This document is one of two monographs produced by a three-year project designed to study mid-career changes and the educational and training needs of these adults. A companion monograph, CE 025 226, discusses support systems organized at the local level to serve the mid-career adult student. Divided into four chapters, this document describes the…

Expected family lifestyles of young adult men and women were investigated by examining relationships among sex role preferences, expectations for female labor force participation, intended family age, and attitudes toward the provision of child care. Subjects, 715 randomly selected college freshmen, completed a data sheet which combined questions…

THE PROBLEM OF ADMINISTRATOR SELECTION IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION WAS STUDIED. THE ISSUE WAS CONCEPTUALIZED AS ONE OF UNDERSTANDING THE INTERACTION OF THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR WITH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER SALIENT INDIVIDUALS. A THEORY OF ADMINISTRATIVE INTERACTION WAS DEVELOPED USING THE FUNDAMENTAL INTERPERSONAL…

THE WORK OF AN EARLIER COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT (NO. 470) WAS EXTENDED THROUGH THIS INVESTIGATION BY COMPARING THE MOTIVATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND LEARNING PERFORMANCE OF A GROUP OF INSTITUTIONALIZED MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN WITH GROUPS OF SUPERIOR, NORMAL, AND MENTALLY RETARDED NONINSTITUTIONALIZED SUBJECTS. DATA ON THE…

TWENTY AUTOMATION MANPOWER SERVICES DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS WERE STARTED TO PROVIDE EXPERIENCE WITH JOB MARKET PROBLEMS CAUSED BY CHANGING TECHNOLOGY AND MASS LAYOFFS. THE FIRST OF THE SERIES, ESTABLISHED IN LOCAL PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OFFICES, THIS PROJECT DEALT WITH THE LAYOFF OF 675 WORKERS, PROBLEMS OF READJUSTMENT IN THE PLANT, THE…

THE STUDY TESTED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THERE IS SOME DEVIATION BETWEEN MOTIVATIONS FOR ACCEPTANCE OF A LEADERSHIP ROLE AND THOSE THAT URGE THE SAME PERSON TO SELECT ANOTHER FOR A POSITION OF AUTHORITY. LEADERSHIP-ACCEPTANCE DRIVES MAY BE EXTERNAL (REWARDS AND PRESSURES) OR INTERNAL (SATISFACTIONS DERIVED FROM A LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE). SIX MAJOR…

GOALS OF THIS STUDY WERE TO DETERMINE THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN EACH OF FOUR PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS (ANXIETY, COMPULSIVITY, CREATIVITY, AND EXHIBITIONISM), SEX, INTELLIGENCE, AND ACHIEVEMENT (BASED ON COMBINED TEST SCORES OF RECALL, TRANSFER, AND GENERATION OF HYPOTHESES) FROM PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION AND CONVENTIONAL INSTRUCTION. A YEAR OF…

AN EXPLORATION OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PROGRAMED TEACHING DEVICES AND INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WAS UNDERTAKEN. THERE WERE FOUR PARTS -- PREPARATION OF MATERIALS ON GEOMETRY, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CRITERION MEASURES, PRELIMINARY PILOT EXPERIMENTS, AND THE MAIN EXPERIMENT. THE MAIN EXPERIMENT WAS PERFORMED IN 27 CLASSES…

MAJOR SUCCESS-FAILURE SYNDROMES WERE STUDIED FROM DATA OBTAINED IN A PREVIOUS STUDY (COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT NO. 1533) ON 100 MENTALLY RETARDED, YOUNG MALE ADULTS. STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS HAD BEEN CONDUCTED WITH THE SUBJECTS, THEIR PARENTS, AND THEIR SUPERVISORS. FACTOR ANALYSIS HAD DEVELOPED 21 BASIC PREDICTORS OF SUCCESS AND 17 AFTER-TRAINING…

An overview of adult learning disabilities is presented with an emphasis on the most recent developments in the field. Areas discussed are definition, characteristics, current literature, and program design. Various definitions of a learning disabled adult are identified and the problems associated with these definitions are considered. The…

Many scientists are currently studying the manner in which individuals process social information. The reconstruction of attitudinal and subsequent behavioral information was studied to determine whether information about a person's schema can influence the interpretation of that person's subsequent behavior or whether the behavior itself is more…

A study was conducted to determine how males and females were perceived when using identical dominant behaviors. The subjects, 360 college students, viewed one of six stimulus drawings of groups of four seated people and indicated their attributions of dominant behavior on 22 bipolar perceptual scales. Analyses were conducted to create and compare…

Because interviewing is a face-to-face interaction belonging to the genre of interpersonal relationships, the employment interview is subject to some of the same problems that beset interpersonal relationships. Problems can occur in both interviews and interpersonal relationships because of bias, which originates from background characteristics,…

Subjective and objective covariates of family life satisfaction among husbands and wives were examined. Interviews were conducted in the Spring of 1976 with 974 married adults selected by means of both probability and modified probability sampling designs. Independent indicators were categorized into three general groups: familial characteristics,…

A review of research indicates that a relationship may exist between student seating arrangement, student personality characteristics, and student/teacher verbal interaction. To test hypotheses about the functional relationship among these concepts, researchers collected personality data from 285 students in two sections of a college introductory…