Derived a representative national nursing home admissions cohort with 1977 survey data. Found that high proportions of admissions have short lengths of stay and are discharged within the same calendar year. (Author/RC)

Found early permission to date related to: feelings of being confident, independent, and tired; good relationship with mother; reported drinking and drug abuse problems; and frequent drug use. Found late permission related to feelings of being unsure, dependent, and refreshed; poor relationship with mother; maternal overstrictness; and serious…

Investigated developmental patterns in the way in which students in grades 5-12 describe five common occupations. Students (N=544) responded to five occupational titles with or without an accompanying occupational description. Results indicated that provision of an occupational description influenced responses, particularly at lower grade levels.…

Dealt with the association of race to mental test performance and how this association interacts with age and the instrument used. Results show at the school age and preschool level, the Black and White children differed significantly in General Cognitive Indices and in their Wechsler mean full scale IQs. (Author)

Examined sex-role stereotyping and its relation to sex-role norms. Results show children stereotyped in behavioral descriptions and occupational choices more than did college students. Children whose mothers were employed were more stereotyped in occupational choices. College students evidenced a very low rate of stereotyping in behavioral…

Concludes that there are fewer differences in children's reading preferences between sex, age, and nationality than educators have been led to believe. (FL)

Examines five general issues related to research on children's use of hypotheses during problem solving: (1) types of hypotheses and how they are detected, (2) the acquisition of hypotheses through cognitive or conditioning mechanisms, (3) learning, sampling assumptions, and rule-guided behavior, (4) feedback variables, and (5) subject variables.…

Examines the midlife career/crisis transition period of academic staff surveyed in four Australian Universities. Supports a generalized career stage model and a specific career stage model of academic staff, who are shown to be particularly susceptible to the midlife crisis/transition phenomenon. (Author/JAC)

Observed the social communication and task relevant behaviors of 80 kindergarten and first-grade children, each of whom was assigned to do a task with either a friend or a nonfriend. Results showed that friends exhibited less sharing and communicative behaviors and more task relevant behaviors. An explanatory model is suggested to account for…

The retention of the conditioned response was tested in a retroactive interference paradigm. Results suggested that what is learned by children in simple conditioning paradigms is different than what is learned by adults in the same paradigms. (Author/PN)

Measured the relationship between self-concept and college satisfaction among younger and older college students. Used Index of Adjustment and Values, and College Student Questionnaires Part 2. Older students were more satisfied with their academic performance, which more highly correlated with their self-concepts. (Author/JC)

Investigated the influence of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal symmetry on recognition memory in preschool, kindergarten, and second-grade children. The influence of contour was also investigated. Children were trained to attend to axes of symmetry in order to improve performance on a memory task. (Author/DB)

Examined the nature and extent of sexual harassment for women (N=439) graduates from a college from 1945-1980. Responses to a questionnaire indicated that less than 40 percent of the participants had experienced behaviors relating to sexual harassment. Suggests response strategies to harassment. (RC)

Administered three self-concept instruments to 374 students in grades 7, 9, and 11. By using total scores as well as subscale scores, indications were obtained of global self-concept as well as perceptions of various dimensions of self. Data indicated significant sex, race, grade level, and social class differences. (RC)

Explored patterns of marital complaints in a sample of 209 divorcing men and women. Used two codes of complaints. Results indicated that marital complaints varied over time and by sex, education, social class, length of marriage, and income. Some complaints were correlated with symptoms of mental health disturbance. (Author/RC)