Findings from the ninth triennial administration of the National Survey of First-Year Seminars, describing the nature and extent of first-year seminars on American college campuses. Drawn from a broad sample of colleges and universities from every institutional type, control, and size, the survey addresses topics including seminar characteristics…

A general set of leadership functions is developed based on theoretical and empirical considerations and is operationally defined by an interaction coding procedure. (Author)

In this study, visual representations and childhood egocentricity were explored to see how young children found their simple representations adequate and sufficient at one time and then progressively increased their own demands for comprehensibility, accommodating to the perspective of the viewer. (Author)

The relationship between the degree to which people see others as like themselves (assimilative projection) and the frequency with which they use positive adjectives to describe people was examined in the context of changing role perspectives. (Editor)

The purpose of the present study was to determine the influences of sex and sex-role identification on the perceived characteristics of a good manager. A sample of 335 students from various undergraduate and graduate business courses completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory both for themselves and for a good manager. Three hypotheses were tested--that…

This paper attempts to explore the utility of applying a role-stress perspective to the analysis of psychopathological symptoms among a nonclinical population of Cuban adolescent immigrants. (Author)

Reviews empirical research on role variables in various professional groups and describes an empirical study that investigates the relationship between certain role and job satisfaction variables for a sample of 68 professional librarians. Thirty-three references are listed. (FM)

For many years, librarians have been bothered by negative portrayals of librarians in the media. Unattractive, non-professional old maids have been the dominant images of librarians in the movies. In 1989, the American Library Association issued a campaign designed to promote a more accurate, positive image of the librarian in an attempt to change…

The purpose of this study was to explore a group of non-dating pre-adolescents meaning of dating by investigating their reasons for engaging in this social behavior and their perception of those activities that constituted this role from their present frame of reference. (Author)

This study deals with how long managers perceive it will take them to learn their positions, and how long their superiors and subordinates estimate it will take them to learn. (Author)

College freshmen in 1968 tended to show higher Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) clinical scale scores than freshmen in 1958. Role confusion and premature identity foreclosure of college students was considered. (Editor/RK)

Develops a classification that provides assistant principals with a useful framework within which, at both system and school levels, they might examine their behavior and consider modifications. (Author/IRT)

The present study was designed to permit an evaluation of the attributional processes of actors and observers to behaviors with positive and negative implications for the actor. (Author)

Presents data from a survey of senior management personnel that was designed to test the hypothesis that self-actualization will increase the productivity, creativity, job satisfaction, and personal growth of management personnel. Analysis of the survey data supported the hypothesis. (For availability, see EA 507 385.) (Author/JG)