Three consecutive classes (213 students) entering the medical school under a flexible-time three-year curriculum could opt for extending their program by a year or more. Of the 30 percent who so opted, a majority did due to a desire for a better personal or academic "life-style" rather than for specific academic reasons. (Author/LBH)

Discusses the status of women in contemporary Japan. Describes their role as mothers and homemakers, the obstacles they face in maintaining developing careers, and the discrimination they face in a patriarchal society. (Author/ABB)

Examined reading habits and activities which may require skills used in prose recall tasks as they occurred in everyday lives of young (N=18), middle-aged (N=18), and older (N=18) adults who kept structured diaries. Everyday activities and reading habits were related to daily life requirements. Pattern of activities was influenced by current…

School prayer is a "politics of life-style concern" issue, i.e., a group of traditionalists is attempting to reinstate prayer as an affirmation of their cherished and once dominate values, and a group of modernists is attempting to maintain the ban on prayer as an affirmation of their cherished, contemporary values. (RM)

Examined long-term economic outcomes (education, labor force participation, occupation, and income), associated with female adolescent marriage and childbearing using 1981 Canadian census data. Suggests women at age 30 are in best financial circumstances when they remain single or marry at age 20 or older and remain childless or begin childbearing…

Describes development of assessment program for fitness where mental-emotional factors are considered in addition to physical factors. Introduces concept of "defensive living," whereby individuals seek to avoid hazards to good health. Estimates one's coronary age based on risk factors present. (Author/NB)

The reduction of lifetime working hours in Western industrialized countries is increasing the need for research, particularly qualitative, on the leisure of the elderly. This approach has been taken in planning a new empirical study. (MSE)

Average household size in the United States fell steadily throughout the 1970s due to decrease in the size of family households during the first half of the decade, and proportional decline of married-couple households during the second half of the decade. The slower rate of decline in the 1980s represents a continuation of these trends.…

Assessed lifestyles of religious college students. Subjects with continuous religious development and mild religious experiences were healthier than those with discontinuous development and intense religious experiences; however, intense religious experiences enhanced adjustment. Religiousness and mental health did not correlate significantly, but…

Examined changes in the interrelationships of family, career aspirations, and occupational values over the decade of the 1970s for women and men graduating from college. Findings document the dramatic increase during the 1970s of university women's desire for high-status professional careers and commitment to concomitant lifestyles and values.…

Strategies for teaching life skills are presented (such as role playing). Specific topic areas covered in the course are presented (career awareness, life-style determination, budget preparation, insurance, consumer law, and investments). The author also discusses interjecting other life situations, handling student departures, and developing…

A study was designed to assess faculty health behaviors at the beginning of each of the three years of a Health Promotion/Disease Prevention grant for comparisons over time. This article reports the results of the first comparison between the two faculties. (CT)

Compares the effects of socioeconomic factors and leisure satisfaction variables upon the level of self-actualization of working adults. Of the independent variables, only sex, marital status, occupation, education and relaxational variables correlated significantly with any of the self-actualization measures. (Author/ABB)

Adult children who return home are responding to unemployment and financial need, but factors such as dependence, protection needs, and parental happiness appear to be involved in long-term stays. This paper combines survey data to identify factors for successful living arrangements, and areas of conflict and dissatisfaction. (Author/NRB)

Compared early recollections of students (N=90) preparing for careers in clinical psychology, dentistry, and law for differences significant to vocational choice and life-style. Results showed that recollections of psychology students showed significantly more negative affect, threatening situations, and less reference to other groups of people.…