Despite considerable progress in narrowing the health gap between whites and nonwhites (including blacks, American Indians, Asian Americans) in the last 20 years, substantial differences persist. According to most indicators, nonwhites are less healthy than whites. Yet nonwhites see physicians somewhat less often and are less likely to have…

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of positive and negative reinforcements upon black college students. In the first experiment subjects received either positive or negative reinforcement from a black or a white evaluator. Results indicated that behavioral change (compliance) was greater in response to negative reinforcement…

The Student Problem Areas Survey was administered to 237 black and white students attending a predominantly white university and 55 black students attending a predominantly black university. The instrument was developed at the University Counseling Center for the purpose of determining broad problem areas within which relevant mental health…

Data collected from 1967 to 1972 during the National Longitudinal Surveys was used to examine the labor force behavior of the mature women's cohort (women who were thirty to forty-four years old in 1967) as well as their attitudes toward work and home. The findings include the following: while white women increased their labor force participation…

Data collected during the National Longitudinal Surveys were used to examine the labor force behavior of black and white women from fourteen to twenty-four and thirty to forty-four years of age. Focus is on racial convergence in labor force participation rates (the percentage of the population group either working or looking for work) over this…

A review of literature on citizen evaluation of municipal services indicates that whites are more likely than blacks to evaluate city services positively. Differences in socioeconomic and educational status are also discernible in relation to the degree of satisfaction with services. Citizen satisfaction with a variety of public services in…

Aggression scores were obtained from 132 preadolescent inner city males to test the hypothesis that paternal absence may lead to both increased and decreased aggression. The subjects were 55 black, 25 Puerto Rican, and 52 white males between the ages of 9 and 13. They attended elementary public schools in Newark, New Jersey. A statistically…

This is the fourth in a series of studies underway at Ohio State University exploring the importance of race, sex, and ethnic origin in the expression of counselor preference. This study emphasizes the importance of these variables for elementary school students and their parents. (Author)

1960 and 1970 census data on 179 urbanized areas are analyzed in a search for changes over time using five measures of white status--a summary index of the occupational status of employed males the percent of employed males in higher status occupations, the percent of families with income of 10,000 dollars or more, the percent of families with…

Asserts that most research on educational and occupational aspirations assumes that a person has a single level of aspiration, and reports on research focusing directly upon the concept of a range of aspirations, using data from the responses by all ninth grade students in two junior high schools in Highland Park, Michigan, to a questionnaire.…

Black and white kindergarten and second-grade children were tested for accuracy of detection and recognition of orientation and location changes in pictures of real-world and geometric figures. The purpose was to test children's ability to detect and remember objects in a visual display. (Author/CS)

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, concludes that, although education is important, it clearly is not a panacea for the problems of blacks, it is stated: statistical analyses are interpreted as suggesting that a high school education is more necessary among blacks, than among whites, to escape…

Results suggest that a significant proportion of observed race differences on some performance tasks may be attributable to a failure of many blacks to use spontaneously an efficient verbal strategy rather than a genetic reasoning deficit. (Author/DEP)

Research supported in part by U.S. Office of Education, OEC-4-6-061646-1909.

The study involving 105 learning disabled students (6 to 12 years old) investigated the effects of the sex and race of students to determine if these factors were salient to initial placement in elementary learning disabilities classrooms, to the amount or type of instruction received in reading, to the learning behaviors students exhibit in…