This study examines the relationship between maternal childrearing practices (specifically, nurturance and restrictiveness) and a number of demographic and personality variables. A total of 232 mothers of preschool age children from different socioeconomic levels and ethnic groups participated in the study. Each subject was sent six instruments…

This study examined writings of Canadian adult educators for the purpose of describing their field of inquiry. The study described the field by its four basic areas of inquiry--learner, learning, process, and environment--and by the components of each area. The methodology was divided into three phases: creation of a glossary of descriptive adult…

An undergraduate honors course on the Nobel Peace Prize winners at the University of Maryland focuses on styles of leadership and includes three main areas of attention: (1) the inner journey, or heart of the peacemaker, (2) leadership exercised through organizations and movements, and (3) the rhetoric of the leader. The course was divided into a…

A study of ways in which users conduct subject searches with an online public access catalog (OPAC) was performed at the College Park Campus of the University of Maryland. Both process (search patterns) and product (search results) variables were examined with respect to individual characteristics of 39 volunteers, many of whom were master's level…

The P-A-C (Parent-Adult-Child) concept of personality in transactional analysis provides the salesperson with a vehicle for analyzing the sales environment while the drama is in progress. (MW)

The case records of 348 homebound clients receiving vocational rehabilitation services from the New York State Homebound Rehabilitation Program were examined to explore attributes of homebound applicants, their rehabilitation experiences, and program outcomes. Data was summarized for characteristics which included age, most common major…

A survey of adult continuing education needs and preferences under the sponsorship of the Division of Continuing Education, New York Education Department, was completed by a total of 20,486 upstate New York adults, excluding New York City. The survey instrument was designed to obtain information from adults (all persons sixteen or older who were…

The subjects of this study were mothers of 8-year-old and 14-year-old boys. Each mother was presented with six vignettes, four of them depicting moderately severe problem behaviors and two of them more severe problems. Mothers rated each on: (1) how serious a problem it was; (2) what might have caused it; (3) how they would attempt to deal with…

This study addresses major identifying characteristics of the poor in Mississippi. These include problems which are apparent from a study of census data and other secondary materials, such as family composition, family size and occupation, and socioeconomic and demographic attributes. Mississippi has changed from a one crop economy to a…

This study was designed to further explore the relationship between sex role identity and social competence in a developmental context. Two specific questions were of concern: Do levels of masculinity, femininity and social competence vary by age, and does the relationship of masculinity and femininity remain constant and positive in non-college…

The results obtained in a series of investigations with locus of control used as an independent variable provide evidence in support of the results obtained from situationally contrived studies of perceived control. The impact of stressors seems to be diminished in situations in which participants can exercise some degree of control. Likewise,…

Describes experimental gerontology being done in the U.S.S.R. in which the biology of aging, and expecially the biology of human aging, is studied in detail. (EJT)

Reviews theory and research on two issues which may be of concern to population planners: (1) are there likely to be shifts to the zero and one-child family; and (2) do children in single and two-child families differ from one another and from members of larger families in terms of psychological characteristics? (Author/JM)