This guide to teaching ethnicity from the ethnic individual's point of view is designed to accompany the student sourcebook, The Individual and Ethnic Identity (see SO 013 157). The sourcebook, suitable for secondary and higher education, contains quotations of 51 individuals from varying ethnic backgrounds and varying degrees of ethnicity. It…

This student sourcebook, developed by an ethnic identity project, contains quotations of 51 individuals from varying ethnic backgrounds and with varying degrees of ethnicity. Appropriate for secondary and higher education, the primary objective is to illustrate that people who identify with ethnic groups are individuals and not merely members of…

Two forms of continuing education (CE) in nursing exist--voluntary and mandatory for continued employment, membership in an organization, or maintaining licensure to practice in the profession. Lack of nurses' participation on a voluntary basis was chosen as one rationale to determine if mandatory CE should be legislated in Indiana. A replication…

The relationship between understanding and rhetorical sensitivity was studied in the context of dating relationships. The hypothesis was that rhetorically sensitive persons would understand their dating partners better than persons who were not rhetorically sensitive. Subjects for the study were 34 dating couples in which one of the partners was…

This study tests the hypothesis that children who viewed videotaped aggression would imitate aggressive behaviors more frequently than would children who were not exposed to aggressive displays. A cognitive factor, reinforcement value, was also hypothesized to be a significant variable in the behavior of the children. Prior to treatment, subjects…

This study examined similarities and differences between blacks' and whites' responses to rarely endorsed Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) items, as well as those items responded to most differently by the ethnic groups. Our subjects, 882 normal black middle-class adults from Alabama, Michigan and North Carolina, were compared to…

A conceptual model of the childbirth experience is developed which emphasizes: (1) maternal coping during labor and delivery; (2) postpartum evaluation of the experience; (3) stress and coping; (4) health and illness behavior; (5) interactions between individual physiological and psychological characteristics; and (6) physical and social…

The adequacy of the evaluation, potency, and activity (EPA) system as a scheme for the dimensions of an individual's implicit personality theory was tested using two methods. In the free-response method, each subject described himself and a number of people known to him using trait terms of his own choice; in the other method, each subject used a…

Demographic, personality-attitudinal, and interpersonal measures were examined to determine which measures best predicted the couple's present family size and projected family size (present size plus additional children desired) for both the wife and the husband. Subjects were 35 Caucasian, middle class, Protestant couples in Knoxville, Tennessee.…

Conflicts that accompany weight loss as indicated by the presence of anxieties and fears in individuals who have lost an uncontestably large amount of weight were investigated. Subjects (N=12) who had lost a minimum of 100 pounds in a medically supervised weight program were interviewed about the onset of obesity, concurrent personal conflicts,…

Guidelines for the efficient use of educational paraprofessionals and aides are given. Job descriptions, roles, and activities are defined so that a school district may obtain a clear picture of the type of individual necessary for such a position. The areas of peer tutors and volunteers are not specifically addressed, but the recommendations…

Subjects were 138 inmates from the pre-release unit of a Southwestern prison system, randomly divided into three groups of 46 each. Each group viewed a video-taped model delivering a speech. The independent variable had three levels: (1) lecturer attired in a shirt and tie; (2) lecturer attired in a correctional officer's uniform; and (3) model…

As part of a longitudinal study of first-term enlisted naval personnel, perceptions of job scope (the complexity and challenge of a job), were investigated to predict criteria of satisfaction, enlisted performance ratings, and turnover. Correlations between job scope (Job Diagnostic Survey scores) and behavior as moderated by a variety of…

The results of the experimental effect of low-inference teacher clarity variables on achievement and on retention were determined by means of a randomized control group, posttest only, basic design. Members of an introductory education class viewed videotapes of lessons containing either high or low teacher clarity variables. Subjects who took a…

This study surveyed 343 older students (twenty-five years old or older) at the University of Houston to determine their educational and career goals, their reasons for returning to college, changes brought about by college, and their satisfaction with aspects of college. Findings of the survey indicated that the students were relatively young…