This study investigated whether people engaged in high risk-taking occupations would seek or prefer highly stimulating activities of a nonvocational nature more than people engaged in low risk-taking occupations. The high risk-taking group scored significantly higher than the low risk-taking group on all five dimensions of the Zuckerman Sensation…

Scarcity of time is a pressure felt by many people; this is carried over into their pursuit of leisure, producing stress rather than relaxed enjoyment. (JD)

The literature on motivational and cognitive factors related to the achievement orientation of black women is reviewed. Achievement motivation and fear of success are discussed, and the inconclusiveness of the findings for black women is noted. Limited data concerning black women's expectations for and causal attributions about achievement…

This article labels some types of general group silence in group counseling and offers some techniques which have been found useful in dealing with these silences. (Author)

The work adjustment of 26 methadone-maintained corporate employees was evaluated. Results indicated: (a) relative to their nonmethadone-maintained coworkers, the methadone-maintained employees had comparable job performance and superior punctuality and attendance; and (b) the methadone-maintained skilled laborers were satisfied with their…

Provides an analysis of the definition, description, and origins of hyperkinesis. Details the various treatments of hyperkinesis and the effects of social factors in the success of the treatment. (Editor/RK)

Six responses are presented to the question of relationship of love, sex, and commitment as revised by Sager in the Spring 1976 issue of this journal. Theoretical and historical perspectives as well as issues of coupling, eroticism, sexual dysfunction and therapy, and psychosexual development are discussed. (HLM)

This paper reviews the most comprehensive report on one-parent families in the world, the Finer Report of Great Britain (1974). Some of the findings and recommendations are summarized, and the reaction to the report is mentioned. (Author)

The author asserts that a way of life based on understanding man's responses to stress and constant change is the only way that leads out of the present jungle of conflicting judgements about right and wrong, justice and injustice, in which a sense of values has become entangled and obscured. (Author)

The author describes stress and its effect on the counsellor. The use of relaxation training is presented as well as a bibliography of books, journal articles, and tape recordings dealing with the subject of stress. (HLM)

Ethnic preferences of black and white college students were measured using subjects' ratings of employment applications of either Afro-Americans, Asian-Americans, or Whites. The data revealed that whites preferred white applicants and blacks preferred black applicants across all categories. (Author)

Focuses on lawyer-nonlawyer patterns of response to incongruity and suggests that communicators be aware of the necessity for adopting different message strategies for lawyer and nonlawyer recipients. (MH)

This paper focuses upon patterns of alcohol abuse and permissiveness among a sample of 230 high school students residing in a U.S. military community in Europe. Patterns of abuse are seen as symptomatic of the military life style and the homogeneity of the environment surrounding the respondents. (Author)

The committee process is notoriously susceptible to manipulation. A real pro develops ploys to insure that meetings run exactly as he or she intends. The author here presents tips on how the social worker can guard against such strategies. (Author)