Investigated attitudes toward suicide and death across two intrafamilial generations to better understand possible causal factors underlying increasing suicide rates among the young. Findings indicate support for the hypothesis that the youthful generation holds more "accepting" attitudes toward suicide and death than does the parental…

Surveyed college students (N=167) about norms for sexual behavior. Concluded that the "permissiveness with affection" norm exists and violators of this norm are negatively labeled, but different standards apply to men and women. Suggests counselors become aware of the complexity of this sex code and their own biases. (JAC)

Examined the applicability of an expectancy/decison model to assertiveness in a nonclinical population. Results suggest that participants consider the consequences of being assertive when making a decision about how to behave. Training programs should take into account the participant's perceptions of the risks involved in being assertive.…

Discusses some of the issues relating to student values and presents some suggestions for motivating distributive education students to achieve desirable standards of behavior. Examines the teacher and other role models, expectations of high standards of behavior, student code of conduct, and student-teacher relationships. (CT)

Examined high school students' perceptions of behavioral deviations from sex roles. Reports that perceptions varied depending on whether subjects were making attributions toward a member of their own sex or the opposite sex. (ST)

Group gestalt therapy in which the leader facilitates the development of helping capacity in group members is described. The general characteristics of this approach are discussed and ground rules concerning leader and member behaviors are suggested. (RC)

The keyed bibliography brings together the important publications concerned with the issues of teacher selection, education, and training in an attempt to further the growth and development of family life education as a viable field of study. (Author)

Discusses the effect of the interactive accomplishment of conversational normalization. To illuminate this process, this article investigates how the parties to a news interview collaborate to normalize the interviewee's practices in operating a house of prostitution. The methodological impetus for this study involves a variant of conversation…

Explores the relationship between college students' self-reports of adolescent substance use and scores on indices tapping different aspects of guilt. Results suggest that a stronger internalization of societal standards, as reflected by higher scores on Standards and Situational Guilt, may prove a useful tool in the prevention of substance use.…

A multidimensional model of mental retardation is proposed, based on medical, behavioral, and social dimensions. The model's theoretical underpinning emphasizes that an individual might be retarded in one or a combination of senses. The model introduces a conception of socially constructed retardation and suggests methods for operationalizing and…

Forty British parents of two-year-olds were asked about gender-related adult roles, beliefs about gender differences in children's behavior, and whether they perceived their own child in terms of gender-specific behavior. The majority of children were perceived as conforming to gender stereotypes. (Author/BJV)

The value structure of the academic profession has been affected by expansion and changes in the organization of higher education, making it less likely for individuals to subscribe to a collective academic code. Quality assurance efforts are thus undermined by the same rationalizations that gave them birth. (MSE)

Problems associated with the establishment of speech codes on college campuses, in response to hate speech, are examined. An inventory of speech regulations already in effect at 384 colleges and universities, by Arati R. Korwar, is also presented. The summary organizes behavior and related policy into 13 categories. (MSE)

Academic freedom cases from 1970-1990 filed with the American Association of University Professors, in which institutional managers dismissed faculty members for their participation in academic governance, are reviewed. It is concluded that such cases occur most often in less prestigious colleges with less regard for national standards of faculty…

Reported the regrets of intellectually gifted subjects to determine if the nature of their regrets mirrored those reported by the general population. Analysis of survey responses of subjects (mean age=74) revealed that, like the population as a whole, they harbored more regrets of inaction than regrets of action. (RJM)