At the University of Iowa, a 5 percent random sample of the student population was surveyed concerning their use of alcohol. Of the student respondents, 33 percent reported a concern for the consequences of their drinking, and an equal proportion know of a student friend whom they thought had a drinking problem. (Author)

Investigates the influence of contraceptive knowledge among young persons on sexual involvement, personal responsibility, and perception of options in the event of unwanted pregnancy. (Author)

Examines female and male sex-role orientation with emphasis on the structural and attitudinal predictors of sex-role ideology. Findings show sex-role orientation based on nontraditional wife-mother, husband-father and problematic husband-wife alterations roles elicted a significantly more modern response from females as compared to males. (Author)

Ratings of vocational competence, marriageability, and interpersonal success were made by male and female subjects of a stimulus person described in a one-page, single-spaced biography. The results indicated that both men and women perceived the female attorney as being the most vocationally competent. (Author)

Surveyed graduate counseling students regarding attitudes toward homosexuality. Results indicate counseling students feel ill-prepared to deal with homosexual clients, are unsure about the etiology of homosexuality, and that female students respond differently from male students regarding many aspects of homosexuality. (Author)

This study investigated the nature of sex differences among university students' attitudes toward rape. Results showed males were quite different from females in their attitudes and tended to support many myths regarding rape. Implications of the results concerning the nature and prevention of rape on college campuses are discussed. (Author)

Sex differences in the attitudes and behavior of entering freshmen toward 13 drugs were examined through the administration of anonymous polls at the University of Maryland during three consecutive years, 1972-1974. The polls were designed to investigate the incidence and frequency of drug use; the students' reasons for using and not using drugs;…

This experiment was performed to assess the effects of the experimental confederates' sex and contrived group peer pressure on the drug attitudes of male college students. Subjects were exposed to all male or all female groups of experimental confederates (persuaders) who expressed either extremely pro-drug or anti-drug sentiments in a guided…

The purposes of this study were to examine the attitudes toward women of various groups of college students and to study their attitudes in relationship to levels of exhibited authoritarianism. A greater percentage of authoritarian subjects perceived women in a negative way. (Author)

Compared with men, women were found to be vocationally more mature and their intrinsic work values were more related to vocational maturity. (Author)

The Daniels Test of Interracial Apperception and Ideology (DTIAI) was administered to 2,070 student and staff members. Analyses indicated significant differences between the scores of (a) members of desegregated and all-white residence halls (b) administrators and students, (c) new students and returning students, and (d) males and females.…

An anonymous questionnaire was administered to a representative sample of incoming freshmen at the University of Maryland, College Park (N=491; 53 percent male, 47 percent female). Data were compared with previous surveys at Maryland (Horowitz and Sedlacek, 1973; Fago and Sedlacek, 1974 a,b) and analyzed by percentages, chi-square, F and Friedman…

Single Caucasian undergraduates of Protestant religious preference, 115 men and 105 women, were tested to find correlates of, and to compare social-psychological to demographic variables in predicting, subjects' desired family sizes. Demographic variables, which best predict desired family size, may represent the continued influence of subjects'…

Male (N=67) and female (N=83) students filled out the Do-It-Yourself Death Certificate (DIYDC), Handal and Templer death concern scales, and a Death Personification Exercise (DPE). Males and females who saw death as being sexless showed less anxiety about death. (Author)

Male and female college students responded to stories about married physicians whose total income was greatest, respectively, when (1) the husband cared for the children, (2) the wife cared for the children, (3) either spouse cared for them, (4) the wife earned more than the husband, or (5) the husband earned more. (Author)