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Download full textJohnson, J. David – 1987
Two studies examined the relationship between various indicators of communicative work dependency and response satisfaction. Work dependency is a structural variable that influences individual information processing needs, while response satisfaction is a relational variable pertaining to the communication climate of organizations. For Study One,…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Information Needs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1987
Written in response to a request to review the implementation of the Department of Agriculture's Electronic Dissemination of Information (EDI) system, this fact sheet discusses the performance of the contractor operating the system and the role of EDI in the Department of Agriculture's overall public dissemination activities. A letter from the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Contracts, Costs, Formative Evaluation
Graham, Steven W.; Cockriel, Irv – 1990
The study attempted to evaluate the perceived utility of college majors, the academic major and career congruency, a general assessment about the quality of the educational preparation, and the effects of gender upon the outcome measures for 53,372 college alumni. The American College Testing (ACT) Alumni Survey was used to collect data between…
Descriptors: Alumni, Career Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Quality
Fraser, J. A. H. – 1990
Opinions of contract grading were received from 51 undergraduate education majors and 28 graduate students majoring in education in Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada). Students at both educational levels reacted to contract grading in a clear and decisivly positive manner. They agreed that the grading system and assignments were made clear…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Education Majors, Foreign Countries, Grading
Aust, Charles Francis – 1985
This study examined the influence of the affective nature of television news on satisfaction with an individual's own life as well as on an individual's outlook regarding good fortune and misfortune. Subjects, 30 male and 30 female undergraduates at Indiana University, viewed a variety of news stories and completed two questionnaires, one rating…
Descriptors: Audience Response, College Students, Emotional Response, Factor Analysis
Chambliss, Catherine; Hartl, Alan J. – 1990
American family life is being transformed by the trend toward two paycheck families, yet most people have not been socialized to live in this way, and social institutions have been slow to accommodate the needs of two paycheck families. Accordingly, this paper presents a package of therapeutic techniques designed to help members of two paycheck…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cooperation, Counseling Techniques, Dual Career Family
Bollin, Gail G. – 1990
In an effort to explain the high turnover rate among family day care (FDC) providers, a study of the effects of perceived social support, job satisfaction, and the establishment of boundaries between a family day care provider's nuclear family and her FDC system was conducted. Analysis of data gathered from a mail survey of over 300 currently and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Early Childhood Education, Faculty Mobility, Family Characteristics
Zeidler, Anita L.; And Others – 1987
Although the influence of patterns of childrearing and parent-child relationships may be long-lived and far-reaching, it is not clear that parents and children have a similar understanding for judgment about parental behavior. An exploratory investigation was conducted to examine the degree and type of dissatisfaction with parental nurturing…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, College Students, Family Life, Fathers
Arffa, Naomi B.; Strube, Michael J. – 1986
Researchers have begun to recognize that because Type A and Type B behavior patterns represent pervasive lifestyles, they may have general implications for various psychological phenomena. One area of interest concerns the influence of Type A and B behavior on the quality and functioning of interpersonal relationships. A study was conducted to…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Zitlow, Connie Swartz – 1987
The Teaching Excellence Program, designed to promote faculty use of practice-centered inquiry, was conducted at a large research university (Ohio State). The program was based on a conceptualization of practice-centered inquiry that draws on action research, reflection-in-action, and action science ideas. Data collected throughout the program…
Descriptors: Action Research, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Inquiry
Bradley, Jan; And Others – 1986
This report is the ninth in a series of studies that have examined student life at Indiana University residence halls using an ecosystem perspective. In the 1986 study, a representative sampling of dormitory residents was drawn. A questionnaire used forced-choice items on a Likert-type scale. An environmental referrent section gave students the…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Dormitories, Ecology
Wright, Michael D. – 1986
A study examined the relation between the esteem, autonomy, job satisfaction, demographic characteristics, and expressed desire of industrial education teachers to leave the teaching profession. The study population consisted of 45 full-time industrial education teachers who taught in small, medium, and large departments (15 teachers from each…
Descriptors: Demography, Faculty Mobility, High Schools, Job Satisfaction
Wilson, Stephan M.; Peterson, Gary W. – 1986
A central issue in thinking about the quality of life is the relationship between objective and subjective indicators. A study was conducted to examine the relative importance of objective status indicators, internal referents of life conditions, residential characteristics, and self-esteem on life satisfaction. Socioeconomic status and gender of…
Descriptors: Community Size, Life Satisfaction, Low Income Groups, Occupational Aspiration
Chissom, Brad; And Others – 1986
To explore several categories of variables strongly associated with professional satisfaction and dissatisfaction in American middle schools, responses of 540 out of 900 targeted middle school teachers to two open-ended questions were analysed. (The two survey items were drawn from the Status of the U.S. American Middle School Teacher…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Faculty Workload, Interprofessional Relationship, Job Satisfaction
Jackson, Elaine E. – 1986
The Austin (Texas) Independent School District's Office of Research and Evaluation revised its surveying procedures in 1982. To reduce the demands on teachers and administrators, various surveys were consolidated and administered on a regular basis. Teachers and administrators were surveyed every fall and spring, high school students in winter,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination
