This research was based on a counseling model of prevention through attempts to influence the behaviors of significant adults. Group counseling was offered to parents of first-, seventh-, and ninth-grade children during the first year of the project. During the second year group meetings for teachers were conducted. Previous monographs have…

This volume has four major sections: (1) Abstracts of instructional and research materials, which present information about authors, titles, availability, and content of documents; (2) subject index, (3) author index, which helps locate relevant documents by author/institution names, and (4) projects in progress, which announces in-progress…

This study tests the hypothesis that persons will express relatively independent degrees of preference for ambiguity in different experiential domains. An original measure consisting of four subscales was developed to assess individual differences in the theoretical, social, economic and aesthetic domains, and was administered to a student sample.…

This study of the present and projected space requirements for book and periodical collections of the State University of New York Libraries, excluding community colleges, is based on the assumptions that the annual rate of acquisitions and the present space dedicated to book and periodical shelving remain constant. The survey questionnaire…

Information on this list of vocational education research projects for fiscal year 1977 includes the following: state name and project number; grant number or contract number; grantee or contractor and project director's address; the title of the project; project time period; and the amount of the grant. A section is also provided for the special…

Adolescent coital activity and the attendant risk of pregnancy is a problem with far-reaching implications. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of family variables on adolescent sexual behavior and contraceptive practices. More specifically, the research question was: Could a set of parent-adolescent interpersonal variables be…

Established by Congressional Act in 1950, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is charged with a variety of responsibilities in the areas of education, research, applications of research, data gathering, and information dissemination. The foundation is governed by an appointed director and a national board and is primarily funded by the federal…

An anonymous religious poll and the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS) were administered to 168 white University of Maryland entering freshmen. The anonymous poll consisted of 29 items pertaining to religious activities, beliefs, and issues. The SAS is an instrument designed to measure attitudes of whites toward blacks in 10 situations. The results…

Ninety-two graduate students in counseling and psychology were asked to respond to tasks measuring creative expression and certain value constructs. Significant, although minimal, correlations occurred between some factors of creativity and values. The value scale produced two opposing value factors for this sample of counselors. Results suggest…

This paper presents Project C-BE suggestions for those investigating the possibilities of using computers as an instructional resource. Topics are suggested to stimulate thought with regard to both the problems and the potential of computer-based education. (Author/CH)

This report evaluates five NIMH (NIDA) -administered drug education projects for their operations and effectiveness. Findings and recommendations are presented in Part I, while the second section utilizes a process model and specific observations to discuss a variety of dimensions of drug education procedures. (Author)

The research undertaken for producing a "Dictionary of American Regional English" (the DARE project) is reported in this document. Ten spoken and 13 written sources of relevant data are listed, and outlines of the editing and production procedures and of the material to be included are given. Completion date for the dictionary is 1976.…

The purpose of this study was to: (1) develop and implement training modules designed to change appropriately certain counseling skills among students enrolled in the counseling practicum; (2) assess the effect of the training modules on certain counseling skills of students; and (3) investigate the effects of modular skill training during the…

The hypothesis of a negative relationship between level of self-actualization and fear of death was based on the assumption that people are not afraid of death per se but of the incompleteness of their lives. Fear of death was furthermore assumed to inhibit orientation toward the future, thereby restricting movement toward achievement and…

The effects of modeling and rehearsal in counseling nonassertive adolescents were examined by randomly assigning subjects (Ss) to one of five treatment groups: modeling plus rehearsal (MR), modeling only (M), rehearsal only (R), placebo control (P), or delayed-treatment control (C). Significant (p < .05) main effects for treatment were found on…