Data revealed that the Canadian Vocational Readiness Package for Girls appears to be an excellent program for meeting the special vocational counseling needs of today's female adolescent. (Author)

Examines three theoretical perspectives relative to prediction of life satisfaction following retirement. Hypotheses derived from crisis, continuity, and consistency theories were examined with regard to pre- and post-retirement satisfaction scores of 114 male respondents. In general, expectational disconfirmations relative to retirement did not…

Experiments tested biased-scanning hypothesis that high financial inducement leads to greater cognitive contact with counterattitudinal arguments and thus to greater attitude change. No differences in biased scanning or attitude change were observed as a function of financial inducement. Results were interpreted in framework of reactance and…

To investigate effects of pain cues on behavior, responses of high and low aggressive boys were followed either by pain cues or by nonpain cues. Overall, pain cues facilitated the rate of responding more than nonpain cues. More responses were made by high aggressive boys than by low aggressive boys. (Author)

The pilot study investigates a method by which blind individuals might administer an abbreviated form of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. (Author/SBH)

Recent changes in the suicide rate of aged white males in America are considered in this study. It is shown that the trend in aged male suicide is closely similar, in the negative direction, to trends in aged income status. (Author)

This study investigates the relative influences of parents, peers, and partners on the contraceptive use of college men and women. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by a nonprobability, purposive sample of 434 never-married, sexually active males and females between the ages of 17 and 22 years. (Author)

By comparing changes in divorce rates of reform states with no-reform states, this study indicates that law changes have had little effect on increases in incidence of divorce in most states. Exceptions, such as California and Florida, should be tested with rival hypotheses pertinent to their special socioeconomic characteristics. (Author)

Using a sample of 686 married Irish women in Cork City the Bott hypothesis was tested, and the results of a multivariate regression analysis revealed that neither network connectedness nor the strength of the respondent's emotional ties to the network had any explanatory power. (Author)

This study examines aspects of the job and off-job lives of technical and managerial employees. Results suggest that employees' feelings of alienation carry over strongly between the two life spheres but that only limited carry-over occurs between job activities and those away from work. (Author)

The academic rank of authors of articles appearing in "The Personnel and Guidance Journal,""The Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin,""Vocational Guidance Quarterly," and "Counselor Education and Supervision" during 1975, 1976, and 1977 is reported. The greatest percentage of authors (41.19 per cent) held no academic rank. (Author)

A national sample of practicing school psychologists responded to a questionnaire measuring certain demographic characteristics and their perceptions of their training, practice, preferred job, and competence. Differences are examined for job setting (urban-rural), degree field (school psychology-other), and degree level (doctoral-subdoctoral). (…

The three basic steps of the systems approach are described: the mission profile, the functional analysis, and the method-means. The advantageous use of these steps in planning a token economy is illustrated by a systematic evaluation of a token economy implemented in a sixth-grade setting. (Author)

This investigation examined the differential perceptions of black college students across two educational settings, one predominantly black, the other white. Differences in the academic, social, and governance characteristics of the two schools were found. (Author)

The results of this study suggested that individuals' attitudes and values could be differentiated by the use of projective instruments. Use of projective methods can offer counselors insights that may go unnoticed by more objective evaluation techniques. (Author)