A study was conducted to identify family characteristics and media use patterns associated with subscription to various types of cable television services. Parent interviews, week-long television viewing diaries, and children's Peabody Picture Vocabulary test scores for 237 children, aged three or five years, were subjected to stepwise…

Self-report research has inconclusively linked complaints of poor memory functioning, memory performance, and intellectual ability with depression in older adults. In order to investigate more conclusively the correlation between these variables as well as to investigate the effect of age differences, 159 older adults (49 young-old, aged 55-70; 60…

The expansion theory, which maintains that an individual has unlimited energy to expend in work or marital involvement, and the drain theory, which maintains that an individual's energy for work can be depleted by overcommitment to family, compete with each other in explaining the effect of worklife on the adult male's family relationships. To…

The theoretical model of Bengtson et al (l976) for the measurement of intergenerational solidarity proposes that dependency needs and residential proximity modify helping behavior, while filial responsibility mediates the effects of residential proximity. To examine the relative importance of the model in predicting parent/child solidarity among a…

As early as 1964, cognitive preference was introduced as a way of describing an individual's preference for applying, relating or questioning information. To determine the role of cognitive preference in the pattern of variables predicting teachers' ratings of students' performance, 44 high school students completed a 61-item cognitive preference…

This study tested the predictive ability of MMPI scales to identify United States Air Force Academy freshmen who were "high risk" for problems of emotional adjustment and subsequent separation from the Academy. Rate of attrition and problems in emotional adaptation leading to separation were significantly greater in the high-risk group…

Although a complex process, canonical correlation has numerous potential advantages over other predictive techniques, the most important being that canonical correlation predicts several criterion variables simultaneously. The paper shows how the method can be used for industrial and vocational-technical education data. (Author)

This study of teacher education graduate follow-up surveys examined the relationship between response rate and number of graduates, questionnaire length, and follow-up contacts. Also, the study investigated survey practices differentiating between surveys which had high and low return rates in such areas as number of follow-up contacts,…

This study examined the quality and quantity of interactions between mothers and their firstborn 5-year-olds. These interactions were considered longitudinally within the context of a family perspective. The goals were to delineate predictors of the quantity and quality of mothering from the women's adaptation and from their husbands'…

Three successive models were developed to test the existence of a need that leads individuals to select one mass medium over another and also to examine the idea of audience activity. Since it has been noted that uses and gratifications research has focused excessively on habitual media behaviors, the focus instead was on a medium where choice…

Substance abuse among adolescents continues to be a serious problem and a national concern. Most of the research on family correlates of substance abuse has been conducted with teenage addicts and has consisted primarily of reports obtained from the substance abusing adolescent only. This study attempted to identify clusters of family variables…

The last decade has provided considerable research on the causes and effects of physical aggression in the family, but much less has been accomplished on the causes and effects of verbal/symbolic aggression. This verbal/symbolic aggression is defined as a communication, either verbal or nonverbal, intended to cause psychological pain to another…

The manner in which job attitudes and organizational commitment are related to personal attributes and organizational environment was studied for 588 secondary school teachers from Hong Kong. Instruments used to measure these variables are summarized in a table, which also gives psychometric characteristics and validity information. Confirmatory…

The effectiveness of noncognitive variables in predicting college grades and persistence for international students over 8 semesters was studied at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Noncognitive Questionnaire (NCQ), an instrument designed to assess eight noncognitive variables found to be related to academic success for U.S. minority…

A study using the Markov chain model was conducted at Kirkwood Community College (KCC) in Iowa to predict the age and probationary status of faculty members over the next 20 years and to estimate the budget required to cover increased salaries associated with additional experience. The study predicted faculty composition under four alternative…