Results of a grade 12 marketplace survey indicated a high correlation between students' and parents' perceptions that the college experience is a value-added experience in preparation for employment and a significant variance between counselors' opinions as to why students select colleges as compared to students' and parents' opinions. (Author/BL)

Examined the prediction that marital adjustment would be more a function of intra-relationship skills and beliefs than of extra-relationship hardships among dual-worker couples. In support of the predictions, the couples' belief in their ability to resolve disagreements was found to be the best predictor of marital adjustment. (Author/BL)

Predicted that parents' gender, level of psychological differentiation, perceptions of the marital relationship, and occupational identities would account for differences in parental experiences. Sex differences were found. Greater marital harmony and more advanced occupational identity statuses predicted more confident parenting; better marital…

Assessed working mothers' degree of role strain, and their perceptions of their work, child care, and family environments. Role strain among working mothers was found to be related to factors in their work and home environments, such as their job satisfaction, and the degree of conflict in their families. (Author/BL)

Research was conducted to identify the most prolific journal writers in the field, and 18 persons were surveyed in order to ascertain how they organized themselves personally and professionally, in order to write productively. The results are analyzed, and recommendations are made regarding the organization of oneself for publishing success.…

The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire was administered to undergraduate volunteers, and responses were analyzed comparing attempters, contemplators, and nonattempters. A factor analysis indicated seven significant factors accounting for 24.2 percent of the total variance. A discriminant function analysis yielded two functions that discriminated…

Using interview and survey data, two major variables (cognitive ability and student expectations) were identified as predictors of grade point average in a community college population. (Author)

Compared college students with 2-7-8 profiles on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (N=39) and students scoring high on the Perceptual Aberration-Magical Ideation Scale (N=41) on symptoms thought to indicate psychosis proneness. Results indicated that the groups did not differ on the number of subjects with psychotic and…

Families (N=109) participated in a behavioral parent training program to modify aggressive and abusive family relationships. Successful and nonsuccessful outcome groups were then compared in child, adult-interactional, and socioeconomic characteristics. A discrimination analysis model correctly predicted a steady increase in the probability of…

Early temperament was assessed at ages six, 13, and 24 months via mother ratings on age-appropriate versions of the Infant Characteristics Questionnaire (ICQ). Home observations of mother-toddler interactions at age 24 months were made, and behavior sequence variables were analyzed. The 24-month form of the ICQ was developed in this study.…

Occasionally situations arise in which a measurement does not lend itself to such traditional methods of reliability estimation as the test-retest, parallel-test, or internal consistency methods. This paper proposes basing reliability estimation in such situations on estimates of validity coefficients as lower bounds. (Author/LMO)

Presents a strategy for theory building about adjustment in single-parent families. Theory components, predictor variables, propositions, and influences are cited. (BL)

Investigated the relationship between sex-role orientation and cognitive preferential response style. Although masculine and androgynous individuals were expected to demonstrate extratensive and intraversive cognitive styles, respectively, no such distinction was apparent. However, feminine individuals did demonstrate an ambitent response style.…

Investigated expected outcome on a test as a determinant of mood among college students. No correlation between mood and expected result was found. However, anticipated emotions, attributions of the expected result to chance and attribution of mood to the exam did correlated with mood. Female students were more affected than males. (Author/BL)

Because mainstreaming programs can be stressful for teachers, parents, and students, school counsellors can help in the integration of disabled children into regular classrooms. Suggestions for the successful integration of these children are given. (Author/BL)