Relationships among women's role factors, self-estimates of competence, and career commitment were investigated. Female business students and alumnae completed the Attitudes toward Women Scale, the Performance-Self-Esteem Scale (PSES), and questions regarding home and career choices. As predicted, PSES scores were related to extent of career…

The authors identified, categorized, and integrated many theoretical concepts, and asked marriage and family therapists to rate them in terms of their importance for healthy family functioning. (Author)

The Communication Skills Workshop (CSW) serves couples prior to the onset of serious relationship discord, and focuses on the learning of general communication skills and problem-solving strategies rather than the amelioration of specific relationship conflicts. (Author)

Results for the 30 families as seen as "teaching-demonstration" families suggest that Adler's contention that more "first and youngest" children reveal problems and concerns (as defined by their parents) is correct. (Author)

This study is an attempt to provide new data for long-term care planning, which will identify the variables that govern the institutional or community placement of the functionally disabled elderly. (Author)

This study tests the common assertion that women, especially upper-middle-class housewives, vicariously experience their husbands' success. Findings for 121 mostly upper-middle-class housewives disprove this assertion. Husband's success does positively affect a housewife's self-esteem, but only indirectly, through its effect on perceived marital…

Three competing hypotheses are tested regarding determinants of husband's (vs wife's) participation in 12 selected household/child-care activities. The research utilized interview responses of husbands, although it compares responses of both husbands and wives in a proportionate stratified area-probability sample from adjacent midwestern cities.…

Studied women (N=115) with osteoporosis who reported their major problems to be pain and their inability to do housework. Results showed most viewed their family as being supportive, reporting they frequently received help from their children. Those with lower incomes and specific fractures reported receiving the most help. (Author/ABL)

Evaluated independence of organizational, career, and community commitment among 118 married professional women and examined influence of extra-work variables on the three commitment types. Findings suggest that organizational, career, and community commitment are independent variables; and that extra-work factors strongly influence career…

Although the number of nonrelative adoptions is decreasing, stepparent adoptions are not. These adoptions are viewed as nonproblematic family business separate from the general adoption picture. This article examines demographic data in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, from 55 stepparent adoptions concerning stepparent adopters, birth parents, and…

Presents a theoretical approach to the specific issue of the impact of courtship for remarriage on postmarital family reorganization, based upon existing theory and research. Several propositions for empirical testing derived from the theoretical argument are presented and discussed in relation to each of five subsystems within the reorganizing…

Studied factors contributing to consensus, or the level of agreement about life, between older adults (N=275) and the sibling with whom they had most contact. Found greater consensus when there were fewer expectations of the sibling, similarity of educational backgrounds, and when the respondent was a male and his sibling was female. (Author/NB)

Used Gilligan's orientation to moral development to examine decision to end childbearing in 26 mothers. Subjects were interviewed shortly before and one year after tubal ligation. Results showed that subjects used one of five perspectives of moral thought which described the sense of care and responsibility to self and others in the context of…

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was used to study the personality characteristics of four groups of subjects from incest families: natural father perpetrators, stepfather perpetrators, nonparticipating mothers, and daughter victims. The daughter victims' mean profile was more elevated and differed significantly from the…

Twenty-five substantiated cases of sexual abuse involving male children were compared with 180 substantiated cases involving female children. Significant differences between female and male victims were observed in family composition, perpetrator of the abuse, variables contributing to continuation of the abusive situation, and type of services…