Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of television's impact lies in its creation of a generation of viewers incapable of making critical judgments about the media, their world, or themselves. (JD)

Young (N=38) and 2( older career changers in business-managerial occupations were compared to 45 young and 40 older vocationally stable controls with respect to several characteristics. Results showed career changers were characterized by high incongruity, emotional maladjustment, and fear of failure, and low differentiation and consistency of…

Systems logic in family intervention is a new way of conceptualizing human behavior. It assists the helper to decide where and how to intervene to most effectively mobilize the energy, resources, and skills of the family. (Author)

Health educators must learn what specific behaviors sustain health and prevent illness, and how they can be established and maintained among consumers. (JD)

In a survey of 192 women medical students, first- and second-year students were acutely aware of an identity crisis as a woman and desired a fourth-year elective with a woman physician. Third- and fourth-year students had little interest in working with a woman physician, but were concerned only with the physician's competence. (Editor/LBH)

The work ethic and the success of a system based increasingly upon consumerism has created an image of man in which the quality of life is measured in terms of quantity and ownership of goods; in ethics and attitude, our system of education is creating an ideally receptive population for the producer-consumer society. (JD)

Examines relationship between social class and marital communication style. Style refers to ways in which messages are sent rather than content. Four interaction styles are employed: conventional, controlling, speculative, and contactful. All classes have the same general rank order regarding styles, suggesting class differences are matters of…

Influence of early occupational achievement of single never-married women on subsequent marital status is examined for a national sample of U.S. females, aged 30-44 in 1967. For white females, a positive relationship is observed between occupational achievement and likelihood to remain single; for black females, the relationship is much weaker.…

Examined in a longitudinal study were the effects of conditions on alternation and perseveration of eight moderately and severely mentally retarded institutionalized adults. Available from: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 355 Chestnut Street, Norwood, New Jersey 07648. (CL)

The movement to decriminalize homosexuality is well launched and will no doubt continue. However, legal reform cannot itself bring about a complete redefinition of homosexuality. Gay activist groups are searching for other institutions that repress or inhibit homosexuals' liberation. (Author)

To determine whether children's observable kindergarten behavior might predict eventual educational risk, 40 of 94 children originally observed in their classrooms at the beginning of kindergarten were followed at completion of second grade. Attending behavior correlated highly with eventual risk, leading to speculation about early identification…

This paper discusses the functionality of the linguistic code in communication processes of a family in a crisis situation and in need of concealing its plight. Basic concepts of verbal interaction are discussed to show the difficulties of any open exchange of messages within a family with a dying patient. (Author)

Investigates in a controlled setting effects of a suicide threat. Produced greater self-rated anxiety and tension, greater physiological arousal, and an increase in the likelihood that the subject would talk to the stimulus person about suicide, death, or dying. (Author)

French native speakers' reactions to phone calls in the United States indicate a difference in the norms of interaction between the two countries. This difference, in turn, is understood when one realizes that the phone call, constituting a speech event, is open to different cultural interpretations. (CHK)

Eight German and eight Italian children were observed during their first year in preschool. Cultural differences and similarities in play and behavior and sex differences are reported. Findings suggest that strategies that children use to enter kindergarten or a new group exist universally. (Author/RH)