This study assessed the relationship among student perception of knowledge, their levels of interest, and actual knowledge about drugs. Findings indicate that instructors must be wary of setting classroom objectives based solely upon student expressed knowledge, as it is not always accurately reflected. (Author)

Responses by 196 couples (in which both spouses were members of the American Psychological Association) to a series of questions regarding domestic satisfaction, job satisfaction, and productivity were examined as a function of years since final degree and number of children in the family. (Author)

A study shows that employment and career opportunities can be affected by a student's course of study. (Author)

Behavior modification's technology has been shown to be effective for a variety of the aging's problems. The present study documented the value of behavior modification as treatment for social isolation in three nursing home residents; as employed, the procedure was compatible with practical constraints ordinarily present in geriatric…

A sample of non-institutionalized senior citizens were interviewed as to their drug-related practices and opinions about selected drug issues. Data revealed the elderly tended to ascribe to a number of potentially damaging beliefs about drug risks and tended to minimize the hazards of drug interactions. (Author)

Interviews with parents at two stages of the family life cycle provide comparable data on some tasks and problems of parenting. Differences in involvement and perception of problems are identified between mothers and fathers and parents in school-age and teen-age stages. Implications are drawn for parent education programs. (Author)

Quality of marriage of students at a midwestern university is assessed in relation to sources of financial support and certain demographic characteristics. Quality of marriage was significantly lower if the wife only was enrolled or if the couple depended on her earnings as a major source of income. (Author)

This study was designed to analyze the extent to which different observers coded examples of communication positiveness in couple interactions. Husband's communication positiveness, wife's communication positiveness, and relationship adjustment were the multiple targets of observation. The data were collected from 27 couples who sought marital…

In this study, 160 college students were asked to respond to their modes of expressing hostility. Subjects revealed differential modes of expressing hostility. These differences seem to be a function of racial and biological sex characteristics of respondents. Results suggest ways of understanding and dealing with occurrence of hostile acts.…

A sample of 72 Ss, of whom half were cognitively complex and half cognitively simple, made predictions about unknown relations in four-person social structures. Structures differed in the number of relations given. Cognitively simple Ss tended to make predictions based on consideration of fewer relations in the social structure. (Author)

High and low socially anxious women were given identical feedback about their personality traits after a brief social interaction with a male confederate. The male confederate was trained to respond positively to half and negatively to half. High socially anxious subjects had more accurate memory for negative information about themselves. (Author)

During individual interviews, each of 64 subjects, aged 8 to 14, generated a peer perception grid in which 17 supplied figures were rated on 10 individually elicited bipolar concepts. Three aspects are examined: attributional characteristics of concepts, level of differentiation between peer figures, and organizational complexity of relations…

The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) is supposedly resistant to faking. This assumption was experimentally tested with 156 naive adult college and military participants by manipulating instructional set. Results indicate that participants were able to elevate or depress their scores as directed. (Author)

A 1977 study of candidates and employers shows how positions in student personnel were filled. (Author)

The presented human sexuality theory argues that sex is highly pleasurable and therefore reinforcing; because it reinforces further contacts with partner, sexual involvement makes formation of stable bonds, love and eventually marriage likely. Data from large student ( N=668) and national (N=1613) samples generally support the theory. (Author)