Social support in the workplace may take many forms, and the form it takes may be related to the extent to which it buffers the relationship between occupational stressors and individual strains. A study was conducted to examine social support given to subordinates from their supervisors. Nurses (N=225) from seven hospitals completed measures of…

The degree to which vocal accommodation occurred in the interaction of mothers with 27 infants 3- to 5-months old equally divided among three diagnostic groups (heart disease, Down Syndrome, and no known abnormalities) was investigated. Videotapes were made of the infants during 3 minutes of face-to-face play with their mothers. Tapes were coded…

Although it has been suggested that women are less likely than men to use cardinality in dealing with environmental space, there has been no direct empirical assessment of this claim. If women are less likely than men to use cardinality, it is not clear whether women lack the competence to use a coordinate system of reference or simply prefer…

Patterns of auditory response among aphasics are described and hypothized and retraining methods are enumerated. (CH)

The purpose of this study was to examine the verbal behavior, knowledge and attitudes of day care teachers and to note the interrelationships of these factors. In order to accomplish this purpose data was collected from 53 randomly selected teachers from 20 randomly selected day care centers in Delaware. (Editor)

A study of classroom communication. (CH)

Voluntarily initiated student verbal behaviors originating during classroom communication related to values awareness are identified, defined, and illustrated by examples. These behaviors are: (1) focus setting; (2) reporting course of action; (3) reporting value judgment; (4) reporting value; (5) reporting prediction; (6) reporting data; and (7)…

Content analysis of connected instructional discourse depends on the fundamental distinction between the content to be learned ("intrinsic") and the content intended only to support the learning processes ("mathemagenic"). Depending on the expected outcome of learning and the learner's entering competencies, the nature and…

The present study examines the relationship between observed behaviors and attitudes of black fathers and the association of these paternal measures with the self-esteem of their preschool children. This research is a part of a larger on-going study of black parent-child interaction and their relationship to the development of social competence of…

This paper discusses the type of marking rule normally used in the production and interpretation of message forms for which semantic marking is possible. The structure and use of such rules is illustrated through a recent study of the semantics of personal address among the Balangingi' Samal, a Muslim group of the southern Philippines. The rule…

Examines types of communication processes, means of communication, barriers to effective communication, skills to improve the accuracy of communication, and implications for the administrator. (Available from Buckeye Association of School Administrators, 750 Brooksedge Blvd., Westerville, Ohio 43081) (Author)

Discusses the teaching of French as a second language to Tunisian students. The emphasis is on practicing "in action" and "in situations" so that the language is taught as a means of communication and not as an end in itself. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Describes ways to vary instructional activities in the French language classroom so as to emphasize the communicative function of language. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Achievement tests were administered to physics students who had been instructed in one of three teaching styles: open-ended, intermediate, and expository. The results of a statistical analysis lead to the general conclusion that the unrestricted advocacy of an open-ended style of teaching physics is not justified. (Author/MLH)

Communication apprehension, the apprehension an individual has about interpersonal communication, was hypothesized to affect both the perceived desirability of a number of occupations and the actual job choice made by subjects. Both hypotheses received support. (Author)