Describes the revision strategies of basic and competent twelfth-grade writers as they wrote for their teachers and their peers. (HOD)

Investigated time conceptualizations and delay of gratification capacities of 64 6- to 10-year-olds identified as impulsive or reflective according to performance on Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test. They were administered a maintenance of delay of gratification task, a time concept questionnaire, and several measures of temporal perspective…

Interviews with 74 older parents and with one each of their middle-aged children were conducted. Data were analyzed in terms of agreements and disagreements between parent and child and of perceived agreements and disagreements. Findings are discussed in terms of the developmental stake theory, a metaorientation, and asymmetry in the parent-child…

This study examined the relative influence of changes in orientations toward peers and parents on the drug-use patterns of a panel of rural youths. Data analysis revealed that after three years there was greater distance between youths and their parents on the subject of drugs. (Author/LMO)

Describes a study that explored the collaborative writing processes of a group of business executives over the course of a year as they prepared a vital company document. Shows how context affected the writers' conceptions of their rhetorical situations and their writing behavior and how the rhetorical activities influenced the structure of the…

Examines the social perspectives presented by a sample of the Children's Choices books to determine if the protagonists' behavior is primarily individualistic or shows concern for the group or community. Concludes that the books tended to espouse the self as the focus for activity. (FL)

Examines the extent to which elementary school principals perceive themselves as performing specific reading supervision or administration behaviors connected with teachers, students, policy, or the community. (FL)

Faculty who see themselves primarily as teachers have a local orientation. Those involved with research and service work are more likely to have a cosmopolitan orientation. Teachers should undertake research or service commitments that extend beyond the local campus. Faculty should not rely exclusively on students to evaluate their teaching. (RM)

Examined the role of difficult temperament or behavioral style and tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use in the 133 subjects of the New York Longitudinal Study. Results indicated that the possession of difficult temperamental characteristics at age five and in early adulthood are associated with drug use in young adulthood. (JAC)

The Health Locus of Control (HLC) Scale is an area-specific measure of expectancies regarding locus of control developed for prediction of health-related behavior. Two experiments show discriminant validity of the HLC in contrast with Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. Normative data on the HLC are provided. (Author)

In an earlier article, Orden and Bradburn (1968) presented a model for the structure of marital happiness which consisted of two independent dimensions, one of marital satisfactions and the other of marital tensions. Further examination of their data suggests that their measures of satisfactions and tensions were only two of a larger number of…

Notes that black children who find themselves too often among unwelcoming and uncaring adults and hostile institutions need all the developmental freedom they can muster to build muscle necessary for encountering the very white society in which we live. (Author/AM)

Adjustment of patients with a serious medical condition to psychological stress accompanying their disorder was investigated. Long-term hemodialysis patients (N=22) and 24 patients in recovery stages of minor medical problems were experimental and control subjects. A significant relationship was found between denial and external locus of control…

This paper presents preliminary data on 100 subjects of the first longitudinal study of Canadian widows. Widows have more psychological problems than a comparison group of women under treatment for breast cancer. Widows living alone with dependent children report higher stress levels. (Author)

Retirement counseling offers assistance to the person who lacks either the knowledge or the skills to define or solve the problems that arise in this later stage of life. (Author)