Research indicates that male children are more likely to be abused by nonfamily than by family members. Residing in a neglectful home or a mother-headed household and having previous homosexual contact tend to heighten risk for sexual abuse by nonfamily members. Effects appear to be serious and long-lasting. (Author/JW)

Addressing methodological limitations, Study One compared parent-child interactions of normal and language-delayed children; Study Two investigated whether mothers adjust the length of their utterances to the child's ability to comprehend or to produce language; Study Three probed interactional variables associated with variations in the…

A project in which a group of 73 adult, correctional-facility inmates (20 women and 53 men, mean age of 28.6 years) was screened by pure-tone audiometry and by acoustic-immittance procedures is presented. Educational and other implications of the wide extent of undetected and untreated hearing losses in the correctional population are discussed.…

Comparison of intragenerational mobility of black and white men shows the following: (1) black upward mobility is less frequent and more restricted; (2) blacks within the public sector have substantial rates of upward mobility to nonmanagerial positions; and (3) discrimination against blacks in the labor market has not disappeared. (Author/PS)

As part of a longitudinal study, Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT) performance was assessed at age 11 and related to California Child Q-Sort evaluations obtained both concurrently and at age 14. Offers evidence for a "competence" interpretation rather than a "conceptual tempo" interpretation of the MFFT and strongly…

Results showed differences in subject preference between male and female students and between mixed and single-sex schools in England. Perceptions of subject importance also showed some sex differences, but on the whole males and females from both kinds of schools are in broad agreement as to the relative importance of subjects. (Author/RM)

Discusses fertility of Hispanic adolescents in the United States. Summarizes what is known about sexuality, contraception, pregnancy, and childbearing among male and female Hispanics of various countries of origin. Indicates Hispanic adolescent birthrates fall between those of non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks, but there is considerable within-group…

Among college students, significant differences were found on all three dimensions (wife, mother, and father roles) of sex role attitudes between men and women but not between Blacks and Whites. The interaction of race and sex in conditioning effect of background variables on sex role attitudes varied among the four sex-race subsamples. (Author/GC)

Compares the reactions of mothers of 6- to 11-year-old conduct-disordered boys with those of mothers of normal boys, matched for age and education of mother, in situations whereby each mother interacted with her own child, with a child not her own of like classification, and with a child not her own of different classification. (HOD)

Proposes and investigates feasibility of using three new variables in addition to simple activity counts in measuring reference services: (1) user questioning regardless of where activity occurs; (2) treating individual user and question as unit of analysis; and (3) examination of questioning in context of other library use. (11 references) (EJS)

A quantitative study of the degree of substitutability between men and women faculty in higher education and the extent to which salary differentials have played a role in altering sex distribution in academe suggests nonsalary factors are responsible. (MSE)

Describes several career and family issues that may arise for adults and suggests possible counseling interventions. Several assumptions are made about the work/family connection: renegotiation of work/family balance continues throughout work life; a variety of demographic variables affect work/family roles; and some issues relate more to roles…

Youth unemployment in Sweden and its repercussions on upper secondary education are analyzed. To allow theoretical education in the upper secondary school to be available to everyone is to educate for unemployment and ignore the problems. (RM)

Among 278 inner-city men studied for four decades and over three generations, eight variables captured 28 percent of the explained variance in upward social mobility: IQ, mother's education, mother's occupation, boyhood ego strength, and four ego defense mechanisms--intellectualization, dissociation, sublimation, and anticipation.…

Investigated effects of teacher-induced imagery generation on rule recall and transfer using boys in ninth-grade physical science classes assigned to imagery encouragement or discouragement treatment groups. Results indicate that imagery utilization significantly facilitates rule recall and that imagery encouragement during instruction leads to…