This study tested the predictive ability of MMPI scales to identify United States Air Force Academy freshmen who were "high risk" for problems of emotional adjustment and subsequent separation from the Academy. Rate of attrition and problems in emotional adaptation leading to separation were significantly greater in the high-risk group…

Although a complex process, canonical correlation has numerous potential advantages over other predictive techniques, the most important being that canonical correlation predicts several criterion variables simultaneously. The paper shows how the method can be used for industrial and vocational-technical education data. (Author)

This study of teacher education graduate follow-up surveys examined the relationship between response rate and number of graduates, questionnaire length, and follow-up contacts. Also, the study investigated survey practices differentiating between surveys which had high and low return rates in such areas as number of follow-up contacts,…

This study examined the quality and quantity of interactions between mothers and their firstborn 5-year-olds. These interactions were considered longitudinally within the context of a family perspective. The goals were to delineate predictors of the quantity and quality of mothering from the women's adaptation and from their husbands'…

Three successive models were developed to test the existence of a need that leads individuals to select one mass medium over another and also to examine the idea of audience activity. Since it has been noted that uses and gratifications research has focused excessively on habitual media behaviors, the focus instead was on a medium where choice…

Substance abuse among adolescents continues to be a serious problem and a national concern. Most of the research on family correlates of substance abuse has been conducted with teenage addicts and has consisted primarily of reports obtained from the substance abusing adolescent only. This study attempted to identify clusters of family variables…

The last decade has provided considerable research on the causes and effects of physical aggression in the family, but much less has been accomplished on the causes and effects of verbal/symbolic aggression. This verbal/symbolic aggression is defined as a communication, either verbal or nonverbal, intended to cause psychological pain to another…

The manner in which job attitudes and organizational commitment are related to personal attributes and organizational environment was studied for 588 secondary school teachers from Hong Kong. Instruments used to measure these variables are summarized in a table, which also gives psychometric characteristics and validity information. Confirmatory…

The effectiveness of noncognitive variables in predicting college grades and persistence for international students over 8 semesters was studied at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Noncognitive Questionnaire (NCQ), an instrument designed to assess eight noncognitive variables found to be related to academic success for U.S. minority…

A study using the Markov chain model was conducted at Kirkwood Community College (KCC) in Iowa to predict the age and probationary status of faculty members over the next 20 years and to estimate the budget required to cover increased salaries associated with additional experience. The study predicted faculty composition under four alternative…

A study examined the predictive power of four groups of variables in a public information campaign conducted by a charitable organization to raise funds. The variables related to contributions generally fell within four categories: attitudes, knowledge, promotion (which included both mass media and interpersonal communication), and demographics.…

Enrollment success at private colleges was examined, based on a national study of private college presidents. Enrollment success postulated that colleges will experience enrollment stabilization or improvement if they function at a relatively fixed rate of growth over an extended period. The study was also based on the systems concept, which…

Using a revised theoretical model of newsworthiness, a study investigated the prominence with which world events are covered by the United States news media. The model differs from previous newsworthiness studies by adding two measures of the deviance of events and by including several country-based social significance predictor variables. Two…

This cross-sectional study attempted to (1) demonstrate that children's sex role orientation is related to their tendency for Type A behavior and (2) ascertain whether children expressing Type A behavior would experience difficulty in making and keeping friends. Participants were 286 kindergarten children and elementary school students in the…

New York City's middle school Attendance Improvement and Dropout Prevention (AIDP) program for the 1985-86 school year is evaluated at 10 schools whose programs most closely adhered to the guidelines developed by the Chancellor. The report includes an introduction with background information on the program and evaluation; a literature review…