There are many misconceptions about exercise that keep older adults from participating in a regular physical fitness program. This article explores some of these misconceptions and offers strategies for developing appropriate and safe programs for the older population. (DF)

A profile of the modern French executive, in terms of educational background, lifestyle, salary, and preoccupations. (Text is in French.) (AM)

The positive results from two workshop evaluations (N=42), the high return on the follow-up questionnaires, and the spontaneous, enthusiastic responses, both written and verbal, support the hypothesis that a single in-depth workshop experience can be quite effective in facilitating planning and decision making of returning adults, particularly…

Individuals, groups, and nations respond to their changing environments and in turn alter them by their reactions; each new cycle of interactions leads to a new environment. (ABM)

A typology of styles of loving is applied to the search for partners among gay males, using a sample of advertisers in a gay newspaper. The impact of gay liberation ideology on gay male relationships is considered as a model of predicted changes in heterosexual mate selection patterns. (Author)

The change and development that has been observed everywhere, it is the result of the knowledge accumulated along the human history. The knowledge was increasing since the primitive era and is now becoming the unique factor of production fast sidelining both capital and power. As a result of this situation, it is treated of the knowledge society.…

Paper attempts to show how students can be given the opportunity to select their instructors for valid educational reasons; provides a model showing how students can select the way they will be taught; and how teachers can still do what they feel is necessary to accomplish their teaching objectives. (Author/CB)

Discusses how the mom-and-apple-pie facet of the American dream no longer seems to be working. Ways to redefine that dream so that women, men, children, and families are comfortable with each other and are able to develop a mutual dependence which also allows for mutual independence are examined. (RM)

The Leisure Activity Survey is a large national data set collected in 1982 by the Bureau of the Census for the National Endowment for the Arts. Selected preliminary findings are discussed and several other uses of the data set are suggested. (Author/RM)

Counselors are often confronted with client goals that are at varying levels of awareness, elusive to either the counselor or the client. Discusses methods for bringing unfocused goals into awareness. Notes techniques for counseling clients with unrealistic and uncoordinated goals. (Author/RC)

Changes in work and family roles, disparities between employer and family expectations, and lifestyle changes have created new perspectives on relationships between home and work. Family life education can integrate and enhance the interrelatedness of family life with the roles, responsibilities, and stresses of work life. (SK)

Reviews the literature on the use of the structural approach in archaeology and discusses how it can be applied to extrapolate larger social patterns from the artifacts of individual households. Archaeological evidence of the American colonial period shows how changes in household lifestyles reflect changes in colonial culture. (AM)

It is necessary to understand how the people of Nigeria have created spaces appropriate in their lifestyles before designing architecture for the specifics of the diverse cultures in the country. Only by understanding why Nigerians live as they do can relevant spaces be developed for them. (MLW)

Discusses meaning and importance of leisure related to career guidance and presents several theoretical models. Counselors must understand leisure as a component of work satisfaction and life satisfaction. Play theories, motivational theories, need fulfillment, behavior patterns, and social predictors must be studied further. (Author/JAC)

The complaint "I am lonely" summarizes specific interpersonal difficulties in socializing. The UCLA Loneliness Scale identifies lonely and not-lonely students who described their major interpersonal problems by performing a Q-sort with a standardized set of problems. Results show that lonely people consistently report problems of…