitment among the elderly to be the result of a cognitive attempt on their part to render the world intelligible. (Author/RC)

Examined psychological symptoms among 310 recently separated men and women. Analysis indicated that socio-demographic variables generally are unrelated to symptom expression. Results suggest that the symptomatology of divorcing persons can be partitioned into disruptive conditions encountered in divorce and those which may reflect characteristics…

Presents correlations between three clusters of life events (e.g., events specific to prison life) and indicators of psychological well-being for inmates at a maximum security prison. Findings show positive relationships between these clusters and depression; the relationships to self-esteem were inverse, although not statistically significant.…

Proposes love as a curative factor in group psychotherapy. Transference within a group may originate with needs and desires for love. By unmasking transference, subsequent healing may arise from a process of mourning in which group members recognize how their projection of past love onto other group members and onto the psychotherapist is…

Examines the relationship between the quality of marital interaction, both as perceived by spouses and as reported by outside observers, and marital instability and divorce in long-time married couples (n=436). Finds that hostility and marital warmth were fairly accurate predictors of which couples would divorce or be extremely stable or unstable.…

The Sault Sainte Marie tribe of Chippewa Indians (Michigan) facilitated community healing through a curriculum that raised awareness of harmful assimilation factors and the impact of oppression and reintroduced creation stories and the clan system to reclaim American Indian cultural identity. Thirty-two persons completed the first round of…

Focuses on the significance of organizations of working children for processes of transformation in their societies. Argues that while structural causes of exploitation and poverty account for persistence of child labor, organizations of working children are of growing importance in efforts to improve their life conditions, noting that many…

A study of 59 Australian people with an intellectual disability and 69 university students evaluated a new scale to measure the life quality of people with an intellectual disability. The Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale--Intellectual Disability was found to be a useful instrument to measure comparative life quality. (Author/CR)