Compared subjects' beliefs about the communion and agency of part-time employees, homemakers, full-time employees and persons without occupational description. Part-time male and female employees were believed less agentic than full-time employees, and less communal than homemakers or men without an occupational description. Part-time employment…

The author examines the role of leisure through the ages; provides a definition of leisure; and discusses the implications for leisure counseling. (CT)

Compared responses of rural and urban psychologists from a midwestern state on perceptions of job satisfaction, job stability, and quality of professional life. While resembling urban colleagues in most regards, rural psychologists appear more satisfied with working environments and job policies. (Author/ABB)

Identifies stress as a definite health hazard and risk factor involved in a variety of health situations. Proposes that stress identification efforts be considered in environmental analysis so that a more complete approach to risk assessment and management and health hazard prevention can occur. (ML)

Rapid population growth, rising competition for resources, and increasing environmental deterioration are intertwined factors in the human predicament that feed political tensions and conflicts of the late twentieth century. Outlines dimensions of this predicament (including data on population, growth, military spending, quality of life, and…

Explores how nonformal education contributes to the quality of life in Israel's Kibbutzim. The focus is on basic life functions that provide criteria for the successful development of individuals and communities. (CT)

Compared post-disaster health status and well-being of 122 elderly female victims of major flood with status of 45 controls. Significant differences were found in self-perceptions, including state of mind after the flood and frequency of thinking about the flood matters. (Author/NRB)

Presents a sample population education lesson plan from China. Included with the lesson, which focuses on quality of life and socialist modernization, are objectives, instructional strategies, list of materials needed, evaluation methods, and sample test items. (JN)

Suggests how teachers and schools should treat children and their stepfamilies, illustrating the positive aspects of stepfamily living and listing classroom materials representing stepfamily lifestyles. (CI)

Madeleine Will, assistant secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, talks about the direction she plans to take toward improved understanding of disabilities and better services for handicapped students. (SK)

Explores the effectiveness of a resource exchange framework in predicting marital satisfaction among 224 couples. Self-administered questionnaires provided information concerning resources received from spouse, shared time, and marital quality. Multiple regression analyses suggested the resource exchange theory was effective in explaining the…

This publication, the first in the Advancing Women's Leadership series, discusses women's perspectives on the presidency. In 1998 and 1999 the Office of Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Education (ACE) held a series of 13 roundtables around the United States to explore the status of women as college presidents. More than 110…

Pursuing a paradoxical educational strategy, embracing global and local forces at the same time (globalization) is indeed a tremendous task before any education system. This task can not be taken lightly by policymakers except by inviting failure and disappointment resulting from the mismatch between the education and the requirements of time,…

This fact sheet uses a question-and-answer format to provide an overview of what physical fitness is and how it relates to people with mental retardation. Questions address the following topics: the fitness movement; a definition of physical fitness; the different components of physical fitness (muscle strength and endurance, flexibility, body…