A study was performed to identify empirically those essential living skills (ELS) perceived as important by men and women in their roles as a family member, an individual, and as an employee. Data was collected on a voluntary basis from 4,929 employed persons contacted through businesses, and 124 homemakers surveyed door-to-door. The ELS…

A list of 787 students who had completed courses in the Community Services Program at Minneapolis Community College (MCC) during the fall quarters of 1977 and 1978 was checked against official transcripts at the end of 1979 to determine if participation in non-credit courses led to registration in credit classes. Transcripts were tallied by year,…

Some implications of the Southern Survey of Agricultural Majors for the training of agricultural professionals are examined. Women agricultural majors were found to be playing a role in the recent growth in enrollment. Females were found to be less likely than male students to have parents who own farms. It is claimed that agricultural education…

Rapid societal changes in traditional male-female relationships partially explain current black male-female communication conflict; but first-generation black professional women face unique problems in maintaining effective communication in two subcultures. Data from a doctoral dissertation on black professional women's perceptions of their…

The relationships of children's perceptions of the causes of academic success or failure to achievement behavior and to reading ability were examined using two measures: Crandall's Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Scale (IAR), and a measure of students' causal attributions relating to performance of a single, specific task. Subjects were…

The implications of physical and biological sex differences on sex role behavior cannot be understood without analyzing the complementary role of the sociocultural meaning of sex roles. The normative aspect of gender role behavior is fluid and can be affected by culture, class, and ethnicity. All societies recognize differences between the sexes.…

THIS IS A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE AND OCCUPATIONAL CAREER PATTERNS IN TWO NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITIES. THE OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO EXPLORE ORIENTATIONS OF INDIVIDUALS TOWARD VARIOUS GROUPS WHICH INFLUENCE THEM, AND (2) TO DETERMINE THE VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF THESE INDIVIDUALS. SAMPLES OF 400 ADULT WHITE MALE WORKERS WERE DRAWN FROM EACH BLOCK…

THE EMPHASIS IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION IS MOVING FROM A STRESS ON FREEDOM TO A DEMAND FOR EQUALITY IN ALL ASPECTS OF AMERICAN LIFE, AND EMPLOYMENT FOR THE NEGRO IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE PROGRESS TOWARD EQUALITY. THERE HAVE BEEN GAINS FOR THE NEGRO PROFESSIONAL AND FOR TECHNICAL AND CLERICAL WORKERS BUT LOSSES FOR BLUE COLLAR,…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE OF THE MINNESOTA VOCATIONAL INTEREST INVENTORY (MVII) PATTERNS AND VOCATIONAL ENROLLMENT TO AID IN THE SELECTION AND COUNSELING OF STUDENTS. OVER 1,000 HIGH SCHOOL BOYS IN THE 9TH AND 12TH GRADES WERE TESTED. A VARIETY OF VARIABLES WERE TESTED INCLUDING ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION. THE MVII WAS FOUND VALID IN SOME AREAS AND…

MAJOR SUCCESS-FAILURE SYNDROMES WERE STUDIED FROM DATA OBTAINED IN A PREVIOUS STUDY (COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT NO. 1533) ON 100 MENTALLY RETARDED, YOUNG MALE ADULTS. STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS HAD BEEN CONDUCTED WITH THE SUBJECTS, THEIR PARENTS, AND THEIR SUPERVISORS. FACTOR ANALYSIS HAD DEVELOPED 21 BASIC PREDICTORS OF SUCCESS AND 17 AFTER-TRAINING…

Solutions to specific problems associated with intercollegiate athletics, primarily men's spectator sports and particularly football, are proposed in order to enhance the values of the sports programs at small colleges. After a historical summary of recurrent problems, recent proposals are noted. It is argued that most proposals for dealing with…

This manual is designed to provide educators with information, procedures, and materials for complying with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and promoting sex equity in extracurricular programs. The manual is comprised of four major sections. The first section presents the legal and educational context for complying with Title IX and…

A study was conducted to determine how males and females were perceived when using identical dominant behaviors. The subjects, 360 college students, viewed one of six stimulus drawings of groups of four seated people and indicated their attributions of dominant behavior on 22 bipolar perceptual scales. Analyses were conducted to create and compare…

This paper discusses a study to determine patterns of residential segregation by sex in Washington, D.C. over a 30 year period. Objectives were to explain statistically sex ratio distribution in housing, identify unsuspected sex discrimination processes affecting urban populations, and to clarify residential clustering. Washington, D.C. was…

To test whether parental behavior has an important impact on a child's behavior in later life, records describing home atmosphere during childhood were linked with records of subsequent criminality gathered when subjects were middle aged. Discriminant function analysis based on six variables describing home atmosphere was highly successful in…