Results suggest that thinking about the future and about the impact of the past and present on the future seems to be more common to college students than to people not in college. (Author)

The tone of children's responses was positive yet realistic. Children did not view their parent's divorce as an overly distressing experience. The nature of responses was consistently related to age and level of locus of control and interpersonal knowledge in the open-ended interview and in the structured questionnaire. (Author/BEF)

Examines the extent to which statements representing eight broad dimensions of communication are associated with words commonly used to identify relationships of varying degrees of intimacy. Dimensions of the interaction included are uniqueness, depth, breadth, efficiency, flexibility, smoothness, spontaneity, and overt evaluations. (JMF)

A small sample of Ohio school board members, superintendents, principal-supervisors, and school business managers suprisingly agreed in their perceptions of real and idealized leadership behavior of the business managers. All four groups indicated very large differences between real and ideal perspectives. (SB)

The conceptualization of teacher role has led to the six-factor Role Dimension Profile Scale. When responses to the scale used with a Likert data collection format are analyzed, the resulting single dimension is interpreted as the teacher's "professional horizon." Implications of these results are discussed. (Author/GSK)

Relative contributions of form and function information to concepts of 10 objects were investigated with first, second, and third-grade subjects. For first graders, function information about objects took precedence. For second and third graders, form information took precedence. (Author/GSK)

A eulogy to art educator and researcher Henry Schaefer-Simmern, explaining his theory of gestalt visual conceiving and artistic cognition. (SJL)

Examines survey data from a metropolitan community to investigate comparative rankings of needs of older persons by service providers and their elderly target population. Training in gerontology, serving elderly clients exclusively, and having direct contact with elderly clients as line staff were not predictors of knowledge of elderly needs.…

This study indicated that counselors spent the same amount of time performing similar functions, regardless of the number of mentally retarded persons in their case loads. Counselors believed they were well-trained for carrying out policies and procedures, but desired for more training in working with the mentally retarded. (Author/BEF)

Offers four action-oriented concepts a counselor needs to understand to be effective in fostering development of human potential within the school system. Priorities offered for elementary grades include kinesthetic-oriented learning, an emphasis on fostering curiosity and creativity, and the holistic approach to learning. (Author/BEF)

Apparently contradictory findings regarding the locus of information processing differences between retarded and nonretarded persons were discussed. (Author)

Presents experimental findings that indicate that some number capacity is present in 22-week old infants, long before the onset of verbal counting. Suggests that verbal counting may have precursors present during infancy. (CS)

Evaluation of leadership is a central task in organizational consultation, but too often ignores the relationship between task definition and administrative structure, and the availability of scarce resources. A systems approach focuses on the reciprocal impact of individual psychodynamics and organizational characteristics on leadership…

Elderly subjects demonstrated significantly greater levels of persistence. Contrast relationship of the target stimulus and its background did not interact with age. Although the data were consistent with a hypothesis of increased persistence of stimuli in the senescent nervous system, problems in the direct measurement technique are evident.…