In tandem with the energy crisis the author sees widespread misuse and waste of human resources. Analyzing issues of environmental deprivation, neglect of the old and the young, social isolation, the search for self, and specialization, he discusses ways that organizational and human resources development can address these challenges. (SK)

No evidence was found for any effect of wives' employment or degree of interest in their work activity on marital adjustment and companionship. The extensive controversy over wives' increasing labor-force participation has resulted from unwarranted assumptions about the impact of wives' working on marital adjustment. (Author)

Life satisfaction, trust, optimism, and political conservatism differentiated remarried, married, divorced and never-married groups. Divorced people were less satisfied with life, more liberal, and less optimistic. Background factors that were related to divorce included parental divorce, hometown, family income, and church attendance. (Author)

The negative stereotype of the aged vanishes when older adults are educated, affluent, and healthy. Anecdotal replies indicated many older adults are satisfied with their lives, do not feel old or useless, and feel activity is the key to happiness. (Author/JAC)

These interviews, edited from tapes made in the field, convey, albeit optimistically, the harsh realities of poverty and withal, the resilience and strength that some elderly can clearly muster. (Author)

Elderly men and women shared common dimensions of anxious depression and general dissatisfaction. There might be a third dimension for women--sleep impairment. Implications for diagnosing depressive syndromes in the elderly were discussed. (Author)

This article uses longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to explore how changes in marital status affect the economic status of married women in their middle years. Results demonstrate that the economic status of women declines sharply when their marriages end. (Author/MC)

Examined whether life changes are associated with concurrent life and death attitude types among older adults. Individuals were identified as positivists, negativists, activists, and passivists. Some patterns varied by sex. Those who experienced discontinuity were frequently negativists or passivists, while continuity tended to characterize…

Analyzes the place of the arts in twentieth-century civilization, emphasizing the importance of art education. (JM)

Examined impact of the Life Planning Workshop upon attitudes toward future planning and self-actualizing attitudes of feeling reactivity and self-regard. Results showed significantly higher means for experimental subjects on measures of positive attitudes toward future planning and feeling reactivity; these gains endured over a mean follow-up…

Americans must learn to consider good health as a total life-style concept that demands continuous and active participation of all individuals. (LH)

Rural offspring of the back-to-the-land people of the late 1960s appear to have substituted reading for television viewing as a primary pastime. (LH)

A description is given of a program designed to improve the quality of college life through optimizing well-being and life satisfaction in four areas: exercise, nutrition, ecology, and relaxation. (JD)

An outgrowth of a school for immigrants' children, the Philadelphia Settlement Music School offers music education to children of all races and classes, with the primary aim of teaching children to enjoy and understand music throughout their lives. (SK)

Central governments must recognize the need for decentralization of development efforts, to plan programs specific to the needs and conditions of each target population. Development programs are characterized by program overlap because of diversity of sponsorship. A possible mechanism is a training and development center at the subnational level.…