Perceived satisfactions and costs of parenthood and employment were examined and categorized for 123 professional and nonprofessional married women aged 28 to 39 who were employed full-time. High perceived role conflict between parenting and employment was associated with lower parity and professional status. (Author)

The complexity of the cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy encounter is examined, with particular reference to four prominent variables: (1) views of mental health; (2) goals of counseling; (3) roles of counseling participants; and (4) counseling strategies. (Author/MJB)

The role and responsibility of the speech and language specialist in implementing IEPs (individualized education programs) for handicapped students are examined. (CL)

This study tests the hypothesis that perceived freedom is a function of the probability that actors will behave in a line with their dispositions by varying the pattern of extrinsic rewards associated with the behavior alternatives. Subjects in both experiments are college students. (CM)

Offers a single framework for a social theory of dying. Selected contributions are reviewed under rubrics of social psychological coping processes, institutional role relationships, and societal values and attitudes. Socialization is applied as a framework to codify existing approaches and move toward a more encompassing social theory of dying.…

Taped interviews from 200 women shows divorce as a traumatic life crisis for women that leades to depression and feelings of hopelessness, if not suicide. Emotional stress from separation and divorce for women is compounded by inadequate role development which prevents their subsequent integration into society. (Author)

Nurses (N = 363) were surveyed regarding their perceptions of different job-satisfaction factors. The results revealed many significant interactions between the role-characteristic data and the intrinsic-extrinsic factors data. Ti was concluded that nursing-job satisfaction must be reviewed in light of the roles and characteristics of the nurses…

Males and females read descriptions of a male or female worker who succeeded or failed as a manager or secretary. Subjects responded with impressions of the worker, causal attributions for his/her success or failure, and evaluations of the likelihood of a number of positive and negative consequences for the worker. (Author)

The author discusses her perceptions of the identity of a counseling psychologist, the restrictions in this identity, and the contradiction between ideal and actual practice. She then describes her personal professionalism. (Author/JEL)

Hispanas have been reluctant to participate in the feminist movement because of the general insensitivity to minority women's issues. On the other hand, national Hispanic groups tend to relegate women to a secondary status where their needs are subordinate to the priorities drawn up by the organizations' male-dominated leadership. Therefore,…

Presents a study of college students' perceptions of parental characteristics. Examines differences in the subjects' perceptions of their mother as opposed to their father. Also examines differences in parent descriptions by sons as opposed to those of daughters. (JMB)

This study was designed to investigate how black principals perceived the professional image which they have projected since the desegregation of the public schools, their own experiences with displacement subsequent to desegregation, and their perceptions of the effects of displacement. (Author/AM)

A model of failure in sport is considered. Qualitative materials from professional baseball and football are examined with reference to reactions to failure, and variations are assessed in terms of the differences in social organization of these two sports. (Author/AM)

This paper is focused on the development of a theoretical model of social role reconstructuring. The novel input of the suggested model is an intervention strategy that interposes at the stage of susceptability before the breakdown syndrome begins. (Author)

Over time, the role definitions of novice school board members do not converge toward those of the administrators sampled, but rather toward those of experienced members. New board members are socialized in the preincumbency period rather than after they take office. (Author/IRT)