Research into the experiential determinants of stress-related health measures has progressed dramatically in the last 10 years. Examination of the relationship between life events and psychological distress has been redirected from an early emphasis on major life events to a focus on minor events, i.e., the positive and negative happenings in…

The practicum provided interdisciplinary team educational experiences for students of physical and occupational therapy. Activities included administering a questionnaire to physical therapy students to determine student understanding of pediatric physical and occupational therapy role delineation. Questionnaires were also administered to…

An exploration of the process by which newly hired high school principals learn instructional leadership roles is presented in this paper, which focuses on the effect of faculty and superintendent expectations on principals' leadership behavior. A triangularized methodology includes indepth interviews with new principals, (n=28) from a midwestern…

The present paper, part of a larger study of family day care, examines providers' perceptions of themselves in relation to their work roles. Perceptions of self as mother, as teacher, and as business owner/operator are analyzed within a theoretial framework including the constructs of self-concept and role conflict. Participants, 10 family day…

Recently, there has been increased interest in the changing role of men, with emphasis on nurturing, parenting, and the role of fathers with their families. Participating in childbirth classes enhances a man's knowledge of pregnancy and of birth, increases his understanding of the father role, and elevates his self-confidence as a parent. Being…

The roles and expectations for student affairs professionals are considered. The history of student affairs as an integral part of U.S. higher education is briefly reviewed, along with changes in students and institutions that are influencing the educational environment. The following assumptions and beliefs of student affairs professionals are…

In a study to explore the relationship of family and work roles to depression in dual career couples, 69 couples, in which both spouses worked full-time outside of the home and had at least one child under 18 years of age, completed the self-report Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D), and a questionnaire assessing work and…

While women are more involved in work outside the home and changes in traditional role orientations are occurring, the nature and extent of such changes remain unclear. A questionnaire was administered to 126 male and 94 female college students to examine their career, marriage, and family expectations. The results indicated that although career,…

In recent years, clinical and developmental psychologists have been practicing in health care settings, including public health programs and hospitals. Psychologists have struggled to develop an identity in the health care setting and a medical-psychological theory for practicing as a consultant with medical patients. Because consultation/liaison…

The Perception of Parents Interview Schedule was administered to 47 Caucasian, 4-year-old children from intact families to determine if mothers' employment status affected children's parental perceptions. Findings indicated that young children of employed mothers perceived their parents' roles differently from the children of nonemployed mothers.…

Aspects of the relative importance of work were examined in a representative sample of 700 Melbourne year-10 students. Instruments were Taylor's Work Quiz (WQ), the Values Scale (VS) and Salience Inventory (SI) developed for the international Work Importance Study, and Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI). From the WQ three basic…

The degree to which spouses actually share household tasks and income production is compared to their ideological commitment to sex role equity. Data were obtained from long-term intensive fieldwork with 19 Los Angeles nurses and their 18 families and from the researcher's doctoral dissertation. All data on family performance patterns indicate a…

To explore the subjective dimensions of public relations practitioner orientations toward their profession in the context of the organizational roles they play, this study combined characteristics of both large-sample survey research and indepth, intensive inquiry. Membership lists of the Public Relations Society of America, the International…

Observation suggests that people who strive for personally important goals disregard failure experiences or disruptions to completing a self-definition and engage in self-symbolizing in the form of positive self-descriptions designed to cover up a lack of support for the self-definition. To examine this self-symbolizing, dyads of females (N=30)…

To explore the facets of the roles of the reading specialist, data were gathered from 23 specialists concerning their values, their perceptions of the values of their principals, and their assessment of the skills in performing their various roles. The specialists were asked to read descriptions for the following roles: (1) resource person, (2)…