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Fort Wayne Women's Bureau, Inc., IN. – 1981
An Indiana study was conducted to research adequacy of employment and training programs to displaced homemakers, assess characteristics of displaced homemakers, assess effectiveness of past and current programs, and make recommendations. Information on characteristics of displaced homemakers was gained from 280 respondents at six workshops, 146…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Delivery Systems
Heller, Tamar – 1980
This paper reviews the research of the effects of involuntary residential relocation on the personal adjustment of institutionalized individuals, i.e., the institutionalized elderly, mentally ill, and mentally retarded. Discrepant findings in studies of involuntary relocation are discussed in terms of the transferees' personal characteristics, the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Ecology, Emotional Adjustment
Download full textMoore, Roy L.; Moschis, George P. – 1981
Anticipatory consumer socialization is the learning of consumer roles and perceptions, which will be assumed at a later time, such as those that children acquire before they become adult consumers. A survey of 784 adolescents was conducted in a southern state to examine the anticipatory consumer socialization effects of such factors as the mass…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavioral Science Research, Career Choice, Consumer Economics
Pratt, Linda K.; And Others – 1981
The relationship of the dimensions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to scores on the National Teacher's Examination (NTE) was examined. The MBTI classifies people on each of four indices: extraversion/introversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and judgment/perception. A sample of 111 students, 90 percent of whom were black,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Black Students, Education Majors
Tiktinsky, C. Michael; White, Martha S. – 1977
The purpose of this research is to describe the major dimensions of satisfactions with children in a group of professional women whose careers are child-related. Participants were 132 women students in a five-month continuing education Nurse Practitioner training program in pediatrics or maternity. The questionnaires and personality inventories…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Child Caregivers, Child Rearing, Employed Women
Response Analysis Corp., Princeton, NJ. – 1979
In order to identify and assess the unmet post-secondary educational needs and preferences of adults (age 17 or older) residing in Atlantic and Cape May Counties (New Jersey), 750 area adults were selected, using a random-digit sampling technique, and interviewed. Respondents were categorized as belonging to one of five relevant educational market…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adults, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges
Malitz, David; And Others – 1978
The object of this research was to establish a reliable test battery to determine probable future success for those persons who wish to be trained as expert classroom observers. The focus of this investigation was to predict coding performance. This report presents the findings of a replication of an earlier study that indicated that coder…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Criteria, Individual Characteristics, Interaction Process Analysis
Brod, Rodney L.; And Others – 1980
Special difficulties surround the efforts of the Indian Health Service (IHS) to recruit and retain physicians for its extensive health care delivery systems on Indian reservations, particularly those of the Navajo. A comprehensive questionnaire survey obtained data on the background and attitudes of federal physicians practicing in each of the 8…
Descriptors: Altruism, American Indian Reservations, Attitudes, Individual Characteristics
East Texas State Univ., Commerce. Occupational Curriculum Lab. – 1979
This occupational investigation guide contains learning activities designed to aid the student in self-appraisal. Activities included in the guide focus on areas such as (1) recognizing basic needs, (2) taking a self-assessment, (3) recognizing individuality, (4) finding one's interests, (5) recognizing abilities, (6) building a winning…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, Grade 7, Grade 8
Gemmill, Perry R.; Kiss, Mary Ellen – 1979
This learning activity package (LAP) titled Characteristics of Disadvantaged Learners is one of a series designed to develop competencies needed by vocational teachers working with disadvantaged students. Each LAP concentrates on one general vocational teacher competency and contains the following sections: an introduction, a teacher competency…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Identification, Individual Characteristics
HOLMES, JACK A.; SINGER, HARRY – 1961
THIS EXPERIMENT WAS DESIGNED TO FURTHER EARLIER INVESTIGATIONS OF THE GENERAL "SUBSTRATA-FACTOR THEORY OF READING" AND TO TEST TWO HYPOTHESES AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL OF SUCH KNOWN-GROUPS AS (1) TOTAL, (2) BOYS VERSUS GIRLS, (3) BRIGHT VERSUS DULL, (4) FAST VERSUS SLOW READERS, AND (5) POWERFUL VERSUS NONPOWERFUL READERS. THE MAJOR…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Sciences, Group Dynamics
Bond, Richard A. – 1977
In 1960, Project TALENT gathered demographic, cognitive, and socio-pyschological data from a nationwide sample of high school students. In addition, responses from a saturation sample of 16,000 cases in Knox County, Tennessee were collected. The relationships between attitudes, personality traits, and subsequent alcohol abuse (as shown by Knox…
Descriptors: Alcoholic Beverages, Behavior Patterns, Drinking, Drug Abuse
Elmore, Randy F.; Ellett, Chad D. – 1978
Relationships were examined between scores on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Personal Beliefs Inventory, Teaching Practices Inventory, Rokeach Dogmatism Scale, National Teacher Examinations (NTE), and grade point average (GPA) for 55 teacher education students. Significant correlations were established between the cognitive outcomes…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Dogmatism, Education Majors, Educational Attitudes
Garrison, Karen R. – 1979
Theories and research findings relating to the development, treatment, and effects of communication apprehension (CA) are presented in this paper. The first section, which traces the etiology and development of CA, posits a relationship between environment, personality constellations, and CA. A section on treatment of CA reviews and compares three…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research
Seegmiller, Bonni R.; And Others – 1978
The influences of personal, socioeconomic, and sibling characteristics on the sex-role differentiation of preschool children were investigated. Subjects included 446 lower- and middle-income boys and girls ranging in age from 3 to 5 years. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test was administered to each child to obtain a measure of IQ. Information…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Birth Order, Employed Parents, Ethnicity
