This paper reports findings from recent survey research on adolescents' health-related attitudes and practices. The long-term goal of the study was to establish a community database from which to assess the effectiveness of future interventions aimed at altering health beliefs and practices. (Author/DB)

Twelve focus group discussions on attitudes toward tattoos, health beliefs, and awareness of the long-term consequences of tattooing and stigmatization were conducted with 80 volunteers, 6 to 17 years of age. Attitudes toward tattoos were generally negative, although a more favorable attitude toward small tattoos was discernible among early…

Five styles of coping with close interpersonal relationships during young adulthood were assessed for 60 college men and related to measures of conceptualization level and articulation of feelings in subjects' thematic apperception test stories. Intimacy with others was associated with openness to and ability to conceptualize affective experience…

Interviews with mothers, coupled with the adolescents' IQ scores, revealed that female adolescents' IQ scores were related to interests, responsibilities, and further education. Male adolescents' IQ scores were related to responsibilities and further education. Vocational goals provided some evidence of sex differences. Females were reported more…