A causal model for career choice was tested on longitudinal data from 173 students. Results showed clear sex differences. Psychological profit with regard to continued education had a clear direct effect as well as an indirect effect on career choice. (Author)

Investigated four traditionally male and four traditionally female occupations on dimensions which people use to judge prestige or importance of a job. Results indicated a tendancy for subjects to give lower ratings to workers in nontraditional jobs. (Author)

Major points of this paper are: (a) that the goals of femininity and competence are not necessarily the same, and (b) that little is known about how to rear females to be competent, partly because competence, especially intellectual competence, has never been considered an important goal for females. (Author/AM)

The inevitability of role transformations in adulthood--transformations that often involve crisis, conflict, and confusion--frame the case for adult guidance. To facilitate these changes and help clients regain a sense of control over their lives, counselors need to understand the decision-making process and the salient issues of adulthood.…

Verbal and nonverbal cues were studied in a multichannel communication paradigm to assess their effect on the communication of empathy, respect, and genuineness. Counselors and clients rated videotaped interactions between counselor and client, each portraying a different combination of verbal message, trunk lean, eye contact, vocal intonation,…

American English speakers, divided into musically untrained and trained groups, show no ear advantage for pitch contrasts which are recognized by speakers of Thai, when presented in a linguistic context. The only effect of musical training is an enhancement of left ear accuracy for pitch contrast recognition. (Author/SW)

The general attitudes consistently held by undergraduates in clinically-oriented curricula toward pharmacy continuing education tend to be more like nonparticipants than participants in continuing education. Participant-pharmacists have more favorable attitudes than those classified as student or nonparticipants. (Author/LBH)

An environmental assessment of ethnic minority students was performed using the College Student Questionnaire and the Environmental Satisfaction Questionnaire. Significant differences between ethnic groups, between sexes within ethnic groups, and differences by class, college, and sex were found. (Author)

Games players need a large repertoire of movement patterns that they can use under differing conditions in the playing of games. (JD)

This paper attempts to explicate a model of child maltreatment as a problem of family asynchrony-i.e., as a mismatch of parent to child and of family to neighborhood and community. The problem is best understood as an issue in the study of the ecology of family life. (Author)

A comparison of Soviet time-budgets from the 1920's and the 1960's shows continuity in the extent to which employed Soviet women have far more housework and far less free time than their male counterparts. (Author)

Families pass on a heritage of dysfunctional constructs and roles to the next generation. Children learn to apply certain inadequate constructs to themselves. By reconstructing childhood through visual imagery, clients can learn to apply different constructs to themselves so that they can unlearn their dysfunctional roles. (Author)

Describes ways for developing visual imagery in the early childhood education program, preparing children for discrimination learning and reading instruction. (RL)

To explore the relationship of language use and speech adaptation to role and context, the spontaneous speech of a 5-year-old boy was recorded in three different situations: playing alone, playing with a friend of the same age, and playing with his mother. (Author/SW)