A repeated-measures study examined personal and social predictors of patterns of college freshman drug use. Frequency, stage, and self-reported significant adverse consequences of use, were predicated by high social support of use, low expectations for goal attainment, high personal functions of use and high attitudinal tolerance of use.…

Grade-school children's selective listening preferences for natural and altered narratives were investigated. (Author)

Uses the format of transactional analysis to examine the social interactions of scientists. Describes some of the games'' played by scientists to illustrate that they are social creatures motivated by social forces which can sometimes override the basic ethic of scientific objectivity. (JR)

Review of a study concerning drug abuse, conducted at the elementary school level. Study investigated the extent and nature of drug abuse among children of this age. (Author)

Claims there has recently been an awakening interest in Britain in training teachers for tasks involved in the running of schools. However, although there was a considerable amount of experience to hand as to what those tasks were, there was a lack of generalized information from which models of administrative behavior could be constructed. Points…

Children who were forbidden use of an attractive toy were later tempted with attractive prizes to falsify scores. Subjects who complied with the initial severe threat showed less resistence to temptation than control subjects. (JB)

Hours allocated to discretionary and obligatory activities are analyzed through personal status variables--sex role, child-rearing responsibility, work, and income. Also, life styles are differentiated by how the discretionary time is used--social interaction, participation types of activity; passive forms of activity, or rest and relaxation. (BL)

This description of the various aspects of the Devereux Parent Program is intended for use as a possible model for public and other private schools. (Author)

Findings are discussed in terms of traditional personality-trait theory and cognitive development theory. (Authors)

The purpose of the laboratory experience described is to scrutinize the student's commitment to teaching as a profession and to help him overcome areas of personal weakness uncovered by the process. (BY)

Data supported the general hypotheses that internals more actively than externals seek information which they perceive as useful in environmental control and that Negroes behave in an internal, achievement-oriented manner under conditions of appropriate expectancies and reinforcement values. (Author)

Among the main findings were that the home is relatively unimportant compared with school as a source of conflict situations, and that girls have a greater concern for problems of personal relationship at school. Certain problems specific to Ulster emerged. (Editor)

Expands and extends ideas from the market theory of private organizations to the politically more complex situations of public organizations. Uses the concepts of environmental support and policy space to explain the development of a human resources development program by the district offices of the Wisconsin State Employment Service in relation…

Brief description of a series of investigations designed to determine the relative effectiveness of various motivators in effecting oral hygiene behavior in a group of junior high school. Presented at the annual meeting of the American School Health Association, San Diego, California, 1972. (JC)

The findings of this study with respect to on-task behavior and grade point average, provide support for the position that a counselor can serve effectively as a behavioral consultant to teachers. The classroom behavior management approach offered advantages over the client-centered group counseling behavior and grade point average. (Author)