Concludes that personal relations, professional experiences and occupational success form a network of relationships which integrate the occupational and nonoccupational roles of highly specialized practitioners. Part of a Study of Careers in the Mental Health Field, supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grant MH-09192 and directed by…

Analysis of responses of 167 husbands and wives to the Blood and Wolfe family decision and job performance instrument revealed similar distributions of the two sets of responses but substantial discrepancies between spouses which appeared to be randomly distributed and offsetting, suggesting that they may be caused by perceptual differences rather…

Results confirm that there is a significant tendency for homogamy between the traits of the subject and the traits of her fiance, as perceived by the subject. When the traits are not homogamous, there is a significant tendency for the fiance to resemble the subject's ideal self rather than her actual self. (Author)

This study deals with the relationship between number and spacing of children and family role structure as measured by decision making and household task performance. Data on childbearing patterns and family role structure indicate that family size, spacing between marriage and first birth, and spacing between first and last birth are all related…

The factors found to be related significantly to premarital pregnancy were educational attainment, social status of father, social status of husband, and social mobility. The data suggest the premarital pregnancy has significance for social mobility through the process of mate selection. Premarital conception may result in middle class females…

Consequences of early marriage are reviewed and stated as three propositions involving social class placement following marriage, divorce rate, and negative affect. Three derived propositions are obtained from these. Theoretical family propositions are related to exchange theory and shown to be special cases of it. Presented at American…

Data from case records and questionnaires show that spouse support is positively associated with job success and is more predictive of that success among the more educated. (Author/CJ)

Findings suggest that unhappy marriage is a disability, analogous to minority race, economic deprivation or physical illness. (Author)

Discusses conventional treatment of family harmony and conflict in a consensus-equilibrium framework, suggests as more fruitful approach view of family as a system in conflict. Briefly outlines premises underlying such a frame of reference and explores its implications for study of family. Revision of paper presented at Ohio Valley Sociological…

The data indicate that there is a claer association between many aspects of the interaction in the couple and the wife's satisfaction with her husband's understanding. These aspects are communication, the power structure, the realization of the planning of family life, and agreement in the couple. (Author)

Using Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale and an Adoption Attitude Scale administered to 113 college students study supports hypothesis that among males dogmatism and intolerance toward areas relating to adoption would be positively correlated. Negative correlation for females suggests that emphasis on maternal role makes adoption attitudes exception to…

Data were collected during October, November, and December of 1967. Computations for this project were performed at the Indiana University Medical Research Computation Center.

Revision of a paper presented before the Progress and Poverty in Social Change Section of the Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, 1967.

Doctoral dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1967.

Paper presented to the Ohio Valley Sociological Society at Notre Dame University, May 1967.