Questionnaire responses from parents (N=146) of sixth graders indicated strong support for the inclusion of a broad range of sex education topics including more sensitive topics, regardless of parental age, sex, marital status, income, education, or child's sex. Results suggest that these parents found a broad sex education program in the school…

This cross-sectional study determined which anthropometric, dietary, and physical fitness variables were the best predictors of blood pressure in 323 white elementary school children. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)

Compared the level of self-motivation of 30 graduate psychology students, as measured by questionnaire, to their previous grades in a psychology and training course. Written, practical, and combined assessments of students in the course were used as criterion variables in regression analysis which revealed that motivation to succeed was most…

Explains multiple regression, demonstrates its flexibility for analyzing data from various designs, and discusses interpretation of results from multiple regression analysis. Presents regression equations for single independent variable and for two or more independent variables, followed by a discussion of coefficients related to these. Compares…

Interviewed 667 adult children with elderly parents to investigate motivators and inhibitors of attitudes of filial obligation. Found that degree of obligation was explained by structural and demographic factors such as distance and role conflict. Associations of predictor variables with filial obligation varied by parent type and gender of adult…

Hospice patient/family volunteers responded to personality questionnaires prior to training and to measures of death understanding and coping before and after training. Results showed that the volunteers were relatively low in anxiety, internally controlled, and empathetic before training. Following training, volunteers reported better…

Investigated the causes of happiness and unhappiness among spouses. Results indicated while marital happiness is the most important determinant of overall happiness, job satisfaction is the most important determinant of unhappiness. (Author/BL)

Faculty resistance to an annual faculty evaluation system implemented at the University of Northern Colorado was widespread. Four factors characterized faculty members most dissatisfied with the evaluation of their performance: years in service at the university, level of the evaluation, impact on salary, and inconsistency among the evaluators.…

Explored the relation of self-efficacy beliefs to educational/vocational choice and performance. Regression analyses indicated that self-efficacy contributed significant unique variance to the prediction of grades, persistence, and range of perceived career options in technical/scientific fields. (Author/BL)

Examines patterns of emerging substance use among sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students. Results show substantial levels of experimentation and use extending down to the sixth grade and variations in use level depending on students' community, sex, race, and parents' marital status. Also examines rates at which students were offered various…

Identifies factors influencing women's (N=202) intention to work during the first three years following childbirth using a model which proposes that intentions are a function of work experience, vicarious experience with a working mother, subjective normative pressure, and attitudes. Results indicated that attitudes had the strongest influence on…

Measured self-esteem in 61 Vermont alcoholics using the Cornell Index and the Rosenberg self-esteem scale. Results indicated depression is an intervening variable between self-esteem and alcoholism. A theoretical model describing the relationship of residence, occupation, income, self-esteem, and depression to alcoholism is presented. (JAC)

Investigated variables from initial inmate evaluations at a state penitentiary as predictors of inmate success in behavioral ladder program. Results indicated that academic test variables were best predictors of overall success level, attitudes, and work habits. Personality variables and one interview observation variable were also found to be…

Investigated factors influencing truancy from a juvenile court treatment facility. Youth placed in the facility were compared for number of truancies, background, and personality variables. Males with prior adjudication for truancy had a 65% probability of eloping from the court facility. Females showed a 62% probability of truancy. Personality…

Examined the relationships among career, marital, and family-role salience variables, parenthood motivations, and childhood paternal and maternal relationships for graduate-student mothers and those choosing to remain childless. Results revealed significant differences in types of motivations, levels of parental-role salience, and degrees of…