Presents a theoretical framework for environmental behavior prediction. Investigates the relative strength of eight variables in predicting responsible environmental behavior in a study using Sierra Club and Elderhostel participants. Identifies perceived skill in and knowledge of environmental action strategies and environmental sensitivity as…

Concurrent and longitudinal associations between risk factors and substance use for a sample of high school students were examined. Ten risk factors assessing important personal and social areas of life were defined. Among the findings was that the number of different risk factors was predictive of increases in use of all types of substances.…

Comments on a recent study (Rodolfa, Rapaport, and Lee, 1983) investigating variables related to premature therapy termination. Suggests that the lack of connectedness to prior research may have limited results. (JAC)

Evaluated the effectiveness of an academic index, experiential background, and personal interviews, in predicting faculty ratings of academic success and potential counseling effectiveness in 77 trainees. Results showed graduate aptitude test scores predicted academic achievement, but not competence. Experience and interviews showed no significant…

Explores whether transactional/interactional, environmental, or developmental status models best represent growth from infancy to early childhood. Attempts to identify features of the social environment important for specific developmental outcomes. Observations of interactions between 40 mothers and their three-month-old infants were used to…

Reviews research on the relationship between women's educational attainment and timing of their entry into parenthood. Presents data from a 15-year follow-up of high school students originally surveyed in 1957-58 (and resurveyed in 1973-74). Concludes that educational attainment has a strong delaying effect on timing parenthood, but that their…

Describes conpensatory education and discusses who receives it, its effectiveness, what happens to students when compensatory services are discontinued, what happens to achievement over the summer, what classroom practices influence learning, the home environment of elementary school children, and the relative contribution of background and…

Examined the relationship between selected independent variables and graduation from college five years after students (N=1,943) first matriculated. Results showed that the variables accounted for less than six percent of the variability in the graduate/nongraduate criterion with high school rank being the best individual predictor. (Author/LLL)

A meta-analytic method synthesized results of 108 studies of the relationship between college grades and various criteria of adult achievement or success. Results showed little correlation, although effects were larger for military settings and studies before 1950. The predictive value of grades is questioned. (MSE)

To identify some of the specific cognitive correlates of high-quality, audience-adapted writing, 35 college freshmen wrote a typical academic essay and also a persuasive appeal directed toward a specific readership. Results showed that social cognition played a more significant role in writing a persuasive message. (HOD)

The study investigated personality and aptitude correlates of test-wiseness skills, which were measured by assessing the subject's ability to utilize deductive reasoning and item cues. Personality factors and aptitude were measured. Results indicated that cognitive variables have more power to predict test-wiseness scores than do personality…

A study of predictors of academic success among Nigerian students in two U.S. universities encountered the problem of too small a sample despite methodological precautions. It raised the question of whether it is possible to establish general placement recommendations applicable to foreign students in different institutions and from different…

Describes two studies that assessed the strength of the relationship between the appraisal of one's problem solving effectiveness and depressive symptomatology among college undergraduates. Results indicated that all three problem-solving dimensions were significant predictors of depressive symptoms. The depressed group appraised their…

Explored the relative importance of individual, dyadic, and triadic measures of intrafamily functioning in predicting family health. Dyadic measures pertaining to marital quality and parent-child relationships were more powerful predictors than either individual measures of emotional maturity, anxiety, self-esteem or locus of control, or triadic…

During the summer before first grade, 22 boys were videotaped as they attempted to enter a group composed of two unfamiliar boys. Confederates of the experimenter, the unfamiliar boys enacted scripted games and presented several scripted problematic social situations. Subjects' behavior in the setting was used to predict their first-grade…