Three hundred Four-H adolescents were surveyed to determine their attitudes toward the aged and the relationship of these attitudes to selected personal and situational factors. Results showed that these youths generally held positive attitudes toward older persons. Those having a positive sense of purpose in their own lives held more positive…

A study explored the relationship between personality characteristics and interest in writing an autobiography. Fifty-three undergraduates in a university course in the psychology of personality participated in the study. Results indicate that extraverted students chose not to engage in self-exploration by writing an autobiography, but that…

To determine the role of the legal secretary and legal assistant in law offices in Atlanta (Georgia), personnel from thirty-seven law firms completed questionnaires designed to collect information concerning personal characteristics, job status and duties, method of selection, educational background/previous job experiences, and future goals.…

College men and women (N=187) were classified as stereotyped, near-stereotyped, or androgynous by Bem's criteria. Bem's measure of psychological androgyny appears to reflect a highly generalizable personological construct that implicates both desirable and undesirable dimensions of interpersonal behavior. (Author)

Shows greater discrepancies between the perceived self and ideal self-concepts of college women with high levels of anxiety than college women with low levels of anxiety. (RL)

Supports the notion that personality affects cognitive test performance and that such a relation can be experimentally demonstrated. (RL)

Reports on an empirical investigation of behaviors exhibited by early elementary school children while viewing two programs of a children's bilingual multicultural educational television series. The effects of the program on group membership, grade level and sex during viewing were examined. (Author/DEP)

A study of a U.S. national sample of females ages 25 through 40 reveals a moderate association of education, and a weaker association of physical attractiveness, with husbands' occupational prestige. The contribution of education to females status attainment through marriage seems to vary positively with level of origins and the contribution of…

The significance of incorporating information regarding nonprogram factors as well as program factors in evaluation of teacher education programs is examined. (MM)

A theory of the importance and effect of an exchange-orientation for marriage and friendship was developed. It was hypothesized from this theory that an exchange-orientation in both members of the pair would be inimical to marriage adjustment and facilitative of situationally determined friendships. The data generally support the hypothesis.…

There is an acute need to revise premedical advising to better meet the needs of students. Medical schools should share the responsibility and initiative in creating a system whereby career choices are made by positive actions on the part of students rather than by trial and error or default. (Author/LBH)

Describes some general methods of promoting creative thinking and learning that can be used to focus attention, increase depth of conceptualization, and make the curricular content relevant and enjoyable. (Author/RK)

Describes a study conducted to design or adopt a device to assess the job satisfaction of home economics faculty, describe the components of job satisfaction, and investigate the effects of selected characteristics of home economics faculty on level of job satisfaction. (SH)

Examined demographic, social, and economic characteristics of unmarried cohabiting partners among young adults. Never-married partners and ever-married partners differed from each other in level of education and economic situation and appeared to have different reasons for cohabitating. For many cohabitors, living together appeared to be a…