Assesses which organizational structures and climate variables were related to agency success in placing developmentally disabled children for adoption. One hundred ninety-nine public and private agencies in the United States and Canada participated in the study. Overall, decisiveness was an important agency variable in placement. Variables for…

Surveyed 141 single fathers about their experience as homemakers, the nature of their father/child relationship, and overall role satisfaction. Most men felt comfortable and competent as single parents, regardless of the reason for custody or their financial status. Both economic status and reason for custody influenced the father/child…

Increased pressure is facing many administrators today for teachers to assign more homework to students. Recent research is reviewed that correlates homework positively with student achievement, and the need for a homework policy in school districts is emphasized. (TE)

Surveyed 150 rural employed mothers to determine family and job predictors of satisfaction with the dual-work role. Findings indicated the saliency of job satisfaction variables in determining role satisfaction among this group of women as opposed to hypothesized reference group support variables and nontraditional value orientation variables.…

Discusses the concept of temperament interactions in the context of statistical interaction. Categorizes temperament interactions that involve temperament as an independent variable, as a dependent variable, or as both. Describes use of hierarchical multiple regression for the analysis of temperament interactions. (Author/CI)

The evidence for possible negative effects of first-name characteristics on personal functioning is equivocal. Two studies were conducted that avoided previous methodological problems of measurement, sampling, and statistical control. Results indicated that children's social competence and school achievement were unrelated to the frequency or…

Explores the effects of family structure during the teenage years on the likelihood of marriage later using data from two national longitudinal surveys of young people. Results indicated that childhood family patterns do influence later family formation. Sons and daughters and Blacks and Whites are affected somewhat differently. (JAC)

Predictors of job change for academic staff administrators are examined. Analyses of questionnaire data from administrators who had been employed from 1971 through 1978 indicated that predictors of job mobility differ for diverse kinds of moves with two exceptions--age and gender. (Author/MLW)

A relationship was found between a surgery clerk's chances of receiving an honor rating and level of student advocacy, number of completed patient interview and physical examination write-ups, and examination scores. Several less relevant variables had no relationship with honor ratings, lending support to the faculty forum evaluation approach.…

Goodman's logit analysis (the simplest form of log-linear models) was used with hypothetical school survey data to analyze and predict teachers' attitudes toward proficiency tests. Logit analysis can estimate the "main effects" and "interaction effects" of categorical explanatory variables on dichotomous-dependent variables in…

The similarity of process in psychotherapy and in college teaching, and the predictors of success in both processes, are discussed and tested using personality variables as predictors of success in two dissimilar medical courses. In both courses, as in psychotherapy, variables predicting success included aspects of personality adjustment and…

Developed an occupational stress inventory for school counselors, based on a pilot study of 353 counselors and a replication study of 410 counselors. Factor analysis identified six factors of occupational stress. Age and school size were the variables that had the most influence on perceptions. (JAC)

Explores the social determinants of the timing of the first birth in a nationwide sample of 6,752 women. Results showed education at marriage is the most important predictor. Although a few social determinants (i.e., race and religion) have a direct effect, most affect age at first birth through education. (JAC)

The correlation between advanced level secondary school grades, used as university admission criteria in England, and university achievement is examined using data on 1979 graduates. The relationship was found to be statistically significant but weak, possibly related to the accuracy of scoring. (MSE)

Investigates whether the Piagetian forms of sensorimotor, symbolic, and constructional play--together with controlled demographics such as socioeconomic status, age, and sex--predict social-emotional variables on the Devereux Child Behavior Rating Scale. (RH)