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Miltiades, Helen B.; Pruchno, Rachel – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2001
Predictors of formal service utilization, waiting list use, and caregiving burden were assessed over a 4-year time period for 305 mothers of an adult child with mental retardation. Predictor variables included: residential status, burden, child behaviors at baseline, child placement; formal service use, co-residence at baseline, waiting list use,…
Descriptors: Adults, Developmental Disabilities, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers
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Rushinek, Avi; Rushinek, Sara F. – Information Processing and Management, 1986
This study used multiple regression analysis to relate computer user satisfaction to communication monitor (CM) variables. Results indicate the variables of user expectations, manufacturers, and vendors are most significant in affecting overall satisfaction, whereas number of systems represented and not using communication monitors have least…
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Software, Expectation, Hypothesis Testing
Cahill, Janet; McGurrin, Martin – 1983
Research has found a strong relationship between aggregate economic indicators and the number of individuals receiving services from mental health facilities. To examine the relationship between macroeconomics and health, the broad utilization patterns and demographic information on the aggregate number of individuals using the mental health…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Economic Change, Health Needs
Goe, W. Richard; And Others – 1984
Data focused on illegal alcohol and marijuana use were collected in 1981 from 4,859 high school students living in two rural counties in southern Georgia. The sample consisted of over 85% of all students in grades 8 through 12 within the two counties. The data were used to test a facilitative-constraint model developed from selected components of…
Descriptors: Drinking, Drug Use, Group Unity, High School Students
Luppens, Jean; And Others – 1984
An attempt was made to determine predictors of service need, use, and outcome among chronically impaired adults and aged who were living in the community and using the home-based, long term care services of the Chronic Illness Center (CIC) of the Cuyahoga County Hospitals (Ohio). Randomly selected consumer service records (N=200) were coded for…
Descriptors: Adults, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Delivery Systems, Disabilities
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Jacobson, Michael J.; Weller, Martha H. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1988
Describes survey conducted among humanities faculty at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to assess their current use of and attitudes toward educational computing. Topics covered on the questionnaire include computer experience, skills and frequency of use, computer interest and anxiety, computer software, and use for instructional,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Correlation
Eisenstadt, Jeanne Watson; Powell, Douglas R. – 1984
This study examined ways in which 42 low income mothers used a multifaceted neighborhood-based parent education program. Two different patterns of sequential relationship between use of staff services, verbal participation in a discussion group, attendance, and formation of peer ties were identified. These patterns were shown to be related to…
Descriptors: Children, Citizen Participation, Community Programs, Conceptual Tempo
Dervin, Brenda; And Others – 1985
This study was conducted to determine how library users in California say library use helps them. While most library effectiveness studies infer effectiveness by looking at the movement of materials or reports of user satisfaction, this study proceeds from the assumption that libraries need to know how library use helps in user terms. The study…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Seeking, Information Utilization, Library Materials
Collis, Betty; And Others – 1988
The interactions between computer use and access by adolescents and their computer-related opinions and values are presented in the framework of a "manifold model" of computer interactions. This model emphasizes the complexity and multidimensional nature of the system of variables in which such interaction is embedded. For this study,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Literacy, Developed Nations, Equal Education
Gorman, Kathleen L. – 1984
The purpose of this study conducted in May 1984 was to: (1) develop a demographic profile of the typical student user of Minnesota University's Walter Library; (2) confirm the validity of a similar survey conducted the previous year; and (3) determine why subjects used this particular library. The third objective was added to this survey via the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Students, Demography, Evaluation Criteria
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Calderon, Rosemary – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2000
This study examined the impact of parental involvement on four outcomes for 28 young children with hearing loss. Although parental involvement was a significant positive predictor of early reading skills, maternal communication skill and the child's degree of hearing loss were more significant predictors for positive language and academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication Skills, Deafness, Early Childhood Education
Kass, Heidi; And Others – 1988
This paper describes the Manifold Access Model, which has been developed for the simultaneous representation and analysis of the interrelationships between five variable clusters: (1) computer access; (2) personal and social attitudes and values with respect to computer use; (3) self-assessed competence and confidence with respect to computer use;…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Adolescents, Computer Literacy, Developed Nations
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Becker, Henry Jay; Sterling, Carleton W. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1987
Data from a national survey of microcomputer uses in schools are used to demonstrate differences in access to and uses of computers by students. Factors examined include race, socioeconomic status, sex, achievement, and ability level. Also discussed are inequality and inequity and the need for additional research on computer impact. (RP)
Descriptors: Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy